deviantART: by:TGormTX http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:TGormTX&section=today deviantART RSS for by:TGormTX en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:18:51 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png Wow... there is a first for everything http://TGormTX.deviantart.com/journal/12983671/ http://TGormTX.deviantart.com/journal/12983671/ Wed, 16 May 2007 22:01:55 PDT
For the first since I joined DA... I just got my own userpage when I clicked the random deviant link.

What are the odds of that?

]]> ~TGormTX Whoohoo... 4.000... http://TGormTX.deviantart.com/journal/8176944/ http://TGormTX.deviantart.com/journal/8176944/ Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:02:47 PST

Listening to: Swayzak

Whoohooo.... 4,000 views of my page.

Thanks to all that watch and visit. There are many people with many more than 4,000... I plan to catch up.

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]]> ~TGormTX Damnit http://TGormTX.deviantart.com/journal/7647009/ http://TGormTX.deviantart.com/journal/7647009/ Thu, 19 Jan 2006 09:44:25 PST

Listening to: Static-X - Dirthouse

DAMNIT!!!!

For the second year in a row, I remember my :devart: birthday prior to it, but have again FORGOTTEN it. What the hell!??! I even had a feeling on Tuesday that I was missing something.

Fuck it.




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]]> ~TGormTX New Project http://TGormTX.deviantart.com/journal/7175908/ http://TGormTX.deviantart.com/journal/7175908/ Tue, 29 Nov 2005 11:09:38 PST

Mood: Headache Feeling Ill
Listening to: Korn - Another Brick in the Wall (Parts 1,2,3)

As some of you may or may not know. I have, for quite some time, been looking to find a domain name that I can put complete effort in to. My first domain was threepointoneonline.com. I thought the name was clever and interesting, but it turned into just being crap and a hassle. If I'd tell someone my e-mail address, there would be 20 questions as to how to spell it. Was it numbers or words or both? Was it [link] or [link] or blah blah blah. All the hassle made me loss interest in the site all together.

My next domain was fallingupstudios.com. It never got developed. I still love the concept. It was going to house my professional aspect of my life. It would have been built to exhibit my portfolio and resume to bring me work and money. Since then, I have been working with a fantastic web firm and no longer needed a website to promote myself. fallingupstudios.com is still not being developed.

My next evolution is a work in progress. It's a domain of my name: ctgormley.com. I've been having problem brainstorming themes and ideas for the development of ctgormley.com. Having the e-mail address alone are great, and I've given my brother is own subdomain and space. (We share the same initials CTG) However, I'm still at a loss for the design and theme, so it's remained only as a Wordpress backed half assed blog.

So here it is. My new project. A project I can put my full efforts into building. Today I bought the domain "thatguyontheweb.com" It's clever, catchy, and easy to remember. For some reason though, my registration of it is taking forever. The replication to the DNS servers is taking more than an hour or two, which is dragging my initial design drive to a slow down.

Anyway... I am now:



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]]> ~TGormTX Hell of a night http://TGormTX.deviantart.com/journal/6948926/ http://TGormTX.deviantart.com/journal/6948926/ Thu, 03 Nov 2005 20:58:33 PST Mood: Enthusiastic Stoked
Listening to: KRIM - Atmosphere (www.krimonline.com)

For those of you that know me... I like to play poker. For the last couple years or so, the main rock station (102.1 KDGE The Edge) here in Dallas has been holding a poker tournament. They give away the seats to play over the air, or you can get a seat by showing up on gameday and entering in the raffle. They keep 20 seats open for the raffle plus any seats of onair winners that don't show.

Anyway, I've won a seat in the opening rounds everyway possible. I won one by winning the online raffle that they don't do anymore. I won a seat onair, and I have played by showing up for the raffle a few times. Last night was one of those nights, and up until last night I lost everytime. My best night was third at the table (10 players per table, so I took third) which absolutely jackshit.

Without boring you with more boring details. I won my table last night. I was pretty stoked over that. I was losing bad for a solid hour. Then around 8pm and my third beer, I picked it up. I ended up taking out 7 of the players at the table. I wasn't even really trying. I was just looking to get free practice in.

So now, I get to come back and play in the Finals in June. The winner of the finals gets to go to Las Vegas for a week, hotel, air, everything paid for. Here's the main, primary, and sweetaest part of it. The station will pay the $10,000 entry fee into the World Series of Poker. If I win, I'll have the chance to play with the best poker players in the world and have my ass handed to me on a silver platter. At least the drinks are free.

