It's been a couple of months since I last posted. Why MIA? I was busy catching my own Moby Dick – a 500+ page IA restructure and complete visual rebranding with many sources of input and involvement, but that's a story for another time. I've also been taking a book design course and short-lived yoga class. The book design course has been fantastic, as well as…
Last summer, I attended a course at Cornish College of the Arts' Summer at Cornish program called "The Art of Food". It was a six week seminar course in which each week a different aspect of food was focused on. I could speak for a long time about the many things I learned from each week and all of the incredible speakers who took the…
McSweeney's features an interesting article from Susan Schorn, a black belt, self-defense instructor in Austin, Texas who writes about the portrayal of women and power by juxtaposing the recent literature and film craze with pirates and vampires, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. From the article: More importantly, in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, magic isn't the answer to anything. The Gawain poet…
I read a single line: "B. Solid, but not inspired." The Facebook commenter was critiquing our Commander-in-chief's recent State of the Union Address, yet it can be applied elsewhere. In terms of the work I've generated lately, I'd give myself the same ranking, and a great deal of it, I believe, is because of the type of environment in which I work. However there are…
I've been thinking a great deal about balance lately – how one is able to oscillate between productivity and relaxation in a consistently healthy way. I've often read articles and listened to speeches in which the orator focuses on this idea that there is no such thing as equal balance between two parts of a whole. If one succeeds in one area, then the other…
I just finished watching the final episode of Battlestar Galactica. It was about three am at the time of completion, and I've woken to All Along the Watchtower running on repeat in my head. Fabulous. I can't get over the dichotomy between how brilliant a tapestry the entire series is and how many unanswered questions were left dancing in the air. I say dancing because…
Today it snowed in Seattle for the first time this year. This seems like a small matter, yet through the lens of one who experienced the "Snowpocalyse" of 2008, as it is known, discussion of snow in downtown Seattle is no small matter. As Ryan and I sat in Le Pichet today watching the snow silently begin to fall outside, I returned to the blizzard…
Today I'm writing about a place I want to go, not where I have already been — Canlis, a restaurant celebrating its 60th birthday in a very creative way. To celebrate their 60th birthday, Canlis is sponsoring a treasure hunt. Basically, there are fifty copies of the 1950 menu floating around Seattle. From Tuesday, October 19th until their birthday, December 11th, clues will be dispersed…
I've been attending Yoga. I've been pretty skeptical in general, yet it's worth becomes more apparent with each visit. I'm always amazed at the poses that get the best of me; they typically center around balance, which as a clumsy person, I lack. Nonetheless, it's fun to laugh at yourself while watching kids ten years younger twist into pretzel-like poses. So these new experiences give…
FRIEND I hate role playing games. Do you want to code this site for me? ME Company meeting? FRIEND Oh. No. http://link.com/ More specifically this: http://link.com/file-name.php Or any of this: http://link.com/directory/ ME Nope. It's a bunch of forms, and you know how I feel about coding forms. FRIEND I'll code the forms. It's just all the other logic that I'm sick of. ME Yeps. Doesn't…
Seattle Restaurant Week, October 17 – 28, 2010, is happening once again from the 17th through the 28th, save Friday and Saturday. It's a full week (or so) of trying out new restaurants and food that one might not normally venture to try. Also, what a fantastic list of restaurants worth trying any time. Looking forward to discovering some new restaurants. Any suggestions?
Seems amusing that Seattle shares it's nickname with the Land of Oz. However, Seattle's inhabitants have no need for green-tinted glasses; Seattle is indeed a greener city than many others around the world, both literally and metaphorically... and I am enthralled. It has all of the wonder and amusement of Oz to me, as there are every day new opportunities for venturing into the unknown.…
I haven’t watched the news. I haven’t looked at photos on the internet. I politely asked that my co-workers not mention or discuss it around me. The truth is that the mere thought of it makes my blood boil and stomach turn. Today I finally looked at photos and read about this event, and my heart is broken. This is because I know that no…
Last weekend, we went to the Emerald City Comicon for the second year in a row. I love going to this comicon; it's a celebration of geek and nerd-dom in all of it glory, and it's beautiful. This year, Stan Lee and Leonard Nimoy were in attendance on Saturday. Unfortunately a scheduling conflict kept me from attending that day. Sunday was a lot of fun.…
Ryan and I were photographed by Seattle Weekly. Check out his awesome beard (on the can) versus lack of beard. This year, Ryan entered Seattle's annual Beard and Stache Fest, where teams of four compete for votes. Votes are cast by donating money, all of which goes to Tree House for Kids. Throughout the competition's month of fun festivities, there are events such as the…
This morning on the bus, I listened to the older man driving the bus talk about a bakery he loved as a kid. He described its location and talked about what a treat it was on the afternoons he’d stop by to get a dessert. Then he noted how amazing were this bakery’s peanut butter cookies or as he pronounced them, “Peaaaaa-nut bu-tttterrrr cooooookies,” rather…
A photo I submitted was featured on Art in my coffee.
A couple of things strike me about the dutch boy with his finger in the dam. First, the dutch boy's situation was temporary. It lasted for only one night. Had this scenario continued to happen, he would have been physically unable to allow the cycle to continue — whether as a result of sickness, death, or his mother's insistence — and to save the town,…