Entries by Scott

Scott Vandehey is probably not a Cylon.

Want to Sell Coal in Poland?

Hello, Your resume was found on one of the job sites. We examined your candidacy and want to offer you a position in our company. If ...


This morning, Annie told me about a Motrin ad that a bunch of mom-bloggers were angry about because it was critical of babywearing. She was ...


The new dashboard is really slick. The entire thing has been overhauled, to the point where it feels like a brand new console, rather than ...


If you haven't seen Casino Royale yet, go see it before you see this one. Unlike Bond movies in the past, which were all stand-alone, ...


The Parts of the Computer

While digging through some old papers, Annie found this set of pages she colored when she was in second grade in 1986. ...


Yes We Did!


The Worst Part of the Matrix

"The absolute worst thing in Matrix III was when Keanu gets to the virtual office of the Big Computer Mind, and he meets, like, a ...


Where is Everybody?

You all know this story. In the summer of 1950, Enrico Fermi, the Italian-American physicist and atomic pile-builder, went to lunch at Los Alamos National ...


Wealth Groupies

Like "Joe the Plumber" -- who is not a licensed plumber, whose first name isn't Joe, whose boss's business makes $100K, not $250K and isn't ...


"I'm also troubled by, not what Senator McCain says, but what members of the party say. And it is permitted to be said such things ...


Pop Art Redesign

The redesign of the Pop Art site is live! I'm really proud of the work I did on this, and I'll write a longer post ...


All This Stuff has a Price Tag

"In truth, however, I know there are lots of Americans who, whatever their income, believe that the government should get its grubby hands off their ...


How is the Chicken Cooked?

To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, ...


A Few Things About Zoe

I just realized I haven't been posting about Zoe much lately. I'll try to make up for that with a few photo posts, but let ...


Fallout 3 First Impressions

I've only played for a few hours, and I've only made it a few hundred feet outside the Vault so far, but what I've seen, ...


Reason I Love Portland #375

This was the image used on the cover of the most recent issue of the Willamette Week. The original image was done by Barry Stock, ...


A couple weeks ago, Andy Samberg did a parody of Mark Wahlberg in a throwaway sketch called "Mark Wahlberg Talks to Animals." It was basically ...


How About We Pay You?

"We have a saying at Blizzard when something looks like too much work. How about we pay you? You can work on it, and every ...


LP Usual Defects

About six month ago, we launched the first version of Stop the Usual Defects, a microsite for LP to promote the launch of their new ...


Be Careful with Stress Balls

What you can't see is that the liquid inside the stress ball was full of glitter -- which is ALL over Chris, his desk, his ...


Bionic Lobster

We recently launched a microsite for Leatherman's new Bionic Lobster ad campaign. The idea is that a lobster lost his claw during a struggle with ...


Zoe’s First Narrative

On Saturday, Zoe had a busy day. It was my dad's birthday, and there was a family get-together planned at a park in Corvallis. She ...


Detroit Diesel Redesign

About a month ago, we launched the new Detroit Diesel redesign. We were working on this site when I was first hired at Pop Art, ...


I didn't actually work much on this site, but I wanted to draw some attention to it because it's really cool. Leatherman just launched a ...


How about a one-word review? Disappointing. The summary says "Batman takes on Deadshot, Killer Croc and other deadly foes in six anime-inspired short films." The ...