One of my most loved hobbies is photography – I’ve loved taking pictures since I was a little kid. I still have boxes upon boxes of photos I took growing up, from my Barbie fashion show to family vacations.
After months of saving up for some really nice equipment, I recently treated myself to a brand new camera and lenses, and I’m having so much fun with them.
One of my favorite photographic subjects is my cats (as you’ll see by the volumes of pictures I’ll be posting here).
The next Expansion Pack has been announced!
POSTED ON 03/04/10 01:00 PM
Widen your Sim’s horizons with a bunch of killer new career opportunities. With The Sims™ 3 Ambitions, decide whether your Sim will be the brave town hero or cause loads of mischief among their neighbors. Make your Sim save the day as a brave firefighter, change the town as a leading architect, or live on the edge as a tattoo artist. Will your Sim find success as a billionaire high-tech inventor or eke out a living as a bumbling mad scientist? Will they uncover secrets as a private investigator by dusting for prints or roughing up a suspect for information? Their future is entirely in your hands!
FEATURES
-For the first time ever, you control your Sim’s actions and interactions while they’re on the job.
-Be a hero or mess with the neighbors as a firefighter, private investigator, doctor, ghost hunter, and more!
-Choose how your Sim’s career progresses—will they work for good or evil, pursue creative endeavors, rise to success as a mogul, or shirk responsibility as a slacker?
-Your Sim’s on-the-job choices now change their town and affect other Sims as well. Modify the town’s structure as an architect or set neighborhood fashions as a stylist.
-Enjoy all-new skills and activities! Master the arts of inventing, sculpting, and tattooing, and use your skills to earn Simoleons.
New Monopoly Board: Credit Cards Replace Money, Boards Get Circular In ‘Revolutions’
Monopoly, which turns 75 this year, is celebrating with a modern redesign.
The game’s anniversary edition, which features a circular board, eliminates cash altogether: instead of pastel-colored paper money, little real estate magnates will gobble up house and hotel pieces with credit cards. And gone, too, are the game’s classic metal playing pieces, which are replaced with small, engraved plastic slabs.
Monopoly’s owner, Hasbro, debuted the updated edition at at this year’s Toy Fair in New York City. It’s slated to go on sale sometime later this year, but the company promises to keep a traditional version of the game on the market.
In between all of the work I’ve been doing, I’ve come up with a design for my portfolio site that I’m in love with…so it should be up sometime in the next few weeks, depending on how much time I get to actually work on it.
In the meantime, check out Zombieland. It has now been added to my Top 5 Movies of All Time list. Dawn of the Dead has always been my favorite zombie movie (and I’m a huge fan of zombies)…but this one is just as good.
I’m going through my bookmarks and thought I’d share things as I come across them.
If you haven’t seen Jim Carrey’s website, it’s definitely worth a look.
It’s been a week since Conan O’Brien’s final ‘Tonight Show’ aired (January 22, 2010) and I’m still upset. I’ve been trying to find time to sit down and blog about it, but it’s been a busy week!
I’ve been a Conan fan all of my life – when I was younger, my sister and I would stay up into the wee hours of the night to watch him and Andy. I can’t even express how excited I was to hear that he would be the new host of ‘The Tonight Show,’ and that Andy would be back as his partner in crime.
I’m very much an early bird, though, because of work, and I was thrilled to see that Hulu would have up-to-date episodes every day. I can’t even express my giddiness watching the opening of his first episode to “Surrender” in which he ran from NYC to California. I watched every episode of his ‘Tonight Show,’ often letting the episodes stack up for a week or two so I could have my Conan Marathons while working at my desk. He and Andy brought such life to the show; it wasn’t just a regular late night talk show, they got the audience involved and created such a wonderful energy, every episode was a unique viewing experience.
I didn’t watch his finale live, I waited until the next day to watch it on Hulu, as I had with every episode. The emotion behind his words was so powerful, and between that and when Tom Hanks (who coined his Coco nickname) told him that he would always be the true host of ‘The Tonight Show’ in his house, I just lost it. What a sad way for him to lose such a great thing, all because Jay Leno is a failure and a cry baby.
I’ve never cared for Jay Leno, I can’t stand his smugness, and now I downright hate him. I can’t stand to hear him cry all over anyone who will listen to him about how bad he feels – if he truly felt bad, he wouldn’t have started this mess to begin with, and when it became an issue, he would have left Conan where he was.
NBC has been on my shit-list for a while now, too, ever since they started ruining their programming by canceling ‘Scrubs.’ They don’t know a good thing when they have it, and I hope that another network benefits from Conan’s greatness, like ABC did when they picked up ‘Scrubs’ and gave them the opportunity to end the show correctly, on their terms. It’s so sad that they didn’t respond to the fan outbursts all over the nation – no one would do that for Leno.
I very much enjoyed an image I found on the web created by Mitch Canter and posted on Twitter with the comment, “I just finished designing NBC’s new logo. I call it the #failcock #conan #nbcfail.” (Source) Well said, Mitch.
Under the cut are a few additional images that I enjoyed during this whole horrible fiasco. Read the rest of this entry »
Check out Doritos® SNACK STRONG Productions, a very cool interactive website.
If I were to get a tattoo, this would be something I’d get – branded with something that involves my love of design. 
While the site is under construction, I thought I’d start implementing a blog into the mix. I’ve been back and forth on designs for the new site so many times you would think my eyes would be permanently crossed…why is it always so hard to design something for yourself?
Plus I’ve been so busy with client work that I’ve barely had a chance to think about my own work…that’s a good thing, right?
So anyway, let’s get this party started – I’ve always got lots to talk about, so hopefully this place will be hopping soon.
