Are You Honestly Surprised?

Turns out that the Bush Administration didn't make any effort really to back-up electronic data during its time in office. From a VP who had a person-sized safe in his office and had his home removed from Google Earth, stamped EVERY single document that came through is office at Top-Secret, regardless of whether it was actually sensitive information; then, when the lawyers said he couldn't do that, he created his own class of secrecy with a special stamp that prohibited anyone outside the Administration from seeing it.

Yeah, I'm not all that surprised.

Mega-Fail

Yeah, we're going to need you to go ahead and start fixing this, 200 countries in Copenhagen. Stop bitching about whose going to pay for it and just do it.

This is Awesome

Solar Panel technology heading to retail for DIYers.

I Just Want to Find My (Advertising) Soulmate

Advertising Copywriter is looking for his Art Director/Designer soulmate to help work on some campaigns for his portfolio.

Excellent mastery of the Adobe Creative Suite is pretty much necessary. It would also be amazing if you were adept at Flash and/or photography, but neither is necessary.

Yeah, I know. I'm asking for a lot.

Ideas are already developed in terms of the work that needs to be done, but if there is a good rapport, I'm open to continuing to work together on new projects.

Ideally, this would be an "exchange of services" working relationship, but if money is of the utmost concern or you have no need for my writing services, we can negotiate rates.

Please respond with a couple samples of your work.

To see the work I have completed, check out my website: http://gregmarch.carbonmade.com

Freelancing I am (see previous post)

This is the last week at my internship. It's also the first week that I am freelancing...at the place where I intern. So really I'm getting paid for my last week of interning. Which is awesome. I'm working on something really minor in the grand scheme of advertising. But then again, advertising tends to be fairly minor in the grand scheme of the world. Which means what I'm working on is ridiculously minor. But I'm getting paid for it. And even though it's nothing I would really be personally interested in enjoying, I am having fun working on it. And it's all mine. My project. My responsibility. I'm excited about this. Here's a silly picture I decided to include for no reason.

Yikes!

Uganda hates gays and lesbians.

Reasons for Things

Today, in the northeast, it snowed. A lot. Then it rained on top of the snow making it disgusting, slippery and heavy. Having to shovel the snow out of my driveway when I got home from work (I left before it started snowing), I experienced reason number (insert random, meaningless number) why living in New York City is about 600 times more awesome than living in New Hampshire: Living in NYC, I would be in an apartment. No sidewalks, no drive ways, no walkways to shovel. Not my responsibility. Someone else's. (Oh NYC, I am quite the jilted ex-resident. I was forced to leave you and have been distraught ever since. At first, I was okay. Life went on and I toiled away in my goings-ons . But soon, I found myself longing for you. I miss your vast expanse of buildings I wasn't allowed to go in to. I miss your expensive wares I couldn't afford to buy. I miss the selection of bars and beers and places to go. I miss your tiny comedy clubs I'd perform in. Oh, I miss you. But I'm sure you've already forgotten me. Sigh.)

Reason number 647 why global warming sucks: 15-20 years ago, a snow storm like this would've been snow all morning and all day. No rain. All snow. Light, fluffy, easy-to-shovel snow that wouldn't take me three hours to shovel out of the driveway. But no, it rained. A copious amount.

As a side note, it is ridiculous that of all the countries at the climate conference in Copenhagen, the islanders are the ones who are asking for the most stringent goals to battle climate change. Hang your heads in shame big, industrialized countries. You suck.