By The Gallon

I found this little list on a forum post, after looking up something I heard Seth Godin say in a speech at Google (he made a remark about how much chanel no. 5 costs)

Gas is about $3/gallon
Milk is about $4/gallon.
Evian water is about $6/gallon.
Hershey's Choc Syrup …

Getting Back into Rails

I always come back to it. Rails is the only programming language I find it fun to hack around with. Even writing little apps that do pretty much nothing. It's fun.

My favorite resource is Why's (poignant) guide to ruby I'm sure I'd read it even if it were about …

Post-It Art

I've seen some pretty elaborate post-it art before. I always find it really clever and think "I should do that myself!" Then I start on some other project and forget about it, or go looking for some post-its and find that I have none, or maybe just one stack...

Well …

Feldman, Radiohead, and Paste

I ordered a subscription to Paste Magazine today. Why? Because they let me decide what a years worth of magazines was worth to me. They did set $1 as the lowest possible price for 11 issues but I have a feeling a lot people are going to pay more than that. I …

Free Halloween Costume

Halloween is coming up, and I wanted to make sure that everyone has a costume. I don't have the means to ship out costumes to everyone that reads this, but I do have a pretty good back up. In honor of the the Beware of Beard shirt that will be the first from Turn …

Wordage.org

I always love thinking up the next project. Even when I've got more work than I can handle, I'm still going to be thinking of what's next. The beautiful thing about the web is that you can get that next project up and running in just a day or two.

The idea of the …

Technorati Reactions: Hack and Style

I use Technorati's blog reactions all the time to see who's linking back to me or referencing posts in their own blogs. Great ego boost of course, but also very useful for continuing conversations beyond just comments. Comments are great for feedback, but sometimes you …

Design Nerdery

I think Patton Oswalt said it best. "My geekiness is getting in the way of my nerdiness." I notice it all day long. The nerdy little things that get in the way of everything. I know I cause myself 90% more headaches than the average joe with my design nerdery. If I …

Reader Trends

I rarely play with the Trends feature in Google Reader, but it is pretty cool.

From your 59 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 2,253 items, starred 31 items, shared 0 items, and emailed 0 items.

Over 2,000 read feeds seem excessive, but then again, …

Duel Final

I just wanted to follow up and post all the images from the design duel. All the even numbers were designed by Brent. All the odd numbers were designed by me. I was very happy with the results, and I'm sure I'll be doing more soon.

Helvetica in Savannah

I recently gave a speech about Helvetica. I decided to walk around Savannah taking picture of any use of Helvetica I could find, which I used in a slideshow during the speech. I just uploaded all these images to my flickr account, so I thought I'd share.

Professor Murder

It's been a while. It's time for another music post!

With a name like Professor Murder, I'm sure you've got a lot of expectations, but I bet they'll be a lot more fun than you would have thought. They're named after a character from Mr. Show, which is a reason to love …

Hip-Hop Chess Event

I never really posted about the Hip-Hop Chess event, but it was a lot of fun and I took a ton of pictures. I actually ended up turning a few in as a photography assignment so I thought I'd share. The assignment was black and white portraits, so I got some of RZA, GZA, …

Dueling Day 5

This is the final day of the designer duel between Brent and I. I just finished my last one, stage 9. It took me a little while to figure out where to go from Brent's last step. I think I've got something though. I'm interested to see how Brent wraps it up. I feel like …

Moo Card Case

I spent a while looking for moo card cases online the other day. If you've ever seen moo cards, they aren't the size of a normal business card, so you can't just pick one up at Staples. I did find some really slick looking cases, but they were all from other countries …

Dueling Day 4

Ah... seems way too early. I had to wake up to finish some work. It's actually somewhat design related, so I'll post some pictures soon. I have to deliver a speech on the use and history of Helvetica this morning, so I walked around Savannah and took pictures as …

The Long Winters

Last spring there were a few albums that I would listen to over and over again. The top two on that list "Dog Problems" by the Format and "Putting The Days to Bed" by the Long Winters. Just for fun I thought I'd add up the number of plays "Putting The Days.." has …

San Francisco and Hip-Hop Chess

I'm heading to San Francisco early tomorrow morning. I'll be out there from Friday to Sunday. While I'm there I'll be at the 1st Annual Chess Kings Invitational, put on by the Hip-Hop Chess Federation. If you want to come to the event, check out the HHCF site for …

The Designer Duel

Thanks to everyone who responded to my last post. I've set up the first of these designer duels for the upcoming week. I'll be facing off against Brent Spore of I Bought A Mac. We'll be trading designs back and forth for a week and posting the steps on our blogs. …

Following Layer Tennis

I've been following the last two rounds of Layer Tennis, Shaun Inman vs Kevin Cornell and Neil Duerden vs Mathew Star Thomas. I really like the idea, and I was thinking it would be fun to carry across to some designer's blogs. What I'm saying is I challenge you to a …