Samurai.Chris
sudo.Intellectual Detritus (it's a UNIX joke, not a misspelling)
Chris Vacano, est. 1972
When the winds of change blow, some build shelters while others build windmills.
-- Chinese Proverb
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.
Welcome to the web site of Seattle artist and designer,
Chris Vacano. The second quote above may have been more appropriately paraphrased in one of my favorite movies, Boondock Saints: "... there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men." This has been the character of my state of mind lately. We live in very perilous times, and are daily confronted with the decision to confront the danger or bury our heads in the sand and hope it goes away on its own. If we don't chose the first, we have no right to complain about the rewards we reap. I still cling desperately to the belief that people, for the most part, are good. I challenge you to stand for something or you'll fall for anything.
You can view my artwork here, and read my ramblings on art and being an artist, among other things. Feedback is always appreciated, so I've set up a page where you can post comments, or you can email me. I'm more likely to respond to emails, but I try to keep on top of comments, too.
As an aside to the denizens and owners of a certain nightclub/dj crew in the UK (you know who you are), you can take your "Official" and stuff it where the sun don't shine. I was born with this name and have been using it since 1972. Moreover, my family's been using it for well over 700 years... quite a bit more than your sad little Johnny-come-lately establishment. When did you open? 2005? 2006? Piss off, wankers.
During The Pirate Bay trial, the music industry placed the blame for the decline in their revenues squarely on the shoulders of file-sharers. Their logic is clearly flawed, but it could sway the verdict if no alternative explanation is presented. So, if piracy isn’t to blame, then what is *actually* killing the music industry?
MacHeist 3 is up and rolling, and has already had 2 nanoMissions and 1 full mission. If you've never participated, it's a lot of fun. They people behind it, known as "the Directorate", have created an immersive online game environment where participants get to act out their latent hacker fantasies, solving puzzles and breaking through some very clever "security systems" (puzzles) with the end goal of getting free copies of popular shareware apps for the Mac.
If you're a Mac user, and haven't tried it, I recommend checking it out. Like I've said before, it's a lot of fun. And it's a chance to join a very friendly community of Mac users from around the world.
Okay, I promised myself I would write about this, and have been kind of slow getting to it. Back at the beginning of July, I road-tripped with the missus and the madre back to Colorado to visit friends and family (it was so wonderful to see you guys!!!!).
Let me wander off on a tangent for a moment... I promise, it's relevant. Have you ever seen "Swimming to Cambodia"? It's basically a film of a live performance piece by Spalding Gray (God rest his soul). In it, he talks about how when he travels, he looks for the 'perfect moment'... that experience that crystalizes the purpose of your trip and tells you it's okay to go home.
Back to Colorado. I had such a perfect moment. In a restaurant, of all places. See, part of the rationale behind our trip was to attend the Eisenhauer family (my wife's maternal family) reunion in Estes Park. I've loved Estes Park ever since I was a little hemophiliac camper at the YMCA Camp (location of the reunion, coincidentally), so it was a no-brainer for me.
Anyhow, on the evening of the 4th of July (don't ask me about the significance!), we found ourselves without dinner plans... so we decided to head into town and try one of the many restaurants we saw on the way up to the Y-camp. Our first stop was at an Italian place that looked really shee-shee and appealing, but totally blew us off because we didn't have a reservation and they were an hour behind on the evening as it was. Sucks to be them... they might be getting the effusive review to follow, if they hadn't been so totally indifferent to us.
Moving on down the road, and following one of my uncanny hunches, we settled on dining at the Sundeck restaurant. What a delightful twist of fate.
After a short wait in the bar, playing the peg board game, we got our table, and were attended to with utmost professionalism and courtesy. That's all well and good... should be expected by any respectable restaurant. That's not the story, though.
The story was the meal. I opted for the Forelle Blau, which is their house specialty. It's a poached rainbow trout (apparently caught out of the river 10 minutes before cooking!) with drawn butter and parsley potatoes. In short, it was the BEST MEAL I'VE EVER HAD. I would not kid about such a thing.
Should you find yourself in Estes Park and looking for a good place to eat, take my advice and get thee to the Sundeck and have the Forelle Blau. They also make a killer 'Gangster', if you're the drinking type.
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