April Fools Site: ‘Off on a Tangent’ is Developing

Posted April 1, 2011, 11:59 p.m.

On April Fools Day 2011, Off on a Tangent displayed with a modified template that showed all colors in the inverse like a photographic negative. The announcement read as-follows:

Just a quick site maintenance note: I’ve uploaded the negatives of some new updates. They may take up to 24-hours to develop. In the mean time, you may need to use a negative viewer to see the site properly.

Sorry for any inconvenience!

In case you are wondering, I do all of my web development in 120 format on a Mamiya m645.

Click to see how it looked!

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

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Do not take life too seriously, you will never get out of it alive.

An unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.

Part of the change we have to make is accepting that in the years to come, faithful Christians may have to choose between being a good American and being a good Christian.

To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.

No honest man becomes rich overnight; he has to wait for the reward of his labors.

Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.

I had rather be a free citizen of the small republic of Massachusetts, than an oppressed subject of the great American empire.

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But love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will; that state of the will which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people.

He who lives looking for pleasures only, his senses uncontrolled, immoderate in his food, idle, and weak (Mâra the tempter) will certainly overthrow him, as the wind throws down a weak tree.

But rulers have the same propensities as other men; they are as likely to use the power with which they are vested, for private purposes, and to the injury and oppression of those over whom they are placed. . . .

The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression, and obedience.

If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.

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You are, on the one hand, the most complex thing in the entire universe, and on the other, someone who can’t even set the clock on your microwave.

We’re all putting on an act and hoping the audience buys it.

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