Just got back from the Emergeny Veterinary Clinic in Moraine. I had hit Speck full-force in the eye with his latest favorite toy, a Kong tennis-ball dumbbell. He likes daddy to throw it and bounce it off the wall at the top of the stairs so it goes bouncing all the way downstairs. So i [...]
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I have never been so busy in all my life - I’m currently writing code for (in no particular order) 1) myself, 2) a client, and 3) a prospective employer, and 4) may be starting with a new client soon. Of course, i’ve put everything else off this past week for projects i was doing [...]
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An account of how my day went today. Verdict: yeah, it pretty much completely sucked.
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Here is the text of an e-mail i never sent to the editors of the Dayton Daily News and some other locals. For whatever reason, it was abandoned. This was concerning a recent Forbes article asserting Dayton, among several other Ohio cities, was among the top ten fastest dying cities in America. Our local media, [...]
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I have been absent for a few months, due to a huge variety of reasons. I’ve been having system issues. Some of these issues are ongoing and may eventually require me to reinstall my OS. Some have been resolved with new hardware and some vigorous kicking.
I’ve also quit my job and have been taking time [...]
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Some projects I am currently involved with/have volunteered for:
The Chickenfish Speaks: CD reviews
The Chickenfish Speaks: possible overhaul with a dynamic, storable backend
volunteered to help with Oregon District.com; haven’t heard anything back lately but it’s still very new
my good friend Melissa is working on an e-commerce project for school
MySpace layout for my friend Rob’s band Group [...]
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Sometimes I look at all the wonderful and good things that mere people have done throughout the vast, untold millennia of history, and I feel such an upwelling of pride for my fellow human beings, and the accomplishments of this incredible civilization that we have created, that I believe I just might explode.
And sometimes I [...]
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It’s the oldest catch-22 in history: Experience necessary. How do people with experience obtain that experience? Presumably, every human starts life as infants, with little or no experience within the field in which they will eventually earn their keep. So why is it that every interview always ends with a polite summation of my lack [...]
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Stapler Dance
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Finally! My online portfolio is nearly finished… The only thing left to do now is to acquire the main files from my most recent project and remove all proprietary informations.
I thought i’d NEVER get that shit done. That last one was a bitch to nail down - it turned out that it made much better [...]
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x jeremy jarratt is a blogger, musician, artist, poet, web developer/designer, armchair philosophizer, teller of tales, and roustabout. Also, something he calls a “behavioral artist.” (Not sure.) This is his latest home on teh internets - where he stores his swear words, when he’s not hurling them at the sun in vain.
