So when a dentist tells/swears to you its $240 stage 1 of $615, then when u go to counter it’s $372. I guess you breathe deeper. Well this is good motivation n’all, whoever hires me for the next gig is goin2 get a good deal coz I’m motivated, cheap and top of my game. Suffice to say I am in the mood for a real roll the sleeves up hyperfocused, hypertechnical barebones code and dollars play. But it’s a strictly no morons policy, on any side of the transaction (client, investor, coder, designer, me, whatever the mix) The idea, execution or people can’t be moronic. In return, I’ll Underbelly Prequel that. Sneaking suspicion my geography may be wrong and there is no/little point trying to push the same cart along the same roads to the same destination. Could either mean a $1399 V-Australia flight 20 hours, or go a totally virtual remote brains trust model. However, as ever, will require backer in same geo-precinct. Maybe New Zealand is the new web frontier ?
Dreaming of Remote Internet Skunkworks
Or maybe I’ve just been reading a little too much art/creativity/value creation as (not) therapy ala Kanye in Vibe : “I’ve heard that word a lot. Therapy. It wasn’t done as therapy. I guess it was done as therapy in the way anything is done as therapy. Playing basketball is therapy. Design is therapy, it’s being creative. Performing can be therapy. I did these songs just to be doing good music. So I don’t think it was any more therapeutic than playing basketball. But was it therapeutic? Yeah.
Although I have been in more a DFW (his infinite jest side that is) mood recently, via Samizdat7 a Nov 06 Dave Eggers LA Weekly intro to new foreward for $10 Infinite Jest edition : “And yet the time spent in this book, in this world of language, is absolutely rewarded. When you exit these pages after that month of reading, you are a better person. It’s insane, but also hard to deny. Your brain is stronger because it’s been given a month-long workout, and more importantly, your heart is sturdier, for there has scarcely been written a more moving account of desperation, depression, addiction, generational stasis and yearning, or the obsession with human expectations, with artistic and athletic and intellectual possibility. The themes here are big, and the emotions (guarded as they are) are very real, and the cumulative effect of the book is, you could say, seismic. It would be very unlikely that you would find a reader who, after finishing the book, would shrug and say, “Eh.””
The City S1E5 Big Body Issues this week. CatFight Central. Click4Torrent.
Watch : The Charlie Rose MySpace Founders interview on Techcrunch. Seems they are going small business (vkewl Bon Iver piece on WSJ my fave album of summer that got initial buzz via MySpace), from their Paris Hilton dating Founder/CEO Chris DeWolfe : “In the past, you know, we’ve totally ignored the small and medium-sized businesses from an advertising perspective, there’s 20 million of them in the United States which represents billions of dollars in buying power. In the past, anyone that - small business, medium-sized business that wanted to advertise on the internet, had to go to Google. We’ve just offered a new program called MyAds that allows you as a small business to go on, spend as little as $20, and target your advertising to whoever you want. And so, I think that’s another huge way in which advertising is going to evolve on the internet.”
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ugh. sif dentist visits ain't painful enough.
I did some checking and it turns out you mightn't need the OS X discs to boot into diagnostic mode on the newer iMacs, try holding down the 'D' key and turning it on, should go into hardware diag mode by itself then according to the manual…
well therapy has many definitions it can be therapy for some kind of ailment, therapy for your needs, therapy for your hobbies and many more
nice idea, well in advertising celebrity have a big part of it.. like the one shown on the above parris hilton advertising her clothes, bag and sunglasses anyway I love her sunglasses it's cool.
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