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Ha ha ha ha. . . Microsoft.

Seems like whoever does Microsoft’s Window’s Vista advertising design work may be looking for another job soon…who puts a Mac iBook in a Windows Vista in-store banner ad?

I love camera phones…

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Is that scribble type? Oh, yeah!

So, I’ve discovered this cool new web, um, thing. To be honest, I don’t know what it is. It’s not an application, it’s just a thing. A thing that replaces type. I realize my half-ass description is about as effective as Ralphie’s report about the what he wants for Christmas - the Red Ryder BB gun that has “compass in the stock and this thing which tells time” from the movie “A Christmas Story“, but it really is this thing which converts boring HTML type to cool Flash type, in whatever font I have on my computer. And you’re in luck, ‘cuz I’ve got lots.
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I selfishly wish dinosaurs were still around…

I bet we’d have a lot less staff meetings.

*sigh*

Seriously, is it that important?

I realize that sometimes, one must use their mobile phone to call someone while in public. Really. I can appreciate this. That’s what they’re there for.

We all know, too, that there are times that the use of the phone may be inappropriate, but there are some no-brainers: while at the library, at a wedding/funeral/church service, or while at the counter while placing a food/beverage order.
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I have to remove what to install this?

Started a little project yesterday. I had to replace my turn signal stalk on my car which is the little slice of heaven labeled #12 in the diagram below. Installation also includes most of #14 plus #10/11. Had I seen this illustration before I started, I can’t say with any certainty that I would have begun.
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A monk, a priest, and a graphic designer
walk into a coffee bar…

So, there’s this coffee shop I go to on Sunday mornings after I drop my wife off at church for choir practice: Grinder’s. I come here to catch up on business billings and any last-minute jobs, as well as get my list for Monday worked out in my head. Unfortunately, I’ve really begun to enjoy watching the people here, as much as the coffee. I’m not getting much done.

Last week, I sat across from a guy who I can only hope was a monk - shaved head, long burgundy robe with a gold sash. Either he was a monk or he was a ninja, but I think ninjas probably have enough self-control to not need an espresso in the morning. Monks, apparently, not so much.
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