Yeah, back when I was a kid and a teen, characters like Thanos, Galactus, The Silver Surfer and many, many more comic book superheroes were only known to comic book nerds like me. Now, thanks to the MCU movies, TV[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yes we’ve gained weight AND lost hair. It was fun talking about those days in the late 1970’s when I was in my late teens/early twenties meeting with like-minded fans of comic books, science fiction and cartoons. We spent a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Whenever I have Zoom Meetings with anyone I do this set up. Two boxes stacked on top of each other with the laptop on the very top, that way the camera, which is on the top of the laptop screen,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Thanks to the Marvel movie’s popularity among young men & women, teen boys & girls and just about everyone else, comic book culture has become part of acceptable society (even though comic books themselves may not be). That being said,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
All on all it was pretty good interview. Like I said in the comic, I think because the Executive VP who first interviewed me on the phone then today in person, is older than me, I may have a chance[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Just like that. Sure, I guess if I was reading the tea leaves I could have suspected something with all those new procedures they’ve been shoving at us since the end of 2020. But to get through all of 2020,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It felt good to have a fully functional laptop back. Even though I never really needed the sound in order to get any of my graphics done, still, it’ll be so much easier to sit through our Teams meetings by[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve been known to be critical and dismissive of meetings in the past, especially corporate meetings, but this was different. It was as if all the graphic designers were in the same room discussing everything that works with our project[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
At Siemens we don’t use Zoom for our meetings, we use Teams. So on our screens we just see everyone’s avatar’s along with their name. We do hear everyone’s voices though (and my audio still, for some reason, doesn’t work[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For years and years American professional football fans were used to settling in on a Sunday afternoon to watch (or listen to) the game. Then they added Monday nights. Then, after the college season was over, the occasional Saturday afternoon.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…