Nate Beaty's Brainfag

Occiput?

posted in Home Jabber on September 01, 2006

Only a month now before we leave for Korea, and I somehow talked myself into buying an incredibly expensive digital SLR camera. It still makes my knees weak (as in fear, not joy) thinking about it. But here I am, confused owner of a silver Canon Digital Rebel XT that cost more than OUR CAR, and that's without a lens.. agh! Anyway, the resell value is insane on digital SLRs, so I'm not too worried about it. Now begins, however, the confusing search for a decent lens that won't cause bankruptcy.

Two very cool developments in the interweb: Google Books, which a quick search for "brainfag" brought up an 1879 text called "Homœopathic therapeutics" defining it as:

mental overwork and constant strain of eyes; headache every other day; chronic congestion of the brain, burning-stinging pains and pulsations, commencing in occiput..."

Occiput??

And Flickr just fired up the ability to geotag your photos, resulting in a very interesting view of where you take your camera. Flickr is pretty damn awesome.

Shawn Granton and I have slaved away the last two days on the new, almost-forgotten, 2006 edition of the Zinester's Guide to Portland, being published by the awesome Microcosm Publishing. Pdxguide.org is once again in the works, my learning project for Django. I picked a pretty complex first project, however, and it's bending my brain to do the simplest things that I could do blindfolded w/ PHP. But learning is good. And Django looks to be an amazing tool when I get it under my belt. Microcosm is also getting a facelift soon.

I've been mired in an onslaught of web and illustration jobs, so obviously not much time to update ye olde Brainfag. Too busy battling back my mental overwork and constant strain of eyes.