Shiny, New, and Very Yellow

I decided it was time I got myself a new web site, so here it is. I have yet to decide how bloggy/personal ver­sus c.v./professional it will be, but, in all like­li­hood, infre­quent post­ing will make that deci­sion for me. In any case, this site replaces the defunct borealism.com and nom de plume, so update your book­marks, I guess?

Over the next few days, I will be trans­fer­ring some items from my archives onto here in order to make it look more lived-in: The def­i­n­i­tional essays from my com­pre­hen­sive exams and my under­grad­u­ate the­sis will be near the top of the list; maybe some old comics, too. I imag­ine that I will con­tinue to be work­ing the kinks out of the design for some time, so excuse the mess, &c., &c.

To com­plete intro­duc­tory mat­ters, I should note that the site is run­ning on Word­Press and its inau­gural design is based on the Taki­mata theme designed by Robert Ellis, late of Upstart Blog­ger, for the Sand­box design com­pe­ti­tion. I have mod­i­fied it loosely to resem­ble the orig­i­nal No Name pack­ag­ing designed by Don Watt, which seemed an appro­pri­ate aes­thetic for a Cana­dian inter­ested in con­sumer soci­ety cri­tique. Also, note that the aster­isks in the header and footer are links that can skip between the top and bot­tom of the page, for your convenience.