Summer
Semester's over, got an apartment with Sarah and our cats (Pinto and Duster).
Working at Law Bulletin again. Same place I was at two years ago. Let's just hope that nothing else from two years ago comes back...
Some Changes
The 2.8 update to WordPress (which I lagged on getting) introduced built-in threaded comments. Previously I had been using a plugin to achieve this. I disabled the plugin, enabled threaded comments, and found a theme that takes advantage of them. Guess what? The old threads stayed, so I think the new support is built upon the plugin I used.
I really like this new theme.
I've finally got around to getting an HTML version of my resume up. I think it looks good. Ended up having to make a few formatting changes to make it look good on the web that I eventually carried over to the PDF version (linked on same page) because I like 'em so much.
I also disabled comments on posts older than fourteen days, since that seems to be where most of the spam is concentrated (actually, it's like eighty percent on one post from two or three years ago).
Portfolio
I have added a portfolio link to the link bar on this site. I was applying to three web jobs today and I had to detail what I've done and include a portfolio. I just included it as my cover letter on those ones, but in the future it'll be nice to just be able to provide a link to my portfolio.
Update @ 05:21 06/04/09: Added more to the "About Me" section. I will continue to tweak and play with that part until I am comfortable with it. I may never be comfortable with it. One of the things I strongly dislike is trying to sell myself.
I Need Some Work
Update (09:37 1/25/08): I might be doing 33rd Street Productions' website, we'll see what pans out come next board meeting. (33rd is IIT's theatre group.)
Update (17:11 1/25/08): Becky and Aunt Marilyn have both come to me with website propositions. If anything, I could just do one for the class project and then do the other ones over the summer or something (again, most likely for free since I would still be building my portfolio). Thanks for the interest, guys!
Update (01:35 1/26/08 Happy Birthday too me): Add Linda's dad to the list as well.
The Request: Anyone need a website? Or know someone that does?
For my ITM461 class we are going to be doing a big project throughout the course of the semester, adding to it as we learn new things, and the professor wants this project to be for someone or a group that needs either a presence on the web, or a better looking / more functional presence on the web.
During the semester, I will be learning:
- HTML and CSS
- Graphics, design, and navigation
- Javascript and AJAX, javascript frameworks
- Google web services, Search Engine Optimization , analytics
- Small amount of PHP
- "Other fun stuff" (I do not know what this means, but the professor really knows what she is doing so I don't doubt it will be useful and cool information)
The professor has said that if we are interested in something beyond the scope of the course and would like to try it out in our assignments or projects, that we would get the equivalent of bonus points (she doesn't have a grading scale, per se). Personally, I'm interested in learning more than just a "small amount" of PHP, so that would definitely be one area I would be expanding upon (perhaps in relation to MySQL databases). She has also stated that she would ensure us not only a functionally sound website, but also a well-designed (read: pretty; or handsome for those of you who don't like "pretty" things) website that will not turn off customers and clients alike.
What would the cost be to you, the client? Zero dollars. I am doing this as a class assignment, but more importantly this would be the first real piece upon which I would feel comfortable building a portfolio. I do not feel it would be right to charge a customer money when they have no idea what the quality of my work will be (this website was not designed by me, it was a free theme I downloaded months and months ago; when I get more confident I will redo this to reflect my own abilities). Besides, you, the customer, get a free website and I get a free addition to my portfolio. It works out well for both of us.
There is only one "problem" that potential clients may have an issue with: The project will be completed somewhere around the end of April or the beginning of May. Since this is a semester long project and we will be applying what we learn in class to the project, it is inappropriate to say that the project will be done before I have learned everything that I need to complete said project.
About me: I have been doing web design in bursts since I was roughly ten years old. I am currently a twenty-one year old (well, I will be twenty-one two days after this is posted; it is just easier to round up at this point) junior at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. Because I have been fooling with web design for so long, I am incredibly comfortable with playing around with various tools and technologies as well as trying new things. I enjoy learning about new techniques on my own, but other aspects of my life have been pulling me away from web design, so this class is a great excuse to get back into it. The way that my major and minor are taking me, I would most likely end up working in some sort of systems administration type role. Systems administration does sound like a neat job: to be responsible for making sure possibly hundreds of machines and servers are not going to blow up just sounds fun; but to be able to freelance web design for clients on the side (or eventually as my main source of income) is my ultimate dream. This is the kind of work that I love.
If you or anyone you know are interested, please contact me via one of the following methods:
- Email: satoshi@sugardeath.net
- AOL Instant Messenger: itstonylol
- Google Talk: satoshi1@gmail.com (this should work no problem, since I log onto Google Talk with Pidgin using the Jabber protocol (since it's the same thing in the end), but I've never actually talked to anyone on Google Talk :razz: )
- Jabber/XMPP: satoshi@sugardeath.net
If a phone number is required, please contact me through one of the previous methods first as I do not feel comfortable putting my number on the public web.
Again, if you don't have a need for a website, but know someone that does, please send them to this post.
Thanks,
Tony
As if that wasn’t enough..
