Plays In Traffic

Watching the Super Bowl, I just heard Al Michaels make a comment about Chad Ocho-Jerko — that up til this year, his career has been “all headlines,” and that this year it’s been “agate type.” Now, being 1. A student of typography, and 2. Old, I knew what he meant, but isn’t that expression rapidly fading . . . → Read More: Al Michaels is showing his age

I only set up a feed reader for myself a few months ago (welcome to five years ago, right?), but one of the things I initially feared was that I was setting myself up for an isolation bubble, where I’d only see things I expected. Nice, safe, thought-provoking but still predictable things.

Then today I saw something . . . → Read More: I still can’t figure this out

If you woke up yesterday realizing it was a day past Tax Day, you have another day to file – at least that’s the case for your federal and state taxes. Our city taxes were still due on April 15, and since those were the most difficult, they were the last ones done. Even the payroll . . . → Read More: Where does the money go?

You're gonna need a bigger purse.

I just found a New York Times article (hurry before the paywall goes up!) that confirms something I’ve thought for a long time — phones are just rude. A necessary evil. I just knew I couldn’t be the only person who hated that feeling that I had to drop whatever . . . → Read More: Well *that’s* a relief!

I’m trying out a new site — Pinterest (thanks, RT)! As averse as I am to online social sites, this one is different; it doesn’t care what I had for dinner and people can’t ‘poke’ me. Instead you build visual collections, and as a designer it’s a throwback to the paper tickler files I used to . . . → Read More: Anything pinteresting going on?

An admitted “famewhore” who I will not name (kind of like how Yoko Ono asked that no one speak the name of the guy who killed John Lennon, why give him even more undeserved attention) recently decided that his next attempt at notoriety will come at the expense of the visual arts. Here’s the famewhore, explaining . . . → Read More: Quote for the day

In a classic case of jumping too far ahead, before putting one post up from a desktop, I tried to do it from a mobile app and couldn’t access the site. So while I fiddle around with that, here’s looking forward to a day of test rides for a new bike tomorrow! So many things . . . → Read More: Testing, testing