QBN Sessions

Adrien, Joe and I will be going to down to LA for QBN Sessions. Newstoday is actually a major contributing factor for how we—Adrien, Joe, Drew, Jason and I—all met four or five years ago. Since then we've all worked together in some form or another and it's always been on projects that I've enjoyed not necessarily because the work itself was fun—although there certainly has been plenty of fun projects—but because I got to work with them.

So we're going to be making a 4 day trip down to LA for the event. Hopefully we'll see something inspiring, and hopefully make some new friendships that are just as fruitfull as our first QBN event.

Le Tour

The 2007 Tour de France is fucked. It's hard to get behind any of these riders when doping seems to be so prevalent these days.

Mekong Grill

Mekong Grill, originally uploaded by protoculture.

Lunch at Noodle Ranch

One More Chance

We ended up getting our asses kicked 8-13, but the game was only to determine our seeding going into the playoffs since there was a fourway tie for first place. This isn't exactly the best time—heading into the playoffs—to be slumping on defense, but hopefully it was just "one of those games" and it's out of our system.

The Second Season

Last week the Hornall Anderson Swingers finished off the regular season with an 8-3 victory, bringing our record to 5-2, which ties us with three other teams for first place. Tonight the playoffs begin and we plan on going deep (literally and figuratively)!

Bulging Battery

Bulging Battery, originally uploaded by protoculture.

I know of three Macbook Pros purchased around the same time (including my work one) and all have bulging batteries, making them essentially acid bombs, waiting to explode. Apparently this is not uncommon.

Typecon

Joe and I will be going to Typecon this year in Seattle for 48 hours (over 4 days) of nonstop talk about serifs, ascenders, descenders, swashes, ligatures, kerning, leading, x-heights, modulation, phase, cap-heights, and apertures by some of the most respected designer/type aficionados in the world.

We'll be going to the Fonts for New Technologies workshop and the rest of the main conference events and forums. It'll be nice to see people whom I've learned about and respected in person to soak up any wisdom they may share. I'm also really looking forward to seeing the Seattle premiere of Helvetica. I've read many good things from designers and non-designers and I hope it lives up to the hype.

Speaking of hype, I composed and published this post from my iPhone! It truly is delight.

Crazy's Wedding!

Our lifelong friend.