Happy Birthday Ellie!!

Happy Birthday Dana!!

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Ok, so my inbox this morning contained this gem... I don't know how much will translate with the background I'm able to give, but my current instinctive response is "Death First!"

[Sox] can you come to a meeting with [big muckety mucks 1-3, as well as Very Energetic Individuals 2 & 3] next week? VEIs have come to me with a proposal for a digitalized, interactive version of some documents they plan to create this summer--and with a proposal that we transform the archives [100 years of crumbling paper, mind you] into such a 20th [!] century version. This proposal obviously has implications beyond the History of [Nonprofit] project which we would like to discuss with you.

to read this right, you need the following keys:

• "let's make it interactive!" has been the go-to phrase since "let's put it on the internet!" became too easy and common. No one has any idea what kind of interactive they want, nor how to make it happen, nor what it would cost. I'm guilty because I like to make stuff that makes these people go 'wow' and I get caught up in that, then wonder why I'm falling to pieces and being asked to do more...

• they don't know what it would cost because tacking it on to my workload is a huge game of pin the tail on the donkey at this point in the year.

• the individuals in question stand a chance of presenting a 8lb 3-ring binder with handwritten items at the end of the summer as their finished project that then needs to be 'digitalized' and 'interactivated'. Possibly some recordings too. But the last time we went through this, all I got was the binder and the phone numbers of some people to interview. Scripting, production, editing, design, coding, and launch? all me.

• standard expectation is that a 1-person production of this type of thing should not take very long at all. Computers being what they are.

also? No one seems to realize that my going part-time come July 1 means No New Projects. Everyone is reading that as "No New Projects for Anyone Else."

So tell me if I'm being lazy or if I can run, run like the wind.

Run like the wind now, be lazy later.

Is it weird for me to have breakfast now and then go back to sleep?

Is it weird for me to have breakfast now and then go back to sleep?

or you could finish the Tufte book and then send it to me....

No, but you might need second breakfast later.

Happy birthday, Dana!! Happy birthday, Ellie!!

My milk curdled in my coffee this morning (sell by date of 6/2), and I think it's not actually warm enough to wear what I'm wearing, and bleh.

or you could finish the Tufte book and then send it to me....

It's the perfect bits and pieces book. I could be reading it for YEARS. I see from an insert where you can pay $320 for a one day course of his that includes his big three books, which is certainly nothing at which to sneeze.

but you might need second breakfast later

Yeah, I sense a crash and burn in my future for sure.

Go Wednesday go! I expect the board to be properly motivated by the time I return in an hour or so. My knees ache and I have more walkthrough to do, so I will need to be ganking the mojo.

Happy Birthday, Dana!

Happy Birthday, Ellie!

There was a H2O main break this morning so I am without coffee or shower at work. IOW: Gronk-Zzzzz.

I'm hoping Obama will offer the Vice Presidency to me. (Hey, the Obamas sent me a Christmas card once.) I will then focus on building the Department of Cats.

Post of assorted topics:

I think amych recently did the one-day Edward Tufte course.

Every time he hears Barack Obama's name on the radio, Peter now says, "Rock O Mama!" It is both adorable and makes me feel like a rock star somehow.

Happy Birthday to Ellie!

Has anyone been moved by the kind of movers who pack for you? The US Govmint is moving us to Athens and this is apparently what they do. I am alternately thrilled and afraid.

I think amych recently did the one-day Edward Tufte course.

I did, with several coworkers. We all came back even bigger dorks than we were before, with a tendency to bitch loudly about bullshitty clipart in powerpoints.

I have no experience with movers other than the kind you bribe with beer and pizza.

I have used bullshitty clipart in powerpoints. I figure if you're committed to the evil that is powerpoint, why not go for the bullshitty clipart?