Monthly Archive for November, 2007

Toby is the worst

Published on November 30, 2007 in Rants. 10 Comments

Look how crazy we are

Some­times I am a crit­i­cal bas­tard. It’s lit­tle things like I am very crit­i­cal of peo­ples’ docks or their desk­tops or any sort of com­puter orga­ni­za­tion. There are three inten­si­ties of my crit­i­cal­ity. There is the most severe. I hate clut­tered desk­tops. I can’t stand it. It stresses me out. It’s dis­or­ga­nized and unpro­duc­tive. So that’s a Three. A Two would prob­a­bly be hot cor­ners. Hot cor­ners I can under­stand, but I will never use them. Ever. I can some­what under­stand how peo­ple can deal with them, but ugh. A One is more of a nonessen­tial. A One is look­ing at peo­ples’ docks. I feel very smug when I see docks that are the default size and have all the orig­i­nal appli­ca­tions. Some­how it makes me feel cool for putting my cool appli­ca­tions in my dock.

That’s my scale. Three is com­pletely unac­cept­able. One is nonessen­tial. (Most Ones are things I have done in the past.)

Three
A clut­tered desk­top
Blow­ing your nose in a restau­rant
List­ing all the bands you lis­ten to

Two
Hot cor­ners
Dock Hid­ing
Two spaces after a period
Not using smart quotes
Com­mer­cials on The Office webisodes
Teeth whitening

One
An unmod­i­fied dock
Blog­ger
Win­dows
Arial
Hot­mail
Gar­den State
Bob Mar­ley
Mis­pro­nounc­ing ‘preface’

(Also, I don’t really like Face­book. I just wanted to put that out there. I couldn’t decide how to clas­sify that. What num­ber would a nec­es­sary evil be?)

What brought this up had to do with work­ing out the tem­plates for EM. I don’t like the space between the nav­i­ga­tion and the first line of text. I worked so long try­ing to fig­ure out what was mak­ing it do that. It’s too much. But then I started look­ing around at other sites and they all have it too! So I imme­di­ately think they aren’t smart enough to fig­ure it out either. CAN IT BE HELPED?!

A New Hope

Published on November 29, 2007 in Internet. 0 Comments

FACE FACE

Tum­blr
I have felt over­taxed lately. I spend so much time shar­ing this and tag­ging that; I have lost track of every­thing I out­put. The inter­net feels too full right now. I’ve decided to make a con­scious effort of slow­ing the hell down and actu­ally writ­ing, not just “shar­ing” every­thing. I’m say­ing good­bye to my Tum­blr. I’m not going to delete it, but I’m not going to be post­ing any­more. I’m going to focus on this blog more. Focus on get­ting my work done, and not just get­ting through my feeds.

FACE FACE

Spring Clean­ing
In light of my Thanks­giv­ing res­o­lu­tion, I decided to do some cyber spring clean­ing. I wanted to clean up my tem­plates, but once I started I kept notic­ing more things need­ing to be done. If you look around you will see slight changes every­where. My intent was to make the lay­out more orga­nized and readable.

The main page, the about page, and We Enjoy are all sport­ing a new 3 col­umn lay­out. I could cry look­ing at it. It’s so much bet­ter. I had put off doing this for a long time. When I started EM, the main page was my blog (I trashed the archives a while back when mov­ing servers). As we grew, it moved from being my blog to being the land­ing page for our site. Don’t get me wrong, the 2 col­umn lay­out works really nicely for blogs. As I added more and more con­tent to the main page it became too clut­tered. It looked so pieced together, like the mon­ster from Franken­stein. It felt over­whelm­ing to sit down and try and fix it. I thought it would be too time con­sum­ing to change the lay­out. But today I sat down for a cou­ple hours and made this new tem­plate. It wasn’t bad at all, and it was high time for an update.

Well, I’m going to get back to work­ing on my port­fo­lio. Expect to hear from me here more often!

Next Year!!

Published on November 23, 2007 in Photo. 4 Comments

IMG_0346.jpgLet’s have a friends thanks­giv­ing. No fam­ily allowed (excep­tions: cool siblings).

I made a video

Published on November 13, 2007 in Video. 1 Comment

Yes­ter­day I got all excited and set up a cou­ple views of my work to be recorded simul­ta­ne­ously. I had a web cam fac­ing the win­dow in front of my desk, iSight for my face, and the third view on my desk­top. I recorded from 12 pm to 4:30 pm. The video is about 3 min­utes long. (All made pos­si­ble by Gawker in com­bi­na­tion with macam.)

Links Blaring

Published on November 11, 2007 in Literate. 3 Comments

REAL TALK! I’m at the cross­roads, Sun­day morn­ing, (gonna miss every­body), in life right now. I’m exit­ing the college-part time job-parents help­ing with rent/school/insurance/etc-not wor­ry­ing about things like insurance-time and enter­ing the holy f-bomb-I need to get a job soon-working-car?-finding a place to live-getting mar­ried–com­bin­ing books–liv­ing time. I really felt this today. Not in a bad way, more like get­ting stuff done like mad. I was gath­er­ing for my port­fo­lio today and real­ized at some point recently I deleted my last 2 years of school work. EVERYTHING! Which is good and bad. Most of it wasn’t that good any­how + I have printed ver­sions of all the good stuff. Also, I have all the stuff from work­ing at UR. (Also, it looks like I’m actu­ally grad­u­at­ing, con­trary to what I found out last week. I shouldn’t speak too soon though…)

strongEven though there is only 5 (4?) weeks left in the semes­ter, what really hit me was how unpre­pared I am for jobs/interviews. Not because my port­fo­lio is loosely together, but I’m men­tally not pre­pared. I was read­ing How To Be a Graphic Designer With­out Los­ing Your Soul today when I real­ized this. It talked about going on count­less inter­views, learn­ing from the bad ones, etc. REAL TALK!

“HOW TO FIND A JOB”

“WHAT DO EMPLOYERS REALLY WANT”

gdbookblog.jpgI will prob­a­bly talk about this a lot more com­ing up, so get ready!!! (i.e. I lost inter­est in writ­ing more because Laura and I are mak­ing gin­ger bread and it’s almost ready!!!!)

***Links Blar­ing refers to my Tum­blr, which attacks all my time!!!

Back in our rightful spot

Published on November 5, 2007 in Internet. 2 Comments

Back in our rightful spot
Back in our right­ful spot, orig­i­nally uploaded by EXISTENTIAL MEDIA.For the past month or so existentialmedia.org was not on Google AT ALL. I fig­ured out what the prob­lem was after much sweat and tears. The prob­lem was half my fault and half Dreamhost. I wanted to force peo­ple to view Exis­ten­tial Media at existentialmedia.org instead of www.existentialmedia.org. Some­how some­thing Dreamhost did in chang­ing this option made EM invis­i­ble to the google­bot. Or some­thing like that. So I changed it back to both www and no-www, cleaned up a few tem­plates, and sub­mit­ted a sitemap

Oh well. WE’RE BACK!