Me portfolio website.

I thought this was long gone, but my father kept it hidden and safe for me. My portfolio is once again online. I might even update it now that I know and have made more.

Portfolio

Some highlights? Everything. (hehe) The drawings are my personal favorite part. I would never put up something I hated, so I like everything here at least a little bit. Or it was demostrative of a skill. Or I should shut up.

Go. Wander. Live the dream.

Google-bound

A few years later I find myself firmly embedded into the Google work system. Calendar, Mail, Analytics, Reader... all of it.

Let me back up a bit. Two years ago I got an invite to beta test Gmail. It was one of those invitations people were BUYING and had the buzz power of a Wii. I was elite. I was the shit. Updated contacts, sent out notices, burned bridges to other providers. Easy. I was in.

There was nothing insidious or cloying about how Google worked itself in further. Gmail & co. works. It does all of the necessary tasks and lets you integrate mostly seamlessly. Privacy and fear experts (Not the same thing, btw. I don't want to argue about it.) will tell you that I am setting myself up to be electronically violated or left in the dirt when Google changes its profit machine or gets bought. I don't care and I don't care. Any system which allows me to FEED NEWS THROUGH MY EMAIL AND TRACK MY SEARCHES(AWESOME!) is my new best friend. So someone finds out I was searching for Brazillian Wax videos or information on pot farms in Manhattan. It proves nothing exept that I am curious. Curious AND satisfied.

More things I can do:

- From Google Analytics I learned that someone from Bulgaria has repeatedly visited my blog. Whoever you are, I love you. Same to the person from New Dehli and Wisconson. We are an inclusive, internationally-minded blog. Welcome. Also, No Agenda is driving 13.33% of my traffic. That is 2 people. Thanks. Every bit counts toward inflating my ego.

-Google sucks potential calendar items out of my e-mail and puts them to the right of the e-mail itself. I can click to add them to the calendar. Jesus.

-If I look something up in Google Maps I can text it to my phone, then hit the road. Seriously. When did we not need that? I've saved a freaking tree by not printing directions over the last six months.

That is enough fawning over Google, the provider of this blog. There is much more, but I think we have had our fill for now. Please feel free to comment.

And I did not realize there was going to be a ticking sound...

Jim and I have watched this on Tivo about four-hundred thousand times. Crista Flanagan is hilarious, the character is perfect and we all feel like this from time to time.

Please, please watch this a couple of times. The nuances of her performance make it worth your while.

Catz r awesum

The cats of the world will unite and eat us.

Cats and more cats being awesome

Waldorf=Astoria Starlight Roof map

This was a map I did for the latest RPA Regional Assembly. It covers the Starlight Roof and confrence rooms, done in a three-dimensional style which ended up being very helpful.

A couple of things: I think the angle is a bit high now. It could have been lower, though I don't know how much could've been seen, especially in the Rotunda area.

Also, It was originally done on a yellow background, so had more fig-ground relationship.

Dizzy asleep