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Trying to find an identity

Mar21
2010
2 Comments Written by Daniel Veazey

I don’t want to call myself the Open Source Dilettante anymore. I thought it was funny at first, but nobody seems to be laughing. So this week I’m calling my blog “Messing around with stuff.” I think it’s an accurate title. I don’t know if I’ll keep it though. I’m not sure it snaps, you know? I need something that grabs the reader’s attention and says, “HEY! LOOK AT THIS!”

So I’m taking suggestions for a title for my blog. I want to hear ideas from all both of my readers.

In the meantime, here is a cool metallic eagle-head serpent I drew with Inkscape:

I used the pencil tool to draw a spiro with a triangle-in pattern, then added and arranged a couple of nodes in the path effect editor. I added the eye with the calligraphy tool, and differenced it out. I duped the shape twice, once to make a drop shadow and once to have a white under-layer for the chrome effect on the top layer. The background is a radial gradient stretched out horizontally.

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2 Comments

  1. Chad Eiler's Gravatar Chad Eiler
    March 21, 2010 at 6:00 pm | Permalink

    Nice serpent. How about Doddlin With Dan; Bloggin Bout Things; Shareware Shortcuts; All Things Considered (I think that’s an NPR thing); Doin Things With Stuff; Veazey’s Freebies. That’s all I got for now.

  2. Daniel Veazey's Gravatar Daniel Veazey
    March 21, 2010 at 6:09 pm | Permalink

    Wow, these are all awesome. I like Doin Things With Stuff.

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