Again with the not going back to sleep after dropping Grey off.  What a good boy am I.  I came back and got to work, working the networks (of people) a bit.  I got frustrated because I have so many collections of contact information with a mix of stale data.  I guess I should sign [...]

All right, enough’s enough.  I have, gathered before me, close to SEVEN  TERABYTES of external hard drives and NAS network drives.  Each individual drive is partitioned in various ways for various reasons; needed a FAT volume for to share with Windows machines, or NTFS for very large files for Windows, or formatted for whatever this [...]

Today was spent mostly wrestling with technical problems in the computers at the house, especially Shoshanah’s iMac which has been kernel-panicking routinely.  I wiped the internal drive, reinstalled Snow Leopard and copied the data from a backup on an external drive.  It SEEMS to be stable now but we’ll see. I’m sure glad for Time [...]

I use Akismet to keep comment spam out of my blog.  It’s amazingly good at it.  Sometimes I look at the strange things that get put in there as an excuse to link to some place where I can buy airplane tickets or Viagra. It usually takes one of three forms:  A long list of [...]

Day 3 continued in the same vein — get up, get kid to school, and go to work getting work. The night before I was considering how to jumpstart my Photoshop and Lightroom teaching opportunities.  I was a bit rueful that I had lost my Acrobat Connect Pro account with my Adobe job; it has [...]

Managed not to waste the day again today.  Got up before 8, got the kid to school, did NOT go back to bed. Managed a whole bunch of relevant stuff to future livelihoods. Idiot plumber flaked out again today.  My brother did not flake out, came over and spent a few hours first with my [...]

Shortly after my ten-year anniversary with Adobe Systems I got booted in a RIF that wiped out some 680 employees.  As I posted on my Facebook profile: I was supposed to get laid off in LAST December’s Adobe bloodbath, but my director cadged a stay of execution that bought me another year. During which I [...]

The Contents of Shoshanah’s Studio Originally uploaded by Tymcode We’re giving up on trying to get all this in an 8×11" studio. She’s going to get rid of a bunch of this, but even so, the fact is that she is a multiple-discipline, mixed media artists and jeweler. In addition, the whole family needs studio [...]

When the Daily show was doing a bit that compared the 2008 Republican National Convention to the Superdome during Katrina, one scene showed Jason Jones with a handkerchief pressed over his nose and mouth.  “I’m here in the print media center… the stench of death is overwhelming…”  This kind of got me thinking about the [...]

Caltrain Sketch 02/04/09 Originally uploaded by Tymcode For this one I copied some Vaseline ad (along these lines) from a magazine using one of my Christmas pencils, a Daler Rowney "Sanguine Sketching" pencil. Thought it would be interesting with skin tones. (It was completed on a very bumpy Baby Bullet between San Jose and San [...]