On Sat­ur­day I was at the Beach­land to see Gun­slingers: and Ter­mi­nal Lovers: Lou was there as well. So was John G at NinePan­el­Grid, who just fin­ished a month-​long poster-​a-​day marathon. I’ve col­lected a lot of John G’s work from shows I’ve attended over the years. Here’s his poster for the Gun­slingers show [click on it for high-​rez, it […]

I was inter­viewed by CNN Money about the fed­eral stim­u­lus track­ing site Recov​ery​.gov. I wrote a more detailed post about it over at The Design State. I would also like to take this oppor­tu­nity to state offi­cially, and unequiv­o­cally, that I love squirrels.

A month or so ago I was talk­ing with Pultz about all of the things two bearded, over-​educated, Cleve­land trans­plants are likely to talk about when forced by neces­sity to drink in a bar they nor­mally wouldn’t fre­quent. I admit to my snob­bery. One of the top­ics that came up was the impend­ing Saint Patrick’s Day Ama­teur Drinking […]

I went for a run for the first time in a dog’s age today. Put in a lit­tle over 3.5 miles at 11 min­utes a mile. Not so good, but not that bad for a 28 year old with an arthritic knee, a 9 month old, and a year plus of mostly seden­tary liv­ing. My knee hurts, but the weather is beau­ti­ful. What the hell, […]

Times are tough. Com­pared to mil­lions of Amer­i­cans, times aren’t that bad for my fam­ily; but in some ways we’re poster chil­dren for the social, infra­struc­tural and eco­nomic chal­lenges that the coun­try cur­rently faces. For instance: My home has decreased at least 15% in value since I pur­chased it due to the fore­clo­sure cri­sis. Refi­nanc­ing my […]

Now that the infant sub­ject is mobile, I’ve been able to engage it in the sec­ond round of my Infant Exper­i­men­ta­tion Project. I was assisted in these exper­i­ments by the infant’s mater­nal unit. WARNING You are likely to find the fol­low­ing record­ings quite bor­ing. Time Trial Mark 1 Sum­mary In which I attempt to gain empir­i­cal data regard­ing the […]

I’m sens­ing new kinds of life in Cleve­land; or at least com­ing out of my year-​long infant-​induced social hiber­na­tion. In the past cou­ple of weeks I’ve got­ten my mitts, mugs and mallei prepo­si­tioned by all kinds of var­i­ous NEO.neo-creativity. Of course, I’m sure behind the times with a bit of most of it. My schtick seems […]

Let me open my big bag of geek here for a sec­ond. I always pre­ferred Star Wars to Star Trek, but Deb­bie is a Trekkie, so when I decided to watch every episode of MST3K, she coun­tered with a request to watch all ten of the Star Trek movies. I groaned, but agreed. Deb­bie was orig­i­nally a fan of The Next Generation, […]