Graphic Resign

I’ll explain later.

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Okay so I guess I can’t embed this video onto word press… very disappointing. But then again nobody reads this bog so it’s probably okay. What I can do is give a link to this video, “Just because I am an environmentalist doesn’t mean I’m a sissy. mother fucker.” and tell you to follow it.

Lame I know but thats as good as it gets.

So, after doing the Green Guide for Summit along with some bitchin’ green fillers today; an ad rep called me “quite the environmentalist” which was followed by my customary discussion with Greta about the evils of recycling, among other things.

She ended up saying I had “cloudy” morals and I responded by saying my morals weren’t cloudy, they were merely “questionable.”

When it comes to green I simply feel that the recycle part is pushed way too hard and too universally accepted as the answer, leaving reduce and reuse as the black sheep. In the world we live in though, reduce and reuse are the key factors to making things better. While recycling gives people a sense of “doing good” without really doing anything, reducing consumption and reusing what we already have is harder and makes a real impact. Maybe I don’t know what I am talking about and I did just have some drinks.. but I think I’m right, and since I am the only one reading this I am allowed to agree with myself.

So, just looking at the Westword’s bog and saw this.

I used to know this guy a little. I mean not enough that I would make the jump to saying he was my friend, but when I’d run into him around town we’d make a couple minutes of small talk.

I saw him do some stand up at the midnight movies a few times last year. The first time I saw him he did an entire set of abortion jokes. Funny stuff. He was also the Bingo caller Sunday nights at Sputnik, which I went to most of last spring. So cool to see him doing so well for himself.

On a similar note, I miss Denver.

Well its been a while since I’ve posted. I’ve been busy with work and with other things but I have some time right now.

I found a place to live in Eagle. Its nice; a 5 br house with two roommate, another moving in soon and 2 dogs. My bedroom is nearly the size of my studio in Denver. Everyone seems cool. One of the dogs seems really reluctant towards new people but he almost let me pet him the other day, so thats nice.

The job is good so far. The boss bought us sandwiches from smiling moose tonight which was good. I entered a few of my ads into a montly contest at work, hoping to place somewhere in that, I think maybe one or two of my ads have a chance. I also got my second paycheck tonight, which was for a lot more than the first one, so that is nice too.

I’m still living from boxes right now, which I hope to remedy soon. I need a few furniture pieces to try and pull everything together a little more. I guess its Hallowe’en later today, I might try and do something if there is any chance of getting off work early, which there isn’t. hmm, thats about it I think. Until next time.

I would have posted this stuff earlier, but I haven’t really had a good connection other than at work since I’ve been here. There is a wireless connection called franco that I was able to get onto shortly the other day and I am currently connected to a netgear thingie with about a bar of service every so often.

I was offered a job (and accepted) on Saturday, Sep. 22nd in the graphics department at Colorado Mountain News Media (CMNM).

So, I moved out of my Denver apartment on Sunday morning (Sep. 30th) and began my trip to Gypsum, CO. About half way there I got a call from my boss telling me that I’d be staying in a condo in Vail with another new hire. I got to the hotel and after a brief struggle with the garage door code, followed by a struggle with the elevator code I was in my temporary home. I met my roommate (Daniel), had a beer, watched some tv, and then went to buy some food for the week ahead. I think I went to bed early, fell asleep late, and woke up at an hour I haven’t known in the a.m. in several years.

Work was good, I mostly just did training for the first part of the week and then got to go on my own for the last two days. Thought I had a place to stay in a huge $500,000.00 with 3 guys I work with, it fell through. Now I am looking for a place to live again, hopefully all will work out soon. Daniel found an apartment and I don’t know how much longer the company will put me up by myself in this huge apartment/condo thinger.

What else can I say? Um, I’ve been to a few bars a few times, met some neat people and some pretty girls (inclusion in one group doesn’t mean exclusion from the other) and had some decent food. I’ve also been bored, so well if you read this and know me or are in the area say something and then come hang out with me.

Well I have a job now. I am going to be moving, it will be cool and interesting and different. I will give more information once I start, sometime the week after next.

I’m guessing this song is either called “the end time” or “I’ll be there.” I can’t seem to figure out what it is really called or who sings it or where it came from. My ex shared it with me and told me that she thought it came from the movie “Winter Passing.” It is, however, not on the soundtrack. I am debating whether or not to put the song up here. I might get in trouble for having it up, but on the other hand it may make it easier for someone to help me out, and if I do get a take down notice they may have to tell me what the song is… oh what the hell, here’s the mystery song. and the the lyrics.

