James Huckaby…

But I’ll probably do it again. I’ve made a few modifications to the Eye without telling anyone. They aren’t that big but I suppose I should note them. The background and the Eye animation change depending on the second of the day if you are using Netscape 4.0 and Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher. There are just a few but you won’t be able to see the difference if you don’t use JavaScript. If you do use JavaScript you can simply press the Back and Forward buttons on your browser to make the page switch images.

Please don’t upgrade your web browser just for the sake of seeing the new animations. Do it for the children. They need the latest technology or they won’t be able to go to college.

I put my favorite animation and background combination up as default for those of you who use Opera, older browsers, and for the JavaScript sensitive.  It should be beautiful and remind you of a Eye that is Half Closed floating on a Deep Blue Sea.

I once said that I was going to avoid JavaScript and Frames entirely but I changed my mind. It wasn’t hard to do, but it was painful cleaning my old mind and putting it back in with the new one.

On Sub-Categories:
I modified my Opinions, Book Reviews by James, and EXHIBIT B to use frames. This may be painful for people who have trouble updating their browser past Mosaic 1.0 and Netscape 1.0 and their ilk. I have tested these pages with Netscape 2.02, Netscape 3.04, Netscape 4.0x, Netscape 4.5, Internet Explorer 4.0, and Opera 3.5 after an angry email from Mark in Fort Worth told me that none of my pages were working and forced me to toil feverishly to correct the errors of my mistakes.

raveller.com:
Is where you are at. “The Half Closed Eye” is so named because of a paragraph in the Barry Hughart novel entitled “Bridge of Birds”. An explanation of where the name “raveller” came from is here.

raveller.com is more than just one man’s attempt to show the world what he is made of. It is a family of my dedicated fans who love me and adore me and wish to make me, James Huckaby, their emperor and then assassinate me for bringing my private army into the domain, but it will be too late because I will have already established the precedent for hegemonius rule of raveller.com which will be contested for a span of centuries before barbarous hacker Goths overturn the once glorious empire as it wallows in its own decadence.

The Story of Ravel
This is the staging groud to unveil information on my story about your everyday average guy with a shape-shifting tattoo and a demonic monkey on his back. That is an over-simplification of course. So is what little is actually on the page. I’ve got pages and pages of non-digitized, non-presentable material that are not at all ready to be shown to anyone but my editor/sister Melody. I do have some Ravel related art up for display.

Photo Albums:
I regret that my mother’s side of my family do not have more pictures posted. They will regret it when I finally post them. I took some photos of my house that have not been developed yet. I will post them as soon as I have time. Also forthcoming (if the film wasn’t exposed) are photos of a twenty-five bar marathon. As the recorder of events I hope this will be an exciting piece of work. Until then you simply have to satisfied with older party pics.

Art Galleries:
I suppose I shouldn’t have to advertise my Art Galleries that much on this page. They receive quite a few direct hits from the search engines all by themselves. They are also quite popular with the ladies. Well, the ladies that visit them that is.