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On Monday I start my first full-time, non-freelance job in almost 14 years.
I've been freelancing (more like temp contracting) for a website, shooting and editing video and performing some consulting tasks. They don't have anything resembling a video department, but they aspire to. After three + months of working for them they finally decided to offer me the job of defining the processes and workflows for the department, ( Read more... ) -
Weird tile color
ETA: Wow, this is my first post in over a year ( Read more... ) -
Casting news...
I just accepted the role of The Rev. David Lee in a production of Larry Shue's The Foreigner at The Western Stage in Salinas, CA. The Rev. Lee is described as being very likeable, the kind of person one couldn't imagine having any ulterior motives or bad intentions, who SPOILER ALERT - ( Read more... ) -
Frankenbike v2.0
rednikki scored a free bike for me off Freecycle a while back, a dilapidated mountain bike with no seat, missing parts and trashed wheels. I built it up using parts from 3 or 4 other bikes plus new drivetrain components (chainring, chain and freewheel) and cables. It looked like this in its first reincarnation ( continued after the cut: ) -
Today's scripting triumph
I wanted to figure out a convenient way to load a bunch of configuration variables for a web page "content assembly" (my name for a section of a page - I would have used "section" except that might get confusing if the site had sections with multiple pages). For example, one of the assemblies is "Find Us" which contains options for displaying any ( Read more... ) -
Gaining facility with php
I'm getting to the point where I can actually have an idea and make it happen even if it's not just a variation on one of the projects in the books I've been working through. Friday i decided it would be cool to have a series of checkboxes, one for each day of the week, then take the checked values and have the day names output as a string with ( Read more... ) -
Can it be true? Are we finally tired of leftovers?
News is that this is one of the worst summers for movie box-office returns in a long while ( Read more... ) -
That stench of ozone?
Yeah, that's my brain making that smell ( Read more... ) -
Even Bounceback Gets the Blues
I'm getting a lot better about factoring various client-generated timesucks into my job estimating, and I'm getting pretty good about bouncing stuff back to clients when things need their attention rather than just doing them myself. I am learning though that even the bouncing back is a timesuck ( Read more... )
