And Then I Found A Job
Posted by Jason Cosper | Filed under Geekery, People, Sarah, Work
After looking for a job for damn near 3 months, I’m happy to report that I’ve been offered — and tentatively accepted — a position with DreamHost.
I say tentatively because I’m still waiting on an offer letter from a colocation facility up in Los Angeles which I interviewed at a few weeks ago. It’s supposed to be in my inbox sometime tomorrow — but I’m not going to do much more than consider it unless they manage to do better than the proposal I was given this afternoon.
To be perfectly honest, this couldn’t have come at a better time. Despite saving up for such a scenario, both my former employer and the EDD have given me the runaround on collecting unemployment. And what I mean by the runaround is that I haven’t managed to collect a cent of it since I filed for it months ago.
I was very fortunate that I saved what I could before I was let go — which wasn’t very much I might add — and could pare back my expenses to live off of it for two months before I had to beg and take temp jobs. Also having a lovely girlfriend who was extremely understanding about having to cut back on what I could spend when I came out to see her was rather helpful. Even if it meant taking the occasional weekend off from one another and cutting back on our entertainment budget, she was a total trooper.
Not a lot of girls are willing to deal with spending a lot of time watching bad cable TV and DVDs with their recently unemployed, long distance beau whenever they do manage to get a weekend together — especially if they haven’t been dating for all that long. Despite all that, I’d be willing to say that spending all that time together cuddled up and making fun of the crap we watched between loving on one another probably managed to bring us closer together. *shrug* The heart works in mysterious ways, right?
But I digress… As of next Tuesday, I’ll be amongst the gainfully employed again. I’m hella excited at the opportunity I’ve been given — but to be perfectly honest, as jazzed as I am about the job, I’m just as excited that I’m going to be doing my job from a proper Apple workstation. Yeah, I’m going to have a company issued Mac on my desk. And while I don’t really need one to do what they’re hiring me for, they just wanted to make sure that I was working with an OS that I was comfortable with.
Man, I can tell that I’m already going to like working here…
Good Weekend
Posted by Jason Cosper | Filed under Lists, People, Sarah
I compelled to do a proper post about the weekend Sarah and I had — but everything I’ve written down doesn’t seem to do it justice. Instead, I’m just going to borrow from my gal’s playbook and do a stream of consciousness type list of some of my favorite memories from our weekend together…
- Walking into A New Hue1 to find my girl rocking the red hair.
- Bringing Sarah home to meet my folks.
- Three Words: Raspberry almond cake.
- Having beers at Rob and Lisey’s place.
- Heading back to my parent’s place for breakfast burritos.
- Getting a nod and a thumbs up from my mom as we left my folks’ house.
- Going to the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium.
- Jellies!
- Being told, “You know, I’d really have no problem moving here to be with you.”
- Snacking on appetizers at Mao’s.
- Wading into the ocean barefoot at Venice Beach2 while holding hands.
- Talking about marriage and kids with neither Sarah or I freaking out.
- Distracting a pack of zombie seagulls with kettle corn to make a daring escape.
- Fatburger!
- Getting to play with a MacBook.
- Being given a personal check for “services rendered”.
I’m sure that a lot of this makes no sense when it’s disembodied and taken out of the context of our weekend, but I sort of don’t care… It means a whole bunch to Sarah and I — and that’s really all that matters to me right now.
What can I say? That girl is my universe, yo.
- Warning: Comic Sans ahoy!
- I might have hepatitis now, but it was totally worth it for the moment we shared.
Why Bloggers Love Handheld Computers
Posted by Jason Cosper | Filed under Geekery, Weblogging
While it may not be a handheld computer per se, this is the exact reason I bought a Sidekick.
Oh Drew, you sure do have my number…
Graduation
Posted by Jason Cosper | Filed under Geekery, Photography
It looks like Flickr has finally managed to make it out of Beta!
So does this mean they’ve gone 1.0? Nope. They moved on up to Gamma.
*sigh* Those cheeky bastards…
Links for 2006-05-10
Posted by Jason Cosper | Filed under Del.icio.us
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You know, I never really put much that much thought into the movie. But after reading Todd’s interpretation I have to go and rewatch it.
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While this is totally admirable, I don’t think I could ever manage to do this to my mail client.
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I’m thinking about implementing this on Preshrunk once they allow publishers to use something other than that dock.
Why Is WordPress So Sexy?
Posted by Jason Cosper | Filed under Preshrunk, Rant, Weblogging
Psst… I fidgeted with the layout on Preshrunk.
Actually, all I really did was find a really sexy WordPress template and tweaked it to my liking — but I’m pretty sure I’ll keep this design up for a while. At least until everyone and their brother starts using it on their own sites.
When I showed the new layout to Matt, he remarked:
Matt: WP templates out there are so good
Matt: it seems stupid to custom design anything
And you know what? I’m inclined to agree. I only spent half an hour switching up some colors in CSS and fixing a few grammatical errors in the post data at the bottom of the page before I considered it ready. To compare, when I launched the site using Blogger, I spent a few hours tweaking someone’s port of Kubrick to get it exactly the way I wanted it.
Now I’m not trying to say that WordPress is easier to use — or even really any better — than Blogger is. Both of them have their shortcomings. But please don’t think that I’m knocking Blogger. I was a paid Blogger Pro user back in the day. And up until a several months ago, I thought I’d be using it forever. So needless to say, I have plenty of love and respect for them.
What I think I’m getting at here tho is that the WordPress community has quite a few more passionate designers than the general Blogger community does under its belt. Sure, Google can afford to hire Zeldman, Cederholm and Shea — but they don’t even use Blogger to run their own sites. Can you even name one resource for Blogger templates other than the default ones that are provided for you? I know I can’t.
The people who are releasing all of these beautiful WordPress templates on the other hand, actually manage to use the software on a pretty regular basis. They know how to hack their way around the extensive template available to get some pretty amazing results. Sure, the code may occasionally be a tad bit hellish to read thru when you need to do a quick tweak, but the designers are passionate about WordPress and really manages to show in their designs.
Think about it… When was the last time you saw a Blogger design get ported over to WordPress? Yeah, I don’t seem to remember that happening either.
Damn. I’m getting off on a rant here… Sorry about that. I could go on for a bit longer, but I’ll spare you all. Just go give the new Preshrunk a peek, okay? Cheers!
Links for 2006-05-02
Posted by Jason Cosper | Filed under Del.icio.us
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Complete streaming episodes of Lost and Alias with ads intact using Mac friendly Flash video. w00t!
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As always, the internet is lightning fast with current event t-shirts.
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An interactive fiction authoring application for OS X and Windows. Looks pretty sweet.
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PB’s useful Greasemonkey script for parsing EXIF data to add camera images on Flickr photo info pages. It’s enough to make me wish I didn’t love Safari so damn much.
What Just Happened?
Posted by Jason Cosper | Filed under General, Preshrunk
Hrm. That was weird.
Some eight year old kid just walked by the window of the place that I’m at and threw me the goat while nodding at my Powerbook.
Maybe he’s a fan of Preshrunk… ;) Although I’m sure if he was, he’d probably would have flipped me off for not posting more than two updates over as many weeks.
I guess he must like Apple gear, then. *shrug* Fair enough.
