Travis Seitler: Web Designer

Our local library is running a reading contest this month: kids vs. adults. They’re doing it with the local elementary school, which is totally unfair—the teachers can force the kids to read! Apparently the adults were trounced heavily last year, so the points have been tweaked in our favor this time around. Adults get 2 points for every book read (including every early reader and board book read to a child). I read seven in a single day without even putting much effort into it.

Heh heh heh.

Nicole won’t take part in my shenanigans; she thinks it isn’t fair to the kids. I say, if one adult reading voraciously is able to singlehandedly beat every under-18 reader in the school district? …well, then those kids earned the embarrassment that’s coming. (Of course, if they don’t care about reading, will they care about my beating them in a reading contest? No matter. At the very least I might be able to shame their parents and teachers.)

And that’s what it’s all about.

(Pictured above: me reading Neil Postman’s Teaching as a Subversive Activity. It’s good stuff.)

Last month DC Comics launched their indy/webcomics venture, Zuda Comics. Each month (I think) they have a competition with reader ballots and everything, and winning creators get to see their comics in print.

This month I’m excited, though, because Araknid Kid, by Josh Alves (a buddy of mine and part of the Christian comics scene) is in the running! Where most of the other offerings are moody or offensive, Araknid Kid is full of a fun kind of energy that works great without alienating young readers.

Go check out Zuda… set up an account and see all the comics in the running this month. Right now Araknid Kid is in 8th place (out of 10). Josh needs your vote! …and 30-50 of your friends’ votes, too, if he’s going to break into the top 3 at this point. So get your free Zuda account and vote for Araknid Kid!

I wanted to get this done sooner, but I’ve been rather tied up… and it required some heavier analysis than I was able to provide at first.

Pandora (my Blogathon site monitor) wins the “Most Unrelated Comment” award for her amazingly off chocolate comment on my DesiringGod/Squidoo post. (Yup, looks like I’ve posted the same sort of thing in just five days. Hey, I was sleepy and I forgot!) While it was related to a previous comment by Josh, it had nothing to do with the post itself!

Dell popped in to say she doesn’t like coffee at all — and at 1:30 in the morning, that provoked some deep thought on my part! So Dell, you win the “Most Thought-Provoking Comment” award! Congratulations!

And now, for the Grand Prize:

Josh Alves (sounds like “elves”) wins the “Most [New] Comments [Overall]“ award, coming in at 16 comments! (Technically I won with 19, but it’d be silly to award myself.)

Congratulations, everyone! The winners are being notified by e-mail right now!

“Post about what you’re going to do to stay awake for the next 6-1/2 hours.” (source)

I’ve got extra-strong coffee in the pot, and I’m barefoot — which means right now my feet are staying pretty cold. That’s got a quickening effect on me!

I’m also redesigning my blog, and probably the main website it branches off of.

And if the past month is any indication, my nursing wife and son are sure to check up on me every 2-3 hours.

I think I’m too late, but I’ll post it anyway.

I first learned of The Coral Castle years ago, thanks to Andrew Peterson.

So down to the water I will come
To raise for her this castle with my hands
And steal away before the morning comes
Cause I don’t need her love to love her all I can