So, I wanted a new personal image...

My "profile image" of me is nearly 8 years old. Sure, it captures the kind of spirit I was going for, but it's nearly 8 years old. I hadn't even started courses at the university from which I would earn my degree (and end up working), not had I even met my wife. So I decided an update was in order, to go along with the overall sprucing up of this place I want to do (more on that later).

But I couldn't find anything recent that I really liked. For one, I don't like having my image completely available to any yahoo. The Interwebsathon is cruel. Two, I'm dieting for a reason. Three, a lot of my recent pictures were taken at work, so not very flattering.

In the end, I went with a wedding picture. Though, I edited it heavily. I liked the particular effect I gave to it because it looks like I'm trapped in carbonite (damn you, Lando Calrissian! You better help rescue me in about a year, but I end up saving YOUR life with a witty quip that ends up getting edited to a benign line nearly 20 years later). So here you go, my new profile image:





As far as sprucing this place up goes, any suggestions from the peanut gallery? I really want a sidebar/main/sidebar look, but I can't get the template hack edits worked out right. Kind of frustrating. But any thing else you guys might think would work well for me? Suggestions welcome.