Well, not sure if the graphic designer that we thought was lined up is going to come through. Not sure what’s going on in his life, but at this point it seems like he’s not available to work with us on our logo design.

So, yesterday I submitted a little advertisement to Craigslist. Brief, to the point, and evasive on the amount we’re willing to spend. They have to approve it, so there was a turnaround time of a little less than a day. You can take a look at it here. The post went live at 11:50am today (I get an email letting me know when it’s up there).

So, for the next seven hours I watched forty six keen graphic designers respond with emails to my inbox. Some of them are out of our price range, others missed the part about this being a contract opportunity and are looking for a full time position (maybe somewhere down the road!), but within those 46, sixteen of them are within our price range. From there, 10 show us some examples that impressed us (note: there’s also 6 who had problems sending me an attachment through the Craigslist server…not sure why they couldn’t email me through their own email client, but, meh. I’ll email them back and see what they come up with).

Not bad. Not bad at all.

We shall see…but so far, I’m pretty pleased.

(note two: this might have all been for nothing since a great girl in one of my classes at York is interested - options and opportunities all around!)

So apparently Samsung’s YP-Z5 is set to release by the end of February and according to MP3 Newswire, it’s a direct competitor to the iPod Nano.

Here’s the Samsung:

Here’s the Nano:

My favorite part when I read the article? The advertisement for the video iPod at the bottom (that actually shows up on most of their articles). I guess Apple’s not dead in the water yet…

And not even a significant price break? Well, I hope they do a bit better than the Sony Walkman bean. Six months - ouch. And notice that in that article the video iPod advertisement doesn’t appear in this article.

I love Postsecret; sometimes sad, sometimes inspirational and sometimes just downright quirky.

This one, however, is thusfar my favorite…

…you gotta check back regularly though, because they change each week. There’s also a book for those who like the tangible.

Check it out - you might see something that really captures a little piece of how you feel but don’t know how to express.

1. Working with electrical wires is complicated.

2. The urge to sneeze while brushing my teeth is inconvenient. And messy.

3. Social Networking websites, like Facebook, can really connect people and build/reinvigorate a friendship. It can also bring out the most vindictive, cruel side of people…in a very public manner.

4. If I break something made of glass with my bare hands, I may (and did) bleed…but I’m also secretly a little proud of the fact that I "still got it".

5. Old School is like a fine wine…it’s only getting better each time we watch it.

6. There are many different types of lighter fluid. But only one type that is suitable for a fondue pot.

7. They’re still running a variation of the "New York City???" advertisements for Pace salsa.

8. Ice cream with little tiny pieces of frozen nutella is a marvelously tasty hidden treasure of a flavor.

9. The brunt of the aforementioned vindictiveness reacted with an impressive degree of gutsiness, self confidence and class. I’m very proud to call her my friend.

10. Going to the same hairdresser as your significant other has definite perks - you have a say in what they do (and definitely don’t do) to said significant other’s head even when you’re not there (note: this only works when you’re the one with the pricier hair regime…so guys, prolly 9 times out of 10 you’re out of luck).

Dear Grocery Store Cashier:

    Hi there. This is that friendly girl with lots of groceries and the big pink tote bag. Sorry, I don’t mean to sound presumptuous or arrogant by calling myself "friendly". I just figure that I must have been, or you won’t have been so…erm…forthcoming?

    You seem like a nice girl, and it’s understandable that bagging groceries (oh wait, oops…) checking me through, along with the hundreds of other suburbanites, isn’t really  what you want to be doing with the rest of your life. Heck, I’ve done retail, and while it can be fun and sometimes you can meet interesting people, when you’re "only-have-one-hour-left-til-you’re-outta-here" tired (I hope I didn’t misquote you there, but I think that’s at least a pretty good paraphrase, no?), it’s not surprising that you could be easily distracted.

    Hey, but you work with your friends, that must be nice right? You guys must be pretty close since your pals felt it was more important to chat with you in the aisle than help me bag my groceries. Many groceries. Hey, that’s okay, you were discussing important things! "Gross people" are gross…yeah, I gotcha.

    Now, I just have a little bit of a concern with our discussion while I swiped my debit card. I guess maybe you felt that you knew me well after seeing what kind of things I throw in my refrigerator and cook up on my stove. That’s cool, I totally respect that. But I don’t know how well others might take a comment like "That guy, omigod his brother, like, molests everything…" In context, surely I wouldn’t doubt that you maybe didn’t quite mean that literally. I think.

    Your other friend (my you are a tight knit bunch here!) behind you chiming in with "Andrew’s his brother???" certainly drove the point home. While I absolutely appreciate that you treated me like one of your own and didn’t feel the need to put up a front or simply flash me a fake smile while mechanically scanning and not-bagging my groceries…

    it might…just might behoove you to hold back just a teeny tiny tad. I don’t mind talking about the weather, I don’t mind hearing that it’s been pretty busy today. Or not busy. Actually, the more I think about it, my threshold for small talk is pretty high.

    But the word "molest" may not be a good choice for the workplace. Just…a thought.