Today at work, Ben and I were looking over some specs we drew up for an upcoming internal blog app tool. The topic of RSS feeds came up, and we both realized that… while we were familiar with the concept, neither of us really used feeds in any way. Ben mentioned that Allison was into …
The ginormous Nestle Crunch bar I received on my birthday continues to diminish with frightening speed. I don’t know whether to be scared of my coworkers… or proud. Not too shabby for six days of work.
I just got Jim and Sally’s birthday gift a day or so ago in the mail. Not one, but two great books about comics. I’ve heard a great deal about Scott McCloud’s “Understanding Comics,” and even recall seeing it listed on a few college courses. I’m just a little bit into it at the moment, …
Last week, I saw a thread on Twelvestone about Essential Mac Software. A few programs I was familiar with, a few I had heard about, tangentially. One app that stood out was Quicksilver. I remember a few folks talking about this before, and speaking very highly of it. Off the bat: the installation process is …
This is the default player used to display virally syndicated titles via the Get the Code button. http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid271557392http://www.brightcove.com/channel.jsp?channel=78144477 This video is a clip from the upcoming TV version of This American Life, and animated by none other than Chris Ware. The pairing is perfect, as Ware’s style is suited to this particular story. I’ve not …
I’m pretty tardy with this news but… better late than never. After a bit of a hiatus, Ben has brought back his mp3 blog (CIGIT 2.0). More than once, Ben has been someone who passes me an mp3 that gets stuck in my brain… and I end up looping the track incessantly. Swing on by …
Pausing by the meeting table to slice off a little chocolate? Not a problem. Slicing off a larger-than-normal chunk of chocolate? Not a problem. Popping that entire chunk of chocolate into your mouth? Again, not a problem. The thing of it is? You were originally heading to the bathroom, before you got distracted. The single-occupancy …
I haven’t gotten terribly far with this game, but it’s pretty fantastic so far. Remarkably intuitive, and I catch myself wanting to pull back from “playing” the game to studying it for the way in which it illicits user interaction. At times spooky and a little unsettling, this game is a series of smallish one-room …
Spent today working on building out a site for Gretchen and Genie. It’s called Literago, and is a bit of an amalgam of the words “Literate Chicago.” The idea for the site is one that combines multiple threads: it’s a calendar of literary events, an ongoing collection of essays about all things literary and Chicago, …
Justin and I stopped in at Rodan for a few drinks after work on Friday. I forget the bartender’s name, but Justin knew him – and we got taken care of pretty well. We had some scotch, and moved in to sake (we both seem to be liking sake, more and more). We found out …
I found out yesterday that today is Andrea’s last day at Artisan. She’s been a friendly face in the mornings, where we all to get our coffee before the day starts. It’s sad to see her leave, but she’s off to another job where it sounds like she’ll be super busy tending to a lot …
Each year thousands of people pay between $100 – $500 to enter the annual Tough Guy race, a course that includes all manner of paramilitary obstacles designed to test strength and endurance. Oh, and they all sign Death Warrants too, which include the following: “I confirm that if I should die on the Tough Guy …
Happy Pi Day, everybody. Usually around this time, I get a good deal of traffic from new visitors (mostly folks who swing by to see the pi10k experiment I made, a few years back). It’s kind of funny. I created that thing trying to learn a bit more about strings and arrays, almost as an …
Most people have separate heart and love lines on their palms. Felix has one big line that spans the width of his entire right palm. He's told that this is "lucky."
As a kid, Felix starred in a television commercial for a toy called "Linkits." He's never seen the toy beyond that day, but can still hear the theme song in his head.
On July 13th, 2002, Felix nearly killed himself when he put a Tombstone pizza in the oven and then promptly fell asleep on the couch for the remainder of the night. He almost won a Darwin Award.
