There's no need for much explanation.
- rain delay
- bored baseball team
- easy going coaches
- someone with a camera
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Friday, May 29, 2009
Is it too late to ask for this for my bday? 10:30 AM
I stumbled upon this cool little product via Swiss Miss . I know that my birthday already passed but hmm can someone get this for me? I love the colors too
CableDrop is a simple cable holder with an adhesive back that you can easily stick anywhere. It can hold your USB cables, earphones or pen.
CableDrop is a simple cable holder with an adhesive back that you can easily stick anywhere. It can hold your USB cables, earphones or pen.
Vendor Client Relationship 9:11 AM
This video hit the nail on the head. Not only does this apply to vendor-client but sometimes also with junior level designer. Actually now that I think of it, just about any type of career/job works.
I spot something orange 8:02 AM
Okay so I've tried this a couple of times: A weekly photograph or two of mine. I can never do it more than a week, mainly because I have too many to choose from and always give up.
I was having a discussion with a friend of mine about colors the other day. I absolutely LOVE color and surround myself with it. We talked about how we tend to associate a color to a person. It turns out that mine time after time is orange. She wasn't the first one to link the color with me and my personality. So here I am, trying a new thing.... photographs of mine that have the color orange in them [whether dominant or not]. It turns out that I have a lot of them and actually have surrounded myself by accents of the color.
I went on to search the world wide web to see the meaning of the color. Some very interesting results came up.
Orange combines the energy of red and the happiness of yellow. It is associated with joy, sunshine, and the tropics. Orange represents enthusiasm, fascination, happiness, creativity, determination, attraction, success, encouragement, and stimulation.
To the human eye, orange is a very hot color, so it gives the sensation of heat. Nevertheless, orange is not as aggressive as red. Orange increases oxygen supply to the brain, produces an invigorating effect, and stimulates mental activity. It is highly accepted among young people. As a citrus color, orange is associated with healthy food and stimulates appetite. Orange is the color of fall and harvest. In heraldry, orange is symbolic of strength and endurance.
Orange has very high visibility, so you can use it to catch attention and highlight the most important elements of your design. Orange is very effective for promoting food products and toys.
Dark orange can mean deceit and distrust.
Red-orange corresponds to desire, sexual passion, pleasure, domination, aggression, and thirst for action.
Gold evokes the feeling of prestige. The meaning of gold is illumination, wisdom, and wealth. Gold often symbolizes high quality.
I was having a discussion with a friend of mine about colors the other day. I absolutely LOVE color and surround myself with it. We talked about how we tend to associate a color to a person. It turns out that mine time after time is orange. She wasn't the first one to link the color with me and my personality. So here I am, trying a new thing.... photographs of mine that have the color orange in them [whether dominant or not]. It turns out that I have a lot of them and actually have surrounded myself by accents of the color.
I went on to search the world wide web to see the meaning of the color. Some very interesting results came up.
Orange combines the energy of red and the happiness of yellow. It is associated with joy, sunshine, and the tropics. Orange represents enthusiasm, fascination, happiness, creativity, determination, attraction, success, encouragement, and stimulation.
To the human eye, orange is a very hot color, so it gives the sensation of heat. Nevertheless, orange is not as aggressive as red. Orange increases oxygen supply to the brain, produces an invigorating effect, and stimulates mental activity. It is highly accepted among young people. As a citrus color, orange is associated with healthy food and stimulates appetite. Orange is the color of fall and harvest. In heraldry, orange is symbolic of strength and endurance.
Orange has very high visibility, so you can use it to catch attention and highlight the most important elements of your design. Orange is very effective for promoting food products and toys.
Dark orange can mean deceit and distrust.
Red-orange corresponds to desire, sexual passion, pleasure, domination, aggression, and thirst for action.
Gold evokes the feeling of prestige. The meaning of gold is illumination, wisdom, and wealth. Gold often symbolizes high quality.
A jellyfish day 6:03 AM
In this economy, it is hard to not let things get you down. We are all wondering about how long our job will last for and sometimes we even wish we had a different job. This morning I had an email waiting from Ian's mom. she often sends us funny, quirky, sometimes down right disgusting but everyone once in a while the funny ones have a message worth listening to. This is what the email said....
I LOVE MY JOB
If you don't laugh out loud after you read this you are in a coma! This is even funnier when you realize it's real! Next time you have a bad day at work think of this guy.
Bob is a commercial saturation diver for Global Divers in Louisiana. He performs underwater repairs on offshore drilling rigs.Below is an E-mail he sent to his sister. She then sent it to radio station 103.5 on FM dial in Indiana, who was sponsoring a worst job experience contest. Needless to say, she won. Read his letter below.
Hi Sue,
Just another note from your bottom-dwelling brother. Last week I had a bad day at the office. I know you've been feeling down lately at work, so I thought I would share my dilemma with you to make you realize it's not so bad after all. Before I can tell you what happened to me, I first must bore you with a few technicalities of my job. As you know, my office lies at the bottom of the sea. I wear a suit to the office. It's a wet suit. This time of year the water is quite cool. So what we do to keep warm is this: We have a diesel powered industrial water heater. This $20,000 piece of equipment sucks the water out of the sea. It heats it to a delightful temperature. It then pumps it down to the diver through a garden hose, which is taped to the air hose.
Now this sounds like a darn good plan, and I've used it several times with no complaints. What I do, when I get to the bottom and start working, is take the hose and stuff it down the back of my wet suit.
