My name is Nicholas and I live in southeast Portland, Oregon with my lovely wife and our 3 dogs - 2 labs and one dobey/shepherd mix. I obsess about baseball in general and the Mariners in particular and spend way too much time worrying about my roto teams. I write software for a living, mostly websites, mostly using PHP.

The checkered masthead, footer, and content background images are dynamically generated using PHP and GD. The source code is here.

You can lock the style of the masthead, instead of seeing the random rotation, by picking one from below (sets a persistent cookie):
checkered monotone
solid monotone (not in random masthead rotation)
checkered palette
solid palette
lite grayscale palette
dark grayscale palette
superdark grayscale palette (content background, not in random rotation)
random rotation

Design advice and colorific guidance for this kick-ass site came from a real designer: Chris Esterline / 9930

This site is powered by Apache and PHP.

Surfing the web with Internet Exploder is like stubbornly driving a broken-down '72 Pinto with no brakes and a flat tire, when there's a Lexus parked at every streetcorner free for the taking.