Archives for July, 2007

Selling Web Standards is Hard

I recently had a fascinating conversation with our VP of Client Services. Long story short, I learned that selling web standards is difficult, because many ...


If you like the show, you'll like the movie. Enough said for most people. Nearly every character makes an appearance, and all the bits you ...


A Congress Out of Control Is Just What Bush Needs "Every day this Congress gets a little more out of control,'' Fratto ...


Xbox 360 Repairs - Part Two

My 360 is on the way home to me! I got the box to ship it to Microsoft on the 16th, and they received it ...


Stinky Tofu

Shortly after I started my job in Seattle, the creative director started talking about making a trip out to a Taiwanese restaurant where I and ...


The Rules of Monster Movies

In the October 2004 issue of Wired, there was an article about these guys who work for the SciFi channel whose job is to screen ...


Citations, Emphasis and Italics

Wanna get a headache? Go type "html book titles italic em" into Google and read for about 15 minutes. What you're looking at is an ...


Zoe is Five Months Old

Dear Zoe, We just got back from your second trip to the beach! It was your Uncle Corey's 30th birthday, and he wanted to go to ...


Video: Prison Thriller What do you do when you're locked up in a prison in the Philippines? Why, you and 1500 other ...


The Omega Man: One Paragraph Review

Charlton Heston plays a military scientist named Robert Neville who survives a plague unleashed by biological weapons in a war between Russia and China by ...


Halo 3 Achievements

A few weeks back, you may have seen that the Halo 3 Achievements were leaked. If you're like me, you gave that list a quick ...


Kirk: "How long to re-fit?" Scotty: "Eight weeks. But you don't have eight weeks, so I'll do it for you in two." Kirk: "Do you always multiply ...


New Year’s Resolutions 2007

I just realized that I never posted any New Year's resolutions this year. That's probably because I never chose any - which is probably because ...


Video: Acapella Mortal Kombat "Two men sparring in Central Park, NYC, unaware that the a cappella group DeCadence from UC Berkeley was ...


Not Cool

Temperatures like this are uncivilized. I know this is not that bad for some places, but for Portland it might as well be 200°.


Xbox 360 Repairs - Part One

Yesterday my xbox 360 died. Kinda funny that it happened just a day after Microsoft announces that they're extending the warranties, but it doesn't really ...


An Event Apart Seattle 2007

Last year, I attended An Event Apart 2006 in Seattle. It was a great event, although I remember it being really rushed, because they seven ...


Zoe is Four Months Old

Hi Zoe, During your fourth month, we took you to new places. You went to the beach cabin in Twin Rocks for the first time, and ...


Transformers: One Paragraph Review

This movie is absolutely good. Giant robots beat each other up and do acrobatics off buildings. The chase scenes on the freeway are particularly good, ...


Video: Mika Brzezinski of MNSBC rips Paris report MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski refuses to talk about Paris Hilton as a *Lead Story* on ...