Karen is with her mom, aunt, and cousin in Des Moines, IA, on their yearly "WWA" or "Women's Weekend Away" which, from the little I am told, means they shop and eat and drink as a family. Normally, there are 6 but this year neither my sister-in-law nor Karen's aunt's other daughter are joining them. So it's 4.
On the home front, we rented "GI Joe", "Mrs. Doubtfire", and "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" to keep us busy. Alex and I watched Joe earlier this afternoon. Then I took Megan to the junior high dance, came home, then returned to her school to give her the $3 I had in my pocket that was to go to her hands when she got out of the truck.
Just checked the radio and Regina is playing Solon tonight in a state playoff game. The last time these two teams met, Solon pounced early and often and built up a huge lead. At the beginning of the 4th quarter, it was 42-7 in Solon's favor. I think a state championship in football is heading to Solon this month.
Tomorrow, the Hawkeyes put their undefeated season on the line against Northwestern. That game is @ 11 so I'm hoping to watch it. Nothing I can think of would stop me.
This dream job was passed along to me. I am not qualified but I sure would like to be:
Web Developer
Brave New Films is looking for a full-time Web Developer to guide and implement our online efforts. This is a very unique and exciting opportunity for the right person to use their tech talents to help build vital progressive infrastructure.Brave New Film's uses video and new media to create, amplify, and tell stories to inform people, change attitudes, and make change happen. We have over a million monthly uniques and over 45 million views on our viral videos.
Responsibilities include:
* Build HTML websites with light PHP code as well as more robustsite with programming languages
* Manage ecommerce and donation infrastructure including set updonation pages on our sites
* Address technical aspects of online distribution (upload videosto YouTube, post on reddit, write FBML for Facebook, etc.)
* Be on top of developments in social media, trends and technologies to guide and inform our distribution strategy
* Develop queries to pull segments of our emails list when needed
Skill set:
* Experience in Ruby on Rails, Django, PHPCake, or other programming language
* Excellent knowledge of MySQL
* Ability to quickly develop a web site that integrates with our email and donation tools
* Good attention to detail
* Enjoys fast-paced environment of politics
We use technologies and services like PHP, MySQL, Wordpress, Disqus, DemocracyInAction/Salsa, Ultracart, Google Analytics, and Authorize.net. We care less about writing perfect code or complying with every standard, and more about birthing the clever idea that'll wreak havoc on the establishment. Politics moves fast. We have some pretty intense deadlines, so we'repragmatic and not afraid to get our hands dirty. Think startup meets non-profit political rabble rousers. We also get along well with people that have an excellent work ethic, juggle multiple tasks under tight deadlines, and realize this is not a 9-5 job.
Our offices are located in the shadow of Sony studios in Culver City, CA (LA) and we're open to the person working on-site or living elsewhere in the U.S. In your cover note, provide a list of sites you have developed. Please forward cover note and resume to Laura at ...
That sounds like a tremendous opportunity.
In other news, Alex's basketball team is 0-3. We lost on Tuesday night. Again. Losing sucks.
Joe Paterno did inspire me this week with this quote that was passed along:
"There are many people, particularly in sports, who think that success and excellence are the same thing and they are not the same thing. Excellence is something that is lasting and dependable and largely within a person's control. In contrast, success is perishable and is often outside our control... If you strive for excellence, you will probably be successful eventually... people who put excellence in first place have the patience to end up with success... An additional burden for the victim of the success mentality is that he/she is threatened by the success of others and resents real excellence. In contrast, the person fascinated by quality is excited when he/she sees it in others".
Joe Paterno
Head Football Coach
Penn State University
Moving on... the latest Revelation Theory (now known as Rev Theory) arrived in my mailbox this week. Also an Alter Bridge DVD and two CDs from artists I've never heard of until I opened the envelope. I have a lot of review writing to do and I hope to tackle some of them tomorrow AM!
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