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  • Great Artwork – Portraits of Women

    There are several images in this collection of beautiful feminine illustrations that just stopped me in my tracks.  To me, the purpose of art is to evoke emotion or thought.  This collection has a wealth of it. Two standouts are the one with the girl spinning a hoop/maze and this cubist rendering. I think women…

  • JibJab Campaigning

    JibJab is so cool.  They allow you to upload your own photo into the middle of their movie.  How the hell do they do that?!  Watch this one.  I am in it. REMOVED LONG AGO

  • Decisions

    Miles: Sometimes you gotta say “What the F**k”, make your move. Joel, every now and then, saying “What the F**k”, brings freedom. Freedom brings opportunity, opportunity brings freedom. So your parents are going out of town. You got the place all to yourself. Joel Goodson: Yeah. Miles: What the f**k. Nothing is more difficult, and…

  • Microsoft Office 2007 Menu Fonts

    This might sound stupid, but I was struggling to find out what font Microsoft used in their menus in Office 2007.  I thought it was Calibri, but that was incorrect.  It turns out to be Segoe UI. Google sort of let me down there.  I googled and googled and couldn’t find a post with the…

  • 300 Million Prize for Better Battery

    John McCain has proposed a 300 million dollar prize for a better battery.  Although I certainly am in favor of a significant increase in funding for batteries, I don’t understand why this is a prize.  Why not just invest 300 million in R&D grants for better batteries? Is it really a “prize”?  So one company…

  • From A to Z

    I just noticed something this morning.  I always knew the arrow was sort of a smile.  The M and the A were the eyes and the arrow was the smile.  However, I didn’t notice that the arrow goes from A to Z until today.  From A to Z.  They don’t just sell books.  Get it?…

  • Household Income, 2006

    This is an update to my post previously about income in the United States.  Based on 111,617,402 households in the US as of 2006. Household Income, 2006 Total People Percent Less than $49,999 57,218,480 51% $50,000 to $74,999 21,221,889 19% $75,000 to $99,999 13,214,551 12% $100,000 to $199,999 16,145,482 14% $200,000 or more 3,817,000 3%…

  • Surfing

    Every once in a while, I do a little exploration on the web to look for interesting things.  I don’t do it that often because it is a road that leads to everywhere and I could get lost for hours.  However, I feel compelled to do it a little bit of the time and this…

  • Bad Allergies

    Wow, today is a terrible allergy day.  I took a claritin, but I still feel awful.  Maybe this is punishment for being mean to Katie.  She deserves better.  I woke up and my eyes immediately started bleeding, then I started sneezing.  I took a drink of water because I was terribly dehydrated and the fluid…

  • The UX of 36

    I turned 36 yesterday.  The day started off rough with a huge mistake I made and some scrambling to fix it.  It kept going with details and a million things to deal with.  I got a bunch done.  Some good product management candidates coming in next week. Then we went to dinner at BenniHanna‘s in…

  • Dan in Real Life

    Katie and I just finished watching Dan In Real Life.  We liked the movie very much.  It was a little formulaic,  but the direction, acting and writing were good enough to overcome the formula.  The story had a big family on a yearly reunion as the backdrop.  It reminded me alot of my own family…

  • The Makers Faire

    The boys and I attended the Markers Faire last weekend.  We first went in the morning and then had to leave for little league practice.  Then we biked back without Matthew to spend time before Katie had to go to the Opera.  Both times, we forgot the camera.  Ugh!  How lame are we.  Here are…