Ethan had a week off of school, so Katie decided to go on a road trip with him. Just the two of them. They are traveling down the coast of California visiting a couple of different Missions a day. (A Mission is an old style church built during the colonization of California by the Spanish.) They travel…
I used to live in NYC. Greatest public transportation in the world. Tons of different kinds of businesses. It was a good city to live near. Now I live in San Mateo, Silicon Valley, California. I miss the great train systems. However, the profile of the companies here is very different. It’s technology Mecca. It…
After the Jets game, David Clowney, Wide Receiver NYJ, wrote a twitter message. “1 play in the 1st Half, 4 plays in the 2nd half . . . A bit disappointed about my playing time but very happy and satisfied about the win.” For this tweet, he was benched for next Sunday’s game by Coach…
I just saw two sites that are incredibly disturbing. One claims that CO2 is not a pollutant and the other is claiming CO2 is the best thing in the world for plants. The ridiculousness of these websites is depressing, because I know that some people think that this point of view is valid. How about a website…
Sometimes marketers (no offense) are ridiculous. Here is an example of the worst marketing I have ever seen. This video really makes me want to install Haiku. Microsoft, you are making me crazy. The Outlook-Word thing stinks, but this video made me throw up in my mouth.
This is pure unexpected WOW. Watch the video and ask yourself, “Did I just say wow? That was unexpected?” Great song, great video. I hope you like it.
I recently watched Coraline with the kids. The movie was pretty clever and well done, but I found it highly derivative. Here is what it made me think: BeetleJuice (1988) – My goodness, the artwork was so reminiscent the genius BeetleJuice, but more importantly, I found a strong similarity to the main characters (Lydia/Coraline) and to her relationship…
I love well done satire.
The US Government started this program called “Cash for Clunkers“. It gives $4000 to anyone who is trading in an old piece of crap for a new shiny car. The goal is to increase the overall gas efficiency as well as spur the automotive industry. They allocated $2 billion dollars. The money ran out in…
What you call things is incredibly important. The words you choose carry baggage and implications that people will adopt. The words help people remember and frame an idea. Take for example the current Healthcare debate in the U.S. There is so much complexity and so much riding on one single monolithic bill. Everyone assumes that…
I can’t help myself. I love typography. It makes such a difference. I tried a bunch of fonts from http://www.dafont.com/. They are organized nicely and have liberal usage policies. The only suggestion I would make to them is that they should use cufon or sIfr and allow me to type in my own sentence and…
Apparently, NASA has lost the original high quality footage of the 1969 moon landing. Apparently, in the 80’s we sent new spy satellites into space that were recording a ton of new footage. NASA was overwhelmed by the amount of tape required to store the footage, so they ERASED THE MOON LANDING to put some…
Possibly the defining characteristic of life as we know it. Change is the only constant. Whether it is pain or joy, it won’t last forever. I watched The Curious Case of Benjamin Button tonight. Medium movie, I liked it. However, the line, “Nothing Lasts” really stuck with me. My kids are growing older so quickly…
I had referenced this piece of art in a previous post. I scanned it in. It’s a little hard to tell, but the layers are made out of tissue paper. There is a third wave of waves that is faint in the picture. It looks best on a window with natural light coming through. Anyway,…