This rap is straight dope yo’

So, I’ve been working on version 2 of this site I started to look at what I have uploaded and clean up where necessary. During this process I found a folder called poetry and I rediscovered my favorite poem from my favorite poet, Charles Bukowski.

It turns out forever ago I was talking to some girl about this poem and I couldn’t for the life of me find it online to show her. It has since been uploaded and sitting on my server, I showed it to her of course but I didn’t exactly share it with you guys.

“You have no idea, cousin, how many men can do it but won’t.”
That’s why funerals are so sad.

Enjoy!

Originally this sites purpose was to land “The Job”.  Whether or not it worked is another story but I’ve got “The Job” so I think it is about time to repurpose the site.  I’m going to keep the portfolio around but switch things up a bit.  I have a few ideas, one is to showcase some projects I’ve been working on.

First, I’m going to redesign the site to fit more of where I see it going, then I’ll show you my current project cinder, which is basically a random name for the existing project that I came up with right now.

The method: I picked three numbers (7 55 5) and matched it up with the books on my shelf.

It turns out the 7th book was Catch 22, and the 5th word on the 55th page was cinder.  What is cinder? I’ll give you one hint; it goes along with the whole computer agnostic trend the web has taken these days.

So yea, look for cinder soon and a redesign even sooner.

Yea thats right, we finally get a good excuse for taking on less work. For the details, read on. By the way this is ripped off verbatim from Slashdot.

“Multitasking messes with the brain in several ways. At the most basic level, the mental balancing acts that it requires — the constant switching and pivoting — energize regions of the brain that specialize in visual processing and physical coordination and simultaneously appear to shortchange some of the higher areas related to memory and learning. We concentrate on the act of concentration at the expense of whatever it is that we’re supposed to be concentrating on… studies find that multitasking boosts the level of stress-related hormones such as cortisol and adrenaline and wears down our systems through biochemical friction, prematurely aging us. In the short term, the confusion, fatigue, and chaos merely hamper our ability to focus and analyze, but in the long term, they may cause it to atrophy.”