September 2011
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August 2011
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“Yesterday I ate 3 Whoopie Pies from Trader Joe’s. Lesson: Don’t give...”
– Me.
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My Creepy Childhood Gnome.
While perusing Etsy, I came across this super creepy awesome gnome doll. I actually have the same exact one from when I was a child. When I got my puppy, though, Mr. Creepy Gnome freaked him out so much that I exiled the toy to a box of old childhood momentos. Perhaps it’s time to bust him out of the box for a comeback!
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Watch“American Look” (Part 1 of 3)
It’s amazing that in producing these beautiful mid-century pieces, designers were looking to the future for inspiration. Now? We’re looking to the past.
By the way, feel free to lust after everything in this video — I did! The other parts can also be viewed on the Internet Archive.
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My Love of Plosives.
Boopy, Doopy, Poopy, Moopy, Bubby, and Bubba-Doo. These are are names I call my dog (which I should probably cut back on — otherwise he won’t know his real name). A few weeks ago, while on a Boopy-Doopy name-calling tirade, Paul commented,
“Wow, you really like plosives.” Umm, what?
I love words, but for some reason I hadn’t learned of this linguistic term until Paul...
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“The more sharply the world is rebuked the more it openly rages.”
– Theodore Beza, 1599
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Stocking is the New Planking.
Planking then owling then horsemaning and now — stocking? At stockingisthenewplanking.com you can check out the latest participatory meme (that I’m actually super excited about). Since the demise of istockphotohell, I’ve been craving a new horrible stock photo addiction and this might be it — people reenacting stock photos.
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WatchCorgi in a Coffee Bag: Meet Duncan — my precocious (slightly mischievous) pup.
We play a little game where I throw his toy into a burlap coffee bag and he figures out how to retrieve it. Usually he just paws at it, but today he just decided to go for broke.
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Oak Creek + Flagstaff
I need a trip. Perhaps up north?
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Food Miniatures
I absolutely love these food miniatures by Shay Aaron. Crafted out of polymer clay, you can rock out some of your favorite miniature foods including pistachio cupcakes, sushi rolls, and eggs (sunny side up!). I might have to buy those Nutella sandwich earrings. Yum.
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How Kindle made me realize we're still in 5th...
In 5th grade, whenever we took a quiz or test, my teacher would have us stand up our folders and Lisa Frank Trapper Keepers around the edges of our desk. This created some sort of magical forcefield that supposedly stopped would-be cheaters from copying answers.
Not much has changed since 5th grade.
If you’re a designer who meets with clients directly, you probably hear one piece of...
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Autowed: The Wedding Vending Machine
I have no good excuse as to how I came across Autowed, so instead of trying to come up with a legitimate-sounding reason, I’ll share it’s gloriousness with all of you. Performing weddings of all kinds, it’s like the Zoltar of girly-ness (+20 points if you got the Big reference). It even spits out two plastic rings to make your love official. Looking at how expensive weddings...
