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Carefree, 30 Ways

allie — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:56:31 +0000

I’ve had @dturnbull’s 30 Ways to Build a Carefree Life on my desktop for a few weeks, and I get something different out of it each time I read it. #13: “Always be working on something that is greater than yourself and will still be around beyond your years. Idleness kills. ‘Find a happy person, and you will find a project.’ – Sonja Lyubomirsky” This is certainly a grand challenge for me as a web designer; the things I create are rarely around beyond next year, let alone beyond one’s lifetime.

Soul Sleuthing

allie — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:14:28 +0000

@ecorrigan’s blog post from March just made my day brighter. “This is not a place you can go charging into, armed with to-do lists and rational argument and plans. You can’t take inventory and tidy up in there. It makes pieces of itself visible only when it’s ready. If you’re lucky, you might catch a glimpse in your peripheral vision every now and then. This is kind of a scary idea. That something so deep and so big and so in control is so elusive. …But the thing is, this is the essence of being human. It’s what we all have in common.”

Concurrent IE

allie — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:06:39 +0000

Finally had a chance to try Jeremy Smith’s how-to for running Internet Explorer 8, 7, and 6 concurrently, and it works flawlessly. I didn’t even receive any of the DLL errors that he cites in his post.

Confections That Should Not Be

allie — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:53:02 +0000

In case Awkward Family Photos isn’t enough to get you through Friday and into the weekend, try Cake Wrecks.

Girl’s Gone Child

allie — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:07:05 +0000

One of the most clever blog titles I’ve seen in awhile: Girl’s Gone Child.

Godbook

allie — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:59:54 +0000

If God had a Facebook… “God is just sittin’ around bein’ omnipotent… Hit me up on AIM.”

Song

allie — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:16:55 +0000

Bethany posted my unnecessary quotation marks find yesterday. Those demanding stairs.

Storey on College

allie — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 23:49:06 +0000

“Recognize that college is more about developing personal responsibility and improving your analytical and creative thinking skills. Going to school is not about resume building. College is about learning theory (how to go beyond this place in time) and history (how we got to this place in time) in a well-balanced array of subjects. This knowledge gives you depth and helps develop character. Learn how to transpose solutions from one discipline or event to another in order to solve a problem or create an opportunity.”

They

allie — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:51:43 +0000

Kudos to Kent for beating some sense into the masses. Nearly every time I have to use “his or her,” I wince at the cumbersomeness.

Client Factors

allie — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:07:30 +0000

Andy Rutledge on project pricing: “When doing identical projects for Client A and Client B, you may find it appropriate to charge anywhere from an additional 20% to double (or more) for Client B, based on certain important criteria.”

TEAL

allie — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:03:11 +0000

Some have described Jeff Deck and his team as “the Zorro of grammar,” but I prefer “crusaders of orthography.”

Easter 2160

allie — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:21:31 +0000

Ever wondered why Easter falls anywhere from mid-March to late April? Jot down this formula for future reference. Or accept that you’ll never remember what all of those variables mean and a) get a 10-year calendar and/or b) attempt to remember the simplified mantra involving the full moon.

Two New

allie — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:37:55 +0000

How did I think that my life was complete without my two new favorite websites? Passive-Aggressive Notes (which I actually found a few weeks ago and was remiss to post… oops) and the “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks.

SWPL No. 79

allie — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:04:52 +0000

“In situations where you need to improve your connection with a white person, just mention how you hope to be successful enough to one day afford an original piece of furniture by . If they have heard of the designer they will nod in agreement, if they have not, they will also nod in agreement and make a note to look it up later. In either case, your status will rise.”

Dear Colleagues

allie — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:29:44 +0000

“I don’t know where exactly, but somewhere in between Saul Bass and Joshua Davis, a new breed of designers was born. A breed with tremendous talent (most of them anyway) but with one big flaw: they developed an arrogant attitude and started acting like Divas instead of acting like the professionals they were supposed to be.”

I Heart Type

allie — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 03:45:03 +0000

Does it get much better than a blog solely devoted to typography? There are others around, but this one is quite lovely.

Blahg

allie — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 03:37:40 +0000

Ironically, I fully concur with Simon’s thoughts on blogging despite having never gone through the right of passage (the hard core blogging phase).

Evan

allie — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 02:52:10 +0000

“[I] told him I’d be happy to build him a website. Evan was thrilled at the prospect that this would actually happen. He was considerably less thrilled when I told him I needed some content before I could even begin designing the site. … I half expected he would at this point quickly lose interest in the whole matter, so I considered this thoroughly relevant content request to be a little test of his conviction. Two days later without reminders he handed me 5 pages of handwritten content for the site, along with what amounted to his idea for a sitemap. Wow again.”

A Moment of Silence

allie — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:23:52 +0000

Let us all take a moment of silence for Blueprint magazine. Martha announced the cancellation this morning — and then proceeded to accuse readers of being responsible for its demise. Apparently we crazy Millennials don’t read things printed on paper anymore. Oh, but the marrying types among us do, because Blueprint will be relegated to a pullout in Martha Stewart Weddings and will be aimed at newlyweds. Call me crazy, but aren’t newlyweds done with wedding planning magazines? Most of all, I feel badly for all of the young women who relocated to the Big Apple to work on this publication. Some of them will remain on staff to continue Bluelines and work on the pullout editions, but that will be a small subset to be sure.

eBay via Refinery29

allie — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:34:42 +0000

Looking for something fabulous to buy on eBay so that you can impress all of your friends with your auction-foraging skills? Refinery29’s eBay blog at your service.