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  • Inside out learning

    I’m going to be talking a lot about a concept that’s been brewing in my head lately: “Inside out learning”…stay tuned…

  • I hate restaurants.

    Most people love restaurants. I’m gonna go on record and state affirmatively that I hate them. I hate being seated, being served (no one should ever be “served” in this world), trying to get the attention of the waiter when something inevitably gets f’d up, looking around at the piles of wasted food everywhere, trying…

  • Eli

    I saw Eli playing with toy guys today-Batman, Frodo, the Mask. I glimpsed him doing it in the front room, in our CA cottage. Probably the last time I’ll ever see it. There is nothing more magical than watching your son play with toy guys; the way their hands and fingers connect with the toy…

  • NEA logo entry

    NEA logo entry

    So last month I spent a bunch of time working on a logo design in response to Uncle Sam’s RFP: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/01/wholl-design-the-new-nea-logo-it-could-be-you/ . Regardless of what I think of spec work, I love high scale design competitions. Too much design is born from who-you-know and schmoozing. Here’s my submission:

  • The mccondo

    I’m at the ft Erie town meeting and 2 hours into it were hearing the same pro-condo heads go on and on. Were all in agreement on this point- the town needs more people, more business. The people you’re gonna get are not what you want. You want people to fix the cottages and build…

  • On "Where the Wild Things Are"

    Too much music. Not enough Sea Monster.

  • Futura vs. Verdana

    OK all you typography snobs out there, up in arms over Ikea’s recent switch to Verdana (google ikea verdana), ask yourselves: If you had one store to shop for all of your furniture, what would it be? Ikea, right. If you had one font to use on everything you designed, what would it be? Well,…

  • Bang Bang You're Dead

    I want this book: http://bit.ly/2dwULc The kids basically maul each other in a war. This would make such a better movie than “Where the Wild Things Are”.

  • Things are better for my kids

    A theme you hear is how parents want to make sure their kids have all the things they didn’t. I don’t get that. I had everything; my parents gave us lots of toys and good food and everything. Maybe it was being a child of the 70s/80s, when things were pretty plentiful. Today I was…

  • Textwrangler 3 released

    My favorite text editor just got updated. Woopee!

  • The BBPress icons

    The BBPress icons

    Here’s some recent icons done for BBPress:

  • Gallery 3 icons

    Gallery 3 icons

    I’ve been working on icons for the upcoming release of Gallery 3 (http://gallery.menalto.com/). Here they are:

  • A good beach day

    Well there’s nothing like spending a 90º summer afternoon in a cool lake with your three kids, all under the age of 12 mind you (that’s key), wrestling and throwing them around in the waves, with high winds whipping up one-footers. Of course it ain’t the Atlantic, but whatryagonnado. We followed it up with some…

  • Wordcamp Buffalo?

    Thinking about trying to organize a Wordcamp in Buffalo some time next Spring. Anyone interested in helping out? I need to find sponsors, venue, speakers, etc. Not sure I want to get into unless I have some people backing me up!

  • Coconut Shrimp Recipe

    I been working on my coconut shrimp: 1 pack 25-35 frozen shrimp, e-z-peel®™© 2 tb Flour/2 tsp Old Bay mixed together in a bowl 1 Lime Handful Sweet Shredded Coconut Handful Bread Crumbs pinch red hot pepper flakes 1/4 cup Milk/cream 2 eggs 2 tbsp Mayonnaise 3 tbsp Orange Marmalade Throw frozen shrimp in some…

  • Icons

    New work–all are 6″x4″ drypoint/monoprint, unframed. Let me know if you want one! [nggallery id=1]

  • Sample icon file for wordpress plugins

    icon_effect.zip You can download this file and use it as a starting point when designing plugin icons, so that they resemble the default set in WordPress’ admin area. Copy and paste the effect applied to the rounded rectangle shape to your own vector shape in Photoshop.

  • Sf moma

    At the Okeefe /Adams special exhibit. Pretty stuff, unfortunately though okeefe spawned hoards of lousy imitators. Can’t wait to see the general collection.

  • Looking for the ultimate makhani sauce recipe

    I seriously believe Makhani sauce is the best stuff you can eat on this planet. But it is incredibly hard to make. At least, that’s been my impression to date. I spent an afternoon constructing something verbatum from some website, and it sucked so bad I tossed the entire batch. So I’m done trying to…

  • Quick and Easy Recipe #2-get the kids back in school

    I borrowed heavily from a link my Brother sent me for this one: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/25/dining/25mini.html?ref=dining but when I tried it on the kids recently they gagged. Soon after they all got sick, really sick, and have stayed home from school most of this week.  So I tried it again with different ingredients: 3 bullion cubes (Beef,…