Anyone who knows me even remotely knows that I have this constant urge to mess with things, change them, and keep them (friggidy?)fresh.  My website even more so.  Ever since the launch of seanoconnor.info v2.0 I had been looking at it and wanting to change certain aspects, things I cut corners on to save time, and things that I just thought didn’t work at all.  So, I took my free time this weekend and revamped the site a little bit.  I’m much happier with this layout than the previous, and I hope you are too.  ENJOY!

My business cards and stickers have come in and both look really great!

I’m a little disappointed that I couldn’t get the stickers die-cut, but I was trying to do it on the cheap.

I also made a few “super” themed christmas ornaments for our soon-to-be tree. Check them all out!

I stumbled upon this little site the other day. It serves a dual purpose, both to get people to bone up on their english vocabulary, while simultaneously raising help for hungry people worldwide. It’s a pretty cool, albeit strange, concept where you visit the site and answer english vocabulary related questions. For every question you answer correctly, the site will donate 10 grains of rice. The more you answer, the more rice you generate, the more free food goes to countries that need it. It works of advertising, as well, so be sure to click the little adverts at the bottom of the site for them when you’re finished playing.

An improvised Super Mario costume, a friend willing to improvise being Luigi, a parade, a party, some beer, and a dog dressed like Darth Vader are all you need to have a fantastic halloween.

So, apparently, yesterday was blog action day. I was pretty busy during work when I found out, but had every intention of posting something about it when I got home. Needless to say, that didn’t happen either. Better late than never, right?

So we’re supposed to share a personal experience dealing with nature or the environment, but I live in the downtown of a major city…so I don’t see much of nature. One thing we do have, though, is an abundance of mini-parks or green-spaces peppered throughout the city. One thing I noticed about them is that a few don’t allow walking on the grass, or are separated by some kind of barrier, so you wouldn’t be able to walk on them anyway. I find this completely ridiculous. I can understand it from the standpoint of “landscaping costs money, don’t mess up my landscaping” but I feel like it defeats the purpose of these places. Living in a city it’s often very easy to forget about environmental issues, or even how good it feels to get out and walk around in the woods, or in a field. I think they help a lot of people reconnect with the environment, at least on a very subconscious level. By only letting people observe and not experience, I feel like it separates that 1-1 relationship of man and nature. It makes it seem like this thing that is “someone else’s job” to maintain. Which I think, on a very basic level, can spread to other areas of environmental protection, and ignoring environmental issues is something that the world is constantly struggling against.

Now, I’m not saying that letting people walk or sit on the grass everywhere is going to magically open people’s eyes to the need to help the environment, but maybe it can remind some people how special it is to be able to just law down in the grass for a little while.