I’ve been monitoring the election process and have decided that I’m not too happy with the way things are going. So today, I am announcing that I have decided to run for President. You don’t believe me? See for yourself:
Well ok, maybe not, but cool huh?
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I know I said this blog isn’t political, but I couldn’t resist posting the following video. I only have one question -
“Will the real McCain please stand up?”
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My brother Mike created a trailer for a documentary on Mom and the Healthcare system back in 2005 and I can’t believe that it never occurred to me to post it here before. It’s actually featured on my myspace page, which may be the reason.
Anyhow, this video is a short, a little sad, but a definite reality check. Life comes at you hard sometimes and all you can do is roll with it. This too shall pass. Peace.
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My brother created the following spinoff of AND1 a whiles back and for some reason never took the time to promote it. I think he did a great job for someone who is a newbie in the Film Industry, so I’ve decided to feature it here.
In case you’ve never heard of AND1, it’s a basketball tour of some of the most talented street ball players around. They have had yearly tours all over the U.S. for a while now and my brother is a big fan of the series. Well, a couple of years back he came up with this idea to have fun with it, and created this unofficial sequel on flip side. Without further delay, I present to you AND2. Enjoy!
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I haven’t completely abandoned this blog, but I am taking a break from blogging
consistently for a while. I’ll update here and there to keep you posted on any new developments. Once I find the time to redo this site like I originally intended, regular blogging will start up again..
I have been dealing with a lot of personal dramas, one of which I wrote a little poem about. I normally don’t write poetry, but I was up most of the night and felt this intense desire to share my experience with others. This is the first poem I’ve written in years, so keep that in mind as you read this. Peace.
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Temptations
by Natasha Pierre-Louis
Your are so beautiful,
Why didn’t I notice you before?
You are delightful,
Your presence moves me to the core.
I want to touch you,
but that probably wouldn’t be fair.
You don’t belong to me,
your owner’s standing over there.
But I don’t mean no harm,
I have no intent to steal…
No need to sound the alarm,
I simply wanted you to feel…
I promise I won’t take
something that doesn’t belong to me.
I promise I won’t break
someone else’s property.
Alas, I better go,
The temptation to steal you is so strong
That person doesn’t know
but my intentions are so wrong.
Maybe one day you’ll be
free to come home and live with me.
Till then we’ll wait to see
if you are truly my destiny.
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A friend from work suggested I watch an interview that Oprah had with
Jon Kabat-Zinn and the interview was awesome. During their conversation,
the following poem was mentioned and all I can say is, “Wow”.
Very simple, yet profound. Enjoy. 
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Love After Love
The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
~ by Derek Walcott ~
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Yesterday was a good day. I worked on my new layout for almost 10 hours and was very happy with the progress I was making. I then took a break to go chill with my mom at the nursing home and caught whatever little fireworks I could, especially since we got rained out.
I came back home and worked a little more until I started to get sleepy. I saved my file, but then my system froze. “No big deal”, I thought to myself. I then did a forced restart and went to bed.
This morning, I was up by 8am and ready to get back to work. I did my lil morning routine, got myself some grapes and checked my emails. Then I fired up Photoshop and was ready to go. I open up my file, only to see a black page with red stuff on it, no layers to be found.
“This must be some kind of error,” I thought. So I restarted Photoshop, but still the same deal. I did a lil searching around in Google only to find out that others have experienced the same thing before, and that my file got corrupted. After trying many PSD recovery software, I came to the conclusion that my work may be lost forever.
I then decided that it was time to do a disk check. This caused some issues at first, but I was finally able to run it. Unfortunately when it got to stage 5 of 5, I got a “Hard Fail”. I then did a Bios diagnostic test and that also failed. To make a long story short, my hard drive is dying. I am just grateful I caught it in time.
Between this morning and now, I can honestly say that I experienced the 5 stages of death, but in this case it is the slow death of my hard drive:
I then proceeded to back up my files on an external hard drive and called the warranty company to ask them to send a box. The tech guy was annoying and kept asking if I did a recovery. I had to help him understand that I was almost certain that my issue was more of a hardware issue rather then a software problem. He eventually saw it my way and my box is in the mail.
So the moral to the story is: Get other people to do design work for you so that you don’t have to deal with this BS. No Seriously, please learn from my mistake and keep a backup of your work files on a separate hard drive. Ok?
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