Category Archives: Personal

Who’s Zoomin’ Who

Road RunnerThe cable modem is here. Two Time Warner Road Runner service people visited me today. The first installed the physical cable modem and activated it. When he left, I managed to almost instantly get my PowerBook online. The second service person set me up with my user name, password and mail servers — a job so simple, I probably knew more about how to do it than he did. As soon as he left, I broke out my Linksys EtherFast Cable/DSL Router, and now I’ve got both my PowerBook and Sony VAIO up and running, sharing the one connection. Wheee!

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Waiting for My (Cable) Man

Linksys Etherfast Cable/DSL RouterThis coming Friday, my excruciating exile from the land of home connectivity is scheduled to end when Time Warner Cable finally installs my cable modem. Knowing that broadband installations are fraught with mishaps and aborted attempts, I’m keeping my fingers crossed and my expectations low. All the same, I ordered myself a Linksys BEFSR41 4-Port Etherfast Cable/DSL router a few days ago, and if everything goes well, I should have a nifty little home network by the weekend.

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Excuses, Excuses

I can explain my poor blogging habits of late. See, having just returned to New York City, I’ve spent most of my time looking for and moving into my new apartment. At this moment, you could say that’s all still in progress, and I’ve been preoccupied with loading up on housewares. It’s not just that, either. Until Time Warner Cable installs my cable modem next Friday, I’m also without Internet access from home. Believe me, it’s hard for me to explain exactly how I’m getting by.

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Now They Just Laugh

I’ve been meeting a lot of new people in New York, some socially, others through the painful urban raindance known as the apartment search. When the question comes up of what I do for a living, I’m painfully reminded of the state of our industry. Where once a new acquaintance might have been impressed, now he or she just laughs. Ha ha. Sigh.

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Like a Bouncing Ball

I found myself in New York again last Friday and I’m still here. At every juncture when I think I’m going to plant myself down for at least a good amount of time, I end up leaving sooner rather than later. At any rate, it looks like I’m sticking around New York for a while.

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Currently in Development

New TechniqueI’ve spent some time lately fooling around with my digital camera, and thinking about how its immediacy and next-to-nothing output cost (after the original cash investment) have impacted how I perceive my surroundings. That’s lead to some new techniques in Photoshop, a new approach to the imagery that fuels my visual vocabulary. I’ve got a handful of new pieces in development, but right now, here’s a sampling.

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On the Lam, So to Speak

A friend of mine observed that I seem to be constantly shifting my belongings from one remote locale to another, constantly boarding airplanes and making detours and side trips, lamenting the places where I am and quickly evacuating places I profess to be residing in permanently. She asked, “;Are you running from something?”

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Things You Notice When You Grow Up

As an adult, I guess I no longer have the luxury of staying basically oblivious to the state of our economy. All the same, I feel a little odd about the close attention I pay to the shards of good news that might salvage us from a recession. According to The Conference Board, the Composite Index of Leading Economic Indicators rose 0.8 percent in January. That’s cause for some optimism, right? It’s weird not being a kid anymore.

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