But, if I can muster a decent showing, I might be able to make it to the money. The top 10% get money, but there's 4,000 - 6,000 players. First place this year took home more than $7 million dollars. That's nuts.

Wish me luck.

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Save the Alien
]]> ~TGormTX Of all things... http://TGormTX.deviantart.com/journal/6558812/ http://TGormTX.deviantart.com/journal/6558812/ Tue, 20 Sep 2005 20:52:34 PDT The American Red Cross

Mood: Enthusiastic Stoked
Listening to: Nine Inch Nails - Only

First, today was starting out all too great. I woke up late. No food in the house for breakfast. I had a Flash projct that was giving me issues.

Wasn't going to great. But around 1pm, I finally got the energy to get some food. My grandparents were coming into town for two weeks, and I just had a gut feeling, so I drove over to their usual hotel. They had just pulled up to get a room. Days getting better. Unfortunately, most of the entire place was booked up because of Katrina, so they had to settle for a single double bed room. They can't stay on a upper story because my grandma is on oxygen, so they need to have a first floor. Anyway, they haven't eaten yet, so it kinda works out, but by the time we eat... the whole afternoon is shot, and I haven't gotten any work done.

Anyway, I get home around 4:45pm and check e-mail. I see an e-mail from mySpace.com Promotions. About a month ago, mySpace.com did a promotion with Nine Inch Nails to give away 10 tickets to each of their cencerts on the current tour. I won the promotion for the Dallas date. So now, I get to take 9 friends to NIN with Queens of the Stone Age and watch the whole thing from a VIP Suite at American Airlines. How stoked am I?

Just goes to show that the day doesn't always finish like it starts.

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Save the Alien
]]> ~TGormTX People Suck http://TGormTX.deviantart.com/journal/6495272/ http://TGormTX.deviantart.com/journal/6495272/ Thu, 15 Sep 2005 16:12:19 PDT The American Red Cross

Mood: Mad Aggitated as hell
Listening to: ICP & Marz - Fuck Dem

Yeah... so I woke up early today about 8:45am. If you know me... you know that is damn early. (Benefits of working from home.) I got up early so I could get some serious hours into work today, being the last day of the pay period and all. I decided to run down the street and get myself a breakfast smoothie... something I haven't had in a long time. I get to my car, which I had for only a few months, and the window is popped out of place, I'm missing the panelling to the top part fo the door. SOME ASSHOLE TRIED TO BREAK INTO MY CAR. I was calm because they didn't succeed. The only thing they could have gotten was a stock Honda stereo and my cheap ass radar detector, and maybe a few CDs that I have copies of in iTunes. I was telling my friend Mark about it all, he mentioned something interesting. When someone broke into his car for the stereo and items, they busted the window out. They didn't care about his car; my window was intact. They were after the car itself. I drive a 1997 Honda Accord, which apparently is high on the theft list. Great, I got rid of a truck that nobody want to get a car that every crook wants.

So anyway, after going to the police station to make a report, where they didn't even fingerprint the window, I went looking for a bodyshop to get an estimate. I stopped at this place on Beltiine in Farmers Branch. The guy looked at it and got another guy to look at it. Now this next comment may seem worse than it is, but in no means is. Both the guys were oriental, and the whole time they weren't speaking English. I was watching them as they were fiddling with the computer to make the quote. They were adding things that had nothing to do with the damage... like the mirror. So the final quote was just under $500. I told them, "That's ridiculous. It's too high, and there's no way I'd pay that much." They asked if I was paying or the insurance company. Of course, I don't need the insurance going up on me filing a claim, so I'm paying for it. They immediately lowered it to $110 when they knew I was paying. WHAT A BUNCH OF FUCKING SCAMMERS. I reported them to the district attorney's office because that is blatant insurance fraud.

So I stopped at a couple of different places on my way home, not even getting my smoothie. Two places quotes me around $100 to $150 which with hourly rate differences makes sense. One place said I could do it myself for $20-$30. I just needed to buy the part from a Hoonda dealership and put it on.... So tomorrow I'll run up to a Honda dealership and see what they think.

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Save the Alien
]]> ~TGormTX Devious Journal Entry http://TGormTX.deviantart.com/journal/6458268/ http://TGormTX.deviantart.com/journal/6458268/ Fri, 09 Sep 2005 11:51:31 PDT The American Red Cross

Mood: Busy Being productive
Listening to: Splender - Monotone
Reading: George Carlin - Braindroppings

A couple weeks ago, I finally started getting some shit done with my network of sites. I finally broke down and bought a name domain to build, CTGormley.com. My current host, 3essentials.com, is one hell of a host. I upgraded my hosting from a single domain to a multi domain. The cost/benefit ratio was in my corner greatly. I can now host up to 10 domains on this account and have 2.5GB at my disposal.

