Tree Surfing

Here’s a listing of all the blogs that I read on a regular basis. It may seem like a lot, but I use an RSS reader so it easily cuts my reading time in half.

This listing has long been in the works, I decided to the best way to do it would be to just publish what I have so far and continue to add to it as my time allows.
In no particular order:

Art & Letters Daily
New material is added to Arts & Letters Daily six days a week, not as often as Boing Boing, but considering that the articles are much longer, and more academic in nature this is to be expected. It also contains a large number of links to other interesting site in it’s sidebar. This site is not for those with muddy brains, if you can’t think straight (tired, suffering from a hangover, loopy, bored, really hungry, or just plain stupid,) this site is not for you. It’s not a site designed for casual browsing, come only when you have the time to read.

Boing Boing
This site is so popular it hardly needs an explanation from me. However, for those of you who have yet to bathe yourself in it glorious rays of internet curiosities: you should go visit this site now.

Diary of the Mad Pigeon
I really love this site. There are several different authors who contribute content at their leisure, but you’ll almost alway find yourself amused or enlightened by the writing on this blog. Social commentary abounds, romping hand in hand with observations from about the military life and the wonderful sarcasm. A refreshing rain of humor on to brighten any day

Pierian Gadfly
Apart from the interesting name this is a site for those interested in poetry. Not updated as often as I’d like, but still a good place to stop by and visit. (Leave comments encouraging more posts!) Official description: An opportunity to ponder the state of poetry in modern American culture coupled with thoughts on rescuing the art from the “Academy” and returning it to the public square. If that perks your interest feel free to stop by for a visit.

Right on the Left Coast
The blog of a conservative teacher living in California. Topics generally revolve around education and politics although he occasionally posts on other things when he’s in the mood. Good writing interesting conversations.

The Blog Herald
Important news and information from the blogsphere. This is a site you should keep a eye on if you’re interested in what’s happening in the blogging world.

Fred on Something
Another greatly under-appreciated site. The author is responsible for at least two wonderful blogger tools: King Ping and Talk Digger. English is not his native language, which makes his site even more amazing: He writes better than most Americans!

Zazzafooky
Hilarious on her good days and generally amusing on her worst. The blog of an interesting, introverted woman.

Slactivist
One of the main topics is the ongoing review of the horribly written Left Behind series. Look no further for a “how not to write” guide. Like the rest of the blogging world he also writes about other things. Almost always has some good points for you consideration.

LifeHack
A great blog with tips on how to organize and otherwise make your life more productive and efficient. You’ll also find information on health related topics along with the occasional news curiosity. Defiantly a blog to browse.

Gone Away
The blog of a jolly British fellow who has moved to America. This blog tells the tale of his journey and all of the insights that have come since then. It’s a really interesting read, and he writes wonderfully. Do take some time and have a look at this wonderful site.

Octavo Dia
One of my old college acquaintances, he writes his opinion on various political and social topics. Another interesting writer with some truly unique views on topics one doesn’t think about on a regular basis. Worth a look.

Hamlette’s Soliloquy
A interesting gal, married to the writer of the previously mentioned blog. She and I were active members of the Writer’s Group during our college years so naturally we got along quite well. A blog of thoughts, musings, stories, and the occasional fan fiction; there’s something of interest here for everyone.

Hello again my tiny internet audience. I thought I’d take a moment and share a few thoughts with you. Mainly about the projects I’m working on and my plans for this blog.

As some of you already know I recently started this blog after writing with Live Journal for almost a year. I’m attempting to focus more on quality posts and avoid the “dear diary” writings that plague far to many amateur blogs these days.

One of the main things I’m working on in regards to this site is establishing a solid base of profile, or “get-to-know the author” posts. You’ll see these sorts of post being linked to in my rather sparse Love/Hate List. I feel that it’s important for my internet readers to get a good feel of my opinions and have the option to find out what kinds of things interest me.

My movies and songs pages are defiantly not as fleshed-out and organized as I’d like. In the coming weeks I will be adding to these posts. I also plan on adding a great deal of information to my favorite books and authors page.

Some rather large posts being worked on at the moment also include:
*My detailed blogroll; a listing and description of the numerous sites that I enjoy reading extensively.
*My thoughts on illegal immigration.
*More inspirational quotes and commentary.
*A tiny introduction to RSS and ATOM readers.
*Several other minor posts.

Obviously my life doesn’t revolve solely around this blog. I’m also working on a number of projects offline. An epic poem, a fantasy/science fiction (aka Sci-Fan) novel, a survival horror story, and dabbling in many other areas. All this in addition to working the graveyard shift at a shipping warehouse and attempting to be a good husband and father. Quite the busy guy I am lately.

As always suggestions and questions are encouraged, even begged for! Feel free to leave me some feedback. I’m a rather easy-going guy who loves comments and commenting on other’s sites. Hurray for internet interaction!

I’ve been interested in survival for a long time. Here I will post my thoughts and links to various survival resources.

General Survival:
Be Prepared ~ A nice web resource where you can order survival supplies. It also has some interesting and useful articles here.

Books:
When Technology Fails
by Matthew Stein
# Paperback: 424 pages
# Publisher: Clear Light Books (December 1, 2000)
# Language: English
# ISBN: 1574160478
You can view the book’s website here.
I personally own this book and find it to be a very nice reference. It even gives me ideas for things I wouldn’t normally have thought of just for everyday living. Some of the material you have to take with a little skepticism, as it also touches on a few “unorthodox” or “Unscientific” topics such Spiritual healing. Although it doesn’t make any claim that certain healing practices may work, it advises you to be open-minded but not stupid.

An ongoing project about survival and rebuilding civilization after some theoretical disaster. (Nuclear war, Zombie outbreak, Giant asteroids, alien invasion etc.) I plan on including a list of books, articles, ideas, and other useful material for your consideration here in the future. As always your feedback and suggestions are encouraged.

I’m quite interested in survival theory, but what really intrigues me is the idea of rebuilding civilization after worldwide apocalypse of sorts. Could we regain the lifestyles that we are used to today or would we be forced back into a stone age.

Articles:
Rebuilding Civilization From A Garbage Dump. This is a post that talks about how once could make precise tools from a common materials. Quite interesting, a very practical theory.

Books:
The Making of Tools
by Alexander G Weygers

There are many books that more thoroughly cover blacksmithing, but this book is a nice simple guide to making your own tools (chisels, scissors, ect.) from ” scrap” metal; which would be in great abundance after a great downfall in civilization. I found my copy at Good will for 3 bucks.

Well let’s see. I’m starting this blog as a means to bring some quality control back into my public writing life. My LiveJournal page is simply too unstructured for my purposes. I’ve always been curious about Wordpress, but repulsed by the need for an independent server, and my own lack of coding knowledge. Then I discovered blogsome and was greatly intrigued. So far things have progressed wonderfully, I quite happy with this hosting service. Now that I’ve used wordpress I would feel comfortable buying my own server space. But this service is free and had a nice support community so I have no really good reasons to leave.

Current project:

Get my pages to appear correctly formated.– Considering just simply using links to normal posts. I cannot figure out how to get the perma pages to show up as anything more than a solid block of text.
(done)Resort sidebar and get a permalink pages section.
(done)Getting the header image to display correctly.
(done)Getting all my categories implemented.