Archive for May, 2007

Devil in My Sandwich

This is not a made up picture. I was chowing down when I saw the devil in my sandwich: I would consider selling it for upwards of US$10K, if only I hadn’t gone ahead and eaten the rest of it. It was just too good. Maybe that was the devil in it, preventing me from [...]

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Chickens

So, I come home from work and parked outside my house, I see this truck with chickens in the back: I figure it belongs to the neighbor next door and I shrug it off. But I snap a picture since it’s kinda odd in the middle of a Seattle Summer. The next day, I’m working [...]

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Weekend

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Thai and PHP

All of my dreams last night were in Thai and PHP. I don’t speak much Thai so I exhausted it all on a woman in a restaurant. She told me all I know and some things I didn’t. While this was happening, I was coding and re-coding the experience. They say you can’t read in [...]

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Flaws in Design Usage

William McDonough speaks about flaws in our usage of designs, specifically in relation to trees: “Imagine this design project: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water, provides habitat for hundred of species, accrues solar energy as fuel, makes complex sugars and food, creates microclimates, changes colors with the seasons, and self [...]

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