Big Swig
I love how this turned out. He kept using a friends hat and tipping this orange soda like a frosty brew.
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Chillin in Wilsonville
This is such a cool city. Hanging out with my dad this weekend and every place we need/want to go hang out is within walking distance. This comes in handy when you have 4 or 12 beers and don’t have to drive home. Just a 2min walk home.
The other great thing about being up here is all the microbrews. Portland is known for having e most of 2 things. Strip clubs and microbrews. We aren’t in Portland so we haven’t visited any strip clubs. But the bar we’ve been hitting here, Wanker’s Corner, has 30 microbrews on tap.
It’s been fun so far. 4 days is a perfect vacation. Anything more and you start to miss home too much.
Teachers Union Gets Greedy…then FIRED
I love hearing stories like this where the people in charge take a stance and say “You’re not going to bully us around with your union”. Whether these teachers were all together or 50/50 they still participate in the union. If they are going to let them speak on their behalf they better make sure they are singing the right tune.
Teachers: “Pay us more money and we’ll make your kids wicked smart”
Superintendent: “You can’t teach at the rate you’re being paid now, will you somehow get better with more money?”
Teachers: “Dammit… We hate rhetorical questions.”
Here’s the kicker. Now that all of these failing teachers are out of work they’re going to have a hard time finding teaching jobs again. Why would anyone school hire a teacher that was fired from a school that failed this well. I say failed well because looking at the test scores these teachers and students are the definition of #FAIL.
What an Apple Tablet Means in My World
I subscribe to 20-30 different blogs through my google reader. It’s part of my daily routine. Like everyone else with an internet connection I’ve noticed the overkill posting of iSlate, iTablet, iWhatever rumors on what this device will do, how it will look and cost.
Whatever this device will have I’m sure I’ll get one. So I don’t really care much about the rumors leading up to tomorrows Apple address.
The coolest thing I’ve seen is the interface shown in the video below. A couple things come to mind while watching this video.
1. With it’s popularity I think you’ll see websites changing UI to fit the use of a mouseless/keyboardless device. Looking at this example you can see the demo UI was designed for finger gestures. For those designers out there this will mean bigger brighter buttons that you can hit with your fingertip as opposed to a tiny mouse arrow. Remember the button has to “POP”!!!
2. I don’t like flash intros, headers or navs. Will the majority of designers cop out and start designing all-flash sites to accommodate this iTablet, or will they dig deep in to things like jquery to achieve the fluid motion of the site shown below. I’ve use small plugins for jquery, but I’ve seen the pros use it and I hope that’s the direction of the web.
I’m not a huge book reader, but this thing is going to kill the Kindle or any other book reader on the market. Those that have/love their Kindles now will keep using them, but I’d guess sales will come to a screeching halt once this tablet go on sale.
2 great things about the new January edition of 944
Both ads in the current Lady Gaga cover’d issue.
1. I think this Haze double spread looks great. Without loading it up with a bunch of overlays and flare, this turned out to be really clean. Whether or not you like the people in the ad, most of them have pop success right now. The design didn’t take away from the paid acts.
I’ve had to design these double spreads before and dammit if I wasn’t told to add “more flare” or the dreaded “it doesn’t pop” comment.
2. Check out the smile on this chick. The ad says there’s an American Apparel in downtown LA so I know I’ve never see it. This ad got my attention pretty damn quick.
NFL Refs – Reversed Calls on Challenges
I’m wondering if there’s a 3-strikes rule for NFL refs. Since the re-introduction of instant reply pressure has been taken off the refs regarding game changing calls. Bad calls still happen, mostly in the 2min in 2nd and 4th qtrs, but most of the time the right decision is made once the tape is reviewed.
Now, if the same ref makes a mistake and his call is reversed several times it would make sense that maybe that ref should find another job.
I’m just curious if something like this is present for the NFL refs.
Water Street Car Show, Henderson Nevada
I may not not a lot about cars, but I know what cars look cool to me. I got to snap a few photos from the car show in Henderson this weekend. Wish I could have stayed longer, but the temp hit 100 for the last time this summer and the fam was getting annoying. I can only hear “it’s hot, i’m tired, this is boring” so many times before I blow a gasket. Anyway.. Enjoy. See the full flickr gallery here.
Still Not Convinced Clear Internet is the Answer
The idea of Clear is appealing, but the actual service has let me down several times in the last 3 weeks I’ve had the service.
So far I’ve only been able to connect the USB device 50% of the time. I try to use the service mainly when I’m at my sons baseball practices. These are outdoors in the middle of open fields. There should be no issue grabbing a “clear” signal. But I’ve still had issue.
Keep in mind I’m on a mac.
The USB piece will keep trying to connect over and over again requiring you to put in your password each time. I’ve also noticed that the clear connection manager will get stuck on “obtaining IP address”, but the network manager on the mac will show it as connected. You’re able to cruise the internet fine while it’s in this mode even thought the Clear manager reads obtaining IP.
The home unit has never showed more than 2 bars and most of the time it’s only at 1 bar. The most annoying part of the home system is buffering on youtube and other internet related videos. The speeds of the home unit are less that desired. With Cox cable I could watch any video without the pausing for re-buffering. This just isn’t the case with Clear. It can’t keep up.
I’d rather they save some money on advertising and upgrade the speeds of their service. It needs to happen if they want to compete in the future.
The Crew
What a Saturday. Got Nolan fitted for his tux, cruising around The District in Henderson. The kids love to walk around shopping.
The District isn’t a bad place to take pictures. It was dead on Saturday, I guess it’s not fun to walk around with it’s 105 degrees out.
I could make a qoop book with pictures of these 3. I have plenty of pictures over the last 3 years using my Canon XTi.
It’s a Mans Fridge
I’ve been sampling a few different beers lately. For those that don’t know I’m not an avid beer drinker and I’ve only recently started drinking beer.
Going out drinking with friends is a lot cheaper when your drinking $3 beers as opposed to drink $10 scotches.
Favorite beers so far are Labatte Blue, Stella Artois & a Portland microbrew called Firehouse5.
