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Projects currently swirling and their codenames: * Teatro (named after a Willie Nelson CD): box office services coop or not-for-profit targeted to small and independent theatre groups * Deskhacks: study of personal workspaces * Get-High-Bot (a machine I’m trying to cobble together before sxsw-i that has, as a design flaw, the tendency
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I was flying down a hill on my bicycle (about 18-19 mph). I saw the overflowing creek ahead… running water flowing over the road. Did that stop me? “Nah,” I said, “I’m invincible.” I plowed through and immediately felt my back tire start slipping. I use clipless pedals (so
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Adina and I went to an art opening on Saturday.. she did a great job of deconstructing the experience. I left feeling pretty much like a sucker... Oh well. The peoplewatching was great and the irony of the hipsters being all hip, unwittingly part of the marketing hype, was particularly
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Do you work from home or have 100% control over your work environment / setup? I'm looking for people in the Austin / San Antonio area that have put some thought into their home office, studio, workshop, kitchen, meditation space, etc. I'm preparing to launch a site that
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I've been spending some time thinking through what I want to accomplish this year. I've posted very long lists of goals here before under the auspices of promoting accountability, but here's my problem: For the resolutions that are truly meaningful to me, I don&
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This is how I'm organizing my workflow in my home office setup. I based a lot of what I'm doing on quite a bit of research and trials. There are some things that still need work (especially the interior design (i.e. wall colors), but it&
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I'm not really much of a clothes shopper (to which you feign astonishment, "Nooooo?! Really?!? Isn't that shirt you have on something you wore in High School?") However, I've been in desperate need to get another pair of jeans (I've
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I don’t know how to draw, sketch, or even doodle. I know people who have spent years studying the craft and can produce, in minutes or over days, lines and curves and shading that would stun you in their elegance and skillful execution. I’ll never be that good.
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A friend of mine is getting married over new years, so a group of us are going to rent an RV and drive up to Omaha to celebrate. This, along with a prompt from Mike (plus a scene from Christmas Vacation), inspired a story which I wrote and emailed out
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I've been thinking long and hard about potential home office designs now that I'll be spending more time working from home. There's a lot of research in Industrial Organizational psychology and ergonomics that address more corporate settings (especially research on how people working in
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Hey bub... Wanna know a secret? The Moleskine legend is a lie. Enjoy the fraud, chief. I have succumbed to my in-the-closet hipster and purchased a new pair of Moleskine notepads (medium sized; one quadruled, one sketchbook) in the past couple of weeks. I have burned through 3 of the