Re: Hey, What’s Happening Jakey?

Is that B.S. for bachelor of science or bullshit? ;)

— girl-detective

Yes. (It’s open to interpretation.)

My biggest gripe with Tumblr theme design was the requirement to support all seven content ‘types’. If you’re looking for a photography theme to beat, tumblr.com/theme/3… is the current king in my opinion.

— doug

Yeah, that does not make sense for a photo-specific theme, but I’ll tag it on and just hope no one uses it. I love the High Res theme.

Glad you asked! Well, I am working for myself. Yes, me. I am taking one simple online college class to finish up this god damn web design B.S. degree. While taking only one class, that only takes up fifteen minutes of my time on Monday, I find that I spend the rest of the days working harder than I ever have before. I have launched three websites this year and I have been a guest on two podcasts.

Here’s what I am currently working on:

• a freelance gig designing a logo
• planning out a potential premium Tumblr theme
• thinking about a clean photography-based Tumblr theme

1. Top 5 Ska Bands

1. Less Than Jake
2. Reel Big Fish
3. Streetlight Manifesto
4. Dan P. and the Bricks
5. The Planet Smashers

2. Top 5 Books

1. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
2. The Big Sleep
3. Farewell, My Lovely
4. A Confederacy of Dunces
5. The Fountianhead (What? It has great design advice.)

3. Top 5 iOS Apps

1. Reeder
2. Instapaper
3. Instacast
4. Tweetbot
5. Tumblr

4. Top 5 RSS Feeds

1. Beautiful Pixels
2. Hobotopia
3. Mark Doesn’t Understand Animals
4. Panic Blog
5. MacStories

5. Top 5 Podcasts

1. The 40 Year Old Boy
2. Stop Podcasting Yourself
3. Jordan, Jesse, GO!
4. My Brother, My Brother, and Me
5. Never Not Funny

“I am about to unfriend you for promoting your work” is the new crazy irrational.

— Jake Bilbrey (@ZicklePop) February 1, 2012

Because if I am passionate about something and your first response is to threaten me? As Calamity Jane would say, “be fucked!”

— Jake Bilbrey (@ZicklePop) February 1, 2012

For the last couple of weeks I have been working very hard to work on things that might help me get a job doing what I want to do. I am proud of my work. I have, in January alone: set up in a new office, built and shipped Call for Me, redesigned my main site, designed and started a blog about web design, and was supprisingly approached to be interviewed on my friends new podcast.

I take a lot of things jokingly, but not these things. These things show who I am and what I am capable of. I am proud of my work. That is why when people say to me, and I am sure they meant it in no disrespect, that they are going to or about to unfollow me because I mentioned once on Twitter the work I have poured my heart in to, I get mad.

Because this is not a joke. I even have had close friends tell me that they think my jokes on Twitter, Tumblr, and on my podcast suck without reading, understanding, or listening to them. That is painful enough, but those things, which I put no less effort in, are for humor and I can ignore it. When I am working on a serious operation to try to start my life as a young adult? Friend or stranger, I do not care. I have way bigger issues to worry with than what I can do to keep you as a follower. Be fucked.

The other night Dad and I were watching Deadwood on the Apple TV and I saw that Psycho was featured on the movies section. To my amazement there was an option to watch the trailer. I feared that it was some new ad that the studios made. It was not! It was the original trailer for the movie Psycho. So I started watching the original trailers to other such classics like The Birds, Citizen Kane, and The Big Sleep. I highly recommend going in the iTunes movie store and watching old movie trailers.

“THAT MAN and THAT GIRL are THAT WAY AGAIN” Oh, I love you Bogart and Bacall.

As of a few weeks ago I no longer eat Macaroni and Cheese for breakfast every morning. So I have that going for me.