Welcome
Welcome to zeroasterisk.com, a site created and administered by Alan Blount. For personal updates and editorial posts, checkout the blog. If you really wanted to, you could also subscribe to Alan's Google Calendar. A good amount of free-form content is available in the wiki (editable).
And as for photos, I am in the long process of migrating photos from my own installation of Gallery to Flickr. So look you've gotta look in a different places for a while: older photos ( < 2008 ), newer photos ( > 2007 ), and if you want to see photos of Poppy, just expand the section below by clicking on the title.Penelope Lou (Photos and Videos)
Penelope Lou Blount - 2008.01.24 13:33 - 8#9oz & 21"
Daughter of Alan and Alan Blount
"There is nothing better, than Poppy."
Videos
Poppy on YouTubeThese videos tend to be of better quality and include many of our favoties, including The Laugh and Mirror Time.
More videos of PoppyA collection of shorter videos of worse quality, but Poppy is just as cute... These are mostly from earlier.
Photos
Poppy - 2008.11 (47)
Poppy - 2008.10 (103)
Poppy - 2008.09 (176)Poppy got a great visit from her Grannie C and spent some time in a pool with the Beattys. She visited with some "old friends" (the others
Poppy - 2008.08 (160)August was a wonderful time to be in Poppy's life (as if there was a bad time). We decided it was time to crawl, and cruise, and get a few teeth... a
Poppy - 2008.07 (170)Back in Louisville for a couple of weeks already - Penelope and her family kept visited all the friends and family in town and got re-acquainted with
Poppy - 2008.06 (118)June was an exciting month (they are all exciting months). We took Poppy swimming in a neighbor's pool with her great grandfather. She spent a lot o
Poppy - 2008.05 (91)
Poppy - 2008.04 (137)April in Houston - We spent the month visiting Alan's family in Houston - staying with Poppy's Great-Grandfather Jack and being baby-sat by Poppy's Gr
Poppy - 2008.03 (93)During March we found our feet, figured out more about our hands, and started laughing a little bit. It snowed in Louisville and Poppy made her first
Poppy - 2008.02 (175)Poppy went from around <=1 week to 5 weeks old during the month of Feb. She is getting many visitors at the house, including her Granie C. and GPS
Poppy - 2008.01 (returned home) (122)Penelope came home with her family, and the world got brighter. Somewhere around 53 hours after her birth, Poppy walked through the door to our Chili
Poppy - infant - favorites (178)Some of our favorite photos of our favorite girl - Penelope Lou Blount
Poppy - 2008.01 (in hospital) (180)The labor, birth, and hospital stay of Penelope Lou Blount 2008.01.23-26 She was born Jan 24th at about 1pm - 8 pounds and 10 ounzes. We were kept
Alan Blount
I do a decent job of being who i want to be.
- geek
- web devloper (LAMP+AJAX==good)
- artist
- lover of things
- life
- people
- art
- games
- board games
- computer games
- ultimate frisbee
- food
- humor
- etc...
- freak
- interesting (depending)
- friendly
- honest
- communicative (ideally)
- human || robot
- etc.
| What is your stand on..... | |
| Abortion?: | a painful choice, but nobody's right to deny |
| Death Penalty?: | a brutal practice we should move away from as we get closer to our ideal society (mild sarcasm) |
| Prostitution?: | indifferent as long as it's all done with free will |
| Alcohol?: | not my thing |
| Marijuana?: | not my thing, but better than alcohol |
| Other drugs?: | not my thing either, anymore |
| Gay marriage?: | fine, of course... are you stupid? |
| Illegal immigrants?: | a symptom of global economic inequity |
| Smoking?: | 99% gross, but nobody's right to deny (outside) |
| Drunk driving?: | unacceptable... are you stupid? |
| Cloning?: | fantastic, sign me up. |
| Racism?: | unacceptable, though everyone is guilty of every form of categorization - be aware and avoid |
| Premarital sex?: | probably |
| Religion?: | usually a metaphor, crutch, or arrogant mistake |
| The war in Iraq?: | unfair, awful, shameful, un-american (talking ideals, not practice) |
| Bush?: | an evil and somewhat talented puppet of a fascist, classist minority who happen to be in power |
| Downloading music?: | fine, as long as you go to shows and buy things from artists you like |
| The legal drinking age?: | don't care |
| Porn?: | don't care... except where art rubs up against porn... that's interesting |
| Suicide?: | a painful extreme and unfortunate |
