ForThatMatter

Considering all the kafuffle over YouTube having to remove all The Daily Show clips and considering Comedy Centrals response was - the clips are here, come watch them here - you would think they would have the back-end to support show watchers.

I went to Comedy Central today and the site lacked up my browser. Maybe it was server overload (I can't see how that would lock up my browser), maybe it was the coding of the site (the way the site presents the videos is less than great), or maybe it was somethings else. Regardless, it should work and it doesn't and that's their fault. It's - at this moment - seems to me that Comedy Central bit off more than they can chew.

I was contacted last night by my old friend Jan Sorencen. He called to tell me that a high school friend - Mary Jane McLaughlin - has passed away.

These situations are always hard to understand and even greater when they happen to someone like MJ. My connection with MJ is a long high school related thing. Unfortunately, like most friendships, after high school, communication slacked and eventually was nothing. It may be odd to mention that at this time but I lets me talk about one of the effect it has on memory and regret.

It has been a long long time since I've seen MJ. Since being contacted by Jan about her death I have had a great experience remembering all that I can about her. The memories are many and continuous. I feel it interesting that through remembering MJ I feel emotions and recall events that allow me to rebuild experiences that I had with MJ and other friends. I imagine, like most people - who have learned about MJ's death - have done the same thing I have done - something I haven't done in a long time - open my year book. The memories where overwhelming, joyful and sad. I am thankful for that moment to remember everyone and MJ. The experience was enjoyable just like Mary Jane was in life.

MJ's death has also brought me much regret. I regret that my contact with Jan was under these circumstances. I regret that I have fallen out of touch with so many friends. I regret that my contact with MJ wasn't sustained. Regret has made me realize just how much of who I am was built from my experiences and the people involved in building those experiences. Mary Jane was part of that so I regret not being able to say good-bye.


If you would like to state your condolences you can at Castle Funeral Home - Kings Chapel.

I watched the presidential press conference the other day. It was my first time watching one. I watch John Stewart poke fun of this stuff on the Daily Show so when I watched the press conference I was really only researching the validity of the shows insinuation that the President is dumb. I wanted to know if it was like most TV - edited. I was amazed. He was rude, he can't make a coherent sentence, his points are all disconnected, and most obviously he is dumb. Honestly it was like watching a high school presentation at the front of the class go horribly wrong - but worse. You know when your friend looses their place, stutters, can't stand still, etc. I think it's funny he's not better groomed. There are public speaking course. He has writers doesn't he?

After watching it I have great certainty that I am smarter than the president of the United States.

You can watch John Stewart poke fun here.

presidential press conference

I was away in Halifax for the last month. Milena and I vacation there yearly to see family and old friends. While I was there I got to see my nephew Matthew. It's been a long long time since I've last seen him and honestly, it was a blast. He's a great kid, lots of fun, and lots of energy. I didn't expect him to be a wrestling fan though. Needless to say there was lots of smashing, crashing and surprise body slams. He deserved it I swear. He loves Rey Mysterio so he's taken the name Matt Mysterio. Lots of hours were spent pouring over pages of Rey Mysterio images and video on the web. I decided I would make him a knock off image. You can see it below. It links to my flickr account. So there you go Matt. Your on google (the web)...

I was reading the member of the week post on lya, a resident My Opera artist / designer and I got curious. Ilya had logo concepts for Opera and many approving comments. It 'reminded' me (as in, I got excited and wanted to renew a post I started a long time ago about a new logo design for Opera) of a thread started a while back about that same topic. Here is the link. And my concepts are here. I think it might be time to open that illustrator file and begin concepting again. It's been over a year and design styles have changed. But, I still think there is life in my original concepts...

Thanks Ilya, by the way, for the link to the old post. Hopefully these types of topics might make things move. Also, Ilya links to Ivan Minic's post about logo design - which I have never read before. It is worth the read.