I'm Still Alive

The past two weeks have been incredibly busy. In addition to assimilating to the new job, I've been swamped with freelance and work for my class. Alana also started a new job, at Evolved in Columbus, probably the most reputable tattoo studio in the state. We've had a …

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• @aoirthoir check your email about our March informal gathering! #


• Cleveland Webbies (and @antiheroine ), as promised an event! http://webdesign.meetup.com/396/calendar/7348774/ #


• Still determining whether today will be incredibly productive or incredibly lazy. #


• Amazon …

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• @jwynia I feel your pain. #


• Happy Birthday Yoko Ono! #

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• Future dog walkers coming for an interview in 10 minutes. Let's hope my hyper dogs don't scare them away. #


• Work laptop refuses to connect to the Internet. So glad I lugged this brick all the way down here. At least the hot chocolate is good. #


• Trying to ignore idiotic …

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• Passing an amazing Sol Lewitt original on the way to my desk every morning: priceless. #


• @beep happens to me all the time, and frequently I won't get the voicemail until hours later. #

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• At last, I have found one site not blocked by corporate firewall! Contact with the outside world, anarchy! #

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• It's been a busy two days. Windows 2000, really? That still exists? #


• @beep Congratulations! This is an occasion for cake of the ice cream variety. #

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• Adobe discontinued their stock photos. #


• interjecting hold music every 30 seconds to tell me to use your automated service is supremely annoying. No robots thanks. #

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• People coming over to my house at 10:30 DO NOT WANT get a real job and get on a normal schedule. #


• Last day at AG. #


• @bdielman Monday Apparently I love spreading myself too thin haha. #


• @shera1381 is it the Freddy Krueger alley we stumbled down circa 2001 after my mom …

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• @bdielman have you seen Symphony CMS? Don't know if it's right for us, but worth a look. http://21degrees.com.au/products/symphony/ #


• There is a very good reason you shouldn't use one giant 120k background image instead of slicing up your PSD, besides making me cranky. …

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• Met a gentleman named Spider Sex last night. He was wearing a 3 piece suit from the thrift store, which he allegedly washed for two hours. #


• At Panera it is possible to ruin a peanutbutter and jelly sandwich. #


• Apparently Tom Jones' chest hair is insured for almost …

LA Ink: Season 2 Episode 4

The first tattoo of this episode is a crane on a girl's ribcage. As Kat's applying the stencil some dude Corey's tattooing is ogling her and making rude comments. If this ever happened to me when I was getting tattooed, I would never come back. If I were the artist …

Cleveland Web Standards Association '08 Planning Session

Last night's CWSA planning meeting was a great success. We've had a lot of new faces, some of them traveled pretty far to attend. Some topics discussed last night:

• Trying to advance standards in the local web and business communities without being the CSS …

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• Finally got a long overdue haircut, feeling significantly less shabby. Not looking forward to conquering Monday. #


• Putting out fires, which could've been averted had someone organized their PSD and named layers. #


• Alana is in Columbus and just bought me the new Black …

Tuesday Link Roundup: American Cannibal Edition

• Symphony CMS. Symphony is a pretty nice looking, free web publishing system powered by XML and XSLT. I can't wait until I have some free time to try it out.


• IDSA Mideast Conference '08 (Columbus, OH)
  
  

  Art + Science, the Mideast District Conference in Columbus, Ohio …

Some of Alana's Derek Hess tattoos have made their way onto his site.

Though I'm not a fan of Derek Hess' work, Alana really enjoys tattooing his designs since the style and line work are drastically different than typical tattoo art.

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• thought demonstrating liquid & fixed CSS layouts would take fill hour lecture time. It did not. 30 minutes, for future reference. D'oh. #


• has a lot of reading to catch up on this week. #


• Agh the iPhone is 16gb now. The official Apple early adopter cry: "If only I had …

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• Home from CWSA meetup. It's so refreshing to geek out sometimes it's hard to leave! #

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• Isn't Friday supposed to be the least stressful day of the week? #


• is about to reluctantly take on a Flash project. Moral conflict abounds. #


• @antiheroine your site's hiccuping when I comment She is bland. Never could put my finger on it before. Sometimes bland is …

The Cat's Out of the Bag

Things have been kind of quiet on this blog, as the speed of my life seems to have doubled. I just came home from vacation, and will be starting a new job at Progressive Insurance.

I'm sad to leave my coworkers behind; it's not often one gets to work with such a …