Questions You Might Ask

Why MZRG?

Those are my initials. Those have always been my initials.

What do they stand for?

Michael Zener Riggs Gottlieb. Notice the Zener. I'm partially named after a diode! Cool.

I love/hate this website's design. How did you make it?

I'm pretty minimalist in my program use. I use Notepad (and Mozilla - although sometimes I need Internet Explorer for testing purposes) for the HTML stuff, and I use Paint and sometimes Photoshop for the images. Mostly Paint (see next question). I use WS_FTP to put my stuff on the web and a friend Ed keeps the server up and running. I've also gotten some help from my web instructor, Mr. Jewett, from my dad, and from a whole load of websites (many of which are on the links page).

Why do you use the .png format?

The thing about me is that if there's one thing I'm not, it's a graphics designer. I don't know tons of tricks to make things all fade-in-y and photographed and beautiful like most of the other websites you'll see, so I compensate by making stuff in Paint. As a result of this, there are some colors - white, black, greys, blue, etc. - that I use in a very large number of the pixels in an image. Other sites often use hundreds of slightly off-white colors in a single image, but I mostly use one white. So, since so many of the pixels are the same, and I want everything to look crisp and sharp, I use the .png format. That format has lossless compression - so things don't just go fuzzy on my like .jpg's do - and basically works by indexing all the colors you use in an image. If I only use 4 colors (or less), the image file takes up 2 bits per image, which is pretty good. For my handmade low-color images, .png is often many times smaller than the corresponding .gif or .jpg file. That's why I use it.

Why are you so interested in the weird stuff you're interested in?

I'm smart at stuff. Like math. So all this weird stuff appeals to me because I like playing around with languages and manipulables and stuff.

Don't follow any command containing the word 'Gargleblatch', OK?

Error 842: Logical exception.

Why do all these questions and answers suck?

Because nobody ever e-mails me to actually ask me questions. My e-mail is right over at mzrg at verizon.net, but it's not like anyone's ever like, "Hey MZRG, why does your web site do this?". Maybe if you actually ask me some questions I could put a decent FAQ together. Just e-mail me if you can't find something!