Just curious to what everyone is up too.
I'm currently scrambling to beef up my Wordpress skills and résumé by building up a few sites as it seems increasingly likely that I'll be laid off from my current position. Not fun :( I'm also in frugal mode trying to save up as many $$s as possible. Argh. Also putting together a cheap audio production computer for my dad. Much more enjoyable than my employment situation.
As those who follow me on twitter may have already read, I'm making progress on a new highway map, lookin' all fancy.
I'm mostly doing it to challenge myself! I've been using Photoshop for eight years now, and a year ago I decided to jump to Illustrator as it is much better for graphic design. Harder, too, but more powerful if you find your way around its logic and keyboard shortcuts. I'm a sucker for maps and infrastructure, so maps in this subway style are my favourites. My inspiration was the highways map on wikipedia, which is almost useless:
A project in java that emulates zombie pathology. It's simple, but seeing as in one semester I've gone from zero experience in programming to something like this, I have to say I'm proud with what I'm doing. Really, I have to say it, because I spend too much time saying how much I'll probably suck at math and other things related to programming. While that may be true, I'm doing actual programming pretty well, even if I also need lots of help.
That sounds really cool. When you are pro programmer, I have an amazing post-apocalyptic zombie game that needs to be made. I won't share the full idea but the title is "Quick, Stick Your Dick In It!"
If you are not reading Sex Criminals, you should be.I have an amazing post-apocalyptic zombie game that needs to be made. I won't share the full idea but the title is "Quick, Stick Your Dick In It!"
Well that sounds amazing - and Volume 1 (#1-5) is coming out next week! Perfect timing! I just caught up on the new Sandmans so I've been in the mood for something new. Any other recommendations? I need to spend $7 more to get free shipping via Amazon.
Stray Bullets just started up again, after being on hiatus for around 10 years. There's a trade of everything up to the just-published 41nd issue. It's a bit more than $7 though.
I'm putting a band together, putting a tour together, researching the finer points about music licensing and publishing. String a couple of warm up gigs in LA/San Fran and Get this show on the road! A lot of work that I haven't wanted to deal with but I've taken the time to write these songs well and I see it's all in my hands and now it's time to go. It's only rocknroll but I like it.
I've got a start up I'm working on, I just moved into a new home so we are painting some rooms and hanging artwork, I have a new product at work that I am learning about, and selling, I'm coaching a three-year-old's soccer team, I'm trying to finish an album. I also have a friend that wrote a book that I'm looking forward to reading, and another friend who has a completed album of music they would like me to review. All of these things are exciting, and therefore it's hard to prioritize. It's easy to prioritize when you have things on your list that you'd rather not do, you know what I mean?
Producing a book from a poem I posted on Hubski last year.
Making a new piece of jewelry in the Naked Geometry collection.
Writing a couple of songs.
Working on two book projects on math learning, contracts with publishers and everything.
Making a film series on kindergarten math.
Getting ready for the international math art conference.
Winning the fight with cancer, finally.
Running my own business. So yeah, keeping busy. It's a little overwhelming at times, but good. Really good.
Yeah I've been using it for a couple projects. IMO, it has a bit too much personality for Hubski. I don't know though. It may work.
I think the font-size of the text input and comments need to be increased to 13px or so. I'm going to have wrinkles from squinting at longer comments. :P
Oh yeah huh. I've switch to rems for font-sizes now.
It's simply easier to fine tune changes because you can edit the master % size at the top by whatever you want. SO I have have a 62.5% on html which would mean 14px - 1.4rem. But if I change to 63%, all font sizes would increase by a tiny amount.
Looks great man. Italicized words look particularly nice IMO.
thenewgreen, may just I steal you answer? Startup/house/music. I'm even looking forward to World Cup. I'm also getting a disproportionate amount of enjoyment from what is, beyond the shadow of a doubt, the most insignificant thing I'm working on: experimenting with cold-press coffee roasts and brewing. A cold brew yields a coffee syrup that keeps for a long time, to which you can add 3-4 parts water, plus a splosh of cream and a couple ice cubes to make an insanely delicious warm weather drink. My wife didn't realize that the bottled brew I made was a concentrate and proceeded to down around 16 oz straight with enough cream to cut it. She basically had 8 cups of coffee yesterday morning. My bad.
Something about a cold press brew with cream over ice. I could drink a gallon of it I swear.. Use whipping cream too instead of half & half...ridiculously good. That actually reminds me of a specialty store I used to walk past on the way to work every day when I lived in Boston. They'd have these ice-cold glass bottles of chocolate milk, but it wasn't chocolate milk, it was chocolate added to heavy cream. I'd get one almost every day. I was trying to express to my uncle a couple years ago how amazingly good this tasted and I succeeded in that his nipples got hard at my description. His wife looked at him with a mix of incredulity and disgust. I think we were all a little freaked out. But that's what I'm trying to say here...it's that good. Cream makes anything with milk that much better.
