how is it that i can have: a moleskine storyboard book (for quickly sketching out ideas in meetings) a moleskine notes book (for goals) a moleskine sketchbook (for notes and pictures and whatnot) a treo 650 (for SMS messages, trying to browse the web and failing, which only talks to iCal, and sneers at work's entourage and exchange server.... iCal (a calendar i can stand to look at, and is the only thing the treo will negotiate with) mail.app (for personal mail and encrypted mail) entourage (for work mail and meeting reminders, and exporting those to iCal) studiometry (for freelance and studio work) tracks (a web-based to-do list) a powerbook (for personal things and work things work forgets that i actually need a laptop to pull off) a G5 (for work) and still be disorganized?... and now, back to dealing with the latest work bout of annual amnesia, where people forget all about the end of the calendar year and get to tell me that although they took months to do something, could i please turn my end of the project around overnight?
Read Moreproductivity and the lack thereof
unfailingly, when i finally hit my stride and am productive, it's soon time to go battle traffic on the 405.
Read Morethanks, neil gaiman
once upon a time, i used to be a writer. when i started at Wossamatta U., i majored in creative writing, which was deceptively harder than it would seem. once upon a time before that, i used to be an artist.
Read MoreColor wheel
Color wheel, from saturday. Besides noting that the white balance on the treo is insanely jaundiced, i'm posting it to show why this is a fiendishly hard assignment. Not only do you have rings of three different chromas and saturation, each wedge of the color should have the same value within itself, regardless of the chroma. I knocked this one out in 4 hours, and am proud of it.
my other minion is a pagan superhero
so i enlisted him as a second minion, because i'm always looking to expand my small-but-mighty empire: here sláine is on my desk, joining forces with the tick, and my gargoyle pen holder.... i hate sterile-looking environments; they make me feel like someone's about to do surgery on my back when i'm not paying attention, because they're so clinical-looking and cold.... like sláine, my fashion choices, if i could have my druthers, would involve furry boots, jewelry, and as much as i hate to admit it, some really unflattering but comfy pants.
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