A poster I designed for the upcoming laser shows at the planetarium. 18x24, it doesn't look bad shrunk to 8.5x11. I hope to get a few full size ones once they get back from the printer Friday.
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
HDR of Rainy
Found this on Flickr, I really want this shot as my background.
Stephen Kerstiens, I don't know who you are, but good job.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Playing dentist with a gift horse
It's Monday night, and I have just scheduled my first job interview of 2009.
Of course you wont be reading this before Thursday afternoon, and there is a reason for that, but I don't want to spoil the ending.
The job is a year long contract with the Paducah Area Red Cross, paid through Americorps. From what I can tell it's a position designed to set up and streamline their disaster plans. As far as I can tell. The official job description is a bit lacking in specifics, and when I talked to the head of the search committee she seemed to redirect my questions into a catch-all “you'll find out in your training in Louisville” answer.
It seems to be a noble pursuit, as I found out first hand during the January ice storm. Some counties, and I know of Lyon county from first hand experience, had neither updated their disaster plan for many years, run any sort of drills, or in fact had a competent disaster manager.
The job also pays only$ 950 a month, and even if you include the free health and dental still comes out to about $6.5/hour for a 40 hour work week.
Gas, if it stays at todays price, will rack me up $275 a month. That, with my current budget, will mean I will lose around $20 a month. I'm already living on a tight budget, and for my next job I would like to start making some money.
So, even if they offer it to me, I'm not taking this job.
It seems like a fun job, but it just does not work out. So I'm continuing to apply for other positions, and as you read this two more are working their way through the postal system.
And I, while you are reading this, am sitting on a beach on Kentucky lake, with a cooler full of drinks, waiting for my friends to show up and grill out. My time here may be coming to an end, and I may not know where I will be going after this, but right now this is what I need.
Of course you wont be reading this before Thursday afternoon, and there is a reason for that, but I don't want to spoil the ending.
The job is a year long contract with the Paducah Area Red Cross, paid through Americorps. From what I can tell it's a position designed to set up and streamline their disaster plans. As far as I can tell. The official job description is a bit lacking in specifics, and when I talked to the head of the search committee she seemed to redirect my questions into a catch-all “you'll find out in your training in Louisville” answer.
It seems to be a noble pursuit, as I found out first hand during the January ice storm. Some counties, and I know of Lyon county from first hand experience, had neither updated their disaster plan for many years, run any sort of drills, or in fact had a competent disaster manager.
The job also pays only$ 950 a month, and even if you include the free health and dental still comes out to about $6.5/hour for a 40 hour work week.
Gas, if it stays at todays price, will rack me up $275 a month. That, with my current budget, will mean I will lose around $20 a month. I'm already living on a tight budget, and for my next job I would like to start making some money.
So, even if they offer it to me, I'm not taking this job.
It seems like a fun job, but it just does not work out. So I'm continuing to apply for other positions, and as you read this two more are working their way through the postal system.
And I, while you are reading this, am sitting on a beach on Kentucky lake, with a cooler full of drinks, waiting for my friends to show up and grill out. My time here may be coming to an end, and I may not know where I will be going after this, but right now this is what I need.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Farris Bueller Fight Club theory
Over at Metafilter they are having a discussion on the Farris/Cameron dichotomy. It just really makes me want to see this movie again.
Monday, April 27, 2009
Job search, year 2
It's that time of year again. Soon (in two months) my contract with LBL will be over and I will be out on the cold, lonely streets.
Due to the recent economic downturn the job search might be even worse this year, but I remain hopeful. I'm more experienced than I was last year, have a great portfolio under my belt and am willing to take pretty much any job for a year before going abroad.
So far I've sent out five resumes and/or applications and have yet to hear back from any of them. I have another application on my desk and will be tailoring a resume and letter for that one tonight to send out tomorrow. Once I send that off I'll start looking for another. I hope the next time I have to do this it will be with different scenery.
Due to the recent economic downturn the job search might be even worse this year, but I remain hopeful. I'm more experienced than I was last year, have a great portfolio under my belt and am willing to take pretty much any job for a year before going abroad.
So far I've sent out five resumes and/or applications and have yet to hear back from any of them. I have another application on my desk and will be tailoring a resume and letter for that one tonight to send out tomorrow. Once I send that off I'll start looking for another. I hope the next time I have to do this it will be with different scenery.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Spring break
Since I no longer have a spring break, I am going to live vicariously through people who do. So if you are going to be on spring break in the next few weeks I would love to hear some adventures.
Friday, March 13, 2009
12 hours too late
Last night a bunch of us got together and played some Loaded Questions. One of them was "Something you never joke about". My immediate thought was "clowns".
And then, 12 hours later, I find this quote on boingboing from Lon Chaney.
"there's nothing funny about a clown in the moonlight."
Yep, that about sums it up.
And then, 12 hours later, I find this quote on boingboing from Lon Chaney.
"there's nothing funny about a clown in the moonlight."
Yep, that about sums it up.
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