About

This page contains three sections, sorted in order of perceived importance: about the blog, about me, and the colophon (an odd word that means roughly “how it’s made”).

About the Blog

Frozen Toothpaste isn’t a political blog. It’s not a celebrity gossip blog. It’s not a blog of reviews. It’s not a blog about religion or non-religion. Nor one of fiction or quotations. And though it’s none of those things, it has some interest in all of those areas.

If you’re seeking a simple analogy for what you’ll find here, probably the best is that it’s similar to the columns you find on newspapers’ Opinion page and sprinkled through most newsmagazines. That analogy is better than most others but it still fails, as the content here can be both less timely and more diverse than you tend to find in those types of writings.

    If you’re still not sure what Frozen Toothpaste’s about, iternations of the blog’s taglinesmay be informative. They are, in reverse chronological order:

    • A Blog of Ideas (revived because it’s predecessor began to feel a tad too accurate)
    • quasi-intellectual part-time philosophizing
    • A Blog of Ideas
    • Unwarranted Opinion on Life, Politics & Culture
    • Your source for the banal, the mundane, and (occasionally) the enlightening

    About Me

    David No1David Hayes, the author of this blog, is a 24-year-old university graduate. He currently lives in Colorado. He also doesn’t like writing about himself in the third person.

    I’ve blogged, with varying degrees of success, skill, and regularity since I was about 14. I’m confident that this blog is the best I’ve ever done, which is far from saying that it is either good or great.

    I’m very curious about things I’m curious about and dismiss most other things as a waste of time. I think that we’re not so different, you and I, and that goes for any you (and any I as well). I think that this blog is great way for me to catalog things I think, learn, and hope for while also allowing me to share those things with the world.

    Colophon

    Frozen Toothpaste runs on WordPress, a free blogging platform.

    The theme — meaning layout, colors, fonts, et cetera — is a lightly modified version of the Kaleidoscope theme by Ikiru Design (also me, by the way). The font you’re seeing is (probably) Georgia, by Matthew Carter, which is without question the most appealing web-safe serif typeface.

    Frozen Toothpaste also takes advantage of a number of freely-available WordPress plugins including:

    • Akismet — to save us from the staggering number of spam comments received (nearly 2500 at last count)
    • Similar Posts — to add those handy links at the end of each post
    • FeedBurner’s FeedSmith — to redirect subscribers to the site’s FeedBurner feed (which allows subscriber counts, etc.)
    • WordPress Database Backup — to (hopefully) save us from a terrible loss of data
    • wp-typogrify — to make two typed hyphens into “ — ”
    • Subscribe to Comments — to allow you to, well, (see name)
    • WP Contact Form: Askiment Edition — to allow you to contact me

    Frozen Toothpaste is hosted by bluehost.