Month: January 2006

Finally Up And Running

OK, so it was more than just the day of being offline, but after getting all my data and information transferred to my new toy, I’m finally up and running and good to go. I still need to install a couple more applications, but for the most part, all my data, applications, documents, etc… are all moved over on to this thing so I can clean up my old laptop and give it back to the company.

This thing is far faster than my previous one, that’s for sure. Loading up documents in Photoshop is a ton faster than it was before (and I can actually work in other programs while working in Photoshop). I’m still not quite use to the high resolution on this small of a screen (1920×1200 on a 15.4″ wide-screen makes for small icons), but it is really nice having that much real estate in my various desktop publishing and development programs. And being able to have a few programs open at once and be able to see all those windows is very nice.

Now I’ve gotta catch up on all the email I missed the last 24 hours, finish up installing the few things I just realized I’m still missing (Homesite, a few typefaces, Quickbooks, Metapad, and Pagemaker, for some of my older designs that Indesign just can’t open properly).

January 26, 2006

Don’t Expect To Hear From Me For The Rest Of The Day

My new toy (three business days after ordering) is here so I’ll be playing with that.

On a related note, I mentioned before that I can give people deals on those laptops, and I found out that I can do drop shipping anywhere if need be. Just let me know if you’re interested!

January 24, 2006

How Do You Handle Bend’s Roundabouts?

If you’re looking for something to give to your out-of-town friends that will help them manage the city’s foreseeable 10,000 roundabouts, print up and give them this handy guide.

On a side note, Chris sent me a high-resolution version of this formatted to fit a tri-fold brochure. I’m going to print up a few of them on some tri-fold card stock here and run them through our color laser printer here at the office. If you want to pass them around, feel free to download the ten-megabyte 600-DPI PDF here (on my server, as I didn’t want to kill Chris’ site — and no, zipping the file didn’t decrease the file size enough to make it worth the trouble).

If you need a brochure, and are out in the Sunriver area, let me know and I’ll print one up for you!

January 24, 2006

I Wish I Was In The Sixth Grade

Back when I was in the sixth grade over at Cascade Junior High School (back when it was still called a “Junior High”), I had a teacher who was a raving Seattle Seahawks fan. Every time they won a game, the class would get cookies. The problem was that this was 1989 and they only won seven games, so we didn’t get cookies as often as, say, a 49ers fan. This year, we would’ve gotten cookies 15 times (and counting). I know this same teacher still works in the school district, now teaching elementary school at Westside Village, and I hope her kids are getting cookies, too.

While I actually like both of the teams in this year’s Super Bowl (which is a first), I’m rooting geographically and hope the Seahawks win it all. Go Hawks!

January 24, 2006

The World’s Ugliest Sweaters

We were cleaning out one of our homes, and noticed a couple of items that were left in the home. These have to be, by far, the ugliest sweaters I’ve ever seen:

 

Now, the pictures of these things don’t really do them justice (which is no fault of my co-worker who is holding them). Those various painted items you see on the sweaters (the anchor, boat, sea horses, etc…) are all made of wood that’s about a half inch thick. There is a small hole in the top of each of the items where thread is run through and then sewn into the sweater, causing the little wood trinkets to flop around like ornaments on a Christmas tree.

I’d like to meet the person who wore those things. Actually, maybe I don’t.

January 24, 2006

How Gay Are You?

I’m apparently 13% gay. More than likely, the “trimming of the pubic hair” question jacked that number a bit, and only reason I ever had to do that was for medical reasons.

January 23, 2006

Parenting At Its Finest

This is really sad…

A woman got a 30-day jail sentence for leaving her three young children home alone for several hours while she and her boyfriend attended a videotaping of “The Jerry Springer Show.”

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The two girls and one boy, all under the age of 4, have been placed in foster homes by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services.

Police said Cook left the children alone at a suburban home Oct. 19 while she and her boyfriend went to Chicago for the taping. About five hours later, the two oldest knocked on the door of a neighbor, who called police.

All I can say is I’m glad that the kids have been taken away from these morons.

January 22, 2006

Rules For Trolls

If you’re going to troll or otherwise try to bad-mouth a professional writer or columnist, at least follow some basic rules (thanks Barn for that link).

January 22, 2006

Like To Drink But Don’t Like To Read?

Then turn your books into a bar.

January 22, 2006

Looking To Have Your Product’s Logo In A Video Game?

Read up here on how to do it. Link via Raw Feed.

January 22, 2006