meta: fiddling with page appearance

I accidentally overwrote the layout I'd been using here with something I didn't like (I clicked "apply" instead of "preview" when looking at options), so I'm now trying to find something else I like. What I have now is at "not too bad"--it doesn't hurt my eyes and I can read it (a lot of styles have too little contrast for me).

The previous layout had bright purple background and the main text was black on white; I did want to change it, but maybe not this much.

(Currently it's "mint chocolate chip," on a base of "ciel," not the prettiest I've found but easier to read than "raindrop" on the same base.)

--Progress: the base I was using before seems to be "Compartmentalize"; trying "green clovers"

"Winter mornings," for the "drifting" base layout. Comes in blue, am going to fiddle with that a little. [and that takes me through the L's on base layouts, and I am going to go do something else and spare my hands]

12/6/18: "Neutral good" with some tweaks, as recommended by gingicat for mobile friendliness.

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If I can find something with the advantages of this, that doesn't insist on putting a lot of things in all-caps, I'll probably switch.

Wednesday was reading about volcanoes

Just read: Out of the caldera: chronicles of a volcanologist, by Richard V. Fisher. This is a series of short chapters mixing personal memoir, discussions of field trips to look at volcanoes and other geology, and information on volcanoes, especially calderas and the flow of ignimbrite. He talks about getting interested in geology, and connects it to his time in the navy, and watching the bomb tests at Bikini Atoll.

The author is an emeritus professor, and the epilogue points to a website, the Volcano Information Center, which is old enough to offer AltaVista search (and says copyright 1999); mostly a link farm, at least some of the links still work. I picked this up semi-randomly at the Somerville Library, where I'd gone to pick up a reserved book and decided to sit and read, waiting for the repair people to restore heat to our apartment building after a power outage last week.