A message to recruiters of the world.

If you’re gonna call me with a job opportunity, and you’re calling from out of state, you had best tell me in the message and/or by a followup email where the heck your job opportunity is.

I’m willing to consider full time employee and contract work… but I’m not going to waste my time with a call about a job in a place there’s no chance in a-very-hot-place of me moving to.

That is all.

If you’re seeing this, the server move is complete.

We’re still alive here in the great white… well, West. After about 28″ of snow blown around by a 40-50MPH wind, we have drifts up to our fence in the back yard and blocking our front door.

I left to get Brandy at 4:30pm or so and got back to the house around 8:15. Needless to say it sucked. The problem wasn’t getting the truck around, it was all the other idiots driving cars they never should have taken out in a storm like this.

With 20-40″ of snow on the ground, it’s simply a matter of ground clearance and weight.

I’ve had my hands on the Photoshop CS3 Beta for about 48 hours now and I have to say I’m impressed. First off, the app is VERY fast on my MacBook Pro. It’s worlds better than CS2 running Rosetta (obviously), and it’s amazing how much I adapted to the slower speed since making the Intel plunge.

The other thing I really like is the feature that will probably be having long-time Photochoppers bitching and moaning about until CS4 is the new interface. Because, Sally, it is different.

Most obvious thing… the tool palette is now one row by default. You can easily switch this back tho.

Docks are the biggest change though. All of the palettes are now held inside of Macromedia-esque docks. You can have as many of these docks as you want, but the real power of the interface is when you keep related palettes (Layers, History, etc.) in on dock. Then you can hide and show the docks easily when you need access to the items inside of them. By default, there are two docks visible in the CS3 interface, one open and one collapsed. The default-open dock holds the old defaultly-shown palettes like Layers, History, Navigator, etc. The other one is collapsed to a row of representative icons and contains Character, Brushes and a bunch of other stuff. In my short use of the beta, I’ve found this makes a MUCH cleaner use of my 17″ MacBook’s screen with less palette litter and easier access to the tools I need. And I can create a different dock layout for when I have the MacBook docked to my 30″ screen.

Like I said, some will hate it… but if you roll with the punches and actually use the new interface, I think most will find it just as much of an improvement as I did. I can’t wait for Illustrator and InDesign CS3 now.

If you’re gonna jump on the bandwagon, why does it have to be so goddamned contrived? And if it’s not contrived, it LOOKS contrived… which is just as bad.

Ugh… just ugh.