get your geek on!

so today i went to a two part seminar on adobe cs2, and the moving from quark and advantages of adobe indesign and boy, was it worth it! 7 hours well spent. adobe definitely has its shit together and they are doing a pretty fantastic job showing how pathetic and useless quark is. quark, is what it is, an "80's" program, becoming outdated and hopefully soon to be obsolete. they can take as much time as they want becoming more modern. meanwhile adobe is 50 steps ahead. in a few years, i don't think anyones going to care or remember quark. kinda like cds tapes. you know, before iPods, mp3 players and CDs? i seriously couldn't believe what i was seeing and i can totally believe the stories sebastian, the adobe rep, told about bringing some people to tears after his presentation. TWICE. one lady because she just realized how much time she was wasting and how much easier and less stressfull her life could be, being a graphic designer, and another chap who literally had a breakdown now seeing with his boss, how his job was now absolutely worthless (basically to organize files in a certain way that quark couldn't do on it's own before giving them to the designers). don't worry, his employer found another role for him. he didn't get fired.

printing companies are forcing us to use quark because they are too cheap to change over and disinterested in learning the new program. well, eventually they aren't going to have a choice! suck it up, printers. deal with it! welcome to the future.

"isn't that nasty?!"
sebastian distefano

but yeah, i definitely recommend going to any seminars you can, on anything. i'm pretty sure apple has regular seminars on how to use OSX etc. so i would check that out if i were you. it can only make life of using programs easier and the easy life a apple computers even easier. even if you think you know everything, trust me, there's always something. it also helps to have an amazing presentor like i had. beware though. if you go to a specialized seminar like the one i went to, don't be startled at the amount of zealots in the audience ooooooooooooooing, awwwwwwwwwwwwwing, giggling, and applauding and kissing the feet of the presentor. you'd almost think you were in somekind of orgy! maybe that's what it really was? but to get in you have to have a laptop, glasses, calculator and pocket protector. a slight snort in your laugh and the ability speak a television sudo-language is recommended. it's a weird scene. needless to say, i got in.

in other unrelated news, george clooney is taking over toronto.

oh, and i dodged a punch from a drunk.