L U N A T A L K with Eva Moon

The Law of Infinite Regression

May 18, 2009 on 4:27 pm | Join the conversation. You know you want to. | In Backstage Pass, General Musing, Music

The Law of Infinite Regression states that whatever you want to do, there’s something else you have to do first.

I learned this many years ago when we were doing some “simple” home fix-ups. I wanted new tile on the bathroom floor. But first I needed to take out the old linoleum. Before I could do that, I had to remove the toilet. When the toilet was up, we discovered a leak, so the sub flooring had to be redone and the leak fixed. But the pipes were ancient and corroded in our 1911 house. Try to attach anything to it and it would crumble like the mummy when his age catches up with him. So we learned how to sweat solder copper pipe and re plumbed the whole house. At that point things go dark.

That’s essentially what happened to my website, http://evamoon.net last weekend. We’ve got a new CD coming out very soon and it was time to add something about it to the site. But every time I tried to shoehorn it in, I’d run into another obstacle. The navigation was constrained, the code dated and graphics-heavy, the page width too narrow. The copy was sadly out of date and there was far too much of it. I hadn’t updated the design in three years. That’s about the equivalent of 1911 in web years. So Friday night after band practice I tore it down and built it up again from the ground.

The weekend didn’t involve much sleep. You know how it is when you get into a project – time just melts away like the mumm… But we’ve got a fresh new site and I didn’t need a blow-torch!