About « Rudy Carrera

About

Welcome to RudyCarrera.com! I blog on politics from a center-right perspective, and comment on everything from computer technology to some of the sillier things in life. Here are a few of my other pages:

A Miscellany of Tasteful Music – My labor of love for music. I cover everything from Robert Goulet to Throbbing Gristle, have an encyclopedia of bands, labels, genres I enjoy on the sidebar, and have begun adding playlists to posts. I’ll eventually do that weekly, but as it stands now, I have enough to do with general blogging.

Apocatastasis – My site dealing with all matters religious. I am a practicing Eastern Orthodox Christian, but I have a profound interest in religious matters from all over the world.

Mappa Mundi – A collection of links relating to nations and cultures.

My Collection of MP3s – As the title implies.

Steinblóm – A page dedicated to the non-musical arts for the time being. Its mission may change. We’ll see next year.

My Bulletin Boards

Rudy Carrera’s bbPress – A general bulletin board made as a practice tool.

Outside Sites

The Carrera-Linn Cultural Exchange – My record label and artist representation site.
Rudy’s Corner – My site for the Tower of Babel, a venerable organization.

Social Networking

Now, about me…

I’m an American blogger interested in politics, culture, music, art, philosophy and film, and I enjoy sharing things that I find interesting with others of a like (and certainly of a not-so-like) mind.

I write knowing full well that not everyone will be in full agreement with what I have to say. That’s fine by me. Frankly, that’s also healthy, as debate on topics help one learn more about the world. To give fair warning, however, I write as a political, theological and military conservative, as well as from an extremely liberal arts perspective. I don’t ask you to change your mind on topics; rather, it’s useful to debate and open your ears once in a while. The only rule I have around here is to respect that my opinion comes from my experience. If you wish to engage, I start on the assumption that you will be treated with respect. Should you abuse that privilege, you will be deleted. Period.

WHY DO THIS?

Why did I do this site? It’s an exercise in demonstrating who I am and what I like. Consider it as a sort of Encyclopædia Rudaica.

I have a readership that spans the globe which was earned from constant traveling. I’ve been fortunate enough to have had contact with people of varying ethnic, cultural and religious backgrounds, giving me a well-rounded view of the world (or so I hope).

These experiences have, in turn, led me to explore other areas of interest, such as music, art, film, a little science, business and other subjects you see listed before you.

What you have here is as close to a full picture of me you can get without actually meeting me; of course, I’m always up for hot tea (or rakija, or vodka, or ouzo) and conversation with anyone who has something worthwhile to say.

To summarize, this is a blog of the things that make me, well, me. I do it because of both sheer will and a want to communicate with like (and even not-so-like) minds (I’ve only had one serious detractor, and his problem had to do more with getting married to someone he coveted rather than any honest disagreement, as I never met the bum).

Most of the posts are done for me to demonstrate to friends, students, and my readers, and most know me well enough to just send an e-mail or call to either agree or complain. Take it for what it is: a quick read of what I am interested in. Enjoy!

PARTICULARS

This blog is an extension of conversations I have with friends and students. The opinions printed herein are mine, and are subject to change based on the gathering of more information, and should be respected as such. I’ll engage anyone in debate, and I’m not so full of pride that I can’t sit down with someone and have a fair, spirited and reasoned disagreement.

All material herein is either:

My copyrighted work, which I do enforce.
Work whose copyright stays with the entity who provided me with the link.
Work pointed to in the interest of Fair Use.

As for the pages, these are collections of links to things I like. I don’t take advertisements on anything listed here, so don’t ask me to place a link to something just to shill a product. If it’s something I enjoy, I’ll put it up here somewhere. If not, I simply won’t.

Please do understand that this site will ALWAYS be a work in progress. It’s a labor of love, and your window to me. Welcome!

SPECIFICATIONS

I am a huge proponent of Unicode, as are most people, companies and services working with Open Source Technology, namely because it is flexible enough to allow alphabets and other scripts into my posts with no breakage in quality. Please set your browsers to have UTF-8 ability so that you can take advantage of this wonderful ability to type in Latin, Greek, Cyrillic or God-knows-what. For more on Unicode, click the link.

Latin and Cyrillic characters are used when I write with commonly, and the links provided will give you a history of both scripts.

You may wish to look at SIL International for fonts that should cover all major world alphabets. I will eventually move over to these fonts, but I wish to wait for my readership to provide comments on their opinions of these fonts.

Also, 1152 x 864 is the preferred screen size resolution that I’d like you to use. If it’s any smaller than this, you will simply have to scroll over to continue reading. Annoying, true, but perhaps this may motivate you to purchase a better monitor.