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Back to where it all began

My butt has a dent in it roughly the shape and size of a set of keys. This is what happens when you send about 2 days sitting on your ass, riding up and down the east coast. And I now know Pennsylvania never receives any sun. I went back Continue Reading

Categories design

Don’t Itemize

Rule #32689 – Do not itemize expenses for clients. The exception, of course, is when a client demands it. But maybe twice in 10 years have I ever had clients ask for it. You will have the urge to itemize. It seems like, if you itemize, you are able to Continue Reading

Categories rant

Blog Celeb

Do people automatically tend towards stupid modes? The first time I wrote candidly for my website was … probably 1995. Just a little bio of myself based upon a conversation I had with Natasha from Toronto. I wish I knew where she went. This is a journal. I started writing Continue Reading

Categories reference

“Hacker” Definitions

Because even if someone manages to get one or two of them right, they seldom get them all: Hacker – n. 1. Originally used in the 1970’s to refer to someone who was such a good programmer they could write code without referring to reference materials. This was a much Continue Reading

Categories home

Up on the rooftop…

I really do love it on the roof. Late in the day, when the sun has lost it’s ability to burn you, but not to blind you. Or maybe I just spend too much time inside, because it take me forever to adjust my eyes and stop squinting, even in Continue Reading

Categories design

Initial Brainstorming for new stuff

Newsletters are an “easy” way to make money. You charge a set price per page, and hopefully get a cut of the printing. So if you do a 12 page newsletter for $60/page, you’ve already made $720. And a newsletter that size doesn’t likely take more than 2 business days. Continue Reading

Categories design

Gimme the damn contact’s name

D annoys me. Well, the whole company really, cause it takes on a life of it’s own. So I ask J, if she can give me the names of some contacts at the ad agencies she works with. Since, of course, you know, Old Company won’t be marketing design services Continue Reading

Categories design

Thinking up new marketing things.

I cannot avoid it any longer. Today, despite adding another four line items, I finished up the marketing list for the “old things”, meaning anything I already had experience with. All the old clients. Old printers. Former co-workers. Family. Friends. Contacts. Getting collateral and a website. I also submitted my Continue Reading