May 14th, 2008
Coming back from LA was a mixture of emotions. Sad to leave my friends there, happy to see my friends here. The gang here had some fun with my office, I came back to find everything covered in Princess stickers and pink bows. They even had one of those folding princess play castle setup where […]
April 29th, 2008
The tamales were wonderful, and the tour of food continued at the Argentinean cafe LaLa’s then a quiet cook out with friends with some great meat from a great little local market in Burbank.
The Disney trip was a blast Linnea wore that dress all day and reveled in the attention she got all day. A lapse in […]
April 27th, 2008
Friday night the family and I took the red eye to LA for a week back “home”. The flight was great, non-stop on Virgin America from Dulles and it went smoother than expected. The personal video screen on each seat properly subdued the children (and their father) with cartoons for the former and a “Top […]
April 15th, 2008
The last surviving member of the famed nine old men passed away last night at the age of 95. I used to walk the halls of the old animation buildings on the Disney lot back when I worked at Feature Animation, I used to just go there during lunch so I could feel as though […]
March 15th, 2008
I downloaded the iPhone SDK the day it was released. I am not currently an application developer. I had actually never written a line of compiled code until last week. But the potential that this device holds for the future is enough for me to take what knowledge I have of programming and dive head […]
March 10th, 2008
I was trying to take the opportunity of a change in web hosts to make a change in my site’s design and a long overdue update to my portfolio, complete with a custom built cms to maintain it. Well here it is two weeks later and I have put down the crack I was smoking […]
February 12th, 2008
I found Adam Howell’s article about Derek Powazek’s startup Pixish.com on Daring Fireball and my first instinct was to immediatly delete the account I set up to check it out because every point he makes is correct. Spec work is terrible, it’s an underhanded approach by businesses or people to barter for work they don’t […]
January 14th, 2008
As usual there is a tremendous amount of speculation surrounding the Macworld keynote. Since the release of the iPhone last year Mr. Jobs has to be feeling an incredible amount of pressure for this years outing if he feels pressure at all, I’m not sure if it’s possible at this point in his life.
I am […]