Patton Oswalt's Skycake Mix

Free Write 1

Star wars never gets old. Its a comfortable place always return to. Even though I've heard the lines 100s of times. I know every scene, I know what's coming, there are no surprises.

Star wars never get old.

I sit here feeling slightly anxious about my upcoming trip, and forthcoming interaction I will have with a team I haven't worked for, and a year end review that I'm hoping will result in a neutral and hopefully a tinsee bit positive.

Doors open and close all the time. Doors are opening. I'm doing stuff. Yet again, I feel that I'm running out of time. There are things I want to see, do, learn, and feel and while I'm approaching the bottom half of my 30s. There feels like there's no time.

I hope I can come back, its been fun, too bad its a reboot.

Well, I gotta get some sleep I have to leave super fucking early tomorrow.

Project 2 - Concert Flyer (3 Colors)

A snippet from a test in my writing class.

My commitment to the written word.

With the recent feedback, although critical but honest, I received in my most recent project work, I have made it a goal to not only improve but commit myself to the written word starting this year.

I know I am capable in writing accurate and well written documentation, I have executed successfully for previous client work, I need to elevate my game.

I have talked about other endeavors like creative writing, especially in the form of comics, so this exercise will be beneficial on all fronts.

Professionally, I'm taking on the following:

• Industry White Paper
• Industry Competitive Analysis
• Speaking Event Proposal (if I get accepted, that's another can of worms)

Personally:

• Comics
• Some stand up material
• Some Short Stories

Steps I've taken to achieve my goals:

• Enrolled in a Business Writing Course
• Read More
• Write More

With my commitment, I will post more in this blog, not just the regular bullshit my readers have seen in the past, but real thought out material.

Thanks for your time.
Rudy

Post more than I did in 2010.

List of Countries:
Guatemala
Cuba
Jamaica
Bahamas
Grand Caymans
Haiti
England
Ireland
Spain
France
Switzerland
Italy
Germany
Norway
Japan
Hong Kong
Taiwan
Macau
Australia (21)

Basic rights and responsibilities of geeks

A manifesto was created to celebrate the first Geek Pride Day which included the following list of basic rights and responsibilities of geeks.

Rights:
1. The right to be even geekier.
2. The right to not leave your house.
3. The right to not like football or any other sport.
4. The right to associate with other nerds.
5. The right to have few friends (or none at all).
6. The right to have as many geeky friends as you want.
7. The right to be out of style.
8. The right to be overweight and near-sighted.
9. The right to show off your geekiness.
10. The right to take over the world.

Responsibilities:

1. Be a geek, no matter what.
2. Try to be nerdier than anyone else.
3. If there is a discussion about something geeky, you must give your opinion.
4. To save and protect all geeky material.
5. Do everything you can to show off geeky stuff as a "museum of geekiness."
6. Don't be a generalized geek. You must specialize in something.
7. Attend every nerdy movie on opening night and buy every geeky book before anyone else.
8. Wait in line on every opening night. If you can go in costume or at least with a related T-shirt, all the better.
9. Never throw away anything related to geekdom.
10. Try to take over the world!

My New Phone.

Bottom line was that my iphone was dying. I would throw my sim card in another iphone and "5 bars" while my piece of shit was "still searching".

I saw the advertisement.


As I told my colleague and supremely good bassist, Raf, he could be holding a banana and I'd probably want that.

So the timing was right, and I wanted a to try droid out. So the HTC MyTouch, Fender limited addition phone was to be mine.

My initial thoughts.

Nice Case Candy - New users go get a lot of accessories, in the world of guitars this would be case candy. A nice matching charger, phone pouch, and headphones. I can dig that.

The Phone Itself - I guess, it had to be a sunburst. I'm not a sunburst strat guy by any means, but it's tasteful, and there's a Fender logo on the back on the device. The calls are very clear, so it's already a better phone than the iphone, and playback on music "seems" to be clearer and louder, big ups there too.

The OS - Ok, I'm getting my way around, but it's not nearly as intuitive as the apple iphone os. Navigation makes sense, and a back button is awesome. The tactile buttons are a little on the smallish, but a home and back button do make sense. Music and iphone is like peanut butter to jelly, but getting music on the droid involved a few more steps, not painful, but again not intuitive. I guess, we were itune users before iphone users. You don't get a lot of reference material with the phone, so they are expecting people just to get it. A little rough.

T-Mobile, the provider - No complaints so far. Coverage has been good, and I do get my answers on their website. As long as I get coverage at home, in the dojo, and work, I'll be happy.

My issues - Voicemail set up. They left new users out to dry on this. They say you get visual voicemail, but if you go to that setup first. You will get "communication error". WTF. Just to let you know, you have to setup your voice mail first. I wish the lady would have told me that.

Google voice integration. I know it's supposed to be the bomb. But a crashing app isn't friendly, actually it's quite shitty. I will try to get it installed still but I wish stuff worked a little cleaner.

All for now, now if I could only improve my guitar playing.