esta semana 4

…I came home with my first project from letterpress class. We hand-inked wood type to produce something like this: I have it hanging at my desk now, which is causing some confusion for my coworkers. (I love letterpress class so much. I want to look at type and print blocks on the internet all the time, but I’m trying to ...

a picture that sums up awesome xmas pretty effectively: 1

Joe got a smokeless grill (a regifted wedding present!) and a pack of bacon amongst his many awesome xmas gifts, so of course this happened in the basement. I went upstairs to get some snacks out of the oven after I took this picture, and swear when I returned about 30 seconds later, the bacon had all disappeared. And then ...

proof that there are still great companies.

It’s time for my own personal customer service awards! Since I regularly bitch about terrible companies (I’m looking at you, UBS… and you, Delta), I figured it would be good to point out some excellent ones. 1) Sierra Designs/Kelty I bought our tent at REI (hey! another great company!) at least four years ago, before Matt and I were even ...

one more time 4

I heard that autotuned dance monstrosity on the radio this morning and can’t stop laughing about it. I have fond (and blurry) memories of dancing and singing it the entire mile back to our resort in Mexico, because I was going to protect us from whoever might be hiding in the gully. With song*. As my last post was one ...