Archive for May, 2004

Are you excited?

Monday, May 31st, 2004

The redesign that has been delayed for over two years is honestly less than two weeks away. After life happening and stuff happening and projects that actually pay me happening, I actually spent a few hours on a design that I have been sketching for quite some time. Nothing spectacular. I’m just trying to get […]

Just In: Europe Removed from Fall Tour

Thursday, May 27th, 2004

Citing (primarily) financial reasons and top-secret plans regarding two Emerson campus organizations, I am officially withdrawing my enrollment in the Castle Well program. Besides, Emerson’s Castle program is more affordable during the summer session (maybe Summer 2006?) and I feel that my EVVY and emersive goals better met by staying in Boston next semester.
This decision […]

Just In: Summer Tour Expanded Beyond the Green Line

Thursday, May 27th, 2004

Lynchburg, Virginia has been added to my summer tour schedule. Greyhound will demonstrate a new rapid transit system that will deliver me from Boston to home-sweet-hell in a record-shattering SEVENTEEN hours. The transit system is called a bus and when my presence boards, it becomes my tour bus. All celebrities will want to travel in […]

Survey ala Ra & Ry

Friday, May 21st, 2004

Instructions:

Copy this whole list into your journal.
Bold the things that you have in common with me.
Replace the things that you don’t have in common with me with something true about yourself.

The List:

I smiled today.
I did not sleep in my own bed last night.
I surfed the Internet from the Boston Common with my iBook and […]

Rebuilding No More

Friday, May 14th, 2004

As announced today, Movable Type 3.0 is no longer fully free. I have been evaluating different blogging scripts since the very first day that I installed Movable Type. I hate it’s constant rebuilding, default comment pop-up configuration, and intensive file storage requirements (for all those pages that must be constantly rebuilt).
The generous folks (actually, the […]

Answer to Prayer

Thursday, May 13th, 2004

I secured an apartment. No banks needed. All is well on the northeastern front. Sweet.

Hey Uncle J, this world just doesn’t work for me.

Thursday, May 13th, 2004

So, here I am. Employed in Boston with three well paying jobs for the summer, living in Emerson housing until May 16. My apartment optionS have fallen through and now it’s decision time. If I am not able to stay in Boston, I will not save nearly as much money this summer and I can […]

Birthday Poem for Mom

Monday, May 10th, 2004

The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.
Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you […]

Protect Fair Use with HR 107

Sunday, May 9th, 2004

EVERYONE, please please please visit ProtectFairUse.org and use the form to e-mail your House Representative to support HR 107.
Better yet, call your representative.

I am calling with regard to HR 107, the Digital Media Consumers’ Rights Act of 2003.
As a concerned voter, it is critically important to me and many other Internet users that this […]

A Few Essential Apple Hacks

Saturday, May 8th, 2004

LaunchBar
The biggest usability challenge for me switching from Windows was adjusting to the lack of a Start menu equivalent in Mac OS X. There is no centralized (I’d argue, not even a good out-of-box method) for quickly launching applications in Mac OS X. I use well over 50 unique applications a week and the Dock […]