Tuesday, May 11, 2010

3 1/2 Inch Floppy Discs

"Her family speaks Gula, like Gula-Gula island" - Nicole Whats been going on lately? A lot really. Hell month is on at school, but this is it, after this I'm done, which is wonderful. I might be interning with Polo, the whole experience leading up to has been...interesting...I really don't feel like going into it so much as to say I feel like it's less about the job and more about someone proving a point. Anyways, life is going well, it's been a wonderful week and a little bit (heart), so I'm happy with that.
And now finally, the highlight of my day thus far. I work for the Icon Magazine at my school, so pretty often we get student submissions, normally a pretty mundane happening. But not today. A woman come into the office asking for room 713, apparently the other room to submit work according to some of the posters or something. When my co-worker, Nicole, suggested she just give it directly to us, she adamantly refused and went on looking for 713. She eventually returned with her work and began giving it to us. All seemed fine until we asked if she had a CD with her work on it. She said no. Nicole asked if she could e-mail it to us. She said no. Turns out, she had her work to submit on a, and I swear I'm not making this up, a 3 1/2 inch floppy disc.
A 3 1/2 inch floppy disc. I have not seen one of those since 9th grade, maybe. It just fascinated me that there are people out there that still use them. It actually made me smile a bit. I feel as though there should be a retro revival of the 3 1/2 is viable, I mean, look at vinyl albums. We defiantly have the technology to make high density 3 1/2 floppies, and USB drives just don't have that little clicking metal part. Anyway, that's all for today.

Friday, April 30, 2010

Found this in my inbox just now...


Pretty much how I'm feeling at the moment...I feel pretty damn good :D

Pretty damn excited

Just finished designing packaging for a toy my friend Becca Doty and I have been working on. Apparently, she has finished several of them. It looks pretty damn good I think, so I've just have to get some prices on printing them, then talk to her about the final production of the toys themselves, so things are going smoothly.

Aside from that...it's Friday, I'm about to run down to St. Marks to buy a video game that, apparently, is the creepiest thing to ever grace a PS3, so I'm pretty psyched for that too.

And most of all, tonights gonna be good, I'm sure of that. Can't wait to get back on the island for once.

Thursday, April 29, 2010

somuchworksomuchworksomuchwork


Really do not want to be in school right now. I'm staring down several projects all at once for tomorrow and I DO NOT have any desire to do them. I just want this weekend to start. I don't know what else to post right now so I'm done. Attached is a picture of how I feel about this work...

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Today...

Today...my mom told me to go try out for the Jersey Shore. Part of me died. I'm not guido, not even close. Also, my response to her "I would throw myself in front of a train before doing that...In fact, I think I might kill myself to preserve my dignity just because you suggested that." was met with a calm "ok" from her...FUCK MY LIFE

Monday, April 26, 2010

Good Day

All in all, was a great day :)

Sunday, April 25, 2010

You know what job must suck...

So, just finished watching Star Trek: First Contact, wonderful movie by the way, I suggest you all see it, and I realized something. Data, who is android, or cyborg, I'm not entirely sure what the correct term is, but anyway, while the Borg "queen" (they're a collective, she is the head of it, I'm not sure what the term for this either is really) is seducing Data, she asks if he is "functional", meaning sexually for those of you who couldn't piece that together. He stats he is fully so. So I realized, it was, at some point, a group of peoples' jobs to program and build Data. They had to set up the way his body, the human parts at least, reacted and functioned.
Who do you have to piss off to draw the short straw of having to make sure Data's penis can get an erection?
Yes, I know the have machines the materialize things, and I'm sure someone will read this and say "HEY, THEY COULD HAVE USED A REPLICATOR TO BUILD ROBOT!"
NO, no they could not have, because Data has bio-mechanical parts. Learn your fake science.

Anyway yeah, that's my rant. Good night.

Saturday, April 24, 2010

So yeah

My mind is still circling around from this entire week, so I dunno what to really say at this point on all this, so I'm just gonna drop it for now.
My night was made earlier at work though, as we're closing...
Heather (my manager) - "Good job, Deena, on register tonight! And good job, Rob, on...*there is a long pause here*...on whatever it is you do here."
Me - "Did you really have to think that much about what I do here?"
As it is, I really have NO set position there, haha, hence the confusion over what I do...all I know is i WAS hired to do stock, which I haven't done, for some reason, since the holidays. Oh well.

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Making Progress

So yeah, finished one thing I had to get done, albeit a very minor thing, but I've still got a bunch more to do.
I get to work on a how-to website on Flying In Your Dreams, that's gonna be fun. I'm finally getting the hang of html so it's probably not gonna be too hard, at least I hope.
And more to do on the Team Thrash corporate design manual. Good stuff.

So much shit to do...

Procrastinating pretty hardcore. I have so much fucking work to get done tonight. I'll get it all done, sure, but the question is when I'm going to get so sleep tonight, if at all.
Anyhow, not sure what's going on in my personal life anymore. I'm just unsure of a lot of things right now. I don't even really have any sense of where to start, or what's going to happen, so yeah...that's that, fun stuff right?

Why I should not be allowed to shop for more people than myself...

Called my friend up as I was going to the grocery store, asked if he wanted anything. He said to use my judgment. I ended up getting Dora the Explorer Ice Pops, which aren't half bad. They even have jokes on the sticks which inspire interesting conversations...

Me- Why didn't the Rooster cross the road?
Friend- Cause he's a bitch ass n****h?
Me- *Stares at the answer for a moment* Actually, that's basically right, just worded slightly differently...

&

Friend- What kind of fish goes best with Peanut Butter?
Me- I dunno
Friend- You know this.
Me- No I don't
Friend- YOU KNOW THIS ONE!!
Me- I really don't
Friend- YOU. KNOW. THIS. ONE!!!
Me- *Brief Pause*...a jellyfish.
Friend- YESSS!!!!!
Me- Fuck my life...

Yeah, not grocery shopping ever again.

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Just had to share this...


I was trying to find the average cost of living in Manhattan...apparently average cost of living is not as important as average penile length...also...average wizard? What the fuck?

P.S. This whole Arial thing is still really bothering me. As a Graphic Designer, the lack of Helvetica is hurting me.
So, this being my first post, I feel I should say a thing or two about me...that'd make sense right? I'm Rob, and I've just deleted my facebook, so this is going to be my new distraction. I've been meaning to do this for some time actually. Anyway, that's pretty much all the introduction I'm going to give for now.

I'm currently in the process of trying to write a cover letter, sadly, I don't have any real information about the company, aside from the fact that I'm applying to be an Office Assistant, basically the artist's bitch, but it's full time and will pay my rent for my theoretical apartment. Hopefully I'll be able to work my way to actually doing advertisement and graphic work for them, but whatever, what happens happens.

On the other end of life, I think I'm losing my mind slowly. I'm thinking back on the stupidest thing I've ever done in my life, and I don't know if I can actually fix it at this point. I typed "but whatever", but deleted it, because this is actually really important, I just don't know what I can do at this point anymore. There's way to much going on in my life right now, but this is really pushing everything aside. My insomnia is back in full swing too, which is nice, because at least this way I can get my work done late at night.

Since this post dipped into being really depressing, I'll close it on a good note. I got a pretty cool new vinyl toy of a Gloomy Bear, so I'm happy with that. And I have a blog now, also cool, right?

Anyway, I'm Rob, and I'm not always this depressing. Back to writing my cover letter then...

P.S. I feel physical pain in that I'm using Arial as a font for this, but in the absence of Helvetica, it's the next best thing.

P.P.S. In case you didn't notice from the blog's name, To Kill A Mockingbird is my favorite book.