Dave Kellam

I’ve been sifting through some of my older stuff lately and trying to get more things onto the site. I remembered the design community we had at suffocate.org. The site died, but we had a semi-active mailing list for awhile. Cedric Dewulf paid for the hosting and stopped doing so at some point a year or two ago. I hadn’t backed up the third version of conform (old backups: v1, v2). Whoever owned the domain (i think it was nick) also let it go. It was a lot of fun. I’ve been planning on getting conform back up for awhile (I almost did last summer), but never got around to it. That’s on tap for the near future, although there’s a fair bit of school work left to do. If anyone knows how to get in touch with Cedric let me know, or any of the crew. It would be nice to know what people are up to now.

Some notes: an old article I just found about suffocate, old shift.jp issue, conform was coolstop site of the day in august 2000, suffocate in march i think.

Had a good day yesterday; ventured downtown and spent plenty of time browsing the bookshelves at indigo and the liquor shelves at the liquor store. I stopped by Dave’s place and bounced around some ideas about creating a media/recording company. My purchases from the bookstore included a cheap copy of The Hacker Ethic (hardcover with cool minimalist binding), a copy of Frank magazine, and some things for Alanah. The liquor store presented me with a couple bottles of wine, both from the Rhone Valley in France. I did a short exchange there when I was younger and liked the wine from around there.

After that was food shopping and cooking. Alanah came over, we had some wine and cheeses, then we cooked up a couple of steaks, some crazy potatoes and onions (with lemon, butter and brown sugar), a tomato and mozzarella salad type thing and some garlic bread. Ate with candles burning, sat around drinking wine and talking. She gave me a copy of Pattern Recognition, Talkie Walkie, some chocolate covered coffee beans and some Glenfiddich. All in all, a great night.

I’ve been doing some updates to the writing section as well. A good chunk of the things I’ve written for the paper this year are online (and by that I mean the eds).