chris.porter

What should I do? Im a web designer and I have trouble with creativity and coming up with ideas at my 9-5 (mostly corporate clients) but when I freelance, ideas come to me in less than 5 minutes (mostly entertainment, music, and small businesses). What's wrong with this picture. What should I do?

Do you think that the corporate work is intimidating me to get creative?

I've already found Cleveland Institute of Art and UPenn. Any other suggestions are fine. Thanks!

I've tried software, but its been so buggy that its no use using it. The software disabled me from sites like facebook, smashingmagazine, lifehacker, and twitter at hours at a time and then open back up for an hour.

Right now, I'm trying an app called Cooktimer, which is set for a 30 minute countdown to do work...and then 2 minutes after that of browsing.

My last choice was either militant force (having someone yell at me for getting off task until I'm almost forced to being fired or losing money)...

I'm trying therapy, which my therapist says i may have a big addiction to the internet, and tech toys, which keeps me unfocused on stuff i need to do...and may need some help on that...

Does anyone have ways of not randomly going to facebook when you have work to be done....

Thanks

This is for new years. My gf is a very novice drinker (a half a shot of 151 will put her on her ***...). She likes to drink very fruity drinks but most fruity drinks are very low in alcohol. I could try to find some good well mixed drinks to put together so here is the question...

+ Good fruity well mixed drinks

or

+ Good fruity drinks I can just buy as is like wine, liquor, or wine coolers

Has to have some type of alcohol content. I don't want her to get full before getting a buzz...

Thanks

I work at a web marketing and design firm and I also freelance. My memory and concentration has been my main weakness since I was 10 years old and it's bothering me today.

I have post its all on my monitor and keyboard telling me things not to do like "Let people know when you are done with a task" or "Always backup, Never Overwrite"..

Then today I messed up on both of those and it cost me time and a worst rep in the office. How can I concentrate better and remember better on things. I use the "Getting Things Done" methods by David Allen so I can empty out all my tasks into my moleskine, but I stress a lot and I do go to psychological therapy once a week.

Should I take Ginkgo biloba?

Any help is great, thanks!

She says that I'm very immature and that I need help. I go to psychological therapy, but I also want to help myself along the way.

Here are some of her (and my godparent's, best friends (if i have any left), and associate's issues with me):

- Talk too much

- Talk too little

- Don't say enough at the right time

- Say too much at the wrong time

- Tell too many people's business

- Cry too much

- Too many excuses

- Refer to my bad childhood to cover for problems

- Flip out over small problems

- Bad concentration

- Bad memory

- Don't have a mind of my own

- Cry about stuff that I need to handle as a man

- Rely on other people to make my decisions for me

- Use people too much

- Don't love myself

- Tell too much of my own business in the wrong setting (around unknown people, work, school, etc)

- Don't appreciate people I need to like people who do stuff for me

- Stress out on too many things

- Take on too many things at the same time

- A bunch of other stuff

Should I do one or more of the following:

- Keep going to therapy

- "Resign" from being my girl's boyfriend

- Stop being social for a while and re-cooperate

- Something else I you think I should do...

Please help... there are many times I have homicidal/suicidal thoughts (for a black guy from the hood)...so any help would be appreciated

(see even my problems leaked on Yahoo Answers!)

We've been together for a month, so some of the general basic stuff has been covered like favorites, past relationships, sex, some politics, and other basic general talk. Is there any detailed conversations I can start with my girl, especially when we are apart (not really far, shes in cleveland at home for the week (my hometown too) and we both stay in pittsburgh).

We both are in school (art institute) and we both are young (im 22 in web design, and shes 19 in fashion retail).

So thats a bit of info. So I hope anyone can come up with some good convo starters. Thanks!

Ok, heres my problem...

When I get bored, I spend money...

but when I want to try to get some college projects done, Im not pumped enough to even start on the work...

After reviewing my mint.com, I went to the ATM 8 times in one week...but with my work/school schedule, most days im out from 9am - 10pm...so i gotta eat...

...but I'm a heavy clubber...and I hate to be bored..

any tips on what I can do to save money and get me to get my work done at the same time...

One tip was for me to get rest on my days off from school (since i don't go to school for two out of the five days). LIke when i come home from work, lay down for a few hours, get up, cook, and then I should have my head cleared to get motivated to do some school work.

If anyone else have any tips, that would be lovely!

I'm doing my taxes with taxcut online (hrblock). I've did freelance web design work and I've put down that I've used my home as a home office and that I used my computer as the place to do my freelancing on. Now I didn't get a 1099, but taxcut is asking for stuff on the 1099 that I don't have. Any help?

How do you make the blue muhfucka?

I heard its a long island ice tea with either blue coracao or hypnotiq on top...

is that true?

And also, what is your favorite drink recipe...i wanna try something new for the females...

thanks

Ok...I was contemplating on either upgrading to Vista Ultimate or switch to Ubuntu.

