Wylie Fisher

Cooking

I follow a couple cooking/recipe blogs that usually have good looking food. I like good looking food, it usually tastes good. I star all these posts, or try to remember them somehow, but I never actually make the things posted about. I need to start doing that. If I am going to try to start working from home, I should start cooking more. It would give me something to do while taking a break from the computer.

Here is another recipe I will most likely not make, but looks damn good:

Rhubarb And Red Berry Crumbles

A Tale of Two Books

Recently, I decided that it was a good thing to finally sit down and go through my JavaScript book again. The last time I really used JavaScript was way back when I worked at ArnoldWorldwide, and what I knew was very rusty, and most likely very out of date. I still had my Visual Quickstart Guide from back then, and I figured that re-reading this book would be a cheap way to get back into it, so I sat down and started reading it. Man was I wrong. This book was talking about Netscape and IE for the Mac! Then I checked the published date… 2001. This book was not going to do me any good. Well, it might, but having to sift through the code to find stuff that was relevant to today and not 9 years ago would be too much work for a beginner. So, I went out and picked up the new edition, that was published in 2009. No more mention of obsolete browsers, more mentions of current technologies, like AJAX, and much better for a beginner.

I am liking what I have been reading/practicing so far. Learning PHP made learning JavaScript easier I think… I hope.

Oops

After working on resume stuff quite a bit over the past few days, and after applying to several places, I noticed that something had happened to my link to my analytics file and a PHP error as being thrown onto the page. Not good Wylie, not good. Hopefully I fixed the problem before too many people saw it. Such a silly amateur mistake too.

Suckerpin

I do dig me some Modeselektor. 

Sortfolio

A while ago I signed up for a website named Haystack. Haystack was a portfolio site for web designers. It seems that haystack.com has switched to sortfolio.com. I only noticed that today when I went to update my profile, which I have done.

Head on over to sortfolio.com to check it out. I will warn you now that there isn’t a lot from me there, I am just using the free version of the site. If I start making money again I might just upgrade.

The Anal Game

So, just last week I launched a site titled analrv.com. It is a site to post your pictures for the Anal Game. What is the Anal Game you ask? Well, you could go to the site and see, but here is a brief description: it’s a game to play while in the car. analrv.com site is a place to post the names and/or photos of the RV’s you see.

How do you play? Well, it’s simple, as you drive around take the name of any RV’s that you may see and add the word anal in front of it.

Want an example? Okay, lets say you are see an RV whos name is the Expedition. Just take the name Expedition and add Anal in front of it. The new name for that RV is the Anal Expedition. Got it?

It’s pretty fun to play on road trips, but it is not that easy to get a photo of the RVs since you are driving and need both hands on the wheel and your eyes on the road, not on the RVs. Hopefully you will be driving with a buddy and they can shoot a picture.

I am hoping it takes off and people start posting like crazy, I want to get as many RVs up there as I can, the site just needs more exposure.

Unemployed

Yep, thats right, I have been unemployed for just over a month. My previous job ended on December 18, before I went away for the Winter holidays. After returning home on January 4 I started the job hunt. Things around these parts are pretty slim for web jobs, or at least it seems that way. I may be looking in the wrong places. I will admit that I am looking for something that will allow me to work at home more than a job that requires me to go into an office. Things like that have also been pretty slim. A few have popped up, and I have applied for them, but no dice yet.

Most recently I applied for a short gig over at This American Life. They need a Web Assistant for temporary, part time, off-site work. Thats perfect. Thankfully a friend sent me the Craigslist post, otherwise I would not have seen it.

In addition to the This American Life job, and some other ones I found online, I have also applied for a couple jobs over at Texas A&M, but same thing, no dice all around.

I did have a job unloading trucks and stocking shelves at Target for a couple days, but that did not agree with my body, so I had to quit.

Something will come along, in the meantime all I can do is to continue to apply and to keep a positive attitude. Hopefully I will hear back, either a yea or nay, about some of the jobs I have applied for. Just hearing something is better than nothing.

Not that you would want to, but who knows you might, you can lend a hand by clicking on some of the ads located on a few of my sights. Thanks.

A Survey!

I just took The Survey For People who Make Websites over at A List Apart. Head on over and take it yourself. I think it was 50 questions and only takes a few minutes.

UStream

Just signed up for UStream on the iPhone. Seems pretty neat so far, but more testing is needed. Something I don’t like is that on the video it says that it is “Recorded Live”. I think it is safe to say that all video was recorded live. The question is, was it viewed live? I can tell you right now that I am not recording this as you read.
Live Feed

Shiner

Shiner, a Texas beer, is pretty cheap, and not too bad. Much better than Lone Star. Lone Star is good for some kitsch factor, when you need a beer and don’t have a ton of cash, and I would imagine at peeling paint. So,Shiner beers end up in the fridge fairly often. On a recent Costco trip I picked up a 24 bottle mixed pack. I think one of the big reasons I like the Shiner beers so much is their labels. They have a nice feel to them, are all consistent, and seem well thought out. The Shiner website doesn’t have many good images of the labels, but try a Google search.