Warning, heavy geekery to follow:
I’m devoting the next few weeks to learning as much as I possibly can of Adobe CS3. I dropped way too much money on it, for work you know. In fact I have needed PhotoShop & Illustrator, but the rest of it, even Dreamweaver which I once lived by, I manage to ignore. Expensive ignorance, I know. I’ve become especially enthralled with Fireworks. I used to own Fireworks MX for Windows before Macromedia sold it to Adobe along with Dreamweaver, but this version has little in common with that one outside of the name.
So I’m dropping even more money and signing up for lynda.com so I can learn what the heck all this software can do. It’s all so overwhelming- I’ve never been exactly patient, and I want to get it without having to learn it. But learn it I must.
If I had it all to do over again I’d major in graphic design. I know how to take someone else’s design and turn it into html & css, but my lack of formal knowledge about design itself leaves me sometimes stranded and feeling like a poseur. Sure, I could take classes now, and I probably will- but I figure I can get a head start by at least learning more about how the common design software works. At that point I can learn more about design theory and technique.
So if I’m scarce over the next few weeks this is why. I was going to wait until a complete lull in my work schedule but (thankfully) that doesn’t appear to be happening anytime soon. So between work, whipping the yard into shape for summer, painting and doing some minor home redecoration, I’m going to bury myself in Fireworks lessons.
See you when I’m ready to set off what I’ve learned!
May 13, 2008 – 10:30 am
The middle and high schools are updating their calendars to adjust for less snow days- meaning the youngest finishes a day earlier than scheduled and the middle one gets a two day Memorial Day break.
The lawn is more of a weed garden. Most of our neighbors hire landscapers so they look just fab, even have annuals planted already in some cases. We have teenagers. Need to crack the whip on that I think.
Son number one finished up his finals yesterday, and later this afternoon Pat is heading up with my Vue to help him bring all his stuff home. I gave his bedroom a major cleaning, last time I’ll touch it till September :).
Tonight is the last night for my bowling league. It was a love/hate thing for me this year, I have to admit. I love that I get to spend time with friends I rarely see otherwise, but I just wasn’t into the bowling thing itself. It would help if the lanes would upgrade a bit- the scoring computers and screens are probably 15 years old.
The calendar is filling with weekend celebrations, vacations and mini-trips.
And I’m wearing flipflops.
May 8, 2008 – 12:32 pm
I’m still pulling together a post here on my weekend at PodCamp NYC 2 last week, but for now you can head over to Pixel Currents to read and watch the session I presented, a panel discussion on the topic of Video Conversation.
Twitter/Flickr friend p0ps harlow, who I met and who used his iPhone to guide us to the official PodCampNYC party at ReBar in Brooklyn, put together this pano of iPhone photos from my session.
Be sure to check out p0ps flickr page for more amazing panos and other photos and art.
May 4, 2008 – 5:35 pm
Today I discovered a site that mashes together my love of WDW with my love of geeky toys like Twitter. It’s called 
