Archives for November, 2007

Last FM Charts

What you're looking at here is one small slice of a waveform graph of my music listening habits over the last year, as recorded via ...


Pop Art is Hiring

Pop Art, the interactive marketing agency where I work, is currently hiring for several positions, including an account director, a .NET web developer, and most ...


Duplicate Work is a Bug

"You’ll sometimes hear people joke that good programmers are 'lazy', and what this means is simply that good programmers tend to see duplicated work as ...


"The experienced web designer, like the talented newspaper art director, accepts that many projects she works on will have headers and columns and footers. Her ...


Zoe is Nine Months Old

Dear Zoe, Well, let's see. This month you had your first Thanksgiving dinner at Eric and Jill's. You caught a nasty cold and then gave it ...


Photo: the levitating psychic gals portion of the parade Great photo. Tags: photography, psychics, levitation, parades


Last week, Annie and I went to Seattle to see the special two-hour episode of Galactica, Razor. Microsoft was sponsoring a free screening in select ...


Video: 24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot "Since Fox will not be airing a new season of “24″ due to the writers’ strike, ...


A Few Dumb Questions

"I’d rather answer a few dumb questions than put up with a few dumb assumptions." -- Aaron Cannon, in reply to a question about whether he ...


Will Wright on Simulation

"Implication is more efficient than simulation." -- Don Hopkins, summarizing Will Wright, discussing why SimCity isn't as realistic as it appears. Update: Edited to properly attribute the ...


When Stock Art Attacks

This magazine cover is a perfect example of why you should always have someone else review any art decisions you make. There are several things ...


Annie was Right

Annie: "I just wanted to let you know that I was right, she was pooping." Scott: "This is the weirdest phone call I've ever received." -- Annie ...


Rove on Blogging

"The Web has given angry and vitriolic people more of a voice in public discourse. People in the past who have been on the nutty ...


I Was A Baker

"I was a baker. You can’t just turn up the oven and expect to take the bread out sooner." -- Eric Danielson, NorthTemple.com QA lead, commenting ...


Jimmy Carter will kill your cat But don't worry, he'll get you a new one. Tags: jimmycarter, politics, bizarre, cats, president, letters, guns ...


Post-It by Number

For the Pop Art 10-year anniversary party, the creative team laid out a 20-foot-wide grid of three-inch squares on the wall of the conference room. ...


As far as he can tell, Dr. Robert Morgan (played by Vincent Price) is the only survivor of a plague that turns its victims into ...


Zoe is Eight Months Old

Dear Zoe, Writing these newsletters each month is daunting. I always feel like I'm struggling to find enough to write about, but by the time I'm ...


Halloween: Thaw Excellent short story about cryonics. Tags: halloween, short, story, writing, cryonic, cryogenics, mortality Fashion tips for women from ...