My two oldest sons have the same birthday but two years apart. We like to have fun with this lovely coincidence of nature, with which we did not tamper. For instance, we have marble cake sometimes, or mix up ice cream, or get the same gift for each boy differentiated by color or something like [...]
Ever since upgrading to Firefox 3.6.x, it has been crashing seemingly at random. Firefox would just disappear in the middle me doing something. I nailed down one behavior that Firefox didn’t like and found a replacement solution that has worked 100% so far! (UPDATE: Uninstall any Beta Flash plugins and install the current player (Mac). [...]
Short thoughtful post here folks. We’ve seen some graphic design bloggers disappear in 2009 and 2010. We’ve seen once-busy bloggers slow way down from their usual pace. That’s OK. Life happens. Sometimes you get a better job, an illness, a new baby, a broken foot, a sabbatical, a new guitar, or even a new professional [...]
Update: T-Shirts of some of these are now available at CafePress… My son nabbed Edward Lear’s Complete Book of Nonsense from the library some time ago. It was one of my favorite books growing up. I wondered if it was possible to write limericks about Graphic Design. I penned some (dare I call it) Graphic [...]
Halfway through the comments on this post over at Just Creative Design, a common typo rears it’s head: Funny & Odd Emails Received The typo is “chirdlike” which seems to be, but I’m not 100% sure, a typo for “childlike”. I don’t understand why this happens so much since “r” is not near “l” on [...]
Go over to Twitter to see what people’s heads look like if they were a warehouse: Visit Twitter and view / search for “#warehouse” Find an image, then go back Twitter at said link above. Twit something like: “If my head was a warehouse, it would look like this: [insert_your_link_here]“ Happy warehousing…
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