Umm… I guess I should post something…
Posted on Friday, April 4, 2008 at 9:36 pm
It’s been awhile, eh? So long, in fact, that I’m starting to sound Canadian! So here we go with ye olde Friday-night-been-drinking-a-little-bit-need-to-update-the-website-so-here’s-some-random-bullshit post. Dammit, now I’m sounding ancient British, too!
One.
Owning a house ain’t all it’s cracked up to be. That’s primarily the reason I haven’t updated in so long. We’ve just been so busy with getting moved in, getting unpacked, and getting everything set up the way we want it, that I haven’t had time to do much of anything else. My sister and her husband came to visit this past weekend, and it was the first time I’d played my Xbox since January. That’s how busy I’ve been. It’s terrible. But it’s been nice. No more college fucktards throwing parties at 2am above our apartment keeping us awake. No more hunting for a parking spot. No more treks across the parking lot just to take out the trash. No, sir, no more of that indeed! We’ve traded it for… um… the yippy little dogs next door going batshit crazy every time I go out to smoke, and calling the warranty department because the cheap labor illegals that built our house forgot to seal the living room window, so every time it rains, we get treated to the unintended and unadvertised “Indoor Waterfall” feature of our new house. Wow, that was a pretty awesome run-on sentence, wasn’t it? Anyway, yeah, the severe lack of blog updates can be pretty much chalked up to all the joys of home ownership.
Two.
I’ve noticed something over the last year or two. In car commercials, the vast majority of the featured vehicles used to be driven around and shown completely void of license plates. Is this right? I mean, I’m pretty sure that’s the way it used to be… though I suppose maybe I’m wrong. Anyway, what I’ve noticed recently is that the advertised cars all tend to have fairly real-looking plates, but they have been painted to match the car. Did some law change that said car commercials had to use real license plates? It can’t be that the manufacturers are going for a “realistic” commercial, because no license plate exactly matches the paint color of the car it’s attached to. So obviously there’s got to be something going on that I don’t know about. Because why would you make a car commercial and take the time to not only (a) register for a new license plate, (b) affix it to the car you’re about to film, and (c) paint it with the exact same paint you used on the car???? It confuses me, and I feel like bitching about it.
Three.
I’ve got a couple things I’ve been working on lately. You’ve already seen the early drafts of my new logo for Se7enet. It’s fully 3d, rendered in 3dsmax. It’s nice. I’ve got the final version of the new logo already done (and yes, it’s slightly different than the two I’ve already posted here). The problem now is getting a full page layout to match it. I’ve had several ideas, and I’ve gotten part of the way through them before deciding they’re crap and starting over. So really at this point, it comes down to me being too much of a perfectionist and wanting something that looks good and fits with the new logo. It’s not easy going, really. The other thing I’m playing with has a working title of Project Autumn. And really, at this point, I’ve said too much. But if you’ve been paying attention in the forums, you should probably have an idea of what that is. So I won’t talk about it anymore for the moment.
Four.
Um, yeah, I’m done. There is no four. You go away now.