I will soon be chenging the structure around. Threepointoneonline.com will soon host only my technical dabblings such as code and other things dealing with technology. FallngUpStudios.com, which I've had for a year and did nothing with, will become my portfolio and web design domain. I will use it for my freelance and things like that. CTGormley.com will be my personal site and will be the center to the structure. CTGormley.com will host my artwork and occassional blog, as well as anything else that might fit.

Finally, as many others have, please use this link to donate to the Red Cross. I know a few people that have had to deal with the effects of Hurricane Katrina, the worst natural disaster to hit the U.S. ever. Please donate. If you can't donate money, donate your time and volunteer, give blood, donate old clothes, old furniture. Something.

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Thomas main account | photography/stock account
t h r e e p o i n t o n e o n l i n e . c o m

]]> ~TGormTX Words of Wisdom http://TGormTX.deviantart.com/journal/4871697/ http://TGormTX.deviantart.com/journal/4871697/ Mon, 21 Mar 2005 12:00:31 PST
A priest walks by the hole, and the guy yells, "Father! I'm stuck in this hole. Can you help me out?" The priest writes a prayer and throws it into the hole.

A friend walks by the hole, and the guy yells, "Joe! I'm stuck in this hole. Can you help me out?" His firends jumps into the hole with him.

"What are you doing, Joe? Now we're both in this hole," says the guy.

His friend replies, "I know. But I've been in this hole before, and I know the way out."

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I've been away from posting to DA for a while. I have been in a lock for inspiration and have other matters to contend with. I'm on my way back and will start posting again. Thanks to my firends out there.

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t h r e e p o i n t o n e o n l i n e . c o m ]]> ~TGormTX Today's Forecast: 30% Chance of Falling Xmas Trees http://TGormTX.deviantart.com/journal/4179732/ http://TGormTX.deviantart.com/journal/4179732/ Tue, 28 Dec 2004 18:30:57 PST
It's mid afternoon and I take the tree out of the stand and haul it to my truck. I don't bother strapping it down because I've never had to before. I'm driving down the turnpike about 70mph and no problems. But then I need to take the exit to merge with I-35. This exit ramp is about 200 to 250 feet above the interstate. I'm cruising along listening to Green Day's Blvd of Broken Dreams not even aware that the wind is gusting pretty high along this overpass. And poof...the tree disappears.

By time I realize it's gone and have a place I can pull over, I'm a half-mile away from the tree. So I get out of the truck and jog all the way back this 250 foot high high speed bridge. I grab the tree and drag it al the way back and while I am doing this, there are cars, trucks, vans, semis, buses and everything else flying be me on the two lane bridge at 70mph. If you've ever stopped on the side of a highway for any reason, you know that when a big semi-truck passes you going that fast, it creates a bit of a disturbance in the air. When you add this disturbance to the already gusting wind, it becomes really hard to hold onto a tree and not get blown off the overpass.

But I survived and tied the tree down in the truck for the rest of the trip. All this just to do the right thing and not throw it in the dumpster. Yeah me.

I'm actually reallt happy it'll be another year before I have to worry about that again.

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t h r e e p o i n t o n e o n l i n e . c o m
"And I says to the guy, 'I ain't sticking around for this shitstorm!'" ]]> ~TGormTX OMFG http://TGormTX.deviantart.com/journal/4050366/ http://TGormTX.deviantart.com/journal/4050366/ Sun, 12 Dec 2004 13:52:56 PST
Never thought it would happen.

Yah! ]]> ~TGormTX Good Changes and a New Account http://TGormTX.deviantart.com/journal/3936255/ http://TGormTX.deviantart.com/journal/3936255/ Sun, 28 Nov 2004 01:24:25 PST *Update on last entry*
My new webhost is finally up and running completely. My goal is to have a new website up and running in a few days, but work comes first.

Also, I feel a litle more inspiration coming to me lately. I took a trip for the holidays to Wyoming and started taking photos again, which I'll get to in a second. The break really helped me refresh myself.

*New News*
Over the last few weeks, I have taken a renewed interest in photography and taking pictures in general. It's a hobby I let fall away a long time ago. I used to enjoy and love it, but let other things take it's place. I think it's time to bring it back.

