Archive for March, 2007

Just another reason United Airlines sucks

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!First their automated baggage handler was a piece of shit, now their fully automated jetways are fucking up. Throw in the fact that I missed my connecting flight to Amsterdam because we had two separate airplanes with “mechanical” issues […]

I already feel bad for my first child

Looking through Old Testament names, I came across this one. I apologize to my child in advance.

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Overheard at lunch

Some people who work in an ad agency right near the brewery (we have 4 of those antiquated mega-agencies within a block of us) were eating lunch next to me.
Large Agency Guy 1: You know the paper they print dollar bills on?
Large Agency Guy 2: Yeah.
Large Agency Guy 1: It’s really durable.
Okay, a few observations.
1. […]

I like looking through Flickr photos!

Randomness is great, especially when you have over 437 million photos to pick from. Okay, I think that number is considerably lower, given the (probable) huge number of private photos. Actually, I wonder what percentage of photos on flickr are private? Think there’s a way to look at a few million of them to get […]

Exciting Design News!

Well, I’m getting my first ad on the back cover of a real live, glossy magazine (Draft Magazine). I’ll let you guys know when it’s out so you can go buy a copy, or at least look at one at the Tattered Cover. That’s pretty exciting to me.
I also got my first mousepad design! Okay, […]

i like that the united center in chicago has wifi inside

im at the blackhawks/flames game right now, here in chi-town during my 6 hour layover. got “scalped” (read: 5th row seats after game started for cheap) and it’s not bad.
so im back stateside. the trip was fun with some serious melancholy thrown in to ground me. was it relaxing? in some ways but the urban […]

we bought one of these today

A Pithaya.

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Jam in the Dam

Wow. A few photos here.

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finally in hampsterdam

wow. lots of traveling. 2 planes broke in denver. we ended up getting into chicago at 10pm on friday night. 90 minutes of line at customer service. angry travelers. some bad customer service people. but one spectacular woman. she got me and adam onto a saturday afternoon flight to amsterdam. we pretty much lucked […]

stuck in denver

my flight to chicago has been mega-delayed. missing my connecting flight to amsterdam. going to cry.

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