If there’s one thing I envy in a large amount of the members here is their ability to create marvelous images seemingly on demand and in inhuman times; meanwhile I’m stuck searching the internet for two images that I can somehow put together with a little bit of alpha channel thrown in for good measure. Since I wanted to take a stab at teaching myself a complex application just by experimenting and learn to create web-worthy images in the process.

Since I don’t have access to the vast fortunes required to purchase Illustrator, I naturally went for Inkscape, which I had heard someone mention on the Ubuntu forums once. Something about icons. Hmm.

Anyways, after a bit of tinkering, I present to you my take on the Deep Thought logo. Yes, the font I used is Cambria. No, it’s not going to actually be used on DT. No, nothing is aligned properly. No, it isn’t anywhere near the quality of the current logo. No, I have no idea where you could get a free .svg viewer. Yes, it is part of my plan for world domination:

1. Learn Inkscape
2. ???
3. TOTAL WORLD DOMINATION!

Ahem. You can download the SVG from here.

O YA! In order to give myself some incentive to write blog entries, I’m going to keep most of them short, with the occasional log rant to mix things up (like the rant I am this close ( || ) to typing up in all caps about my computer and it’s hard reboots.)