MightyFunk

You can’t mention funk without George Clinton and the P-Funk coming to mind.

So here’s a music video from the all-stars lest we forget:

Q. Will This Site Work in my Browser?

A. Good question moron. I don’t know. Try it. I heard it busts wide open in IE 6. I haven’t even dicked around with Safari. I’m not about to.

Q. Do you have any plans to make this site work with my browser?

A. Welcome to the year 2008 buddy. Upgrade your browser and get with the program.

Q. Is this site XHMTL valid?

A. Hell no. It works in the latest Opera, Firefox, and even (cough) IE. That’s all that matters.

Q. Is the CSS valid?

No - I don’t have any stock in Microsoft or Yahoo! I’m also not stupid enough to buy stock in either one while their prices are inflated. The time to have done (in the early 90s if you had spare cash, foresight, or just got plain lucky) so has long since passed. So my interests don’t lie there. Recently it’s been reported in the news that Microsoft has been trying to acquire Yahoo and has put out their offer.

But why am I interested at the moment in whether or not Yahoo should sell to Microsoft? Let me lay out a few reasons for you:

Hopefully I am closing in on the last of the more technical posts for this blog. I wanted to steer away from these topics as they tend to bore the average reader. On the other hand, I will add that technically-related writings tend to bring in a large reader base - especially if you write about something obscure or unusual. With the past two weeks of fiddling with this website, website setup and installation has been foremost on my mind so it is an easier topic for me to hit upon.

Blogging Origins

I’m an old-school blogger and website developer/designer. Originally, I had a blog called ‘Lunarlog’ (off of my main website Lunarstudio which started off on a very good note and gained a fair amount of popularity. That blog had been created in a time when most people never even heard of the term ‘blog.’ I had used an early system that I installed and hooked in called Movabletype (famous for bloggers blogging on Typepad.) Over a short amount of time, Lunarlog fell into a very sad state of disrepair.

Q: Why do you have the name Mightyfunk?

A: Because every singular word for domain names in the english language has already been taken or put on market for exorbitant prices. I went down a list of names that sounded catchy, but all of them had been nabbed. Then I went down two-word domain names and this suddenly popped into my head for no apparent reason whatsoever. I was actually surprised that it was available. I was even more surprised that the .net and mightyfunky.com was available which I quickly registered.

There’s really no simple answer. However, I can list a few reasons:

Personal Reasons:

1. Ego. Yes, I like to blab sometimes…
2. Being social. As much as I’m embarrassed to admit, I do occasionally find people fascinating.
3. Sharing artwork, photos, and music.
4. Spreading strange and interesting news. When I come across something incredibly stupid, I feel a moral obligation to share these findings with others.
5. Possibly getting a few friends to get together to create a community of interesting posts.
6. Boredom. I have a slight break from real work and thought this could be fun to do…

This is probably one of most misunderstood concepts and I thought I’d elaborate upon what some of us might consider to be completely obvious. When most people think of a ‘weblog’ or ‘blog’, an image usually comes to mind of some loser rambling about their problems or mundane existence for the rest of world to see. While this may be true in the majority of cases, this couldn’t be farther from the origin of the word ‘blog.’

The father of LSD-25, Albert Hofmann died in Switzerland at the ripe old age of 102 on Tuesday, April 30th 2008. Hofmann, an accomplished Swedish chemist came across the powerful hallucinogen on April 16th, 1943 while working on synthesizing chemicals from ergot.

His discovery of the hallucinogenic properties of LSD had inadvertently defined culture - in particular those ‘damn hippies.’

RIP Albert. Apparently, acid only prolonged his life. Funk ensues to this day.

Read more about Albert Hofmann here.