Blog of Much Holding

FYI to all my Star Trek peeps – ToysRUs has all their Trek toys on sale, starting tomorrow (I already got mine): http://bit.ly/17ur7X # At the spring carnival at my sons’ school – large inflated play areas FTW! # Old-and-busted…

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I liked the first Transformers movie – a huge fan of the toys and the classic cartoon, so I was kind of, “you had me at hello.” However, I was frustrated that there was too many scenes with the humans,…

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Is it just me, it does tv pitchman Billy Mays bear an uncanny resemblance to the bearded G.I.Joe with Kung Fu grip from the 70s? # Quick Tip: Get free business cards with your Google profile! http://www.google.com/profiles/me/bizcards – Thanks Google!…

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This is unsettling.

Courtesy of chud.com, the live-action G.I.Joe movie, based on the toy line and 1980s cartoon, has a new international trailer. It looks like my hopes for cinéma vérité realism was off-base…

SPOILERS! You bastards, you killed Faraday. Darn you. Darn you all to heck. I’m incredibly impressed with LOST so far this season, and I think that we are seeing the ending of the season come into quick focus now. Jack…

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You know, I’m still kinda mad at Adam West for flaking and forgetting to attend the one panel he had scheduled the only day I could see him at DragonCon last year, but… even holding a slight grudge… I would…

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Fired up this morning with more blog and design ideas – my muse didn’t take a break last night… # Well designed interactive map of job gains and losses in US over the past 5 years: http://bit.ly/ATt9L #ux #uidesign #jobs…

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UI Design as game: Good article on Mint’s “How fit are you?” application… http://bit.ly/wf7bK #UX #UI #ixd #mint.com # Moving to a new desk. Of my old cubicle, I can only say this… Of all the ones I have encountered…

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In case you did not see it, last week’s CSI was a very funny episode about a murder at a SF convention in Las Vegas. The convention was focused on the fictional show “Astro Quest”, a pretty obvious parody of…

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OK, nature, we get it – pollination is great, helps flowers grow, circle of life, etc. You can stop it now. # Starting to plan the next Big User Research project. It’s gonna be an aggressive schedule, without a lot…

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Her sequel song, “O Spiderman (For Kitchenette)”, remains unreleased to this very day… ♫ http://blip.fm/~51zxp # In between meetings, I am revising the UI design that suffered Epic Fail when we tested it with users two weeks ago… #UX #uidesign…

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Inspired by a recent Twitter conversation:

Setting up an easy-set pool for my boys for the summer… Unfortunately, it isn’t setting easy. # Ah, the “easy set” pool is ready for use – my boys are happy. Very tiresome work, but worth it to see the…

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