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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010The details:
I need an intern who can build and maintain a website unrelated to wordpress or blogger. You know, like a for really reals website. Once it’s built, you’ll need to do some minimal update stuff here and there. This is a computer job so you don’t need to live nearby but you do need to have patience as my internet incompetence can be dumbfounding at times.
Why would you do this?
It’s something to put on yer resume and I heard through the grape juice that that kinda stuff is important. The work you’ll be doing can be credited as work for a major publisher and that’s fancy I guess.
What will you get?
yes, internships mean no money, but I will supplement that with free books and, if you trust me, razor free baked goods. You’ll also get credit on the site and in printed books.
If interested and would like the boring, businessy details, please email me at juliawertz(at)gmail(dot)com with the word INTERN in the subject line. Please include samples of sites you’ve built or any other relevant information.
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January 26th, 2010 at 5:34 pm
“I am [s]retarded[/s] not so smart” is the best thing ever.
Finding someone good at the internets should be easy when one is on said internets. I’m just worried about the flood your inbox is about to receive.
January 26th, 2010 at 7:48 pm
i would totally do it!
if i had even a semblance of internet savvy to my name.
alas, i’m doubting i know even half of what you know.
good luck though. i think you’ve earned it.
January 26th, 2010 at 8:34 pm
Sorry,
You will notice please that I have no website. I can plug the wires together and make 2.4 GHZ dance tho.
dlt
January 26th, 2010 at 11:21 pm
This has nothing to do with the above topic, but I just wanted to say you’re awesome….and my T-Mobile customers (I work for T-Mobile customer care) probably don’t appreciate the fact that I’m too distracted by your amazing comics to pay a half shit’s worth of attention to them! Thanks for making my job more fun!
January 27th, 2010 at 12:59 am
Don’t kill it tho! Part of the charm of your stuff is the DIY feel of the site, which really goes well with the comics. Your awesome content will always sell itself, and you don’t want to distract with flashy graphics. Hmm, or maybe I’m completely wrong. Maybe I should get an intern too.
January 27th, 2010 at 9:39 am
“pictoores” i loled
January 27th, 2010 at 11:39 am
I would love a toot
January 27th, 2010 at 7:56 pm
Hi! I just finished Fart Party 2. Now I’m also addicted to Laura Park. I read most of her comics on Flickr while I was at work, half-listening for an hour to a crazy Vietnam veteran talk — no shit — about losing his doubloons to the Kaiser back in the 1800s. We take all claims seriously…even batshit crazy ones.
So you’re like a drug dealer, but you push talented cartoonists like Laura instead of coke. Either way you put me in touch with the stuff I need to make my job bearable. Thanks!
January 27th, 2010 at 8:23 pm
That is the best letter I’ve read! You go Wertz!
January 27th, 2010 at 8:46 pm
This is the cutest thing I’ve read all day.
I also bet your inbox is full right now.
January 28th, 2010 at 7:53 am
julia, so YOU are responsible for T-mobile having the worst customer service??? goddamn. next time i hear their “please hold for the next available representative” i’ll think of you. not in a good way.
January 28th, 2010 at 9:16 am
Web development *is* what I do for a living.. but I am kind of lazy..
January 28th, 2010 at 3:43 pm
All of t.v. even non-U.S.A. stuff is on t.p.b., isohunt, or mininova. Use Vuze (bt client downloads bts). Also, read the comments to be sure your are getting a decent download and check that there are plenty of seeders on your btz before you hit download.
Standard search parlance includes,
Season 1 episode 1 = S01E1
Season 1 episode 13 = S01E13
Almost anything will play on Video Lan Client, videolan.org/
In Vuze right click on bts that have finished downloading and choose show in explorer.
There are more complex topics like playing bt ROMs covered on YouTube tutorials.
I’ve been caught stealing once when I was five…
January 28th, 2010 at 8:58 pm
sidereel!
You can watch all tv for free! Just 3-10 hours later.
January 28th, 2010 at 10:05 pm
the new interns first responsibility should be a super sweet guest comic.
January 29th, 2010 at 1:45 pm
Why don’t you want it to operate off of wordpress? Seems like you just need a more user friendly wordpress theme. Or did you want groovy flash animations where you have to click on your ass to enter and it makes a fart sound?
January 30th, 2010 at 12:53 pm
Wow, I LOVE the Muggie Maggie reference.
February 1st, 2010 at 12:51 am
Every single post on here seems to be unrelated to helping you find someone to build your website. I just wanted to make a recommendation - if you have trouble finding someone you should try an art/graphic design school. You can post it in internship listings. It’s a great way to get some free work and since grades are depending on it - the students tend to be pretty reliable. Just a thought.
I know that we have had graphic design interns from MCAD (Minneapolis College of Art and Design) and it has been pretty successful.
February 2nd, 2010 at 11:43 pm
I’d be able to help you Julia, but I’d just need to know what you need. As far as I can tell you just want the same layout/presentation without having to use blogger or wordpress, right?
February 4th, 2010 at 12:04 pm
Don’t forget - in software development, as in most things, you get what you pay for and you pay for what you get. Be VERY picky about your intern’s proclaimed abilities and make sure you thoroughly lay out all the terms of the engagement.
As a software engineer, I can tell you that cheap and/or free projects, while having the benefit of being cheap and/or free, often produce predictably bad results for the client.
If you do proceed with the project, be sure to charge yourself something each time you ask your intern for a feature. That way you don’t inadvertently fall into the trap of abusing your free help. Trust me, it happens frequently in these situations.
For what it’s worth…