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on September 22, 2008, 11:52 am
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That subject line could imply some extreme narcissism with ™ being my initials and all, but that’s not what I was doing today. For once. I instead have been streamlining my life and entering all relevant marketing information into the Google Cloud. I think I read putting all my cyber eggs into one basket was an excellent idea.
I could claim by consolidating I am becoming more efficient, but all that I’ve really accomplished is making my procrastination more efficient. All of my design blogs are now in one place! Wowee. I am one of the many people with multiple Google accounts, which is annoying since there is no way to currently merge said accounts. There are ways around thankfully, so now I am redirecting, forwarding, or associating my Google and other e-mail accounts into one consolidated, folder-less lump. Yeah, labels. Thanks for the future on that one.
Speaking of the future (and websites I can consolidate under the Google Cloud…)
Content Aware Image Resizing (Seam Carving if you’re nasty). This is practically the rotational/enhancement that is featured so prominently in Bladerunner and CSI. Not quite, but having never heard of it before today and then discovering it might be an included feature in Adobe Creative Suite 4.
I think my awe over this new technology and the ability to post on blogger from my other gmail account have overridden my usual eloquence. Yes. I am very eloquent.
Oh, and I Twitter now. I’m not really sure why, other than it is a good way to feed my internet and social network addictions.
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on September 19, 2008, 11:36 pm
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Description Are you interested in using your talents in web design for a Christian ministry? Bible League, a Christian ministry located in the south Chicago suburbs, has provided Bibles for more than 70 years to people in need around the world. Bible League partners with local churches worldwide, training and equipping Christians to use the Bible to make disciples and establish new churches. We are currently seeking a Webmaster in our international headquarters office.
The Webmaster will be responsible for management of the website which will include implementing web pages and managing content assuring quality and clarity of Bible League’s mission. This person will design, develop, and execute site architecture and navigation including redesigns and upgrades and help determine needs, strategies and goals for the web ensuring site is optimized. Will also collaborate with creative staff on design and layout to facilitate multi channel marketing.
Requirements Qualifications include being a Christian and agreeing with the Bible League’s Statement of Faith. Candidates will possess strong web design skills including the ability to edit using HTML and JavaScript skills.
Candidates should also have 2 yrs experience with web design and programming languages such as HTML, CSS, ASP, ASP.Net, JavaScript, PHP, XML and SQL and experience with development tools such as Visual Studio, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and Flash for website development. Will also have experience with relational databases such as MS-SQL Server along with a thorough knowledge of SEO techniques.
In addition, candidates should have experience running and evaluating online marketing campaigns along with excellent communication and interpersonal skills, strong analytical and problem solving skills, and be team oriented.
There’s something very Magritte about the illustration in this. What are these types of ads even called? It’s not a billboard, and it’s almost a mural.
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on August 31, 2008, 2:57 pm
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Here I am once again at the coffee shop, jobless, aimless, and procrastinating on the important things in life in a new town that's not so new anymore. I'm overhearing cute boys in Amanda Palmer shirts discuss the deeper meaning of Spawn and his role as an anti-hero. I think They Might Be Giants is playing (everything is conditional).
Last night I accompanied a boy from the internet grocery shopping because he didn't want to do it alone. After ringing up $143 worth of items in the self checkout (augh), he discovered he'd forgotten his card at home. I was left to stand with the cart and press “yes” for “do you want to continue?” messages for the next 20 minutes while he ran home. I want to make some joke about banal sex, except we didn't do it and aren't going to do it. I'll take what I can get when it comes to Chicago friends who didn't go to elementary school, high school, or college with someone I already know. A person can only befriend so many people from Stevens Point, Wisconsin before they break.
My boyfriend is a prick, but I've known that since meeting him five years ago and starting to date him two years ago. Everyone's a prick, myself included, so it works out.
Yesterday Pandora played The Decemberists covering Bjork's Human Behavior, which has to be one of the strangest things I've ever heard.
This is so awesome to be featured in an exhibition with David Wojnarowicz, who is one of my favorite artists and inspirations. The show is at the Duluth Art Institute in Duluth, MN and runs August 28, 2008 – November 16, 2008. I missed the opening since I am in Chicago, but it looks like a great show by all accounts. The show is curated by my former print and drawing professor, Robert Repinski, who is an amazing artist himself.
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on August 29, 2008, 12:10 pm
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So long before the Jim Carrey film I learned to have negative associations with the number 23. The pagan number! Whatever the hell that means. Coincidental observation is a strange bird. If you start building associations with 23, you'll start seeing it everywhere. It is sort of similar to how it seems when you learn a new word it suddenly appears in a book or a movie the next day.
Anyway, three months into my Chicago life I still have no career. I finally had an interview, which went very well, but I did not get the position. So it goes. My savings (ex-Euro vacation fund) are holding out, but not for too much longer. If I don't find anything in the next month, I'll have to decide whether to take a crap job to tide me over while I search or else settle for a less then ideal entry level position somewhere, anyway.
In comparison to what's happening to friends and family around me, my life is coming up roses. Divorce, cancer, job loss, quarter life crisis, they have it all!
I'm not feeling capable of weaving this all together. Maybe I should apply for jobs instead of whinging.