Now if I go to Ubuntu, I know I would have to use WINE to use Adobe products like Photoshop, Illustrator, etc..and most of the open-source stuff can work on Ubuntu like Firefox, Pidgin, Ktorrent, etc...

But then when I was trying out Vista on my sister's new $600 Dell laptop (installing stuff for her, adjusting settings for her), everything was running smooth on that OS as well. Adobe products worked well, nothing wasn't really going slow, internet was smooth and the whole nine.

When I make money, I make it in loads and then don't have money for like a month (like make $1200 in one day). So when I do get the money, should I buy Vista Ultimate, stay with XP, switch to Ubuntu, or try out that hacked version of Mac OS' Leopard on PC (meaning I would have to upgrade my hardware some)...

http://lifehacker.com/software/hack-attack/build-a...

I wear a size 12-14 tennis shoe/boots and its hard to pick up my feet. Everyone usually can tell when im coming in the room because they can hear me shuffle my feet. My shoes are getting worn out in the heels within two weeks. Is there some way I can learn to pick up my feet?

I'm a very good web/graphic design and very good front end developer (only xhtml and css). My last logic class in college, I got a D in the course and I got a D in my last javascript class and I should of got a D in the database class..but he passed everyone because there were more designers than developers in the class.

So I'm not the logic type....what is a very good way to creep on javascript and actionscript 3. Any good books that I should invest in, a good website, anything I should do first before even jumping into javascript....how long should it take to learn javascript/actionscript 3...learn from tutorials on certain javascript stuff or start with the basics....

I've been trying to learn this for about four years...dealt with it for about six...and I still can't get a hang of it.

I have a javascript from dhtmlgoodies at here:

demo: http://www.dhtmlgoodies.com/scripts/image_slidesho...

javascript:

http://www.dhtmlgoodies.com/scripts/image_slidesho...

Now i'm showing off a product with different styles...now on some i have more than four (which makes it work good) but if I have less than four styles...(like three pictures) and i set the offsetwidth on the javascript to zero..

(imageGalleryWidth = document.getElementById('galleryContainer').offsetWidth - 80;)

the filmstrip jumps when i hover over the right arrow...is there a way for it not to move at all when there is less than four images?

Like i said...i got it to work on four images..it doesnt move...good...but on three..it jumps over to the right..now move gradually...but just jumps..

any help...thanks

Ok, I know how to start fires...lol...but I never had a gas fire place. I just don't wanna fill my house up with smoke, so I want to do it right the first time. What are the steps to starting the gas fireplace. I got the right wood (my landlord supplies the wood).

To let you know, theres the little knob on the front to open the shoot door in the chimney, and theres a knob on the side at the bottom. I guess thats the gas. Then theres a lightswitch like directly on the side of the fireplace also.

Please help...I got some nice lookin ladies with big booties coming over..lol (i know that wasnt neccessary, but I need that fire...lol)

I got the Sprint HTC Mogul smartphone.

I use it for the wifi and calander..but so far, I rarely use any of that because the battery goes dead so fast within half a day.

I've keep all my programs off and do a soft reset everyday.

I also been posting on all types of messages boards thats handheld oriented and none of the help works (got a new PPC6800 w/ new battery; hacked the phone with battery/performance hacks; bad service is what drains the battery; etc). Now I'm down to a few options.

Either trade it in for a new non smartphone for sprint or get an extended battery.

Does anyone have any recommendations?

For almost my entire life, water has been the nastier to me than cough syrup. Don't know why, but the more i get older, it gets a tad bit better. Well now, I have long term gastritis, and my skin stays super dry...any ways of getting into the habit of drinking more water?

They be running all over the place. Like now I see one a day, and they be in my clothes, ironing board, shoes, whatever they can find. I have a few spiders around, so I know they been smashin' them lately, but anything else I should do like rake leaves or something?...lol

Ok, I've had problems before, now its really getting on my nerves...

One the internet doesnt work on my desktop

Two, I dont have a router, its straight hooked up to the modem

Three, the internet works fine on the laptop

Four, I just bought a new NIC card to see if that was the problem...and it still doesnt work

Five, I ran billions of virus scans with like four different virus/spyware scanners, still doesnt work

Is there any other reason why the internet doesnt want to work on my computer, before I spend more money on stuff I don't need...

My temporary roommate just moved out of my house (finally!), and we was running on a router with cable modem just fine with fast speeds. Before that, we were having troubles and we found out it was ip address conflictions (we both were trying to take the same ip address or something).

So now he is gone, he took his router, now im connected straight to the modem (motorola kind). Finally took a while to speed up (sometimes it wouldn't connect at all), but most sites will run fine, others will take super slow. I can't even upload nothing on my online project management system for my web design business. Everytime I upload, it just times out. When i get on the computer at school and try, works fine. If you think its something dealing with ip addesses again or something, please let me know..

thanks