Yesterday was a pretty interesting day; I went to the paper show with Jen at the B&O museum in town last night, and met up with a few people I haven’t seen in a while. Jason and Shelly are still at Gilden, and doing well, but I think they want to get out as soon as they can. They look good and sound happy otherwise, which is good news. I talked to Jon for a bit too; he sounds OK, although I think he’s worried about the future of web design, as everybody else is- he has a good shop going but I think he’s wondering when things are going to pick up again. I saw a girl I worked with at Supon and talked to her for a bit- she had no idea what had happened with the layoffs and was laughing when I told her the story. The show overall was pretty good, although not as lavish as last year. The giveaways were good but not great, and our friend Shaun at Art Litho sounds pretty dour about the future, based on all the folks he’s talked to lately.

Update on the Cidera layoffs: The Marketing VP and most of the toadies got axed a few weeks ago. Apparently they have about 40 people left to run the whole thing…whatever that is. Like I said before, it’s probably two people in the NOC, thirty-seven people trying to sell anything they can, and some unlucky fool running the place. Oh, and Brad, my old buddy from back in the day, got a job with the first company I ever hosted with. Small, small world.

I found this site on Builder.com for using homesite; there are a bunch of tips and tricks that I’ll have to look at a bit later.

Gotta buy me one of these. Tomorrow, i think.

12:02PM – OK, here’s the deal. Some people really get off on those cheerful, ironic, peppy Canadians calling themselves the Barenaked Ladies. Brandon- err, Jason Priestley, the Biff dude from 90120, liked ’em so much he directed a full-blown movie for them. The band had a few jingles that got picked up on the Alternative Radio, which basically means Columbia or Sony or whomever owns their mortal souls, jammed about half a mil into every A&R guy who then jammed $50 and a line of blow into every regional Program Director at every Alternative Radio Station (which basically equates to, in my opinion, some bald 40-year-old middle manager pulling a fax of Acceptable Songs off a fax and typing them into the DJputer) and thusly we were subjected to their peppy happy jingles every waking second of the day. Now, one of their happy jingles made its way into a Mitsubishi commercial (You know, the peppy song that starts by some nerd saying “Eyyyyyyyyyiiit’s been…”) and is on heavy HEAVY rotation throughout the 50 states on every major TV channel. Let me be clear: I don’t like the song. I like even less that it plays at least twice each hour.
I am a simple man. I shut off my satellite because it cost too much and I didn’t watch it. I just want to see some simple mindless TV (no problem there, really) but without that damn song in my head.
As for Mitsubishi, I was never impressed with their cars, and after my buddy Jason’s experience with you and his Spyder, like hell I’m ever gonna consider buying one of their cars.