I created a new account just to host my photography. I wanted to eep it seperate from this account because I plan on many, many photographs. Plus, I am offering this photos as stock too. Please check it out and tell me what you think: ~fotog. I was actually surprised this name was available.

Enjoy my work, and I encourage all commenting on my photos as well as my deviations on this account.

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t h r e e p o i n t o n e o n l i n e . c o m
"And I says to the guy, 'I ain't sticking around for this shitstorm!'" ]]> ~TGormTX Changes... http://TGormTX.deviantart.com/journal/3883228/ http://TGormTX.deviantart.com/journal/3883228/ Sun, 21 Nov 2004 02:43:47 PST
Couple of things have been going on lately in my neck of the woods. Good and bad and the only ugly part being me. I guess I'll start my rantings with the bad and wrap it up with the good.

The Bad.
I feel as though I have absolutly no inspiration anymore. It's gone, wiped out, null and void. This has gone unchanged in months. I don't work on vectors, I have like 20 unfinshed attempts. The only web interfaces I have been working on have been for work... and I feel as though they are worthless designs even though the clients like them. I even found my digital camera and haven't had any inclination to go shoot things.

This one definitely takes the cake lately. Two weeks ago my host decided to crash its servers. All of them. Including mail. So it's anyone's guess as to how many jobs or letters I have lost in the last two weeks. To make things worse, my domain transfer seems to be taking FOREVER, but I think it'll be complete early this week. I hope. After I get that back up a running, I hop to be able get my new one up. It's called Falling Up Studios. I wanted something a little more formal than just "freelance portfolio."

Another thing that is bothering me lately. I haven't been able to control my sleep habits like I used to. I used to be able to say I'm going to bed, or i am waking up to do something. I could control how many hours I slept; often without using an alarm clock. Not so much lately. Maybe it has to do with the fact I don't have my waterbed anymore. I have been sleeping on a futon in my parents' spare room.

That's another thing. I am still living with my parents after moving back to Dallas. I had planned to be out by September at the latest. But now it looks like it'll be the third week in December. My friend's lease ends then, so we should be able to find a house by then. I hope getting full freedom back will help my short comings in design. But even this housing plan looks like it mught fall because our third friend is wasting time getting a job to pay the bills. I can't cover me and someone else.

Yet another, I had really been looking forward to the Dallas devMEET today and what happened? I missed it because I didn't wake up. I didn't set my arm because I forgot to. I went to bed at 6 in the morning. So I'm kicking my own ass for missing it.

And I have to replace my truck's tires.


The Good.
The design company that has been outsourcing to me has decided to guarantee me a set salary every month for the next year. It's only $1200 a month, but I have only been averaging 10-15 hours of work a week. They also want me to be on the same plane with them software-wise, so they bought a copy of Macromedia Studio MX 2004 for me. I had been using a not so legal copy of Studio MX. They also wanted to make sure I had appropriate hardware, so they bought me a new laptop. It's a HP 2.8 Ghz P4, 512 MB RAM (upgradable to 2 GB), 80GB HD, 17" widescreen LCD, GeForce Video, Soundblaster Audio, builtin wireless 802.11g WLAN. This laptop kicks some major tail, and after six months it becomes my property. I really lucked into this whole deal. They're also allowing me a kinda expense account for buying books to help increase skill level.

I'm flying to northern Wyoming this week to see my grandparents for Thanksgiving. I'm hoping that it snows a little, or lot, to help me feel refreshed. I am a snow lover and don't get to be around it too much living in Dallas. I'm taking my new laptop and my digital camera and hopefully something will trigger. With my new mobility, I am starting to get some kind of spark going a little; I can put myself somewhere that promotes my thinking.


Ok, that's enough for now. I actually feel better. I think. :)

Catch ya later,
Thomas :headbang: ]]> ~TGormTX i never.... http://TGormTX.deviantart.com/journal/2378903/ http://TGormTX.deviantart.com/journal/2378903/ Fri, 07 May 2004 12:46:40 PDT
Directions: Simply Bold the statements that are true. This means that the ones left unbolded have happened to you.

i never kissed anyone
i never have been dumped
i never shoplifted
i never have been fired
i never have been in a fist fight
i never had a threesome
i never snuck out of my parents house
i never have been arrested (3 times, story of the second time)
i never made out with a stranger
i never stole something from my job
i never went on a blind date
i never have been to Europe
i never lied to a friend
i never had a crush on a teacher
i never skipped school
i never slept with a co-worker
i never purposly set a part of myself on fire
i never have eaten sushi
i never have been snowboarding
i never have seen star wars
i never have had sex with a friend
i never almost died

