Archive for September, 2003

September 22nd, 2003 by Garrett in Uncategorized

I love it! The caucasian club! (via boortz)

There are certain things that might give you a hint that you spend too much time on the internet and computers in general. Yesterday, I was reading Xbox Nation, and I scanned one of the articles from bottom to top (sometimes I read that way, don’t ask me.) When my eyes got to the top of the page, there was a small box the size of a drop cap where the drop cap usually is, just a white box outlined in a thin orange line, and I looked at it and stared at it for a second waiting for the image in the box to load. I waited for it to load, kinda staring at it and wondering why it wasn’t loading. I reached to hit the refresh button, and that’s when it hit me… I was reading a paper copy of the magazine. Xbox Nation is just one of the multitude of dead-tree magazines I get for free every month. Sometimes you get too wrapped up in your habits, I suppose.

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September 19th, 2003 by Garrett in Uncategorized

Now that I am pulling down a salary, I am the top 0.989% richest people in the world.

From the global rich list.

Ignore all the sappy crap on that page about inequality and take a moment to appreciate the wealth of our nation and the immense freedom we have.

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September 19th, 2003 by Garrett in Uncategorized


I just wanted to put that up here. Just for everyone to see. I am amazed. I have 505 gigabytes of storage actively in use between the multitude of computers and other devices that I use. For all that, over the years, I’ve probably spent $500. That’s 33,666 times the storage for one fifth the price. 3,366,600%.
My cell phone has half the storage of this old hard drive, and it was free. Technology is somewhat unique in this aspect, too. Otherwise we’d all be driving 75 cent cars…

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Look who’s employed!

September 12th, 2003 by Garrett in Uncategorized

So, in the past week, I have gone from unemployed to gainfully employed. I got a job offer Wednesday from Vascent Studios in Alpharetta. I suppose I can just paste the job info here; that will say more than I could about the position.

Title:
Production Artist

Overview:
Vascent Studios, an Alpharetta-based Internet development and design firm and recently ranked the 38th fastest growing private company in Atlanta by the Atlanta Business Chronicle, is seeking to fulfill a position for a production artist. This person needs to have exhibited web development skills with an emphasis on HTML , CSS, and JavaScript proficiency.

Responsibilities:

  • Basic understanding of the design and development process.
  • HTML, CSS and Javascript knowledge
  • Growing knowledge of XHTML, ASP, and SQL
  • Produce HTML pages from images and graphics
  • Develop CSS style guide for programming teams forms and applications
  • Process / clean up images and graphics
  • As you progress with the position, produce basic graphic sketches, designs, and copy layouts for online content
  • Integrate client-supplied content into website
  • Produce advancing JavaScript code, if / when needed
  • Provide support-level editing changes for existing clients
  • Meet with client and undergo creative brief process, if / when needed
  • Rely on instructions and pre-established guidelines to perform the functions of the job with room for creative judgment
  • Report to the project manager and creative director

The job is great, the people are great, and the company is great. I worked a few days this week at their office, on a trial basis, and after two days of work, they hired me. I start Monday, and it’s exciting feeling that I am rounding a corner, ascending another staircase, and sprinting down the hallway toward career success. Hmm, that may be too much metaphor for me.

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Labor Day Weekend

September 3rd, 2003 by Garrett in Uncategorized

I wanted to hold off on the summary of the weekend until I had pictures to show, because, well, that’s polite of me.



Sunday, Heather and I went rafting in Tennessee with some friends, on the Ocoee.




This picture has the bonus optical illusion that I am much bigger than I am. Heather’s life jacket is much bigger than mine, a fact I didn’t even realize until now. This makes me look really big. The helmet, too.




Once we got going, this was pretty much our view for the whole two hours or so that we were on the river.

Our guide,
Mean Gene,
was interesting, to say the least. I can’t say he always steered us down the correct line through a given patch of whitewater, but he was pretty funny and laid back. I think Heather enjoyed the trip as well. I mean, when Mean Gene hit a rapid the wrong way, dumping 6 of the boat’s 8 occupants into the churning Class IV water, she seemed totally ok 1/4 mile down the river when the boat that picked her up and the boat that picked me up met.




The views in the Smoky Mountains are incredible.

Monday, Frank () was willing to share the wealth and invited me to the Ben Folds/Tori Amos concert at Chastain. Chastain is a better venue than I had previously thought, complete with a Starbucks and pretty good-sounding acoustics.


Good music, good times.

I am now becoming even more consumed with the job-search thing. There are several leads that I am working on right now, though, so hopefully next week is the week.

I cooked up a links page, mostly for myself, but if anyone wants to know the source of much of my craziness, it’s daily visiting most of these sites.

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