I am now hired on a 2 month contract with via studio, a very well respected design/development/consulting company. This may turn into a long term position, but the 2 month contract period is a good trial run for them and for me. I’ll update as I have more information.
Today is my last day of work at Mercer. It has ended lack-luster (painfully), but the whole experience has been great for me.
As you can see, I’m looking into my options for employment. I have a few leads, but would like to explore all of my options… at least all of the options I can get in quickly, as I’d like to have a choice made by late January.
1-page resume 2-page resume Ideally, I’d like to find a position which afforded me the opportunity to manage, design, and develop web-based projects / solutions.
For anyone who had a really hard time getting just the free expander for stuffit (.sitx files) – here’s the link:
StuffIt Expander: Free file expansion – Windows
StuffIt Expander: Free file expansion – Mac
My past 3 weeks… I’ve worked ~210 hours… that averages to 70 hours per week… but really I worked almost 100 hours in one 7 day period. One day, i worked from 6am – 2am, and one day I worked from 9am – 2am. Always getting up and working the next day by 9am at the latest and working more than a full day… every day.
Why would I do such horrendous work?
AutoHotkey – Free Mouse and Keyboard Macro Program with Hotkeys and AutoText:
AutoHotkey is a free, open-source utility for Windows. With it, you can: Automate almost anything by sending keystrokes and mouse clicks. You can write a mouse or keyboard macro by hand or use the macro recorder. Create hotkeys for keyboard, joystick, and mouse. Virtually any key, button, or combination can become a hotkey. Expand abbreviations as you type them.
A great but disturbing email sent by my friend Jason E. (spoon):
November 14th, 2006: A student is tasered five times while in police custody while in the library at UCLA. The cops tase him, not because he’s fighting them, but because he is (non-violently) refusing to walk out of the library with them. Note that the cop says, “Stand up or you’ll get tased again.” Of anything on this video that comment really sickens me the most.
Jamglue – Glue it to the man:
This is a fantastic tool – to multi-track audio from a collaboartive environment with slick controls and a great/simple user interface.
http://www.jamglue.com/people/zeroasterisk screencast tutorial http://blog.jamglue.com/ http://jamglue.com/ I just wonder who has time to make such a cool site… ther interface required would not be simple to whip together. I’m impressed.
Get it while it’s beta/hot/free…
The Ultimate Sport – WSJ.com:
Besides being relatively inexpensive to play, part of Ultimate’s appeal lies in the fact that stature isn’t as critical as speed and dexterity: catching, throwing, jumping and pivoting. One of the star players for the Filipino team Pula, Panoy de los Santos, for instance, is just 1.57-meters tall (but the fastest member of the team). Another attraction is that Ultimate is a noncontact game, so women like it as much as men do — 35% of the 500 players in the Philippines are female.
Marea and DJ’s wedding on Saturday Oct. 28th was wonderful. The wedding proper was at ~1pm at her father’s house in the Tyler Park area. It was supposed to be a very small event, which still ended up being 60+ people. It was an hour of hanging out, then 10 minutes of ceremony, and then an hour of eating and hanging out some more. The ceremony was basically: “we are all happy to be here… do you, and you?
I need some help from some people who understand finances better than I do, am I getting ripped off of a cent a month interest by my bank? (earth shattering importance, of course)
Imagine the following (hypothetical) savings account earning 1% annual interest. 1% annual is (0.01 / 365) 0.000027397260274 daily interest. So for every day, you multiply the amount of money you have accruing interest by that daily amount… add the days together and you’ve got your interest amount for that length of days… when your money amount changes (when you add to it or reduce it) your calculations change, so you need to reflect that… a basic table is displayed below…