I would look back on this week and wonder why I didn’t write something to mark this occasion. So here I go. Please pardon the horn-tooting.

When I was 13 years old, I watched a commercial for the Academy Of Art College in San Fransisco, CA. I saw all the twenty-somethings smiling and laughing as they used draft paper and old-ass computers to design cars and buildings. It looked like the life I wanted, especially compared to my reality of being stuck in a reform school for trouble making teens such as myself. My ticket to a bright future was waiting for me in San Fransisco, and I was going to be rich, famous, and a million people would see my work. I was going to be the next Picasso or Warhol.

I could never have predicted how any of that would come true, but this week I achieved one third of my goal, and then some.

No, I didn’t become rich, or even famous. But thanks to the World Wide Web, 2.1 million people have seen my work on Facebook. Thanks to all the perverts in the United States, an amazing development team, (whom I will not name unless they want me to), and the awesome people on FB,  the Facebook Sex Offender Search Application, which I designed the interface for, has been wildly successful.

Now I know this isn’t as noble as dying first, then getting a million people to see my work but it’s nothing to shake a stick at. As you read this, future Rob, I hope this finds you rich and famous as well. I’m already 31, you old bastard, you better have kept busy. I don’t want to be busting my hump when I’m 50.

One childhood dream down, 2 more to go.

Ok, that’s enough self-stroking for now. Back to work.

Show Me Some Love If I Deserve It!

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