Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope.
There's been quite a bit of spring cleaning of sorts happening on this site recently. If you follow via RSS, you may have noticed (and apologies for any test posts that didn't clear out in a timely manner). There are still more changes to come. Site restructure The fixed structure of existing content and style has been adapted to a fluid layout. This is to…
I often wonder if the major corporations share a media destroying robot with amazing taste whose setting is "Must Kill. Must Kill. Must Kill." That's the only rationale I can muster for monstrosities like the deaths of Arrested Development, Firefly, a school of other awesome entities, and announced today — Google Reader, RIP July 01, 2013. When the commenting feature and "Note in Reader" bookmarklet were…
A beautiful and wise quote, especially in light of the recent tragedies, posted by a beautiful and wise friend. At this hour. In this moment. Let us seek not to pinpoint blame, but to pinpoint cause. Unless we take this time to look at the cause of our experience, we will never remove ourselves from the experiences it creates. Instead, we will forever live in…
Like most days, walking home I was nearly ran over by a pedestrian too busy talking on his phone to notice his near collision with me. Afterward, two more people in similar fashion did the same, only much less pronounced. My walk home was approximately twenty minutes, and the sidewalks were not particularly crowded. If I could ask the world a single thing, I would…
I'm working on a Wordpress template for a collaborative project, needing to make the CMS experience as fool proof as possible. Two current goals and the solutions I found and detailed below. The fruits of my labors... enjoy. Disable the Visual Editor Add the following line of code to the "functions.php" file in your theme: add_filter ( 'user_can_richedit' , create_function ( '$a' , 'return false;'…
I ran across an article, "10 New Year's resolutions for designers" by Mike Monteiro. I am not one for new year's resolutions, nor the lists that often are generated this time of year, yet this one is worth the read for anyone who considers him/herself a designer. From the article: We have more processing power, affordable tools, and combined intelligence right this very minute than…
A conversation between Robert and I this afternoon... if ('designer' != 'google') { window.location = 'http://google.com'; } else { answer = question + designer; designer += frustration; } Or correspondingly, if (google_search_easiness > web_designer_willingness_to_answer) { location.href = 'http://google.com'; } else { question = prompt('What's your question'); }
I'm sad to hear that Izilla Toys, after consolidating to its Wallingford location two months ago, announced it's going out of business. From an email to their customers: "As we struggled with this decision, many thoughtful people asked what they could do to help. Here is the simple answer. If you want interesting and unique local shops to survive and eventually thrive you must do…
From an article in the Guardian, "Michael Moore: I was the most hated man in America": But the worst moments were when people came on to our property. These individuals would just walk down the driveway, always looking like rejects from the cast of Night of the Living Dead, never moving very fast, but always advancing with singleminded purposefulness. Few were actual haters; most were…
Tomorrow is the tenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks. My heaven — ten years have passed. I can't stop thinking about this sobering reality. I'm a much different person than I was ten years ago, yet much the same. I keep wanting to go back, to stand on the steps of Denny Chimes, where we built a makeshift memorial, to feel the sense…
I am sad to hear that Brian Fairbrother passed away yesterday. Most people probably won't know him by name, and I didn't know him personally. Yet many, including myself, knew him for his warm smile and demeanor serving coffee at Vivace. I read that after the accident, the EMT actually recognized him from Vivace and was able to contact them on Brian's behalf within 15…
I was invited to Google+ by a friend who was kind enough to continue to share messages to me until I received an invite. After multiple attempts, I was finally able to sign up yesterday evening. At first glance, Google+ excites me for many of the reasons mentioned in my friend and designer Paris Vega's blog post, Google+ will improve your social media experience, even…
I've just completed the migration of three separate blogs into this freshly renovated blog. Archived a long while back, this URL was the original site of my personal blog for years, and I am shifting back to using it. A phoenix would be a fitting analogy. Apologies for the renovation that continues from here. I'm not sure precisely when, but the visual redesign of this…
The information in this post has been moved to hearttuscaloosa.com. Tuscaloosa, AL was devastated yesterday by a EF-5 tornado, one mile wide. A series of tornadoes swept the southern states, crippling multiple communities with the death toll currently at 162, and not yet finalized. I went in search of information about how to help and am finding scattered information across the web, so I'm going…
Sunday evening, Ryan and I found ourselves in search of food and as usual, landed in our favorite spot. One of Ethan Stowell's restaurants — and I might add, my favorite of his thus far — How to Cook a Wolf. Non-assuming and unpretentious from the outside, it's a small restaurant containing a counter and just a few tables, and their food is impeccable. We…
The aforementioned Becky Selengut is teaching a new Summer at Cornish course, Art of Food: Good Fish, based off of her new book, Good Fish, and she was featured in a segment on New Day Northwest. The clam recipe sounds great.