Month: February 2007

I think the Dav­e’s in Ohio City must’ve had its High Life license revoked because the cool­er was scoured bare of that shit.

I almost nev­er vis­it BFD any­more because the con­ver­sa­tion reminds me of Fea­gler and Friends. It has been that way for months now.

The most dif­fi­cult part of work­ing in web and graph­ic design so far seems to be a com­mu­ni­ca­tion prob­lem that cre­ates a ten­sion between design and usabil­i­ty. The dif­fi­cul­ty seems to lie in the fact that most clients have a very gen­er­al­ized idea of what they want in a site and this is almost always a design-ori­ent­ed idea. Yet they usu­al­ly lack the vocab­u­lary to express their idea in a way that a design team can under­stand. From my end it some­times feels like a client thinks they are the design­er and we just do the work, espe­cial­ly when we keep get­ting sent back to the draw­ing board due to inef­fec­tive com­mu­ni­ca­tion and the ulti­mate design is both poor and unus­able. In the end this does­n’t just hurt the client-cre­ative rela­tion­ship, but also affects those the client wish­es to com­mu­ni­cate to. I’m sure this is a com­mon occur­rence in many pro­fes­sions, when a layper­son calls shots that make no sense to the tech­ni­cal imple­menter. Dri­ves me bonkers when it results in a com­plete­ly unus­able web­site though. Actu­al­ly, I’ve no prob­lem mak­ing a crap­tac­u­lar piece of work if I’m sure that the client actu­al­ly under­stands that there are oth­er ways of doing it that would be bet­ter in both design and usabil­i­ty. After all, they’re the one pay­ing for it.

My Paste mag­a­zine sub­scrip­tion is whacked out. I got March’s issue before Feb­ru­ary’s and after I con­tact­ed them [a great cus­tomer ser­vice response by the way] I’ve received two Feb­ru­ary issues. They just switched from bimonth­ly to month­ly so I bet that is what hap­pened.

Now that the Acad­e­my Awards are over AMC is going to go back to show­ing High Plains Drifter 24/7 again. I wish I had TCM or IFC instead. UPDATE: HOLY SHIT HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER IS ON AMC RIGHT NOW.

My freez­er is full of Thin Mint Girl Scout Cook­ies and pork shoul­ders.

I’ve put on 5 pounds in the last 2 days. Water weight I’m sure.

I’m going to go to the VTR tomor­row for a cou­ple of Bour­bon Daisies and some sushi. I’ll be there around 5pm.