Realizing I liked more albums in 2007 than I thought. #
The fires start the minute I walk out the door. Wouldn’t be Friday without a good crisis #
@bridgetstewart I was kind of hoping you meant there was a real squirrel loose in the office #
Can I do an entire new product flow in […]

My year end list of favorite albums, presented in iTunes goofy sort of alphabetical order. There are some notable exclusions, as I tried to stray from the low-hanging fruit of indie rock. (Battles, New Pornographers, LCD Soundsystem, etc)
Air Formation - Dream Storms For fans of: My Bloody Valentine, Godspeed! You Black Emperor, Asobi […]

Swore to stay in and write up fav albums of 2007, but cannot resist the allure of beer and sauerkraut! #
sauerkraut denied! drinking poet oatmeal stout. #
@bcullen how was The Sword? I wanted to go but Alana doesn’t get out of work until 9. #
@matto I like your style. #
Starting to feel the crunch. #
What […]

You don’t have to spend a lot of money to spread some Christmas cheer, here’s my humble, curmudgeonly gift suggestions.

Give the gift of learning how to drive. Start with basic courtesy; use your turn signal, even in a parking lot. Wave if someone’s nice enough to let you over. Don’t cut people off or […]

ugh. #
People get so crabby when a new product launches. #
Tim Burton is doing Alice in Wonderland. Let me guess, Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter will be starring. http://tinyurl.com/28fth6 #
Had been told sick days not counted in vacation equation. Was misinformed. Not going to Florida in January after all #
Resolved vacation woes, now […]

Have I professed my love today for Carrie Brownstein yet?
…it’s harder to ignore the fact that the perimeters of what constitutes music and entertainment have been stretched so far that they’re like baggy sweats with a broken elastic waistline.
If you don’t read Monitor Mix, you are missing out.

LOUNGE72 is kaput

I’ve seen a lot of debate going on around the web as to the direction of HTML5 and XHTML2. I wasn’t really too worried about it, I use XHTML because it’s what I’m comfortable with, it forces me to write well-formed markup, and so far has always seemed like the appropriate solution. Recently my employer […]

"Chill thoroughly" apparently means 8 hours. Won’t be having ice cream until tomorrow. #
upon visiting survey, now gets @dmkash ’s joke. definitely laughing. #
in desperate need of some orange juice. #
Inadvertently overextending self. What else is new? #
My voicemail today is functioning exactly like those commercials where calls cut out at critical moments. Thanks Cingular. […]

Who needs friends…when you have pens! Perhaps my favorite new blog.

COLOURlovers has a great article on color in nature, and they’ve redesigned.

Christopher Schmitt on determining your hourly rate. I like this article because he gives you the math up front, it’s short and to the point.

I concur.

Every time I watch a movie or TV I find myself scrutinizing the technology, in some cases to the point where it prevents me from enjoying the show. I could never watch a complete episode of CSI, I think a vein in my forehead would burst. Fake science is a huge peeve of mine. It […]

wondering if I can squeeze a vacation into January. #
Cleveland webbies, are you going to this, do you think it will be worthwhile? http://www.webassociation.org/eventDetails.cfm/eventid/24 #
How many years before this is reality? http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/10/sports/othersports/10flying.html #
@bcolbow yes, but i think you can turn it off if you want to. #
Lady in bathroom stall using it as her own […]

Kristin Hersh takes a Juliana Hatfield-esque approach to music; the honor system. She talks about what we’ve lost in this digital and copyright crippled age:
a blues player walks a song from town to town, playing on street corners, in dance halls, at parties and bars. The song stays when the musician leaves, adopted and adapted […]

Beth Ditto gets interviewed in Spin. Sad it took Perez Hilton to get them to notice the Gossip. In spite of Spin’s usually crappy coverage, they manage to ask some decent questions.
Keira Knightley called you “sexy” and said that you had “the most amazing body.” Can you take that compliment seriously coming from somebody […]

23 Songs That Should Never Be Covered Again from the Onion. Cosigned.
A great visual reference, every cover of No Depression magazine.
Cleveland Web Association’s State of the Web 2008. Not sure if I’ll be attending or not, haven’t heard many positive things about this organization, and the description is pretty vague marketing copy.
24 Ways […]

Alana had Saturday off, a rare occurrence, so we seized the opportunity for a trip to the West Side Market. Work gave us free turkeys last week which we thought would be a great chance to try some tweaks to our typical Thanksgiving recipes, but without the pressure of someone besides us having to eat […]

Made the mistake of buying Lost Season 3 yesterday, have barely left couch since. #

Alana’s home on a Saturday for a change, so we’re planning trips to the Natural History Museum and West Side Market. #
bought only from local shops today. Fair trade coffee and chocolate FTW. #

Icon project will not die. #
Donatos feedback form for their online order process times out when you submit. Niiiiice. #
Almost Saturday. #
I heard tell that Lucida Grande and Lucida Sans Unicode were nearly identical. This is not so, at least not when it comes to leading. #
If only this weren’t $125 https://www.hlaska.com/ #
@bridgetstewart a solution! […]

I will never resist the opportunity for a pun, no matter how terrible. Those of you who visit this site are treated to careful typographic consideration in Lucida Grande. Those of you who visit on a PC are not so lucky, as you get Arial. (Really it should be Helvetica, but I meant to swap […]

Clearly, this is the magazine for me: The Miserablist.

Just got a spam from these people: http://www.zenytlabs.com/ telling me how they can make me an awesome website. Awesome like theirs I hope. #
Is wondering why no one in this office ever brings in bagels. #
Apparently we get a free turkey today at work. Like a whole one. Weird. #
@egwiley your imagination is correct, one […]

A car that holds 10 people, uses 3 wheels, weighed less than 1,000lbs and got 30-50mpg in 1933.

Norton Furniture guy making his stand up debut this weekend in Lakewood. If you’re not a local, perhaps you’ve seen his cheesy commercials on one of the late shows. Definitely going to try not to miss this.

Portfolio.com has an article on the illustration of wine labels.
Graph Paper mugs? Do want!
Project83 on why they ask clients for a budget. Amen!
The service Project83 offers is absolutely unique, which makes it difficult to compare with another company solely based on price. Diamonds have the 4 C’s, cut, color, clarity and carat weight. Project83 has […]

@ Cleveland Web Standards. Pizza and new beards abound! #
Web Standards Group was a blast, is an old person and now ready for bed. #
Snow, it’s like poop from the sky. #
@egwiley if we didn’t take creative license with definition lists, they’d rarely see the light of day! #
#1 teh Googlez for ‘cleveland cairn poop’ […]

New Breeders album in April. Finally. While I wasn’t tremendously impressed with Title TK, I still enjoyed it a lot. Their “reunion” dates were some of the most fun shows I’ve ever been to.