Charismatic Dog

This all started by way of me updating this website and deciding to move my resume over from the ol’ DrewStevenson.com domain (soon to redirect here) and update it. All current turmoil at work aside, I have zero, zilch, nada intention of leaving the U. I like my job, I have a lot of opportunity to learn, grow and do cool stuff. That said if one of my role models in this business can keep an updated resume online, then I figure I can and perhaps should as well. While I was trying to figure out my fourish bullet points about my current job, I asked Amber for hers. She had to think a minute and then we went back and fourth about the coolest sounding bits of what she does (which is frankly a lot more than what you’ll see below).

In her current position she:

• manages the national tours for 12 different traveling exhibits
• oversees a multi-million dollar budget
• designs and produces promotional and support documentation for new exhibits
• actively participates in the design and production of new exhibits

Well Billy, to answer your question it looks like the following screen shot right now in Safari. And it looks almost as good in Firefox–minus some rounded corner bugs in some views. I’m afraid to fire up ies4osx and see what it looks like in Internet Explorer.

So if you come back later to some complete redesign, the above is what you missed. I’m already considering some tweaks to the rounded corners using the spiffy technique.

It’s days like today that I’m very glad it’s part of my job to know what’s going on with tech news. It’s ironic that while I’ll be waiting for the first news from the keynote to trickle in, I’ll be putting together screenshots on how to install Windows Vista. 

I’ve finally got that story every musician needs at some point. The “… and then I had all my gear stolen …” story. I’d say our gear but the only stuff the took was mine. Jaysen keeps his nicer drum gear elsewhere and Jeff doesn’t own a bass amp. On the plus side they left behind Amber’s drum kit and my speaker cabs for the two vintage Fender amps they stole. On the downside, they’re kind of worthless without amplifiers.

Anyone who’s curious can  see the list at http://barcodeblue.net/stolengear.pdf.  

I’ve sent the above pdf or a fax to local music shops. Everyone I’ve spoken to has been extremely sympathetic–every musician really does have a variant of this story, and music shops are usually run by musicians–and have assured me that if they see my gear it’s not leaving their shop before the police have been involved. The Twin Cities really does have a top-notch music scene and there’s not a lot of tolerance for this crap. I’m watching Craigslist and eBay and I put up an add on Craigslist. I’m not at all confident I’ll get my stuff back, but I’m going to certainly take all the steps necessary to have a chance at my particular variant of this story ending “… and then I got my stuff back.” 

It’s good that I don’t have the cash monies to run out and grab an iPhone because this almost puts me over the edge.