Hola!
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EN CASA DE HERRERO... Todos los dias del mundo, lamentablemente incluyendo muchisimos de mis fines de semana, yo diseño y produzco "web sites". Esta, mi página personal, fue una de las primeras, en Julio de 1994. Y es verdad: en casa de herrero, cuchillo de palo... Nunca jamás tengo tiempo de hacer nada aquí, y a cada rato alguien me escribe para, primero, preguntarme por qué la pagina está en Inglés (porque cuando la hice, esta cuestion del Web estaba empezando, y nadie por donde se habla criollo, tenia acceso), y, segundo, para decirme que mis "links" no funcionan... Gracias por decirme! De vez en cuando, muerta de la pena, voy y los acomodo...
Un dia de estos...
IN ENGLISH NOW...
There's a saying in Venezuela which roughly translates to "At the smith's house, there's always a wooden knive". I make web pages almost every day of my life, yet I never get to work on my personal page. People write me all the time for two reasons. One, to ask me why it's not in Spanish (because when I made it, in 1994, there was no, or very little access to the Web in Spanish speaking countries), and two, to tell me my links are broken... I appreciate that; thanks! Every once in a while, probably out of embarrasment, I change a few.
One of these days... when I get a "round to-it" :-)
Abril/April 6, 2000
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...so I spend some time cooking
random things (a lot of them are
Venezuelan or Latin American recipes, which confuses those who come to my house. They keep calling plantains "overgrown bananas"...).
I listen to
music
almost all the time. Mostly I listen to
Boingo,
U2,
Peter Gabriel,
Sting and Juan Luis Guerra.
Well... and then there's all the
other
stuff I listen to.
Some little people say I spend too much time watching Star Trek ( I haven't yet decided what I think about Voyager...), and learning to speak Klingon and Darmok, but what I really do more often than most people I know is watch the movie and listen to the soundtrack of The Nightmare Before Christmas (Tim Burton's best, according to me), read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, read Calvin and Hobbes, and watch Star Wars, the X Files, Mad About You, ER and Friends. I'm also a Disney fan and an Apple Computer evangelist, and I think chocolate should be a basic food group.
Lately I've decided that reading regularly, something I used to do before I got hooked the Net, is a good thing. I'm in the middle of a couple of different series; I've read a couple of Katherine Kutz' Deryni books, and a couple of books on Ann Rice's Vampire Chronicles. The whole fantasy genre is sort of a new thing with me; my usual fare used to be mostly Tom Clancy, Michael Crichton, John Jakes, John Grisham, and in general more down to earth stuff.
When I'm not playing, I'm Creative Director at Black Box. There I get paid to play :) with fonts, paper, pictures, colors, and worry about what my Mac files are going to do when they get to pre-press. I also get to play with toys from Aldus/Adobe (Photoshop, ImageReady and Premiere mostly), Fractal Design, Macromedia (mostly FreeHand and Director), HSC (Kai's Power Tools are awesome!) and Quark, and I try to keep everything straight in my Newton.
Recently I designed some of the storefronts at Oasis. They also let me play with skew. No paper, no printing, but lots of fun... except they keep telling me my files have to be small... oh, well.
There's a bunch of other things I wish I had time to do, and a bunch more I wish I had the time to learn... Here they are, in no particular order:
- skydiving
- scubadiving
- visit museums
- roam around bookstores
- read MacWeek regularly!
- Origami
- WebSurf! Here's some interesting sites... (to me, anyway...)
- Make marbelized paper
- Play Go!
anabella@ot.com