Month: May 2005

Today I happened upon the Paseo Arts Festival.

That picture doesn’t really do it justice.  Anyway, I sneaked
around as it was closing and as the band played “Inagaddadavida”. 
The Paseo is a small street off the beaten path in Oklahoma City where
a ton of artists live and have studios.  I saw a scultpor’s
studio, photographer’s studios, and a lot of closed Indian Taco stands.

Lately I haven’t been up to too much.  The friends and I have
resolved to watch all of the Star Wars movies in order.  I’m not
the hugest fan but it’s a good source of trivia for who knows
when.  (Jeopardy!, here I come)

I hope that my other blog
doesn’t wither and die.  I’m not entirely convinced that I will
have enough sources of logical fallacies in news articles to make it
interesting.  I will keep looking though.  Feel free to
contact me if you find some.  I’m trying to stick to reputable
sources.

My new phone has better text messaging and photo mail abilities, so
I’ve been sending dog pictures out to Carrie and posting cameraphones
pictures on my Flickr site.  They are decidedly low quality but fun nonetheless.  One of these days I’ll get my actual camera fixed.

Meredith’s father brews beer (and wine, actually) at home.  He
keeps track of every batch in a notebook.  Right now he’s working
on his 57th batch.  Seeing all of the handwriting made me wish I
had something to keep track of longterm like that.

For those of you who don’t know, I am obsessed with typography these days.  This isn’t just a passing thing, like my cryptography phase or my oscillating interest with Thomas Pynchon.  I’m downright obsessed.  My two favorite fonts of the moment are Incognito and Dolly, both available from Veer, the design company famous (in my eyes) for employing Grant Hutchinson.

Dolly is “a book typeface with fluorishes”.  I love book
typefaces, and every time I read a book I spend about as much time
admiring the letterforms as I do reading the actual content.

Incognito is based on the fancy writing of old maps.  When I was a
child I would peer into maps endlessly.  The best part about this
font is that each capital has a swash variant that goes in one of four
different directions, named after the Latin for North, East, South, and
West.  Very elegant, albeit a bit overused in their type specimens.

I realize what I’ve been missing from Oklahoma.

The smell of the air at night after a hot day.  I can’t describe
it, but it’s so crisp and rich and at the same time not at all thick.

And I also miss being able to see at night because the businesses keep
their lights on in the parking lots.  The light pollution in
Oklahoma City is incredible.  When you drive towards Oklahoma City
at night, you can see the entire horizon lit up from tens of miles away.

We watched Loser at Meredith’s house.  The movie is cute and well-made.  It reminded me of summer in New York last year.

My girlfriend is really wonderful.  She came over to Olin while I
was packing and kept me company even when it was about the most boring
thing ever.  Never once complained even if I had to run off for an
hour or two to go put stuff in storage while she waited and napped on a
bed without sheets on it in the bright light while Dan also packed.

Time for a couple of updates from the Grant Hutchins camp.

First off, I’ve started a new blog, Grant’s Take,
where I will post my skeptical analysis of articles that I read. 
I have no agenda other than the new blog’s motto, “Question everything
you read.”

Second off, I just put the finishing touches on the three latest games on my Grant Bowls! page.  I have a new personal best!

Last, but not least, I randomly searched my name using Google Suggest today.  It turns out that as you type Grant Hutchins, the form autocompletes with “grant hutchins millionaire“.  I guess enough people have searched me looking perhaps for the video.  E-mail me if you want the link.

The second hit I got was my recent mention in Prism, the American
Society for Engineering Education’s monthly journal.  I highly
doubt that being on a has-been television show is some of the biggest
engineering education news for April (especially considering the show
aired the beginnning of February) but who’s counting?

I still don’t have a job but I’m trying several different ways to get
the attention of employers.  I haven’t been outright rejected yet,
but I’ve only received one actual offer, not really for a job but
instead for volunteer work to do a new PBS show’s website.  I’m
not really sure if doing that would be a horrible waste of my time or a
great resume builder.

Here’s my profile on LinkedIn.  Please add me as a contact if you know me or have worked with me in the past.