Napped all day. In love with Los Campesinos! - Sticking Fingers Into Sockets. Also, Cleveland is a very small place. #
Found delicious cupcake recipes for party. Waiting to see how Rachel’s confections blow all of ours out of the water. #
Is thinking this LastFM sidebar widget and all the nasty code that comes with it […]

I had a dream this afternoon (yes this afternoon, I indulge in a nap every Saturday) wherein we acquired 4 more Cairn Terriers. There were dogs everywhere, it was out of control. One of the dogs was pregnant and had a puppy. I tried listing the new dogs on Craigslist, but Alana pleaded with me not to. The new dogs were better behaved than our old dogs.

Mirah and Laura Veirs were both awesome. Tonight is dog park. #

We’ve been going to the dog park pretty frequently, tiring out the pups and ourselves. I sent out a double disc mix cd set to 15 people. I saw SiCKO and Ocean’s 13. Both were exactly as I expected them to be. I want to move to Europe in 10 years. I’m excited for two trips later in the year. First, the AGI UI team will be in attendance at AnEventApart Chicago. This means I get to hang out with the people I know in town and do some record shopping. Second, I’m going to see Loretta Lynn in October.

When I first moved into this downstairs duplex we thought it was perfect. Our upstairs neighbors were nice, the house next door to us was empty. Most of the other houses in the neighborhood were occupied by nice families and were well kept. In the past year this has all gone to hell.

I realized it was the beginning of the end when one rainy day I saw the house next door had a uhaul backed up on the lawn to the front door, mud tire tracks be damned. Dudes in wifebeaters were unloading plastic lawn furniture from the truck into the house. I’d later learn since the bank foreclosed upon the previous owners, these people were able to scoop up the property for 1/3 of the cost of the surrounding property. Unfortunately we just resigned a lease since it wasn’t at the time apparent what our future plans exactly were. Now I have all this to deal with:

According to Alana:
Amy Winehouse and Danny Trejo, long lost twins. At least in the bad prison tattoos circa 1930 area.

I’ve always been wary of advertising on my site, since this blog was never intended to be a means of income. So much of advertising on blogs is sleazy. I chose to implement ads on some of my older entries, because these particular ads are text and custom written to go with the posts. I think since they’re tailored specifically for each entry they’re completely non-obtrusive, and I hope you’ll think so as well. They’ll be up for at least a year, so we’ll see how that goes.

Updates will resume shortly. In the mean time:
I am allergic to something in my office.
I am trying to reorganize my entire house, one cluttered space at a time.
I am looking forward to the Planet Earth DVD.
I am looking forward to bring your dog to work day.
Florida is a nice place to visit, but you couldn’t […]

I’m going on vacation at the end of this week, and I’ve spent the past week getting ready for the occasion. I plan on sampling lots of great scotch and catching up on my reading while trying not to get sunburnt. I won’t be back until the 2nd.

Today I managed to get a paper cut in my eyeball. If anyone could do this, it would of course be me. I was talking with someone and turned around to grab some papers. In my rush a bunch of the papers went flying and one chunk managed to slip its way under my glasses and poke me right in the eye. There wasn’t any blood thankfully, just a lot of water and now my eye feels like there’s a giant cat hair stuck in it.

If you’ve ever wondered why paper cuts hurt so much more than regular cuts, here’s what Wikipedia has to say, I was surprised to find a lengthy article:

At her majesty’s pleasure, an article on Salon today, reveals a lot about the human condition.

Last year author Peter Kurth was imprisoned for essentially being obnoxious on an airplane. It’s strange to think we’re living in a time where simply being a rude customer is enough to get you thrown into jail. The laws in place allowing such a thing are meant to address terrorism, and even though Kurth is clearly not a terrorist, we’re willing to mold and adjust these laws for the sake of teaching him a lesson. Well really who knows why it was decided he should go to jail, because obviously this seems like the most difficult possible way to handle such a solution.