I wonder how much I posted during my last serious bout of tonsillitis.. if it gets as bad again.. I don't think I'll be posting much at all (due to, you know, being dead and all again). My tonsils definitely started.. feeling funny earlier yesterday. Well, the mere fact that I could feel them when swallowing is a scary, scary problem. I am not going to class tonight.. Might as well see if I can get some extra sleep in tonight...
I had a dream somewhere between midnight-thirty and four in the afternoon.. It was pretty neat.. I was getting a late meal at some.. fast food place in a mall. The mall was closing yet I could still somehow get up to the second floor, so I took my food up there. There was a pool on the second floor, just right in the middle, so I swam for a bit and then decided to wander around on the third floor. The third floor, at least along the entire back wall, was someone's house. I ended up hiding in a room that looked and felt strangely like David's at my dad's house because the father figure was looking for whatever was causing all the noise I was making.. ..Just now I realized I've had this dream before. Well, not this one, but it did take place in this same mall-type place and I do recall being in that "house" on the third floor before. I'm pretty sure the pool was more elabroate last time with like water slides and stuff (as well as people because the mall was open last time). I also recall going up to the fifth floor where a bunch of clothing shops were. I think I was running from something last time? I can't remember too well. I don't remember when I last dreamed this place...
I wonder if there's some sort of emotional-physical tie-in to my tonsillitis? The first time I got it, the last week of this most recent Christmas break.. I don't think there was anything emotionally jarring. No.. I think I was pretty well off in that regard. The second time was almost a week or so after Nicole broke up with me. A bunch of us went to Noodles and Co. for dinner on the Wednesday during Spring Break. I started feeling slightly ill following that.. and the next week and a half / two weeks were me laying dead in my room. The third time was a brief little scare during the summer, shortly after I started working. I attribute that one to a new work environment and a nasty, nasty keyboard. And now here I am.. just two days after Jacki broke up with me and my tonsils are swelling a little... I haven't had any food or anything that would possibly do this.. Though maybe all that booze and the subsequent vomiting could probably be a cause... I just hope it doesn't get as bad again..
I e-mailed Erica at the reg. office to tell her that I will NOT be able to work this semester.. seeing as how I'm having a hard time making it to my classes to begin with.. adding a job into the mix is just a bad idea. I'll just have to stop.. buying things.
I.. sent Jacki a hugely long message on Facebook... Still waiting for a reply.. (I'm not holding out for one, honestly) Basically the reason I am so upset is that.. after I got to thinking about her reasons or breaking up with me.. they all point to her having lied to me. About.. well, a few different things. I detailed it all in the letter. I.. am not going to do what I did when Linda broke up with me and just let loose here on my site. That was immature of me.
Oh "Compare People" Facebook App.. I just got an email with the subject "Anthony, here are your hottest single friends."
* "Who is hotter"
1. Alyssa Grant (210 points, voted 261 times) Go figure
2. Lisa Stanley (135 points, voted 184 times)
3. Shana Hartel (100 points, voted 144 times) Worked with her.. pretty cool gal
4. Linda Goldstein (195 points, voted 639 times)
5. Jennifer Arlene Priehs (87 points, voted 135 times)
If my tonsils don't get any better this week, I'll make an appointment at the health center for the end of this week or the beginning of next week, whichever is available.
Her arguments were really just kind of flaky, especially given all that we had talked about leading up to and during our relationship. So either she gave me bullshit arguments.. which, no, she did give me bullshit arguments (really, you should've heard them). But that also means that most of what she said to me.. wasn't real, wasn't how she felt, wasn't what she believed in. I was sad Friday night / Saturday morning. I was angry Sunday after thinking more about it, and now I am just.. bleh.
I mean, really, what am I doing wrong? Should I stop the nice guy routine? Should I stop caring about the girl so much? I just want them to be happy! "Yeah.. I know.. that's why I'm talking to you about this.." ..because my wanting you to be happy means I am a pushover and will let you go without a fight...? I never have the words to argue or say what I want to say during any such situation. It's always afterwards that I find them.. and by then it's too late. ..Well, with Jacki I have a feeling it was too late a week ago. I remember having a really paranoid, bad feeling shortly before our one month... Jeremy talked me out of it, but it seems like.. it was well founded, yeah? I had another dread feeling when she got here, when she was hesitant to kiss me. Same feeling I had shortly before Nicole broke up with me..
Jeremy got me booze and someone to complain to. Linda got me someone to complain to and a hug. Nicole got me cookies and someone to complain to. Amber got me a hug. Corey and Phil got me Giordonno's pizza. Jason and Alyssa let me bitch and moan to them. I'm glad I've got friends to put up with my whining like this. Though.. I'd rather not have to rely on them for.. whining...
There was just a squirrel fight outside. Awesome.
I guess the reason I always end up falling so hard (and subsequently getting hurt so hard... everytime :neutral: ) is that I have a particular life philosophy that pertains to situations like these... I think I heard it from Celeste?
If you're not going to love with all your heart, why love?
I mean.. it makes sense, right? Or maybe I'm just stupid...
Anyway, it's dinner time. I think overall I'm actually handling this pretty well. I just hope my tonsils do too..