After much time spent as a lurker reading and enjoying other people’s blogs, this is the year in which I’ve finally decided to stick my patita in the pool and begin writing publicly. This is that embarrassing first (well, ok: 11th) post documenting the genesis of this web site, and my first attempt to join […]
Posted: Mon, April 10th, 2006 at 11:42 pm
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This week I received a well-traveled green booklet, titled “Geography Project”. The book belongs to “David”, a 6th grade student in Florissant, MO, who sent it out around October, last year. David asks the recipients of the book to write a little bit about themselves and the place where they live, and then to send […]
Posted: Wed, April 5th, 2006 at 5:17 pm
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A few nights ago, after watching the episode where Iron Chef Chinese loses a potatoes battle against a female challenger, Joey and I got into a conversation about secret ingredients that would suck. We joked about lettuce ever being a secret ingredient – which we thought would be pretty lame, and this triggered a fantasy […]
Posted: Sat, April 1st, 2006 at 12:22 pm
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The creative buzz after SXSW has been interrupted by a thankless job that needed to get done pronto: Tax preparation.
Note to Self: Next year, I will make Joey sit with me throughout the whole process. He must suffer with me the consequences of each screw-up, like telling me that his education expenses (potentially a very […]
Posted: Wed, March 22nd, 2006 at 11:07 am
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Sunday didn’t feel as juicy and energetic as Saturday. I couldn’t connect with some of the panels, but maybe that had more to do with my physical exhaustion from a serious lack of sleep. However, a few ideas resonated:
Respect Your Elder Bloggers
After reading about it, I’m sort of curious about Ronni Bennet’s blog, Time Goes […]
Posted: Fri, March 17th, 2006 at 1:41 pm
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These are some notes I took while attending SXSW Interactive 2006. I hope this post serves me as reminder of some the thoughts and ideas that energized me during the conference.
Traditional Design and New Technology
The main point of this discussion was expressed by Mark Boulton: In print design it’s all about aesthetics. You don’t need […]
Posted: Wed, March 15th, 2006 at 8:47 pm
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