So you’ve got these sharks swimming around in the Pacific Ocean tagged with GPS transponders. Sharkrunner, a game from Discovery Channel, gives you a virtual boat, a virtual crew, affiliates you with a virtual research consortium, gives you virtual profits, but has you tracking real freaking sharks.
It’d be easier to ignore this meme if I hadn’t been nailed in the head and if I weren’t (for reasons soon apparent) in dire need of something momentarily mindless.
It’s the “One Random Thing” meme. You tell one random thing about yourself and then tag one other person.
I’ve got a red circle sitting on my calendar two weeks out. Yeah, yeah, school starts then but that isn’t it. At my own risk, I haven’t given school even a corner of head space yet. I can’t.
That date is the staff banquet for the summer camp I’m working, where I’ve worked for the last six summers, which probably oughtta be my last end-of-summer banquet, and I’m making a slideshow which dominates even my non-waking hours.
Taking mercy on my readership, I’ll keep details spare but this is by far my most involved project (ever) and, after spending eighteen hours in Photoshop this weekend and loving every tedious second, I can only concede:
I have two jobs I love, jobs which double as hobbies, jobs which intersect more often than they should, at which times my brain gets very, very happy.
I have zero jobs I hate.
If the day had 28 hours, I’d spend the extra four working.
If someday you come by to find my door shuttered and a sign banged into the ground reading “shop’s closed,” guaranteed I gave up one great job for the sake of the other.
Which I’ve gotta get back to now.
Tagging TMAO, who’s gone off the grid recently.
Here at dy/dan, for the first time, we’re opening our spikey-topped wrought-iron gates to one (1) lucky little feller or fella. We’re looking for an intern, or short of that, some kind of indentured servant, to help us sort through all these submissions we’re receiving for The Four Slide Sales Pitch contest!
It’s out of control! Submissions so far:
Alice Mercer
Diane Cordell
Dave Stacey
Colette Cassinelli
John Pederson
Marcie Hull
Chris Duke
Ethan Bodner
Nancy Bosch
Glenn Moses
Carolyn Foote
The rest of you have until midnight Friday PST to get ’em in. dan [at] mrmeyer [dot] com, or trackbacks seem to work fine. Extra credit for linking to the contest from your blog.
Prospective interns, possessing strong self-esteem and a limitless capacity to absorb insult, should apply within.
Surprising absolutely no one, 8 thing that irritate [Doug] with edublogs has generated 34 comments with no sign of slowing. Meanwhile, 8 thing that [Doug] likes about edublogs threatens to shut down the Internet with five comments. ¶ The people have spoken!
Wouldn’t surprise me if The Four Slide Sales Pitch contest hit the front page of Digg this next week. Entries are gettin’ outta control so get yours in soon
! Deadline’s midnight PST Friday.
The question’s been asked, where are we selling ourselves? We envisioned a sale pitched at a business college, a teaching college, or somewhere you want to work, somewhere along the lines Chicago GSB’s originally drew, but, sincerely, take it wherever you want. Visceral, intriguing design’s gonna transcend context.