Marty March 31st, 2008
I finally got out for some birding on Saturday morning at Palmyra Cove. It was a little chilly, and there weren’t any real big migrants there, but I still have a good time. One of the highlights was seeing quite a few Field Sparrows (Spizella pusilla) - a species I had seen before but not yet photgraphed. This little casanova was singing his heart out near the beaver pond. Continue Reading »
Marty March 25th, 2008
Late last year, I entered some of my pictures into a contest sponsored by the National Wildlife Refuge Association. I got a notice yesterday that at least one of my photos had been selected as a winner. Continue Reading »
Marty March 25th, 2008
I’m just trying to catch up now from last week - which was an exhausting one. Work has been brisk without being too nuts for much of the beginning of the year - at least, short sprints and pauses that allowed one to recover. But, of course, when my boss took off for the birth of his baby, suddenly everyone needed some help. Continue Reading »
Marty March 18th, 2008
I saw this on the A Passion For Nature blog and thought I’d play along:
Rules
“At the core of all screen (and print, of course) visual design is layout: where and how the features, controls, and content are placed. Layout provides the structure that these elements reside within. Layout provides hierarchy, letting users know what is important and what is less so - a control that is visible at all times is perceived as more important than one that is buried in a drop-down menu.”
Questions:
* note: I actually had to pick up 3 books: the first didn’t have 5 sentences on page 123, and the second had an image on that page.
Marty March 16th, 2008
Ah, St. Patty’s Day - a day for corned beef, beer, singing Irish Drinking songs and waking people puke green. How can you not love it. AND if you were an adventurous soul, this could have been a 4-day celebration for you. I’m going to try to get out for at least one beer, although I’m sure that the area around work will be absolutely nuts tomorrow. But maybe a band of my co-workers and I can bust into one of the local joints for a beer…
Good luck and happy O’Beer Day to you all. And if you catch the leprechaun, make sure you make him give up his Lucky Charms. But don’t drink too much green beer, or you could end up like this fella!
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Marty March 11th, 2008
Some days are better to go to work for than others. Yesterday was one of those days. I was focused at work, and got a lot done, which is always nice since there are times that I struggle with staying on focus. Then came ‘the talk’ in my grand-boss Brendan’s office… Continue Reading »
Marty March 8th, 2008
We had just gotten home from grocery shopping and I was making some brunch when our neighbor came to the door.
“Um, do you know that you have a branch through the back window of your car?”
Needless to say, I didn’t. It turns out that a large branch from one of our oaks had landed across the entire top of my car - this part through the back windshield, and another section that dented the roof in 3 places in the back and 2 in the front, both of which cracked the front windshield, too.
Oh, did I mention the driving rain we were having at the time?
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Marty March 5th, 2008
…and a yo ho ho and a bottle of Advil.
Last Friday, some township workers knocked on our door to ask me to move my car to protect it from the blighted oak tree they were going to cut down in our neighbors yard . But I asked them if they wouldn’t mind leaving some of that wood on the planning strip so that I could get some firewood out of it. Continue Reading »
Marty March 2nd, 2008
Well, it’s been a busy week. After getting increasingly good news about Jim, I’ve been heads down working day and night. Night has been spent working up the HTML and CSS templates for ZeroPercentCards.com, so that Van can work his database and backend magic. Continue Reading »
Marty February 26th, 2008
This weekend started off on a bit of a down note when I found that I could get to sleep Friday night (I didn’t get to sleep until 4 a.m. Friday night). Finally, begrudginly, I got out of bed and went downstairs to do some work, check out Flickr, work - anything that one can do in the middle of the night. But it was a message I got just after 2 a.m. that really put the weekend into perspective. Continue Reading »
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