This floods my whole suit with warm water. It's like working in a Jacuzzi. Everything was going well until all of a sudden, my butt started to itch. So, of course, I scratched it.
This only made things worse. Within a few seconds my ass started to burn. I pulled the hose out from my back, but the damage was done. In agony I realized what had happened. The hot water machine had sucked up a jellyfish and pumped it into my suit. Now, since I don't have any hair on my back, the jellyfish couldn't stick to it, however, the crack of my ass was not as fortunate. When I scratched what I thought was an itch, I was actually grinding the jellyfish into the crack of my ass.
I informed the dive supervisor of my dilemma over the communicator. His instructions were unclear due to the fact that he, along with five other divers, were all laughing hysterically. Needless to say, I aborted the dive.
I was instructed to make three agonizing in-water decompression stops totaling thirty-five minutes before I could reach the surface to begin my chamber dry decompression. When I arrived at the surface, I was wearing nothing but my brass helmet. As I climbed out of the water, the medic, with tears of laughter running down his face, handed me a tube of cream and told me to rub it on my butt as soon as I got in the chamber. The cream put the fire out, but I couldn't shit for two days because my ass was swollen shut.
So, next time you're having a bad day at work, think about how much worse it would be if you had a jellyfish shoved up your ass. Now repeat to yourself,
'I love my job, I love my job, I love my job.' Whenever you have a bad day, ask yourself, is this a jellyfish bad day?
May you NEVER have a jellyfish bad day! !!!! Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.
I LOVE MY JOB
If you don't laugh out loud after you read this you are in a coma! This is even funnier when you realize it's real! Next time you have a bad day at work think of this guy.
Bob is a commercial saturation diver for Global Divers in Louisiana. He performs underwater repairs on offshore drilling rigs.Below is an E-mail he sent to his sister. She then sent it to radio station 103.5 on FM dial in Indiana, who was sponsoring a worst job experience contest. Needless to say, she won. Read his letter below.
Hi Sue,
Just another note from your bottom-dwelling brother. Last week I had a bad day at the office. I know you've been feeling down lately at work, so I thought I would share my dilemma with you to make you realize it's not so bad after all. Before I can tell you what happened to me, I first must bore you with a few technicalities of my job. As you know, my office lies at the bottom of the sea. I wear a suit to the office. It's a wet suit. This time of year the water is quite cool. So what we do to keep warm is this: We have a diesel powered industrial water heater. This $20,000 piece of equipment sucks the water out of the sea. It heats it to a delightful temperature. It then pumps it down to the diver through a garden hose, which is taped to the air hose.
Now this sounds like a darn good plan, and I've used it several times with no complaints. What I do, when I get to the bottom and start working, is take the hose and stuff it down the back of my wet suit.
This floods my whole suit with warm water. It's like working in a Jacuzzi. Everything was going well until all of a sudden, my butt started to itch. So, of course, I scratched it.
This only made things worse. Within a few seconds my ass started to burn. I pulled the hose out from my back, but the damage was done. In agony I realized what had happened. The hot water machine had sucked up a jellyfish and pumped it into my suit. Now, since I don't have any hair on my back, the jellyfish couldn't stick to it, however, the crack of my ass was not as fortunate. When I scratched what I thought was an itch, I was actually grinding the jellyfish into the crack of my ass.
I informed the dive supervisor of my dilemma over the communicator. His instructions were unclear due to the fact that he, along with five other divers, were all laughing hysterically. Needless to say, I aborted the dive.
I was instructed to make three agonizing in-water decompression stops totaling thirty-five minutes before I could reach the surface to begin my chamber dry decompression. When I arrived at the surface, I was wearing nothing but my brass helmet. As I climbed out of the water, the medic, with tears of laughter running down his face, handed me a tube of cream and told me to rub it on my butt as soon as I got in the chamber. The cream put the fire out, but I couldn't shit for two days because my ass was swollen shut.
So, next time you're having a bad day at work, think about how much worse it would be if you had a jellyfish shoved up your ass. Now repeat to yourself,
'I love my job, I love my job, I love my job.' Whenever you have a bad day, ask yourself, is this a jellyfish bad day?
May you NEVER have a jellyfish bad day! !!!! Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
My kind of poster 11:12 AM
Okay so after what has turned out to be a not so great London Olympics logo, the committee can redeem themselves by hiring Alan Clark to do the poster design. His proposal designs are fresh, clean and full of energy. [thanks @palio_saratoga for sharing the link]
Just take a look at them below... don't you agree?
Just take a look at them below... don't you agree?
It's been a while 11:00 AM
I know I know, i've been gone from the blogging world for a bit too long. I'm sorry that I've been soo MIA. I know that some of you have been checking daily to see what I'm up to and sorry to have disappointed you.
Enough sadness, I'm back and happy about it. I went through a stage of wanting to be away from technology and have been reading a lot. Twitter and sometimes facebook were the only exception to this case. I've been missing out on a lot and glad to be back.
I have plenty of work/inspiration that I've been gathering and ready to share it with you all. I have a lot to make up for and hope that you're ready to enjoy it.
Enough sadness, I'm back and happy about it. I went through a stage of wanting to be away from technology and have been reading a lot. Twitter and sometimes facebook were the only exception to this case. I've been missing out on a lot and glad to be back.
I have plenty of work/inspiration that I've been gathering and ready to share it with you all. I have a lot to make up for and hope that you're ready to enjoy it.