Jon McRae

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Mantra — November 8th, 2011

I will one day die. On that day I will wake with peace in my heart. I will possess in it love. For myself, for my family, for my enemies. For everyone bearing across this small planet the millstone of his soul. For my friends there is not ink enough to accommodate my affections and . . . → full post

Design

Louvre is the perfect online gallery. It gives free reign and full exposure to your work. Thumbnails of your art, photographs, et cetera, display in an unobtrusive, smooth-scrolling sidebar. When clicked, any given thumbnail will appear as a full-page background, scaled to fit any screen resolution. In newer browsers, implementation of CSS3 allows the background to scale live as the viewer changes the size of the browser. All this for less than 20kb of code.

Fiction

Sick. I'm sick. I felt it today, lying in the park. The sky was so blue and deep. Even the stain over the city didn't look too bad, but it was what made me realize I'm sick. I'm just like that yellow stain, sulking at the edges of all that's good and pure. The world is bright around me and I have every comfort at my disposal. But I don't feel comfort.

Good Men Do Nothing

A young man's ruminations on the state and fate of the world. Also, tigers.