1 Good message

I like your comments. It reminds me of the book The Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi.

posted at 07:29 am on February 2, 2004 by Carl Brightman

2 Twin Peaks

What show best describes my web design experience? Twin Peaks (those who saw it, could never forget it!)

Why? Because everytime I think I have it figured out, the plot changes.

posted at 07:30 am on February 2, 2004 by Jeff Hanlon

3 E.R.

Definately E.R. – because either my employer or my clients always seem to be on life support, and the cast keeps changing too.

(current employer excepted)

posted at 07:48 am on February 2, 2004 by Chris ODonnell

4 X-Files

‘Cause everyday i learn something new “out there” …

posted at 08:19 am on February 2, 2004 by na

5 Which Show?

I’d say my experience is less like a particular show and more like any Clint Eastwood movie. Just when you think it’s over and you’re all done, you realize you’re only halfway there.

posted at 08:54 am on February 2, 2004 by MIchael Lovett

6 Futurama

My boss/designer still doesn’t quite get designing for the web and he has been doing it for years. He still can’t get that an easy change in Photoshop really can break everything.

Right now it would be closest to Futurama. The boss is mostly incompetent, but what he is good at, he does marvelous things with (marketing strategy mostly). He at least used to think his crew was easily replaced (until everyone but myself quit one day). I am paid to sit around and follow his whims, much like the crew of the Planet Express. However since I am still pursuing school, it is nice, in that it allows me to build more professional experience, pay for tuition, toys and what have you. Also I’ve looked, if I change jobs right now, it will most likely be to a fast food joint and not web development.

posted at 09:18 am on February 2, 2004 by Dwight Tel'Aviv

7 Unforgiven

“Deserve’s got nothin’ to do with it.” and “We all have it coming”.

posted at 09:55 am on February 2, 2004 by soxiam

8 Six Feet Under

The show:
Every episode something dies, but something new is built (or discovered) from the relationships that remain.

The job:
Nearly every project is spawned from the death of an existing web asset and is built (in part) from the relationships and information that remain.

Of course, a wacky cast of neurotic characters is present in both.

posted at 10:43 am on February 2, 2004 by jerel

9 wild palms

a great show.
> short
> futuristic
> incomprehensible
Much like my career at the moment…

posted at 10:50 am on February 2, 2004 by fred M

10 The Prisoner

Especially if you advocated Web standards in the early days before the rise of Mac IE5, Mozilla 1 and Safari. (For me this was 1998, after discovering the work of Zeldman.)

Think about it. You’re this nameless cog trapped in a system that everyone abuses. You keep waiting and searching for your chance to escape and do things the way you’ve always wanted to do them, but by the end of every episode you’re caught and forced to endure more insanity by the start of the next design project.

Finally your stubborness is vindicated (Perhaps you’ve decided to go into business for yourself to design sites the way you want to design them.) but in confusing and surprising ways. You’ve escaped into this new situation (CSS, XML and XHTML support.) but still find constraints that you didn’t expect.

posted at 11:27 am on February 2, 2004 by Mr. Farlops

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