Well, here we are. Is everyone ready to close out one of the most turbulent and historic years in a generation? I think I am. It’s certainly been big in my life, both personally and professionally, and its the professional side that I want to pump a bit here.
As of December 15th I am no longer an employee of Lime Wire, as my inclusion on the former employee list clearly shows. That’s nearly 3 ½ years at the Lime Group offices in lower Manhattan, and boy did I get to see an awful lot in that time. The place changed quite a bit from when I started, and grew so fast that at times it felt like riding inside a tornado. But it was that crazed energy that kept things vibrant. The whole of my experiences there certainly lived up to my expectations, but as with all things in life, there comes a time to move on.
Say Hello to the New
Creek Bed Industries goes 2.0
This leads us to my freshly revamped portfolio site, Creek Bed Industries. Using as many of the new skills I’ve been learning in the last few years, I gave everything a top to bottom revamping for the first time since at least 2005. A great deal of ideas put into my head first at FOWD ended up being used. And I have to say I do so love the background art I came up with.
Future plans for the site included trying to build a Ruby on Rails version (a great learning experience) and adding more of my previous projects to what is already up there. I also going to spend some of that time fixing up the blog as well. I see the styles of both of them converging to show a larger connection between my personal and professional sides — just like me in real life.
Future plans for myself are slightly less clear at the moment. If you have project or some freelance work available and would like some quality web and graphic design skills at your beck and call, you may want to drop me a line.
As the days outside grow colder, grayer and shorter, I grow more restless. A restless man needs his pacing space, and mine has been shrinking exponentionally. It’s like I’m a beast stuck in a cage two sizes too small.
I’m seriously thinking about how I can rearrange my apartment, not to mention ripping apart my closets and tossing all manner of useless crap. I’m even contemplating ridding myself of some of my more useless pieces of furniture.
This is all just a stop-gap measure, of course. I’ve been comtemplating a move from my tiny little apartment for quite some time, but that has been pushed off to some future date (yet again). Still, all this planned rearranging could help me save some future grief when that move finally does happen if I do it in a semi-smart manner.
Yes, I really have so many interesting things to write about….
I totally endorse the show that this clip makes fun of. What’s more, I heard about this from the very show in question. Keith Olbermann is good for television, I say. And humor is good for me.
Ah, writing while on my commute to and from work. A nice feeling that I haven’t had for a while. Weehawken to Tribeca isn’t quite long enough to break out the laptop, not to mention ol’ lappy being on its last legs.
With all my resurgent personal attention to the blog and its upkeep, I thought I would practice writing a bit with WordPress on my iPhone. With no copy and paste options currently available, I have to keep a better mind on what I’m writing than I usually do.
There are certainly days when I have tons of important thoughts I wish I could tell the world. This…is not one of them.
Sure thankful none of my bus rides end up like this.
Short, tragic, and funny are the series of Calamity Coach comics by Aaron Costain. I fear the place the creator must live where giant squids, meteors and light cycles attack motor coaches with such regularity.
If you’ve got an urge to listen to John Wiliams compositions sung a capella and with humorous lyrics, then Corey Vidal’s got you covered. His YouTube video called Star Wars (MP3 and lyrics here) actually manages to go through a medely of Williams’ best compositions with lyrics completely referenceing the sci-fi classic without once using one of the songs from the films. Great stuff.
Did you enjoy that? Good, because that’s over now.
It’s time for the new administration to get to work, and for the rest of us to act like civilized adults and treat each other with respect and — dare I say, affection? That’s why seeing things like ze frank’s From 52 to 48 With Love makes me smile. It’s a place where of the divide send messages to everyone in photos like the one above.
Sometimes my fellow citizens make me smile for all the right reasons.
i heart photograph has collected some videos of YouTube Meta Art; videos using YouTube’s own interface and interactions as its subject matter. (via Kottke)
For those iPod and iPhone owners out there who – like me – waste a extra minute or two every day having to untangle your earbuds, this little YouTube instructional video may very well be a godsend. (via Ten Reasons Why)
