Mike Milo’s Journal

Ah if only I could handle my own problems the way Bugs handles his!

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Funny…Make sure you watch the top one first.

All of these are legitimate companies that didn’t spend  quite enough time to consider how their online name  might appear!   Look at the Business Names and then look at the difference they came out when put together!

These are not made up, You can check them out yourself!

1. ‘Who Represents’ is where you can find the name of the agent that represents any celebrity. Their Web site is:www.whorepresents.co

2. ‘Experts Exchange’ is a knowledge base where programmers can exchange advice and views at:

www.expertsexchange.com

3. Looking for a great pen? Look no further

than ‘Pen Island’. It can be found at:

www.penisland.net

4. Need a therapist? Try ‘Therapist Finder’ at:www.therapistfinder.com

5. Then there’s the ‘Italian Power Generator’

company. Check it out at:

www.powergenitalia.com
6.‘IP computer’ software, there’s always:www.ip_anywhere.com

7. And the designers at ‘Speed of Art’

await you at their wacky Web site:

www.speedofart.com

Have a fun day!

Just be careful what you name YOUR new web site!

What’s wrong with it? In this clip, he’s telling Democrat Chuck Graham to stand up and be recognized. Chuck Graham is a paraplegic. Yikes! I can only imagine the crap he’s going to do if elected!

Haha!

Today if you cruise around the web you’ll find the phrase “We will never forget” posted all over. And yet, I have to ask myself… HAVE we forgotten?

A quick look at the news, the election coverage and the sad state of our country, our dollar and our values tells me we have.
Remember how you felt that morning? How you felt sick inside as you watch in disbelief? Remember when the first plane hit the Tower One? Remember when the second one hit Tower Two? Remember how all meetings stopped? How all work stopped? How no one did anything except watch the TV that day?

Remember the flags flying outside everyone’s homes and the clip on flags eveyone put on their cars?
What about the Republicans and Democrats holding hands and singing together?

What about the thousands of items for purchase that had our flag on it?

Remember how everyone wore the flag and flew it high as a badge of honor? How we all felt pride in our country (some of us for the first time in our lives)?

Have you bought a flag lately or has it become “lame” again as it was on Sept 10th 2001?

Remember Jay Leno and David Letterman crying on television and how they didn’t say anything funny for weeks? Remember how you felt when you watched those towers burning and the sick wrenching feeling you got when you found out it was done on PURPOSE?

Remember how we had the anthrax attacks afterwards and how everyone was so frightened about everyone and everything?

Remember how it felt to get on a plane after that horrifying day? Or what it felt like to watch helpless as our economy stalled and still has not rebound yet as a result?

Remember the endless films, shows, documentaries and news footage that played the days over and over again and the sick feeling watching those poor people jump from the buildings?

Remember the black box recordings from the planes that they released?

I remember it all.

I remember every time I’m forced to wait in two hour lines at the airport. I remember every time I see some soldier has died in Iraq. I remember every time I look at my business and how it’s changed since 9/11.

I remember how 90% of my colleagues went without work that year because no one created the next season of cartoons out of fear.

I remember every time I STILL struggle to pay bills that I incurred from the entire year I was jobless as a result of 9/11.

I remember how the tides turned on us artists that year as well and how the studios started to lower our salaries to the point where we make about 2/3 of what we made just 8 years ago yet work twice as hard and twice as fast.

For one short year our country felt as one. We felt connected. We felt and knew each others pain. We felt proud to be an American.

No one laughed at that song that year.

I’m Proud the Be an American.

Tell me this… do you still feel proud?

I do.

9/11: I WILL NEVER FORGET.

Photoshop was the first program I used on a computer. I loved it. It worked so well.

Times change.

Adobe has turned into a retarded behomoth with no common sense at all.

There are many, many, many reasons why I hate Adobe… Flash is buggy and more bloated than ever. They made an update which really gives you nothing much except some crappy filters that look like a dog threw up on the screen….Acrobat STILL takes ridiculously long to open… Premiere is a joke compared to Final Cut Pro… Dreamweaver was better before Adobe messed with it… ( and it wasn’t that great then either)… Illustrator? Eh. Integration? Suuuuure. try opening an Illustrator file in Flash. HAH! Did I mention that Acrobat STILL takes ridiculously long to open???????

How about this one? (more…)

In my never ending search to point out people who know nothing about pricing of art and projects, here is yet another clueless fella. Not my client by the way, but a post I found on one of the freelance websites for artists.

This is an awful lot of work to do for less than $200! My favorite part is how specific the guy is so he must know what goes into it, yet he wants to pay so little. Kinda sad that he would cheat his own fellow professionals. Then again maybe I think too much of the work I do. (more…)

Well I pitched my cartoon to CN today and they passed on it stating that it skewed too young.
Oh well… I’m still proud of how it came out. If you’d like to see it check out the storyboard.

I like this idea too much to let it go though and I really think I would like to make a graphic novel with it. We’ll see…