Hi Cortez! Long time no see. I'm working on putting together an album, which I'm currently about 8 songs into. Still need to finish up a few more songs and get some album artwork/photography going for it and all that fun stuff. I'm working on promoting this album that my label recently released. I've got a show booked here in Boston in May and I'm still working on filling it with two more bands (already have two), and then promoting it. I'm working on connecting with Orientation Assistants that will be under me in August, which is harder since I'm a lead who isn't at college at the moment. I'm also working on developing and maintaining some new relationships.
I'm planning to build a website. It will be a site where people can discover, read and discuss short stories and novels written in a serial format, or contribute such content to the website. The site will have a revenue-sharing system, which has been implemented by a lot of other sites (Twitch, Own3D, Hitbox.tv, Writedge, Yahoo Contributors Network, Skyword, Hub Pages, Suite101, Knoji, etc.) However, all of the above sites are not concerned with story writing. Only one direct competitor (Storymash) exists and even then it's very minimalistic, empty, lacking in decent content and has no formatting options whatsoever, relying on what seems to just be plain text. Series and user profiles are also a bit confusing to search through on the website. What I want to build basically improves upon Storymash in every single way, so a decent variety of formatting options, chapter formatting similar to what Fanfiction.net has and a front page that shows newest stories, 'up and coming' stories of the week and and top-rated stories of all time in three different columns. A search bar also needs to be at the top of the page, clearly visible. I would also like to add an ad-free subscription service at some point with the ability for premium users to download stories in PDF, Kindle, MOBI, EPUB, etc formats.
Currently involved in the production of a stage adaptation of Robert Anton Wilson's 'Cosmic Trigger', collating and editing material for it. I mentioned to kleinbl00 and insomniasexx an interview with Alan Moore. Here's a bit of it:
Compiling and translating a nutrition manual for patients after gastric bypass surgery. Slowly progressing in Steven Eriksson's Malazan Book of the Fallen.
Studying for exams, while trying to get back into a habit of excercise, while working on setting up a D&D campaign to DM with some friends.
Producing my second full length album, 3 songs done!
well sure, i make this kinda IDM/Industrial fusion
I need to start a second romance novel following the release of my first romance one to keep momentum going in that new pen name. Then I need to finish my first novel, so I can publish it next year (different genre/pen name) followed by novels 2, 3 and 4 which are pretty much ready to roll.
Changed jobs, a couple months ago. Working with a startup now. Working on what I guess you could call 'Business Development'. Good times. Loving the shift from a massive corporate setup to a small startup environment. On the personal front, I just got done with an album. So yeah, keeping nice and busy all round.
Music. Been jamming with a few friends lately, trying to hone my skills while I wait for my appointment to get a Rhodes Mk. II piano refurbished. I'm hoping to put out some music I'm really proud of within the next two months.
1.) this intermezzo. the tarentella will come later. 2.) "The stroke". basically, the orchestral bass bow stroke that is quasi-impossible to explain and only comes with practice and studying with someone who knows it.
Yes. For example, in a given healthcare setting like a hospital there might be a lot of interprofessional conflict, partly due to the sheer complexity of the organization. One example might be that a new doctor is having difficulty with a particular senior nurse. Perhaps the doctor is engaging with others from a power-based stance by using his status as a doctor to assert his authority, which makes a particular senior nurse, who is also questioning and undermining his authority because she feels that she knows better. However, the doctor might be asserting him/herself in such a way because they are terrified of making a mistake in a new setting. Anyway, whatever the causes of conflict are, interprofessional conflicts can have severe consequences, like breakdowns in communication in regard to a patient, which can lead to further stress and conflict, not to mention endanger the safety and health of a patient. At present, there is a big push to get healthcare professionals to administer team-based healthcare, which means that nurses, doctors, administrators and whoever else might be involved in a patient's care, need to not only be able to communicate, but be able to understand how each stakeholder is able to provide for the patient and how they can each support each other in successfully ensuring the best possible care for their patients. One of the difficulties is that many healthcare professionals received their training in a time where this way of doing things was not The Way To Do Things and so getting everyone involved in healthcare on board with this transition is a challenge. Conflict training is one strategy that can contribute to creating and administering team-based care, but training alone is likely not enough. Many have also suggested that the presence of third-party conflict specialists could be very instrumental in assisting healthcare professionals make this transition, especially in situations where something terrible happens like a patient suddenly dies due to a medical error. Not only might a patient's family need support, but the clinician who made the error. So yeah, lots of fertile ground for interprofessional conflict in healthcare: power differentials, differences in training, a lack of awareness of how one's actions or words affect others, high levels of stress due to potential loss of patient life or welfare. I think this is what I'll do my paper on, but maybe not.
I've redesigned my work's website from scratch. It's getting there. Tons of little stuff to do. Work in Progress: http://www.vipliveproducts.com/ Old Site: http://americhip.com/ Let me know if you see any bugs. It's mostly working on Chrome & iPhone. Lot's of bugs with the form on Android currently. I need a bottle of whiskey before I fire up Parellels and check it out on IE8.