May 2012
3 posts
“This design may be good, bad, or indifferent but it is not accidental.”
– Web Design Manifesto 2012 – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
“To promote Animaniacs before the show’s premiere, a giant balloon in the shape...”
– Way More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About Animaniacs - Mental Floss
April 2012
2 posts
“Musically, “Pumped Up Kicks” could probably be generously described on a...”
– Pumped up Nihilists: How irony infiltrated the mainstream, or Foster the People wrote a bad song and they should feel bad about it | The Basement
March 2012
1 post
February 2012
7 posts
clientsfromhell:
Client: Why have you taken my website down? I demand you put it back immediately!
Me: You didn’t pay your January invoice, and although I explained very clearly the consequences of that non-payment, you still refused, so the website is now offline.
Client: But it’s February now, so put it back online at once.
Me: Well, you are refusing to pay the February invoice too, so I’m...
“I will be out of the office on Monday, February 20th. Watch the Irish take on...”
– Colleague’s out-of-office reply. File this under “Always be closing.”
An Atari reference for a Monday afternoon
…I hear you, but at the same time, as someone who is struggling to be able to code my own stuff, and not flop around like a metaphorical flounder on the beach, I can see how this is how someone eventually learns good habits.
The problem is that you leave a trail of bad sites in your wake.
I don’t want people to know about my first few years of designs. I’d like to bury them in the...
How you can tell if an idea is "right."
Have a story to tell.
The story becomes the theme, the backbone of the project.
If you don’t define the story at the beginning of the project, you have nothing to which to relate all of the bazillions of tiny questions that arise in the course of creating something.
“What color should it be?”
“How big?”
“What’s the right font?”
All of these...
clientsfromhell:
Me: The internet isn’t working - but don’t worry, we’ve called to get it sorted and they said it should be up in the next ten minutes.
Client: We’ll just e-mail in Outlook then.
Me: That’ll be down too.
Client: Fine! It’s unprofessional, but we’ll use Facebook.
Me: Do you understand what the internet is?
January 2012
4 posts
Adobe UI Gripes: Everyday life of the Photoshop... →
adobegripes:
“Shall we add some useful new features in this version? Perhaps Lazy Mouse or incremental undo for brush strokes?”
“Nah lets add 3D, that’ll be REALLY useful.”
Every time I use the brush tool in Photoshop I wish for both lazy mouse and incremental undo… and every time I’m reminded they…
“President Bill Clinton would have eased the moment with a joke – handed her a...”
– Did Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer disrespect President Obama? ( video) - CSMonitor.com
December 2011
6 posts
“Programmers (who are used to learning new syntaxes, and enjoy pain) didn’t mind...”
– A List Apart: Articles: Getting Started with Sass
November 2011
2 posts
“HERE ARE THE DANGER SIGNALS. ANY TIME TWO CHARACTERS ARE TALKING ABOUT A THIRD,...”
– David Mamet’s Master Class Memo to the Writers of The Unit | Movieline
“One thing UBS notes is that it would be much, much cheaper for Germany to simply...”
– Could Germany just leave the euro zone? Not easily. - The Washington Post
October 2011
2 posts
“In the absence of information, people make shit up. Worse, if they feel...”
– Twitter / @rands: In the absence of informat …
I’m tattooing this across my forehead so I never forget it.
September 2011
8 posts
“Others might argue that Michael Jordan was more important to the Toon Squad than...”
– Jumping Off the Colts Bandwagon - The Triangle Blog
“I’ve printed out the pages of the website, and both my wife and I agree that it...”
– (via clientsfromhell)
“That’s not a witty acronym, and it doesn’t hide the fact that this user goal is...”
– The S.M.A.R.T. User Experience Strategy - Smashing Magazine
“In retrospect, people like to point out that signs of overreach were always...”
– Letter from China: China’s Iceland Moment : The New Yorker
...so I have a new job.
Feel free to skip the long-winded interlude and scroll down to the to the good stuff.
The Long-Winded Interlude
As you may know, I was until recently a, and eventually the (and then a again) Web Designer at what was once called Agency ND and is now Marketing Communications, an internal marketing agency at the University of Notre Dame.
I was lucky enough to work with some really awesome people...
August 2011
6 posts
“It’s nice that you’re spending time on this one issue, but try to look up from...”
– The Macalope Weekly: Gotta know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em | Tablets | MacUser | Macworld
“It was as if you could see two little 5-year-old kids at their first Christmas....”
– Freed West Memphis 3: Like kids at Christmas - CBS News
“Of course, politicians of all stripes are not faring well among the public these...”
– Crashing the Tea Party - NYTimes.com
June 2011
1 post
May 2011
1 post
March 2011
1 post
January 2011
2 posts
October 2010
3 posts
Eric LeGrand Believe Fund
Rutgers defensive tackle Eric LeGrand suffered a spinal cord injury on October 16 during a kickoff return. He has been unable to move since. If you would like to support Eric, please direct donations to this address:
Eric LeGrand Believe Fund PNC Wealth Management Attn: Kimberly G. Kingsland, Senior Trust Advisor, 1 Palmer Square Suite 201, Princeton, NJ 08542
Learn more about the Believe Fund...
Chris' Crowd-Sourced 75 word Bio
Stranded after an air crash and raised by wolves in the Australian outback -oak
Chris Wilkinson realized that most any problem could be solved with peanut butter. - jude
His meteoric rise to international dignitary and champion speed eater shocked the world. - Nick
Now as a web support developer at the Agency, Chris holds the key to the Internet… and our hearts. - Jarett
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Chris Wilkinson's 75 word, crowd-sourced, bio
Stranded after an air crash and raised by wolves in the Australian outback -oak
Chris Wilkinson realized that most any problem could be solved with peanut butter. - jude
His meteoric rise to international dignitary and champion speed eater shocked the world. - Nick
September 2010
3 posts
i refuse to believe this could actually happen
clientsfromhell:
Client: ”We went ahead and copied your signature to a new contract with a few minor modifications, nothing big. Looking forward to working with you!”
[They cut the deadline from one month to one week, and cut the price by 40%. Somehow they were shocked when I said I wouldn’t honor the contract, even though I “signed” it.]