Big shifting plans, shoe horned into a small blog…coupled with short attention span. Fool proof!
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Some of you may or may not know the awesomeness which was my my podcasting days.
Well, besides picking up my beloved Bible Bit by Bit…I am considering a new venue. Something that really reflects how interesting and great I am!
I am looking a doing a travel narative ‘cast for a bit. The few technical hurdles (mainly me remembering what I did with my mic cable after I moved) will be overcome shortly.
So, having said this…anyone want to be a guest?
In a bout of absolute and shocking creative mania, Kate and I made a comic. Lacking the ability to illustrate it, we were forced to spend hours at a nearby park enacting the various scenes.
We used Plasq’s Comic Life (AWESOME) to the layout. I then used a neat little flash program to make it flippable. You click on the corners, and drag the page around…go ahead…play with it.
Check it out here
Back in the day (Last Monday) I wrote about pursuing a Ruby Certificate at the UW extension campus.
They got right back to me about the suggested prerequisites for the program.
I have an Undergraduate in Business Management from the University of Phoenix*. Learned a lot from the program, developed some great skills, and even made some friends.
Here’s the kicker, I mostly have a degree. Sitting 9.37 credits (something lime 3 1/3 classes) from completion is embarrassing, and I need to remedy that pronto. There are a few options of how to do this.
Shouldn’t be that hard or costly to wrap this up.
What next then?
Time will tell I suppose.
Disclaimer: I work for the University of Phoenix. Decided to attend almost four years ago, got a job there to cover the cost. Got promoted a few times, finished the degree, stuck around. Now I help other folks go to school. Any comments I make in regard to the University of Phoenix are my own, and in no way sanctioned by the University.
I am all over this bill.
A telecommuting tax credit that gives employers up to $2400 credit for each employee who starts telecommuting during the year.
An exclusion from employee income of employer-provided telecommuting equipment including computers and broadband access equipment, making such equipment a tax-free fringe benefit.
Via Web Worker Daily
Actually, I have no idea the proper way to say that.
“This that and this anna…”
“This that and his a’nuh…”
Really there are no shortages of ways, although I suspect there is one right answer. I will leave that to the philosophers.
So, what have I been doing?
Well, I have been posting at D.U.T.C.H and recording podcasts all over again!
Check out undirected brilliance at odeo and the bible at iTunes (search for Ryan Hoffman).
I will put The Bible on odeo when I have time to convert some files over.
This is a strange strange song I made up one very blustery morning when I totally awesome and not mentally deficient dog made a break for the border.
I think one I will have to face the reality of missing a job opportunity because they googled me and found me explaing the concept of the hole or something.
Some other projects I am working on:
http://capitolhillchurch.com/latestnews/
http://caphilldutch.blogspot.com/
Just testing an idea…
I have a wedding right around the corner and I can’t wait for it. Actually, I can wait…but only because my “timemachine” (actually just the trusty Saturn driven in reverse past a watch store while I hum “Love a Battle Field:) doesn’t exactly work.
In the meantime, I have a lot on my mind.
Here, in no particular order, are some of them:
No details, but today has been totally awesome! I got to have an Apicoectomy!
In the aftermath I am all hopped up on whatever random pills seem to find their way into my mouth every few hours. Ok, not really, I am on a strict regime of penicillin, hurtgo’sawaymagicpills, and steroids! Totally Boss.
I am tripping. And by tripping, I mean that both literally and figurtively.
Yes, I fall…no sweat…more pain pills for that.
Also, I am having these intense and very entertaining conversations with the bust Chopin.
One key point we debated today was:
“When do songs become oldies? And at what point can we nostagalistically refer to the writers geniuses even if they weren’t very good?”
Chopin, having experienced his fair share of music history went on and on and on about this. Who pulled his string?
Anyways, we agreed that if 15 years pass, and the artist lays low…they get an honorary “Sucked…but come on, that was 15 years ago!” status.
I was thinking about these people who are the hook now, how great it would be to be absolved of sucking. I could make up a card and tell them how much I appreciate them for throwing their hat in the ring, no hard feelings, and how I thought that the record labels probally twisted their music around anyways.
So I set out to research my first person. I have images of using Stryper…but they made a come back. I crossed them off and put a reminder in 12 years to check back.
Next I did Kris Kros. Those lovable little scamps, with backwards pants and cartoon logos! They were so young, they were twisted by the insidious record label, their creative ported towards dastardly ends. I figured they could use some love.
So, I turn the interweb to find them.
OH SWEET LORD NO!
What happened!?!
This isn’t good, this isn’t good at all.
Having freaked, I haven’t heard their music in the last 12 years so I really can’t say.
But looking at the site Sony has for them they aren’t that high on the totem pole for webdevelopment.
Update:
Maybe I was too harsh?
You can listen to a track here. Not that bad, formulaic and a little by the numbers. But it does have some flow to it.
Still no card for them.
