February 2012
6 posts
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Project Codenames
I like to give my projects code names, not because they need them, but because I like naming things. Unfortunately, I can never decide on a consistent naming schema. So far, various iterations of my personal website have been named:
Characters from the West Wing
Seaborn
Bartlet
Seaborn was eventually commandeered for a project I worked on for my college’s SGA, along with...
The 20 Most Beautiful Bookstores in the World →
Glimpsing God through Computer Programming →
January 2012
5 posts
When We Build →
Wilson Miner is a man after my own heart - interface design, Marshall McLuhan, and an appreciation of the little things, all in one lecture. Recent though it is, this is quickly becoming foundational literature for the design industry.
Watch this if you want to understand the great shifts we’re seeing in the world. Watch it all the way through - you won’t be sorry.
Movie Posters from an Alternate Universe (new... →
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“She taught me to be grateful for my life regardless of what that entailed, and...”
– Stephen Colbert, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/magazine/stephen-colbert.html?pagewanted=5&_r=1&smid=fb-nytimes
December 2011
3 posts
Embarking on a new project. →
Every couple of years, I’m re-bitten by the game development bug. This time, I’ll be recording my progress and thoughts on game development and the philosophy of interaction. If you’re even remotely interested, consider following the blog - it’ll be worth your while!
November 2011
3 posts
An Incomplete List of Small Pleasures
viafrank:
Referring to friends and family by the first letter of their first name.
Sound of passing traffic without horns or sirens. Just whooshes.
Folk tales.
Bridges—rivers, noses, ships, songs.
Believing that things other than buildings can have architecture.
Rereading.
October 2011
6 posts
tmblg:
A million guys walk in to a Silicon Valley bar. None of them buy anything. The bar is declared a rousing success.
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September 2011
4 posts
3 tags
My company's Tumblr is finally live. Follow it! →
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August 2011
21 posts
“When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to...”
– Steve Jobs (via bleikamp)
36 Hours in Downtown Manhattan →
GIF TV →
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“New York earthquakes are better because of our thinner crust.”
– Joel Johnson (via david)
I'm sitting on the couch with Sam and Jordan...
currenthappenings:
….while we discuss life.
This is truly, honestly the most relaxed I have been all summer.
Call me a snob, I do not care.
But if you do call, I will appreciate it.
Entrepreneurial Wisdom →
My new side project. Follow it!
“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I...”
– Neil Gaiman (via venebelle)
As someone in marketing, I feel that it’s my responsibility to watch more Mad Men.
The world’s not coming apart at the seams; it was never together.
rockinhorseland:
Looking at the news makes me feel like the world is falling apart. But if things are separating, that means God is separating them.
His plan is glorious.
New Life Goal →
“We are settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves...”
– David Platt (via modernhepburn)
The customer may make the final decision, but that doesn’t mean he or she is always right.
Screencaps of Mad Men, with dialogue from Arrested... →
Yes.
We accept this as journalism? →
EDIT: It appears the BBC realized the study was a hoax, and has changed the article to which this post links accordingly. So the following comment may not make sense anymore. To reiterate, though, I was commenting on their writing, not their choice of content.
This is abominably bad reporting. Besides confusing correlation with causality, the caption of the accompanying picture (“Does your...
You know what? My guilty pleasures playlist includes a lot of Taylor Swift.
There, I said it.
July 2011
12 posts
