User Experience Specialist (what I do for a living) is on US News and World Report’s best careers for 2008 list.
Wacky bean and peas concoction a middling success
I know. Christmas ended too abruptly. You’re still jonesing for a little Christmas cheer. Take a look at my holiday photos to put you back in the spirit.
We spent a few days in Baja before heading to Indiana for Christmas. Check out the photos here.
Chris’s family came to SF for, well, um, primarily shopping before Christmas. It was a great time! We ate crab and played Cranium and, yes, shopped!
Chris is an alien. This better not be what our baby looks like.
My grandmother's pride is not unwarranted
Orphaned hedgehogs adopt cleaning brush as their mother
Mine was a little pinball laptop. How appropriate.
Canadian contraband
Thoughts on Kindling
Friend and brainiac Andy Day has some interesting thoughts on Kindling, Amazon’s new eReader device.
In addition to some sensible questions about the service model, Andy gets all modern and space-age on you and asks why can’t Kindle just be a computer? As he points out, the Kindle sells for about the same price as certain low-end laptops.
Actually, I’m tempted to invert his question and ask why can’t a computer be a Kindle? The real difference here seems to be the form factor.
Kindle’s essential two-sidedness makes it seem easier to carry around and pick up at a moment’s notice. Laptops with their lids and cords, feel somehow more cumbersome (even the small, inexpensive ones).
In spite of the name, there’s something about a laptop that feels like it requires some table space and elbow room to really work with it. You can’t very comfortably use your laptop on a public bus, for example. Believe me, I’ve tried.
The shape and size of a Kindle-like device seems as bus-friendly as a PDA but gives you a screen that’s big enough to actually see.
My new years resolution #1
Clever little boy at the Exploratorium
The Simple Dollar
It must be new year’s resolution time. I’m feeling an urge to budget and save. Check out this blog for inspiration.
CommandShift3
It like Hot or Not for web design, and I am hooked.
I just spent like an hour watching omnioutliner tutorials. I remembered that I have this software on my computer, and now all I want to do is play with it!
Which is the best beer of the month club?
Searching for a gift for a certain someone, and I have to say that none of the beer of the month clubs that can be found through googling inspire much confidence. This one will have to do.