The following is a harrowing tale of agony, defeat, victory, sweat, tears, blood, and glory. Continue reading at your own risk: the risk of your head exploding in amazement of the pure excellence of Wal-mart employees, my wife’s amazing instincts, and my inability to make a decision that actually results in anything awesome.
Random Stuff
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Scoring an iPad 2 Ain’t Easy
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Design Bundle for Japan
The stories coming out of Japan have been pretty heart-breaking, especially the one about the children who were swept away by the tsunami out of their school. A week and a half ago, I decided I really wanted to assist with the recovery effort in Japan and here’s what I came up with: 365bundle. A special thanks goes out to Rich and all the contributors, and everyone who’s purchased it so far, I’m truly stoked about what we’ve been able to accomplish with this effort.
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Disney Vacation 2010
As some of you may know already, we went to Disney last week for the first time as a family. I’ve included a few of the highlight photos and videos. We visited all four Disney parks as well as Univeral’s Islands of Adventure including the brand new Wizarding World of Harry Potter.
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I’m Switching to Fireworks
I’ve been silently debating whether or not my workflow and productivity in Adobe Photoshop are going down the tubes. Sure, I’m able to build some pretty nice sites and interfaces in Photoshop, but I fear I’m missing something by using a glorified photo editing program to craft things meant for the web.
After watching my broseph Rogie King’s Fireworks tutorials and seeing the new features in Fireworks CS5, I’m feeling a lot of internal pressure (as in inside my own head, not inside my organization) to make the switch from Photoshop (which was truly designed for photo editing) to Fireworks. Over the next few weeks, I will be slowly transitioning to the new hotness that is Adobe Fireworks, a design program explicitly aimed at building websites, not just creating stunning graphics or images. Sure, I may dabble in Photoshop when I need a feature here and there, but from now on, I want to take advantage of all the little things Fireworks has to offer where Photoshop tends to crap itself. Not to mention the constant crashing of Photoshop on my mac, which can be eternally frustrating.
So there, I said it. I am switching to Fireworks. Who’s with me? (Side note: As I post this, Photoshop just froze up on me. I think it knows what I’m typing. I’m scared.)
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Win a Copy of Things for Mac
After launching the AllDevJobs.com Blog, I decided it would be a heck of a lot more fun to give away a copy of Things for Mac to 5 lucky email subscribers. To read the details and enter the contest, please visit the new AllDevJobs.com Blog.
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Domain Inspiration
I was in the process of transferring MashedJobs.com to its new owner (recently sold on Flippa) and while I was working in my GoDaddy account, I thought it would be fun to go through the list of domain names I own and list them all here with an explanation of why I own them. After participating in the latest meme-craze URL ABC from TVD, I thought this would be a fun way to share my ideas and domain purchase mistakes with all my friends.
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What J. J. is Thankful For
My son is the most awesome little guy I’ve ever met (and I’m not biased of course
. We recorded a short video to discuss some things J. J. likes and what he is thankful for. He has a cleft palate so some of the sounds you hear him make in this video are replacement sounds for ones he cannot produce. He is on a waiting list to have a surgery that will help correct his speech problems. -
URL ABC
I’m a big fan of internet memes so when Tim Van Damme, Sam Brown, and EJS posted this, I had to join in. It’s a simple concept: Go to the address bar in your favorite browser and type one letter and record the first site that pops up starting with that letter. (more…)
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A Challenge to Kyle Steed
Kyle, you are a designer. I am a designer. You like to eat beef jerky. I like to eat filet mignon. You like to skip showers every other day. I like to be clean and use deodorant. You look like the unabomber. I look like Jack Bauer… I could go on. But I think you get the point. (more…)
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This One’s for Dad
With the launch of my latest theme, Aperturious, I knew this one was going to be difficult. This is the first theme I’ve released since my dad passed away suddenly one week ago today. When he died, I quickly began to realize dealing with it involves a lot of difficult firsts. First time going to church without him there. First time having Christmas without him. First time for everything.
