Shooting pickups in my mom’s backyard, a photo by Tymcode on Flickr. Elisa’s son needed a somewhat less remote location to shot pickups for his capstone movie. Even though my mom had a date in the house that night, she was gracious enough to let Keli’i and the actors and crew take over her backyard [...]

New Workshop Originally uploaded by Tymcode After trying for my entire adulthood, I finally have a workshop. There’s more to it than this, but the fact that my tools and supplies are visible, organized and accessible at the same time is unprecedented. The white cabinet is actually an Ikea kitchen cabinet — I bought it [...]

I tried to make my own Capital One Image Card, where you can upload your own picture. I used my own art (shown here), which made for a cool looking card. It was rejected by Capital One, with the reasoning that it could be deemed “offensive” to others. Sorry, we were unable to approve the [...]

I realized I had not posted an update about my employment situation in some time.  I have a job now.  It’s a contract position for a company called Premier Retail Networks, in San Francisco.  It’s a division of Technicolor (Thomson) with I guess about 250 people.  The company provides services for retailers who wish to [...]

When did it become OK for HR departments to simply not respond to resumé submissions at all?  Not even a “We’ve received your resume and we’ll let you know if we find anything suitable”?  This seems arrogant and unprofessional.  Did this happen with the meltdown or has it been going on for a long time? [...]

At Least It Didn’t Come On My Birthday Originally uploaded by Tymcode This was my ten year service trophy from Adobe. Since I got sacked last month, they had to send it to my house. That was fun to open. You’d think they might have arranged to have something more appropriate on the little cards [...]

In my effort to procrastinate doing the things that will improve my life, I’ve been working on improving Shoshanah’s.  Specifically, her car.  She despises doing anything to maintain her car with a kind of weird passion, so it falls to me.  For example, she’d been bugging me to replace the wiper blades on it so [...]

Office Shelves Originally uploaded by Tymcode The accursed office shelves are finally up. Not having these has created chaos for three years. I still have to finish one plank in the top left corner that needs special treament due to the roof slant, but the hard part is finished. They’re seriously overbuilt because I plan [...]

I’ve resolved to eat my way through our the freezer in the garage. This has been a big bone of contention between my wife and I. She’s convinced anything over about 3 months old in the freezer is “freezerburnt and nasty” and I have a difficult time getting her to prepare it. We end up [...]

Today wasn’t really about job-hunting, exactly.  I got word that two of my classes have been accepted for Art Unraveled in Phoenix next August — Dynamic Digital Collage (like last year) and the new Digital Distressing class.  No Pajama party, which was really helpful last year for my day class students to retain what they [...]