Category: General Comments

In addition to checking the usual news sites and the latest fact checker obsession sites after the debates, I’ve also found myself heading over to wordle. It’s just really satisfying to see these common words arranged so well, and with so much meaning (intended or not!). In this one, I find myself drawn to the […]

Read More

You know you’re in trouble when you can vividly imagine your roof coming off, or all your windows blowing in – that’s what was keeping me awake at 3am this morning. So as I retreated to a closet, I was hoping for the best as Hurricane Ike did its worst. Somehow my husband telling me […]

Read More

“We don’t beat the reaper by living longer, but by living well, and living fully — for the reaper will come for all of us. The question is: what do we do between the time we’re born and the time he shows up.” -Randy Pausch Apparently I’ve been working too much this week because it […]

Read More

You hear this a lot – that no one walks in Houston, we drive. I’ve lived in Houston my entire life, and would say that having a dependable car is definitely a requirement. I’d even go so far to say that driving something a little larger in Houston makes you feel a wee bit safer […]

Read More

I have and always will love the muppets. 🙂

Read More

In our card-swapping culture, business cards are not only a way to exchange information, but make a good impression. This site, as it is titled, shows “70 Amazing Business Cards”, mostly it seems from designers and other creative types. Not that it’s unique to our industry, but you do often find designers have the best […]

Read More

We’ve all been bombarded with talk of “green” the last couple of weeks (before and after Earth Day). Green. Greenwashing. Green living. The Greening of… Now I’m reading that the term “green” has become oversaturated to the point that it’s lost meaning. I suppose it was bound to happen at some point. Instead of the […]

Read More

Just finished watching King of Kong, the documentary over the “battle” to win the best Donkey Kong score. As documentaries go, it was well done. But, I honestly spent the first minutes in disbelief that these were real people and real stories and the remaining time in disgust about the pettiness. Sadly, though, it’s real, […]

Read More

I’m not exaggerating when I say that I haven’t been on a bike in probably 20 years, and I think since it has been SO long, the experience is transformative. You really do feel like a kid again when you’re on a bike (corny, huh?). Maybe it’s because when you were a kid, you spent […]

Read More

Well, this is really more of a follow-up to the Blade Runner post. It’s not a secret that we listen to books on tape (or more accurately, books on ipod through audible.com) and have for several years, but we usually got modern books, not the classics. So, we got “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” […]

Read More