My calendar creation
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So now I have a calendar line coming out. A variety of pictures of me fueled by copious amounts of beer. This is a teaser

Slate’s Randy and Jason Sklar, have a great article about how NBA players can get around the new league restrictions (ESPN).

I know my wife would be shocked that I am writing a blog entry about sports, but I have to give props to Randy and Jason, for being so creative. On the other hand I have to once again remember that athletes in today’s society should be above having to present an image that is appropriate for them to be idolized; an image that would increase the gentlemanly nature of what I sometimes consider a thugish living. You get paid to play a game. Most Americans would kill to be in your size 14, $10,000 Nikes, so quit complaining and go buy a suit.

I first found The Printable CEO on 43folders, and have since adopted it.

It’s based around a very simple idea: If you assign relative values to the tasks that are completed you can have a sense of accomplishment and a gauge to enumerate how hard you have worked. It’s also satisfying to fill in a bubble.

The file can be downloaded here

from:
David Seah: The Printable CEO | 43 Folders

Having recently switched to a WebDAV connection at work, I have seen how nice it is to have an “integrated” file transfter. The drop and drag is nice, but the FTP built-in to windows… um. I don’t really like. It’s very slow. While NetDrive uses windows FTP client capabilities, I can now have it like a mapped network drive. Tres chic.

Hat tip to: Engadget

P.S. Windows only.

Merlin Mann of 43folders.com has started podcasting little tips. In this podcast he discusses the different formats he plans on putting future podcasts in.
The list includes:

* plain text transcript
* html
* xml/rss/atom
* audio/mp3
* DRM-protected wav
* pocket-sized pamphlet
* double-lp
* cassingle
* wax cylinder
* braille
* ASL
* closed captioning
* Kalahari clicking
* semaphore
* cuneiform tablet
* pompeiian fresco
* interpretive dance
* touching biopic
* 19th century bildungsroman
* mime
* naked local-access show
* unexpected telemarketing call
* 1940s show-stopping musical
* pop-up book
* chain letter
* skywriting
* custom gang signs
* handwritten on index cards and sent to every extant reader of the site

I don’t think I have ever written about how much Esther likes to interpretive dance, but she does. She’ll do it to anything. No seriously. Anything. Commercials, yup. Real music, sure. Made up beat-boxing, definately.

The only thing I could do is shoot off an email to said Merlin Mann, which conveyed this.

Merlin,
After listening to your weekly wrap up podcast, I have to say that I loved your podcasts formats. My favorite was the interpretive dance. My wife interpretive dances to everything, she could possibly help. Let me know.

Jered

We shall see.

Today was cold and stormy. With rain falling almost all day, about 63. Not cold, but chilly. We get a call in our office, from the big boss: “Get the golfcart and bring some food from Discovery (a food court-style cafe in our Student Center) to the 4th floor of the Admin building (meaning the President’s Office).

Mind you that I have to walk to the gym which is all the way across campus and back to Student Center and finally drive the food to the Administration building, which is back by the gym.

I hoof it over the gym in the cold rain and get the golfcart, and after cruising back to the Student Union, I go into Discovery Cafe. I walk up to a woman who I know is in charge. I have dealt with her before and she’s usually in charge. She says she’s been expecting me and walks to the counter with the register. Grabbing two bags from behind the counter, I want to scream. I got the golfcart for something I could carry over?! She hands them over after getting a fork and knife for the salad and says “If you all need anythings, please just let us know.”

Okay, she thinks I’m with the President’s office. I guess I can understand that. She see’s hundreds of people everyday, my face is probably one that doesn’t stick out. Fine.

Because I have the golfcart and I would like to put it away as soon as possible, I drive back over the Admin building and climb the stairs to the President’s Office. I walk in and his secretary looks at me confused. Not a good sign. I tell her I have food from Discovery Cafe and she get’s the President’s attention from in his conference room.

“I didn’t know y’all delivered”

She thinks I’m from Discovery cafe. Ugh.

A woman walks out of the conference room and comments to me “Thanks, it’s been a crazy day. You’re a life-saver.”

Oh really! I’m so glad that I could save your life. Or save you from actually having to be a normal person. Or save you from having to go out in the rain like the rest of “us”.

I know she will never realized that I designed the family weekend brochure and registration form that she probably had to approve. I know that the President would never realize who I was unless I specifically asserted to him that I am graphic designer on this campus. Why should he have to keep track of the people who make’s the student-oriented program happen through his advertising, or the man who is single -handedly generating a vitual web-based calendar for his university (both public and private). Do you see why I’m a little upset.

Did I go to school for four years to be the delivery guy on campus? I can actually understand all of the people that you have meet not understanding that I actually have a degree in what I do, but the one person who knows and should have known: My big boss.

I guess it truely shows my value in the scheme of things. Man I hope my earlier mentioned brewings becomes something.

Fifty-one percent of Americans say God created humans in their present form, and another three in 10 say that while humans evolved, God guided the process. Just 15 percent say humans evolved, and that God was not involved.

These views are similar to what they were in November 2004 shortly after the presidential election…

Americans most likely to believe in only evolution are liberals (36 percent), those who rarely or never attend religious services (25 percent), and those with a college degree or higher (24 percent).

White evangelicals (77 percent), weekly churchgoers (74 percent) and conservatives (64 percent), are mostly likely to say God created humans in their present form.

from CBS News via BoingBoing

If your urine smells faintly of coffee, does that mean you drink too much?

So at work, I have something brewing. That’s all I can say about that, because if I put it in writing, I’m sure it might fail. Although there has been some hype around it (i.e. people asking who I would have never thought). So I hope things really happen… that’s all I can say about that.

I have been busy redesigning and designing websites. I think I have found a new medium for expression. Esther’s website is up and the other one I’ve been working on should be up shortly. They both are written almost purely in CSS (my new design squeeze), so I hope that that will help with the aforementioned brewing.

Birthday in T minus 2 days. I’m taking the day off so that I can um… well take the day off. I’m not one who doesn’t like parties for the birthday, but I don’t wany my co-workers making a big deal. So I’ll be at home enjoying some quiet time and maybe some afternoon Star Trek.

Esther and I are now using Flock. It’s a new “social browser” based on Firefox. For those who don’t know what a social browser is: It’s an integration of a variety of “social” services, including bookmark/favorite sharing via del.icio.us, photo sharing via Flickr, and a variety of blogging software (althought they are pushing Blogger). If you don’t know what Firefox is… shame on you, go and download it now.

It’s funny, Esther’s Firefox won’t work at all, but flock fires up. I have found that on her mac it does lag A LOT, and it seems to suck up a lot of system resources. I think I also broke the blogging function. Mind you, it’s in beta Deveolper. I might have to reinstall for her.

Flock goes humming along on my work PC as well as at home.

Um… I retract my last statement. After trying to download an image, my whole system went down. A slow and painful death, mind you.

Okay, so Flock is an emerging web browser, check it out at your peril. I was going to attach some pics of Flock, but since the crash, I’m thinking not.