Archive for June, 2008
Monday, June 30th, 2008
Here's a shot of my work space in my company's new office. I'm literally 5 feet from my neighbors head. No dividers. Ugh. Not very conductive to actually concentrating on anything.
This is what happens when "the suits" design the office with no input from the people who actually have to ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
I love looking at screen shots from old video games. It brings back the days of me on my Commodore 64. Some of the game concepts back then were really wacky. I guess after the success of games like Donkey Kong (a Italian plumber, a princess and a gorilla throwing ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
In my life I've had a couple of friends that really inspired me. One of those friend's was Richard Markle. Richard was my friend through Middle and High School. I lost contact with him during college, but I never forgot how he inspired me to read and imagine.
Richard was always ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
The table is a little less than half the size of an official table, but it actually works. Notice the fine use of business cards (good work Vijay). The First Annual AdverbZetaGrit (inside joke) Ping Pong Championship starts today. Let's get it on like Donkey Kong.
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Here's a fun game to play. Take a band's name and do a mash up with a book's name. Coudal Partners calls it "Booking Bands". Here are some of my favorites:
Great White Expectations (Anything with 80s hair bands works for me)
Horton Hears a Hoobastank (This just sounds nasty)
A Tale of ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
A friend of a friend email me the other day about becoming a project manager. I talked with her in more detail over the phone, but here's hit list of pros and cons I sent her. Hopefully, I didn't scare her off. The world needs good project managers.
Pros
It's a good ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Beards and moustaches have really fallen out of favor in the past 20 years or so, but these guys don't abide by our cultural norms. Especially, this guy, aka "The Kaiser".
World Beard and Moustache Championship Gallery
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
This recent post by 37signals, Why we skip Photoshop, got me thinking about the most influential web development project I worked on. It was a corporate Web site redesign. The creative director and I simply sketched out on paper three different ways in which the information could be organized. The ...
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
The sad part is that I will probably end up getting one.
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