Friday, March 11th, 2011
When I’m lucky I get the guy who tells me what he wants and I design it, and it’s right because they know what they want and used words to explain it.
When I’m unlucky it takes a year to do what should have been a 6 week job. Inevitably the vanished client re-appears (after 9 months) with another new idea and another new logo (that they whipped up all on their own!). They still ask me for my input, despite never taking any of my professional advice and never offer feedback on any of my work.
Don’t be the second guy. Seriously. Face punches will appear on your invoice – and in your face.
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
I’ve run out of shows to watch. again, so I’ve been watching “Samantha, who?” in the background while I work. It’s cute. I like Christina Applegate (Don’t tell mom the babysitter’s dead is one of my all time favourites, no really) and the premise is fun. Anyway, not unlike many other shows (and films) where some charming, dashing, loaded, amazing man tries to win the heart of the heroine, Samantha is confronted by a hot billionaire who wants to marry her and she doesn’t go for it, even though he’s hot and nice and funny.
Who are these women that go for the loser who rejected them instead of the amazing bajillionaire? Are these the projections of bitter, forever-alone writers?
Did you see that movie with Kate Hudson and she’s awesome and driven but then she gets some kid dumped on her and abandons her dreams to care for it? I fucking hate that shit. Why does she have to become a mother to be happy and fulfilled? Ugh gross.
Saturday, March 5th, 2011
24 hour grocery stores are awesome because you can do your shopping when there’s no traffic, skeleton staff, no children and lots of parking.
Combine this with the glory of the self check-out and I can get in and out of a store without having to interact with the public in any way.
Dear customer service people who works the graveyard shift at grocery stores,
I appreciate your half hearted dedication to your job but if I’m buying groceries at 2am chances are I don’t want a chat. If I ned help I promise I will ask.
Dear people who want to use self check outs,
Hi, welcome to 2011. Let’s got over a quick start guide for the SELF checkout. If you need help bagging, self checkout is not for you. If computers frighten you, self checkout is not for you. If you want to pay with a cheque, don’t understand how to scan a barcode, won’t take off your gloves to use a touch screen, need someone to scan your card for you, can’t figure out how to type in the codes on produce, have children or a jazzy chair to wrangle, the self checkout is not for you. You’ll find friendly staff ready and waiting to do the complicated job of scanning and bagging your cheetos while you mentally pick out lottery numbers.
LA is so much more civilized than London (in many ways) but the 24 hour grocery store is truly a marvel of modern society.
Shall we take a look at what the English consider 24 hours? Check out these hours of operation.
I don't think you know what 24 hours means.
I’ll leave my loathing for English society to another post (or seven)
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