The Sartiorialist has become one of my new favorite daily reads:

I always felt that there was a disconnect between what I was selling in the showroom and what I was seeing real people (really cool people) wearing in real life.
Thoughtful critiques of Racist and classist advertising. Good to know I wasn’t the only one a […]

Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. is an Errol Morris film about a man who bumbles his way into becoming an execution technician and then similarly bumbles his way out.
An article on commuting from the New Yorker by way of Kottke. The several hour commute is becoming less and less […]

In the time I’ve been taking to get settled in my new life, in addition to not keeping up with my own site, I’ve been rather out of date with some of my favorite designers/bloggers/whatever they’d like to call themselves. Today I played some catch up.
Phil Renaud is missing Kurt Vonnegut. Personally, I’ve always thought […]

What can’t you buy at skymall? “…we see the wings arrayed, as yet untouched by human hands, in what looks like, I now realize, a chicken-wing-powered flying saucer.”
I’ve never seen a snail this big before.
From Neatorama today: A cool flying fish statue, Hello Kitty is taken too far, and a Darth Vader hot air balloon. […]

I thought if I stripped away everything on the site it would force me into more rapid development. We’ll see how it goes.

In my sparse postings for the last year I promised a couple things, and I’m not one to go back on my word. The first promise was a site redesign, because the look of this site makes me want to puke. When I threw this site together over one caffeine-fueled weekend two years ago, my […]

The three of you that read this have probably noticed I’ve not been posting very regularly here, or in any of my usual haunts. A lot has been going on this past year, and I appreciate the nice sentiments and support I’ve received. I’m doing well, I just came back from a great […]

Things have been really chaotic this year. Three weeks ago my mother died suddenly and unexpectedly. She hadn’t been 55 a month, and had been told she was in perfect health. To make a long story short, it was genetic heart disease, which I probably have too. My family and I are doing alright […]

I got a new job. I work for a small agency in Akron. I’m still driving too far for work. Everything in my portfolio is outdated.
I got a new dog. Her name is Harper, she’s another Cairn Terrier, and the dogs get along like peanut butter and jelly.
I wrecked […]

“The value of like in our cities has become as cheap as the price of a gun”

I’ve been tagged by Matthew Cahill. To all you Meme haterz, I’d like to say lighten up
Four Jobs I’ve Had in My Life (not in order)

1. Haunted House Zombie/Miscellaneous Monsters
2. Salesperson/Stockperson/Interior Consultant in a home decor shop.
3. Wearing a Dinosaur suit […]

I’ve been absent for a while, and I’m sure the three whole people who read my blog miss me. Well, maybe. Anyway, there are some major changes going on in my life right now that I can’t talk about as of yet. Don’t worry, it’s all good things, and pretty soon I’ll […]

So I’m already flopping on one of my new year resolutions, which is posting the site redesign. Yes, that’s right, redesign, not realign, or makeover. Anyway, there should be something new to look at very soon. I’m not a PHP wizard, so the process has been slow, painful, and educational.
So […]

In all the holiday chaos the dog somehow managed to scarf down a hershey’s kiss. I know this because I had to cut a large blob of poop out of her butt fur; attached was a small flag which read “Almonds.”
I will be glad when everything is back to normal, and I […]

I have bird flu. I am going to die a horrible, painful, excruciating death unless merciful Nyquil knocks me out first. Perhaps bird flu is a stretch, and by horrible, painful, excruciating death, I may mean watching Law & Order reruns from my couch all day. Either way, I will not be […]

Real Christmas trees drip sap. To my dog, Rowan, I’m sorry I told everyone you peed on the tree. You have to admit, you’ve got a poor track record.
You cannot open a beer bottle with your filing cabinet, no matter how hard you try.
Working with an office full of people who […]

With 11 days until Christmas, I have bought exactly zero presents. I’m not a bad person, I just don’t like hurling myself into the hordes of mall santas, double-wide strollers, and Sbarro devouring teenagers. Before my illustrious career as web design rockstar (edit: corporate drone) I lived in the dark-ages: I worked retail […]

Great, another thing for them to muck up.

I’m seeing an increasing number of blogs out there that focus on “design,” when what they really mean is industrial design, or in most cases knick knack design. Just because something received consideration from a designer, or appears slightly modern/retro/shabby chic doesn’t mean it’s been done well.
Take for example the following images […]