Just got an offer for a job at Northwestern University Qatar. I will be supporting the computers and video equipment that the students use for the Journalism and Communications program. It is a three year contract, and I leave next week. Everything is moving quickly. Can’t wait until I get going over there and get [...]
Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for president tonight. Amazing speech. Not at all like his previous speeches. He laid out the case for choosing him over McCain. Barack is going to be such a great candidate. The convention as a whole was a great one for the dems. I don’t see how the Republicans can [...]
Larry Jordan was the guest speaker at the Chicago Final Cut Pro User Group. He is a well respected expert and trainer for Final Cut. Tonight he talked about HD workflow issues. I have been thinking a lot about the difficulties of HD for the last few years. At WILL they were just starting to [...]
I was going to post some more details of my trip to Doha, but I was caught unexpected with a little stomach bug. The weekend was pretty brutal. It was hard to keep any solid food down. Monday was a little better and yesterday was the first day of real food. Today is even better [...]
For those of you who don’t know, I just got back from a trip to Doha, Qatar. It is a small country in the Middle East, just off of Saudi Arabia. Northwestern University is opening up a new campus there this fall. They brought me over to interview for a tech support job. I would [...]
8-8-08. I call it the day of infinite possibilities. There is something powerful built into these numbers. It is a day that can be the start of many new things in life. In my life, I have had a couple of new opportunities show up today. I am really excited to see where my life [...]
Education is so important to us as a people. It is a shame that, most of the time, we do it so poorly. I have always felt like I wanted to do something about this, but I wasn’t sure what to do. Recently, with the birth of my first child, it has even become more [...]
After my show today, I went and saw an improv show at the Cornservatory. Jackie Stone, my improv teacher, is one of the founding members of the group, Sirens. They have been working together for 10 years or so, and it really shows. They are amazing together. This was truly great improv. It is good [...]
Kinda Like Stripes is the name of my improv class. We had our level E improv show today at Second City. This finishes off my first year of improv training. It was a really good show. I am not saying we were good compared to professionals, but compared to other students at our level we [...]