You and I
both will die
alone out here
and not before too long

and by the look in your eyes
I can see your surprise
well don’t be
I’ll be there
to watch you fall away

I’ll be there to watch you fall away
Yeah I’ll be there to watch you fall away

And the moon in the sky
shines so bright
that I see no sign of fear
in your eyes

and if death is a crime
I’ll do the time
because I know you and I
were both going to die anyway

so say so long to all your enemies
say goodbye to all your friends
can you stand the world were living in?
will you be here in the end?
last night
was the first time I ever felt alive
it makes it hard to believe
this could be the end time

They marveled at the beast as he pillaged their towns
they were looking through the ruins for the prophets but they’ll never be found
oh, they will find me last
and the end times will soon come to pass

I’ll be there to watch you fall away
yeah I’ll be there to watch you fall away

xkcd is this great web comic that I regularly read. I can really relate to a lot of the themes. Not only that, but I learn quite a bit looking up references that I don’t get. I just wanted to write about this today in order to point out a date in this comic.

In the comic, as you can see, there is a date which is coming up this Sunday. Additionally, there are coordinates that are for a specific place in a park. The park can be found here and is pictured over there. If I had some expendable funds I would go just to see if anything happens. I think that there are probably others, possibly including the author, who will be on location in order to test out this idea/dream/prediction. I wish that I could be one of them. Sure, that’s me being fairly hopeful and sentimental, but I just really need something to believe in right now and if something did happen, well at least I would know I could believe in xkcd. So, on the off chance someone reads this and is able to go to the location, let me know if anything good happens… like finding a beautiful girl, or maybe even ten cents.

A few months ago, on a whim I made this flash version of a decision wheel. As you can see, its “What Would a Unicorn Do?.” The original wheel is made by these people and is part of a folder, you know for carrying stuff. At the time I didn’t have a real website up or anything so I just sent it to Xeni Jardin, and asked her to have boingboing host it. I didn’t give a website link or anything… now I wish I had.

I wanted to play with the spinner so I just typed “‘what would a unicorn do’ flash” into my google toolbar and up came the results. Turns out this little spinner had been on a bunch of websites and other blogs including del.icio.us. With boingboing alone that would be a lot of views, adding all the other sites linking to it, there would have been loads more. As they say, “any publicity is good publicity” right? But missed publicity really gets your (my) goat. It probably wouldn’t have lead to anything, but still you never know what could have happened. link

(all the links are kind of a joke… it made sense to me. sorry.)

I just came to the conclusion that every good design team needs at least one person that has a dirty mind, and is comfortable with it. In college every once in a while someone would pitch an idea for a name or a logo or something and, having the mind I do, I would interject with a, “does that seem a little dirty to anyone else?”

In real life continuing with a project that may be construed as a “little dirty” might end up costing a company a lot of money, business, and clients. If someone was there, somewhere in the process, who saw dirty things before they go too far it would save a lot of heartache and hard work in the long run. I got this idea just now watching the tv. There was a commercial for a new product to help fight/stop/whatever acid reflux.

Let me lay out the parts of the name before I tell you what the name is.  The three parts are: acid, PH, and ex. Acid is used in the name for its obvious reason; PH again refers to the acid, as it is the scale used to measure acidity and alkalinity of a substance; the “ex” part means that it eliminates something, and in this era “ex” is kind of used to sex things up a little bit.

So put it all together and you have AcipHex. Its an okay name, as far as drug names go. It even almost looks good on paper but once you say it out loud you might notice that it comes out “ass effect.” I’m sure that if I noticed this a million others have too. Now if the would have had someone on staff that had a little forethought and a little bit of a dirty mind this thing could have been avoided. link

Earlier I wrote about what I called my first web design experience. Doing the design and html for the Weldon Valley School web site. The other day my sister cleaned out the closet of what was once my bedroom at my parents’ house and found a box full of pictures. I was looking through the pictures and they were from high school and also from the summer camp I went to in middle school. It was called “The Summer Enrichment Program” or SEP for short. It was meant to be a camp for gifted children, somehow I qualified for that and went.

Anyway, I think I was like 12, I had a good time and all that other stuff. The thing about this camp though was that instead of doing archery and the like we went to neat classes
like a biology class where we got to dissect stuff, I took a class on visual illusions, and I also took a web design class.

This was at a time where I had hardly been on the internet at all. Most of the time I spent looking at the web trying to figure out how the damn thing worked but eventually, by the end of camp I had design, or atleast built a website. It was pretty lame, but I think that means I’ve been doing websites since I was 12, so I think that means I’ve been doing it for 11 years. Granted I never figured anything out about doing it right until much later, but I think I can do it pretty well right now.