Author: Ben

  • On teaching

    The best way to teach is to learn with your students.

  • 2015 New Year’s Resolutions

    Read more Write more Art more Music more Consume less Clean up

  • Narrow focus

    Responsive design means narrowing your viewport to see if you can still understand the content.  

  • Nancy the swimmer

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    So Nan has decided she doesn’t want to swim. Well, she’s always complained about going to swim team but I finally caved and stopped bringing her. I guess that makes me a bad parent. I just got sick of fighting with her, dragging her out the door with a grocery bag of wet towels, suits,…

  • Game idea

    This is so simple, and doable You control a node You can move that node around in a fixed 2d space If you collide with another node, you fight by clicking as fast as you can If you click faster than that node, you grow Clickrate is modified by your size The bigger you are,…

  • Hard to get into new music

    There’s so much great music out there, but I can’t really find any. Problem is, the times in my life when I really discovered music were when I had a little peer pressure –  high school, college, working in an office – and the people around me would play stuff, make me listen to stuff,…

  • The good old days of 25¢ video games

    Once upon a time I was an arcade junkie. I would dump quarter upon quarter trying to understand the inner workings of the most beautiful machines I knew of, these arcade consoles. But I never had enough money. My cousin Paul dinardo, apparently, did, as he pwned the high-score in tempest (the greatest video game…

  • Life

    For me, life is seeing. Drawing is regurgitation.

  • Chubby design

    You heard it here first, folks. The next big thing in cutting-edge design is hereby being dubbed “chubby” design. What is chubby? Bursting at the seams Easy/inviting to touch/rub The opposite of all this hyperthin helvetica apple rolled out with ios 7 Get the first unapologetic chubby design today – the chubbies icon font: https://github.com/field2/chubbies

  • Easy BBQ Chicken

    Ingredients: 1 chicken, cut into 8 pieces, or whatever bone-in chicken you have laying around 1 bottle of your favorite BBQ sauce ———- Start the grill. Dump the bottle of sauce in a pot. Fill the bottle with water, shake it up, pour into the pot. When it’s boiling, add the chicken. Cook for 20-25…

  • Intellectual property

    So I think our DMA grads could be better suited to pursue IP law than any other program’s grads in the country.

  • Typehunting

    A couple cool type stuffies I got at a yard sale.  

  • On WordPress as a career skill

    WordPress is quickly becoming an essential skill for people in a wide variety of industries. Therefore, it’s imperative that educational institutions prepare graduates to manage, maintain, develop and design WordPress powered sites, blogs and apps. Soon we’ll see WP listed as a requirement on as many job listings as MS-Office, and students should confidently be…

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  • Thoughts on WordCamp San Francisco 2013

    Have to say this was my best WC yet. First the bad: I left my phone on the beach the first day. Thankfully someone found it and called my hotel, but I spent the whole evening trekking it across SF getting it back. I wanted soo bad to take SouthWestern up on a delay for…

  • Posts to facebook and twitter

    I’m researching plugins that will auto-post to FB and Twitter accounts. Most plugins force you to create facebook “apps” to do the FB thing, a process that I despise. This one is called “social”, and it apparently doesn’t require an app.  I’ll report my findings at the next Buffalo WordPress Users meetup tomorrow evening. If…

  • Dirty Shrimp Risotto Recipe

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    Made this last night, easy and quick, mmm. This is a great way to cook shrimp as it’s hard to overcook them, and they absorb all the flavors of the rice. I call it “Dirty” rice because this batch ended up with a nice grey-brown color, but YMMV… Ingredients: 1 bag frozen, EZ-Peel shrimp, 24-30…