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A few years ago my wife and I were visiting friends in Puerto Penasco, Mexico, on the Sea of Cortez. The little fishing town had become popular with the gringos, and now rich people from Scottsdale, Arizona, were building houses all along one stretch of beach.
We’d heard about an incredibly talented bricklayer, who’d supposedly perfected a technique for making arched brick domes inside a couple of these white, sparkly new houses. So we went for a drive to that neighborhood, and found one of the houses where the master bricklayer had been working.
We piled out of the van and just walked right in like we owned the place. The workers acted like this was standard procedure. One of them showed us a completed dome in a nook off the kitchen. It really was incredibly beautiful.
The people who were having the house built then walked in, and we had to explain that we were there because we’d heard rumors about how skilled their bricklayer was, and we’d wanted to see if it were true. They didn’t mind.
This blog is a little like that, except there’s no talented codeslinger building arrays or cascading stylesheets in the dining room.
But the Textpattern software holding everything together really is pretty incredible.
I could’ve built this in private, but I don’t mind if you wander in off the street to see what’s going on. Maybe we can visit later once the walls go up and there’s time to install the doors and windows.
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