Travis F. Smith's Personal Home Page: Who is Travis Smith and What's on This Site?

Who is Travis Smith and What's on This Site?

I'm one of the founders of Hop Studios, a Web design and development company with clients in the United States and Canada.

You may simply want to contact me or learn about me.

My resume is available in a bewildering variety of formats. You could try to hire me, but I'm already happy doing what I'm doing now.

Writing

I write often. I write a personal column (aka blog) that I update every few days -- the latest is Dear Dad, posed on Apr. 20, 2008.

I've written for the Los Angeles Times, Variety, OJR... but nothing recently as a freelancer. I also write several blogs: one with interesting links I find, and one interesting quotes I like. And I write for Metroblogging Vancouver.

Photography

I take photos of many people, places and things. I also post many pictures on Flickr, where I am the administrator of several group pools.

Daily Trojan Alumni

I administer the DTLink, an accounting I've compiled of the current bios of more than 2,100 alumni from the Daily Trojan, USC's student newspaper. That site is currently on hold, until I can find a better system for handling updates.

Other Wacky Stuff

There's this chronicle I keep of folks' foibles at "I Have a Friend Who ...". You can suggest one.

I developed several two-player JavaScript games (tic tac toe and connect 4). They're fun, and very well thought out. The design is circa 1997.

How do you say "@" in any language? Find out, on this page.

Old Stuff

Back when I was a student at USC, I wrote a weekly column called Half Past Deadline. I've also written a simple story about a cat, and I'm pretty sure someone stole the idea and made a bad, cheap, straight-to-video movie based on it.

Buy your Amazon.com books, music and other stuff via my site, and I'll smile all the way to the bank, because I get a cut of the sale. It's win-win.

Canadian Jokes

The Great Canadian Comeback Page might make you laugh or think a bit -- it's a list of witty answers to the occasional idiotic American barb. (If you want a good barb, ask my wife; she's sweet but sassy.)

Overheard

“BBFF (Best Bacon Friends Forever)”

...who said it?

“I find myself thinking of a checklist Wozniak wrote a few years ago describing how to become a genius. His advice was straightforward yet strangely terrible: You must clarify your goals, gain knowledge through spaced repetition, preserve health, work steadily, minimize stress, refuse interruption, and never resist sleep when tired. This should lead to radically improved intelligence and creativity. The only cost: turning your back on every convention of social life.”

...who said it?

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.”

...who said it?

“Ever have something in your teeth that you cannot stop tonguing?”

...who said it?

“ . . . the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan’s advantage.”

...who said it?

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