23 August 2007

Has anyone seen my personal life?

So I’ve “forgotten” about my site for a few weeks, my apologies to all. I have been tremendously busy at work as of late. I am currently preforming on a level of 3+, and no that’s not just my charisma there, I’m working on a couple different sides of the box lately, just trying to break out of the box concept.  Things are not all bad though, I may be getting a reward shortly of a new MacBook Pro, as I have been working at home as well as the office, and we are doing Interprise/Win2k3 server stuff my G4 here at home isn’t going to cut it, and I need the dual monitor workspace for productivity. So I will be getting a MacBook to take back and forth, that’ll be cool however it will probably end up meaning that I’m expected to do more work than I am doing currently

No biggie, we are getting caught up at work and I feel like there’s a light at the end of the tunnel, kinda. At any rate, I’ll be posting up some of the exciting things I’ve been working on in the very near future (so you can stop thinking I’m more bark than bite)!

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8 August 2007

Good Samaritan

This evening my wife and I went out after a grueling day at work, it’s been busy busy busy the past few weeks for me.  So per usual my wife likes to offer my services to people in need, not that I mind it’s just something I chuckle about.  A couple at the Pub/Restaurant we frequent called the Tin Can on Morganford in the heart of South St. Louis had a flat tire.  We sit down and order drinks and food, she gets to speaking with the wife of the couple that has the flat tire, and let’s them know that I know a bit about working on/fixing cars, maybe I could help.

I wander over and mention to the guy that if he would like some help I’m more than happy to assist.  He’s on the phone with someone in another land trying to get the tire issue resolved, he thanks me and says that if he needs to he’ll let me know.  I proceed to wolf down my Chicken/Bacon Sandwich that really hit the spot and then help him get the tire off of his Explorer.  He seems to have it from there then offers me some money in exchange, I turn him down albeit I could use some extra green as of late.  Upon our leaving the Tin Can they’re having an awful time getting the spare onto the Explorer, I assist in that and am again offered some money, this time I don’t refuse because it’s poor taste to turn someone down for kindness twice in a row.  The $20 was nice but didn’t matter to me, I felt good to help them out because I’ve been in similar spots before, and the help would have been nice.

Hopefully that inspires someone else to help somebody out.

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3 August 2007

Unix 3 Certification

Apple hit UNIX 3 Certification only one of four to ever do this! Just a quick Apple is Awesome posts to piss my Windoze friends off…

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2 August 2007

Random Thought

So I have been working back in design and development for the past few months again, and that got me to thinking about some of the places I’d worked in the past.  Here at Multicom I enjoy design freedom, great atmosphere and my ideas and opinions are valued.  That wasn’t always the case though, in fact some places I didn’t mesh well with because they wanted Cookie Cutter websites with no real flair, sadly the first and foremost in my mind for this was working for an idiot named Lou off of Broadway near the St. Louis riverfront.  But I feel that even out of the industry professionally for a few years I’m still designing stronger than his people ever could, and my company makes 75% more money per job than his (and we crank them out twice as fast).  So a little vindication on my part is to know that I’m in a totally better place now Maybe for fun I’ll get my sales guys to go after his clients, it’s been over two years since I’ve worked there so I have no qualms with ethics on that one.

It’s been a long road for me in the last nine years or so of being a programmer/designer/forward thinker/drinking champ, but I’m still holding up.Anyway, on to the latest and greatest.  I’ve been super busy at work last few days with a rush job for Warner Brothers, they’re sponsoring a fun greenscreen project for the Warped Tour 2007.  My company built the system and I had to get a retreival website knocked out in short time, but you can see it at tsnevents.com but please be good, it’s a live data collection site, so entering your details will surely get you spammed up!  The trickiest part of this was trying to figure out PNG transparency with only a Mac and a few Windows boxes around (all of which had IE7).

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