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Thomas [link]
t h r e e p o i n t o n e o n l i n e . c o m ]]> ~TGormTX Scorpion's Bite http://TGormTX.deviantart.com/journal/2321478/ http://TGormTX.deviantart.com/journal/2321478/ Thu, 29 Apr 2004 03:24:57 PDT
I was tired of looking at my other entry, so here's this one. :headbang:

t h r e e p o i n t o n e o n l i n e . c o m ]]> ~TGormTX Use Your Turn Signal http://TGormTX.deviantart.com/journal/2109088/ http://TGormTX.deviantart.com/journal/2109088/ Mon, 29 Mar 2004 13:49:11 PST
This past Friday was going just like any other Friday. We were going to have a party as we always do. Alison came over around 8:30, so we could get to Crossed Keys before they closed at 9. I always go to the Keys cause they always hook me up with a great deal. For those that don't know, I live in a dry county and the only beer stores are 20 minutes out of town. They're all lined up in a row like Vegas, hence their nickname...The Strip.

Anyway, we're cruising down the highway, not even speeding, and get to the waiting line for the intersection to the Strip. A fucking state trooper pulls up next to us, obviously seeing the two empty keg shells in the back of my truck. He tells me to pull into a nearby carlot. The only reason he pulled me over was because I didn't use my blinker to change lanes with no one on the raod two miles back. He comes up asks for license and all that, but he notices that the cover to my steering column has been ripped off. I ripped it off a two years ago...in March. He starts asking me questions about the truck; he thinks I stole it. If I was going to steala truck, I would find a better one than mine. Anyway, I didn't have my license on me...because it's suspended.

So I'm sitting in his truck waiting for him to check out my background and whether or not the truck is mine. He finally gets what he wants and lets me know I am coming with him. Fucker. There's goes my night of getting thrashed. Instead, I get a visit to Lubbock COunty Lockup. I get to the jail at 9pm and don't get out until 2:30pm Saturday. That is way too much time to be spending in jail. My cell had two domestic violence, one assault with a deadly weapon, one drunken disorderly and a guy that was busted for running out of a beer store with a case of Busch. If you're going to try to steal a case, get some Coors of Bud.

Not the greatest night of my life.

I was even beginning to worry about getting out in time to start work at the Beer Garden. I was going to get fired before I even worked a minute. That would have made this weekend the weekend of the century.

But I made it the bar, and it looks like I will enjoy working there. It seems pretty laid back and casual. We even almost had a fight break out around one. Some guy bought some other guy's girl a drink. Hell, if she was my girl and the guy knew she was with me, I'd let him buy the drink: 1) he's making it cheaper for me, 2) he's helping me get her drunk. But, nothing happened; we defused the situation.

Well, I suppose I should quit writing and get my ass to the bail bondsman to fill out some paperwork.

By the way, every section on the site, except for feedback, has stuff in it. Check it all out and see if you have any ideas. And buy something from the store.

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Thomas ]]> ~TGormTX St. Patty's Day http://TGormTX.deviantart.com/journal/2032899/ http://TGormTX.deviantart.com/journal/2032899/ Wed, 24 Mar 2004 12:32:08 PST
"Shut your fat ass Rainy! I can't buy a pack of smokes without running into nine guys you fucked!"


Love that movie

:TGormTX: ]]> ~TGormTX Sick of the Mediocrity http://TGormTX.deviantart.com/journal/2030502/ http://TGormTX.deviantart.com/journal/2030502/ Wed, 17 Mar 2004 13:32:48 PST
If we continue to lick the lollipop of mediocrity, then we are going to suck forever. ]]> ~TGormTX Rude People http://TGormTX.deviantart.com/journal/1831430/ http://TGormTX.deviantart.com/journal/1831430/ Thu, 12 Feb 2004 02:53:40 PST
There are some real jackasses out there. This guy - ~d120l-t120l - has no understandable of the freedom of expression. He posted a few derrogatory comments on my 9-11 pieces.
It's not that I can't take criticism. I can and request it readily. But if you can't say something constructive, then keep your goddamn comments to yourself.

If anyone's with me, give me a woo-ha!

Either way, screw that guy...I'm going to have a great day. :headbang:

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Thomas ]]> ~TGormTX