What a difference 6 months can make…

Ok, so I don’t really want to get into my personal life on this blog, but lets just say the past six months has been the rollercoaster ride from hell and back.  Everything had flatlined.  But hopefully I’m coming out of this with more drive.

What would I be without my projects?  This go around is going to be a bio hack.  I’m quitting smoking, cutting out sugars AND trying to get some exercise in.  It will be interesting to see how it all turns out.  Really, if I fail at it all, I’m not any worse off than I am now.

Later.

New Domain

In the “for what it’s worth” category… Drawing On Cards now has its own domain, www.drawingoncards.com – I know… it took me SOOOO long to figure that one out. Bookmark accordingly.

I’m Just Good Like That

After a lovely evening spent at Books-A-Million sipping on an Iced Mocha I brain-swallowed a book on AJAX and thought “Hey, I can hammer out the comment system in AJAX because I’m just that damn cool!”

Which I promptly did. Problem is, I’m not as cool as I thought I was and it took about twice as long as anticipated, but lo and behold, I completed it. So now you can leave all your filthy comments on Drawing On Cards.

Have fun, you bloody jackoffs.

Delivered as promised…

Well, sort of anyways. I finished my first piece for “Drawing On Cards” in over a year. I also spawned its own site over at http://capridyne.info/drawingoncards

So if you care to follow the series you can find all the comics there. I’m soon to add RSS support and a comment system, because THIS… IS… SPA– er, WEB 2.0!

Right, anyhow, yeah… I need more coffee.

Wow…

Yeah, I suck. Professional bloggers will tell you not to post a “I’m gonna post more later” message… but that’s what I’m doing. This has been neglected far too long.

I promise there will be something new soon. Really. I mean it. Like right now. Well, not really “right now”, more like “right now in the near future”. You get the point though.

Drawing On Cards: Pilot

Ok, so I’ve decided to get back into drawing again.  Something I’ve done a thousand times and quit.  I used to draw comics all the time when I was in school, and even after I toted around the famed “Book of Many Things” which was a visual journal contributed by everyone.  I hate that the book got destroyed, because it could never be recreated.  Too many people long gone now that had penned those pages.  Not to mention I’ve gotten so much more anti-social with age.

But I digress.  I present to you my entire collection in a series I called “Drawing On Cards”, which was originally here.  I’m going to attempt to do more in the series, but don’t consider that a commitment.  I’m fickle, dammit.

Sometimes the Best Medicine Has Been on the Shelf For Years

I saw an infomercial last night while I was fixing a computer for a self help program (Tony somebody or other) and realized that while I understand that the self-help market is going to be a continuous thing, sometimes the best books on the subject have been written years ago.

The book I speak of is Dale Carnegie’s How To Win Friends & Influence People.  Now traditionally it is listed as a book for sales people, but as you can find out by reading it, we are all really trying to sell something to someone.  The references in the book may be a little dated, but when it comes to people we have really been the same for many, many years now.  I seriously suggest you read it.

My two cents for the day.

There Is Big, and Then There Is Big

A small deviation this morning is what I would like to share.  For those of you that do work with computers on a regular basis you know cooling is king.  You also know that people can go a great lengths to keep their systems cool.  That was my objective, to cool a computer.

My boss’s CPU fan fell off the other day.  Yes, fell off.  No big deal.  I’ll just order a cheap replacement.  I did.  I also didn’t pay attention to the dimensions of said fan.  What I got in via UPS today was this:

Why Microsoft Just Fucked You

I was fixing to move from the world of Windows for a while, but after reading this golden nugget of information it may be more permanent than I had planned.

For those of you to lazy to click the link or want to know why I feel so strongly about it I will explain.  You see, I’ve been very fond of Windows 7, as you may be able to tell from the previous posts in this blog.  All that was robbed from me when Microsoft just gave us all the finger with the new Release Candidate (RC).  I don’t know why I’m surprised, but I am, and a little hurt too.

From The Hip

Losing your focus on life really sucks ass.  I’m not usually one to gush on my personal psychological well being but I am throwing this out there not necessarily as a rant, but more of a conversation starter with perhaps like-minded individuals.  Or maybe, non-like-minded persons that can provide some differential perspective.

At my core I am an anal retentive person.  I analyze and systematically retool everything I do trying to achieve the highest level of precision.  It’s exactly why it takes me an hour and a half to wash the dishes.  I sacrifice speed for the fact of knowing that the silverware is as clean as humanly possible.

It is from this mentality that springs forth my constant need to control my life.  Being a Capricorn, control is life-blood.  I’m not getting into astrology and why your birthday dictates who you are, but suffice it to say, I am textbook Capricorn.  So how much control do I have in reality?