2008

Uh, what?

Write my own story, you say, CNN? Ok!

Charles Apple's got an advance on the Trib...

Because I haven’t better things to do with my time, I come with a dilemma. I’m in the...

And you thought helicopter parents were bad.

Charles Apple has advance Sun pages

Zero inbox FTW.

me: the rooftop garden caught on fire from the fireworks
jamie sent me a text and called me
LenaYue: holy crap
me: i think it's hilarious
that has to be an omen
rochon arrives, next day the business school alights

NPR: Bryant Park Project talking about Obama...

“They forgot to ask people what they wanted.”
— Tom Dair, president of Smart...

Oh thanks Facebook ads for making me feel self-conscious...

Once an Internet Giant, InfoSpace Dismantles...

Bullit NetNewsWire style

Decided to remove Flickr and Twitter from my Tumblr. There’s got to be a better way to do...

Is SND Vegas also using Klavika? I think it’s become the new DIN.

Hey Boston fans: Before this happens, if you only started loving Boston this year I’d...

“Mom? Mom? … Something just fell off of the car.”
— Kid with his mother, overheard...

Is that Klavika on the cover of Sunday’s NYTM?...

I think I’ve come to the realization I need to (a) cancel my lifetime Rolling Stone...

New Car Test Drive - 2008 Challenger

“While the original versions could guzzle at a giveaway 36...”
— New York Times article about...

A fitting comparison: NYT’s breaking news is the unfortunate death of Tim Russert; CNN’s...

My fortunes: “Watch your relations with other people carefully,be reserved.”...

lonelysandwich: BREAKING: Someone dug up Obama’s birth...

“The fuels marketing sector is a very challenging market.”
— ExxonMobil spokesperson Prem...

Fox News apologizes about Obama-related...

Ars I thought you were smarter than that.

An article in today’s NYT about secrets in a Fifth Avenue building calls up the classic From...

National Drivers Test

I started researching stuff for the next job. Now I can’t sleep. Great.

Oh, nevermind about that game. I guess they don’t want me developing on my PowerBook.

I’m thinking about making a game for iPhone. Only trouble: I’m wondering what I can make...

Jakob Nielsen is losing his mind

Vinyl's coming back!

Wing night tonight, I hope, otherwise it’s back to Moonies yet again.

So um I can see the Apple Store, sort of. Not that it’ll matter in 5 minutes.

I think Klavika is getting a lot of traction these days too. Facebook, Planet Green, and something...

Ride to NJ: ClearviewHwy can’t save everything. Saw a case of terrible Ea keming

The bar just got rickroll’d

WWDC 2008 Keynote Bingo

Would it make me a dick to say the URL on Jina Bolton’s ALA article is grammatically...

Didja hear? Some young upstart is lookin to run for Prayseedent of Thee Yoo Nited States.

Speaking of the candidate of choice.

“If elected president, Senator John McCain would reserve the...”
— Wired News (article). Looks...

NYT: How they voted

I think I want to try riding a motorcycle.

Seriously this Dock thing is annoying and confusing. Sometimes it’s all my applications,...

“There is no shame in recognizing your failings or getting...”
— George W. Bush, in a...

“The one would smell like wooden teeth, and the hundred...”
— Stephen Colbert on the recent...

Updating the old address book, since I’ll have a bunch of non-working e-mail addresses in...

Lunch from Wegmans - Lo mein needs soy sauce. And I forgot I enjoy Chinese with Coca-Cola.

glad to be back home.

mmm, chambly

Away from Ithaca for the weekend, and it’s kind of nice.

Readers respond to "Exposed" from NYTM

I guess there was that American Idol finale? My friends DVR’d it and it literally cut off as...

“Most ready-made graph paper comes with a darkly printed...”
— Edward Tufte, on chartjunk and...

Did you know you could drag and drop your fills or strokes from the tools palette to apply them? My...

Instant Netflix Gratification for $100

Oh bother. I really dislike that I have an earbud missing the rubber-like part (and the other side...

Rob Curley's going to Vegas?

(Near) full day of work, taco dinner and wine. Is this what real people do?

Interesting: Sen-Sen is awful.

You can’t get Lucky Strikes at Wegmans (no tobacco sales) but you can pick up Sen-Sen. One...

Dear The Oregonian, please clean up your...

“It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our...”
— Randy Pausch at CMU’s...

Reason #9462 Flash is teh suck: Doesn’t recognize stack order when rendering. Noticed it today...

Trying to relax a little before dinner / parties. Sad some that my countdown script borked at the...

Oh buddy. Today’s the day, hope I don’t lose it.

Getting ready for a reception; the ‘rents are in town.

