CD Cover Meme

Sir! No Sir! - cd cover meme

I normally avoid memes like the plague (notice how every post about a meme starts this way?) but when Sara posted her entry for the CD cover meme, I had to participate. The rules are simple:

  1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
    The title of the article is the name of your band.
  2. http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
    The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album.
  3. http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
    The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover. (make sure you choose a creative-commons one!)

My wikipedia article was Sir! No Sir!, my photo was a cat photo by Zenera, and my quote was by Martin Luther King Jr.: “Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.” (Yes, okay, technically I used five words from the quote, but I don’t think “and” should count, the quote is much better this way, and besides, what fun is a meme if you can’t bend the rules?

Web Design for Sara Ryan

Sara Ryan DotCom

In January, I got an email from Sara Ryan, asking if I would be interested in designing a website for her:

Hi Scott — I found your site while searching for Portland web developers who use WordPress, and I really like the look and feel, as well as your focus on CSS and web standards.

I’m contacting you to ask if you might be interested in redesigning and enhancing my web presence, which I’ve been hand-coding since 1995. (Yeah, I’m old-school.)

About me: I write books and comics scripts, and I have a day job as a librarian. My second novel, THE RULES FOR HEARTS, is coming out in April from Viking. My main site is, straightforwardly enough, sararyan.com. I’ve recently also bought empressoftheworld.com and therulesforhearts.com, (my book titles), and I’d like to set them up as subsites, and run everything with WordPress.

I checked out her websites and found that she has written several well-received mini-comics as well as a Hellboy comic which I have a copy of. So a local author who also writes comics and hand-codes her own website is interested in a web-standards WordPress site and sought me out? Cool.

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