giff's jots


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so they think this is the guy behind texts from bennett eh? amusing vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_emb...
Power out, winter invading early. So I'm making a curry soup w coconut milk, cauliflower, mushrooms, spinach, lentils, an some other goodies.
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Having flashbacks to hours happily creating things in second life, which is one reason why I have avoided minecraft (don't need the addiction) http://t.co/s33o1n4L
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probably particularly funny to me since I've had Dora in my household http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_emb...
I assume everyone following this subject has already read Steve Yegge's opus about Google, Amazon and platforms, but if you haven't, do so. Quite the piece: https://plus.google.com/112678702228711889851/p...
I once thought about doing a tumblr on cool typography in the wild, but living in the burbs makes that too hard. thankfully other folks rock it out http://pinterest.com/search/?q=typography
not exactly decor, but the most awesome thing in pinterest's home decor section today :) http://pinterest.com/pin/310507494/ http://imgur.com/kYpgB
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this caught my eye. might have to give it a whirl, or some variation of it since I invariably refuse to follow directions http://www.cookstr.com/recipes/wild-mushroom-an... (http://imgur.com/Cs6qK)
new post on usability testing, and decided to update the look of my blog http://bit.ly/mUMt0m
things I *don't* love -- excessive color matching. I want to shake up this color palette and say "let your hair down a little!" http://pinterest.com/pin/276029395/
want to get a sleeve for my 13" mac air. have recommendations? one brand sent my way was http://www.tombihn.com/
amidst the announcement of Adobe buying Typekit, I learned that Typekit had a cool "sites we like" series on their blog http://blog.typekit.com/category/sites-we-like/
Discovered another site for web design inspiration http://stylesinspiration.com/
Watched Luther last night on BBC America. Intense. Good.
I had forgotten that Sweet Paul, a wonderful food blogger, had created a food / home / crafts digital magazine. It's really nice. I prefer looking at it on an ipad since it is a portrait layout. http://www.sweetpaulmag-digital.com/
curious to try firefox 7.0. Can they win me back from chrome? these days I primarily use firefox for webdev only