Monthly Archives: October 2003

An Empty Legacy

Legacy Village has just opened in Lyndhurst, Ohio.  It is an upscale shopping center built on a faux town center facade.  It has a bunch of top-shelf stores, focused on home decorating and furniture, like Crate & Barrel, Design Expo, Restoration … Continue reading

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Giving Up on Movie Maker 2

For the last couple months, Movie Maker 2 has been locking up on me so that I have been unable to do any digital video work.  That was okay for a while, because I was finishing the porch and a … Continue reading

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Cooking With Friends – Tuscany

George, Catherine, Teresa and I went to Marcia DePalma’s Laurel Run Cooking School again on Thursday night.  We did a Cooking with Friends evening, this time with Tuscan cooking including fresh, handmade pasta.  It was yet another wonderful evening with Marcia … Continue reading

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Final Porch Inspection Passed

Woohoo!

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Rear Porch Rails Complete

I achieved a big milestone on the rear porch this weekend.  I completed the rails.  I can now have the inspector come out and do the final approval.  Then, all we have left is skirting, finish painting, a new screen … Continue reading

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Apple iTunes for Windows Rocks

Apple released iTunes 4.1 for Windows last Thursday… as an iPod addict, I immediately downloaded it at home and started surfing. I absolutely love it… it looks and feels almost identical to the Mac tool.  In a Windows environment, that … Continue reading

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Awesome Escher Legos

Ahhh, blogging… Through Dave Winer, I went to Andrea, and ended up at this awesome rendering, in Legos, of Escher’s Relativity.

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Icon Craftmanship

Boxes & Arrows has a nice article by Uday Gajendar about the craft of icon design.  As I mentioned a few days ago, the Army Men were spawned by my own team’s process for generating icon ideas, so this article … Continue reading

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A Story Worthy of Dilbert

Scene I, Act I: [Curtain opens, lights come up.][In the printer room, in front of the large fax/copier.] [Matt, a talented young engineer, is faxing a form to headquarters.  He loads the document to fax, enters the number, presses start.  … Continue reading

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A Few (More) Good Men

Upon request, here are some new war denizens.

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