Get excused from the R. Kelly child porn case

Glenn Beck rails against Harvard

Also: Further fiscal irresponsibility with two more bottles of wine.

wine tour tuesday: Hazlitt Vineyards. So much more could be said but all I need is two words: Red...

wine tour tuesday: Leidenfrost Vineyards was pretty good! Good table wines, nice earthy textures

Also: my fiscally irresponsible self now has a bottle of Chocolate Lab of my own

wine tour tuesday: Caywood / Pleasant Valley Wine Co. Amazing. Chocolate Lab wine, blackberry...

wine tour tuesday: Wagner gave us a tasting notes and had pencils! I now know what I drank.

wine tour tuesday: Standing Stone had a great Reserve Chardonnay, nice Vidal Ice

rule one of senior week: don’t overdo it.

I think I’m going to spend my free time this Senior Week making a Fontstruction.

New Ithaca Journal website: EPIC FAIL.

“It can interrupt sex when my wife starts laughing,” said one...”
— New York Times article on...

Last final exam: Done. Papers: About to be handed in. Sheepskin? Less than 235 hours away.

Occasionally when I cmd-tab, it only shows the active applications. WTF?

Dan Qualye works for the BBC?

who thought that pistons free throw sound was a good idea? so annoying.

Nau is closing

I joined LinkedIn? Why did I do that?

On VPN, something I might not understand

So I’m sitting in the office, attempting to surf the ’tubes, and felt like these worthless...

“Two words, chief: Contact lenses.” Worst commercial EVAR.

CherryPharm — supposed to help improve sleep, is an antioxidant leader. But $2.50 for 8 oz.?...

Going out, hopefully to not another crazy night.

“[L]iving life is more important than blogging about design.”
— Khoi Vinh, on spending time...

Think the sound trouble might have something to do with my headphones?

Fuck! My sound keeps on shorting out on me or something.

Peace Twitter, peace NetNewsWire, even peace Facebook. I’ll be back next week; I actually have...

I’ve had a bunch of people start following me … some have way too many people...

Ohio newspapers learn to share

Textism: A Friend Writes

Looked at tiny images of my senior class portrait retakes. How did I mange to look worse in the...

Note to self: Do laundry tomorrow.

Loaded Steakhouse Burger

“Meantime, my son wants his next trip to be from Queens. In...”
— Lenore Skenazy from The New...

Two day marathon session and now I have a new website (and a real portfolio!):...

Embarrassing. I only got 31/34 on the Rather Difficult Font Game:...

I can only wonder how many people actually are paying attention to the emergency notice the college...

I told Max that Miley Cyrus song was stuck in my head and might get added to the infamous...

And here I thought I was going to bed to recover from whatever I have.

Saw a disc on the ground but it was a “real” Frisbee so I didn’t pick it up.

xkcd: Overqualified

“When you’re thirsty, there’s nothing like a Diet...”
— Kottke. I don’t...

Free Radiohead Live Show

You Use It Every Day. But Can You Make It...

Andy: how was the rest of your night?
Me: eh
Andy: hmmm
Me: i think i needed a few more drinks
and a few hours less in the office
Andy: everyone does

Bacon Flowchart

Your April Fool's Day Joke Continues to Suck

WordPress 2.5 unleashed

What, like 36 hours to deadline? Who’s worried? Not me.

“… design is a dreadful form of expression.”
— Philippe Starck....

Tomrrow’s goal: Working on my website. I have a picture and a post in mind.

“This duality, and the perseverance it breeds, may well save...”
— AJR article on the newspaper...

Lost a couple of hours of my life at Avalonstar. Reminds me how young I am in Internet years and how...

My SuperDrive may be broken.

NY gov says he tried drugs in his youth

It is deceptively warm *looking* outside

There Will Be Vader

The Big Lebowski

Andrew: Keystone. Me: Extra Stout.

So I watched the swearing in of New York’s newest governor, which followed with what I thought...

I know they’re just words, but I like this guy

Watching the swearing in of Paterson in an office full of out-of-staters.

Back in Ithaca. Sort of glad, but it never really felt like break.

Getting out of this town tomorrow.

So you know how they have those SXSW podcasts available? Apparently the Zuckerberg keynote is up...

Quick Look Fonts

Six-Word Reviews of 763 SXSW Mp3s

Museo

I have more full thoughts about my trip to the city, but the basic feeling is this: Today was a very...

in new york

Time to traverse this “state in limbo”

A Texas Designer's Map of the World

One more day of YIR and then home in the evening. Alert the press, I’ll be in the city on...

.RIY

I was on the verge of writing something of substance but I got lazy and possibly bored? And tired. I...