wherein i instantly love lee iacocca

an excerpt from where have all the leaders gone?

bike lesson #2

matt took me out to a different part of the forest preserve and we did some stuff in the parking lot then went out on the forest trail. i got a decent distance on my own before the ground got real bumpy (damn horses), i freaked out and fell over. i did manage to avoid …

as a youngster

age 3, carving pumpkins with grandma

18-24 mos, wearing grandpa's hat

i haven't worked up the nerve to post the embarassing photos of me with giant sally jessy raphael glasses and The Perm. maybe later this week.

i bought maggie mason's book, and i am going to try to …

this dude is totally reading my mind

via xkcd

clapham

see my photo of the clapham common tube station on last rounds.

peanut butter cookie smoothie

at work, every day for lunch we make a smoothie. some days it's just blueberry or pineapple (which was awesome last week) but there is always a smoothie. today katie came up with something new, inspired by a smoothie she had at soul veg. basically, it tastes like a …

sad little cub

half inspired by my recent trip to the brookfield zoo, where i saw a super-cute polar bear cub.

this cub is sad because the other half of the inspiration comes from this article about how the ice caps are actually melting 3x faster than scientists projected.

(actual …

loltrek

eric sent me this and it's awesome. the tribbles talk in 1pt-size-smaller voices like roast beef and spock talks totally normal. which is, you know, as it should be.

magentosphere

check out magnetosphere, one of robert hodgin's processing-produced motion graphics pieces.

via josh spear

grindhouse

...WAS FUCKING AMAZING!!!! go see this! do it! do it!! i haven't had such a good time at a movie since 'the prestige'!

deal-breakers

1. do you smoke? not like, every so often you'll have a smoke at a bar or at a concert, i mean do you smoke. yes? sorry. unless you have some pretty overwhelming qualities to make up for this, it's not going to happen. overwhelming qualities might include: …

2.7182

while most of the people i know are mourning kurt vonnegut, i'm getting ready to celebrate the birth of leonhard euler, one of the greatest mathematicians that ever lived. the washington post has a good article about him. he was extremely prolific and sounds …

singing to the deaf

singing to the deaf is a graphic design collection of visual songs. very cool. around slide #45 you can see a piece that has coppery word balloons you scratch off (lottery-style) to reveal the message underneath.