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This guys is crazy with his pumpkin carving skills. Read the whole story at WSJ. Note: This video will not play if you have had blocking software. I don't have ads on my site so you can disable for my domain safely and no animals will be harmed. Related articles The Science of Carving Pumpkins [...]
I've been thinking about failure a lot. My career has some doozies in its wake. I've heard people speak about failures at conferences. The current trend is to tell people failures are okay because they learn from them. I've seen some suggest extremes like encouraging failure. Back in the late 80s, "failure was not an [...]
hile Don wrote about education and industrial design and Lis was focused on UX (read: software/web design), it appears their philosophies collide. Can you be all things to all people all of the time while having a practical career? Is it possible to specialize without pigeon-holing yourself out of the market?
Image via Wikipedia I grew up in central Arkansas and for those of you from other places, growing up there is like growing up twenty years in the past. The place never seems to be culturally caught up to the rest of the country. Fashion trends hit there last. Back in high school, I had [...]
I just found out a good friend of mine passed away. Mary Wagoner (@MaryroseWagoner) was introduced to me by a mutual friend fifteen years ago. We worked more projects together than I can count. I helped her with website work, application design, and documentation. She did marketing and PR. The thing about Mary was she [...]
Istanbul (Not Constantinople) by They Might Be Giants
Oh Awkwardly Worded Spam, It's Hard To Stay Mad At You
I'm ashamed of how much amusement I get out of some spam comments.