Blog of Much Holding

On the way to drop off middle son and then take on another 12-hour workday. I love usability testing, but boy those days are exausting #UX # Alan Moore thinks they should reboot 24 by having everything after mid-day One…

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Drinking some green tea, making some last-minute changes to the prototype and test protocol for usability tests… #UX # RT Things you never want to hear in a user test “oh no”, “hmm”, “ok, I’m confused”, “uhhhhhh” (via @mikegee) #…

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Ummm… Another rainy rush hour in Atlanta. Happy happy, joy joy. # RT @dfour: Great SlideShare Presentation : UX Team of One @ SXSW 2009 by Leah Buley from @AdaptivePath http://tinyurl.com/cr6ggd # Glad I get paid tomorrow: lots of bills…

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Wow, the #amazonfail sentiment/outpouring of expression is impressing the heck out of me me. Glitch, Amazon? SURE… And I’m Sean Penn. # @Talkmaster You can get software clients to access and post on Twitter if your corporate IT peeps block…

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Ah, what a satisfying nuWho special that aired in the UK this weekend. Fun. exciting, and filled with wonderful Tennant goodness. If only we folks in the USA had a chance to see it… Ahem. And, while (SPOILERS!) the portentous…

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@BrentSpiner You’ll rise the third day. # We’ll be having ham for our Easter lunch, and right now I’m playing some traditional Easter tunes… David Bowie, U2, Nine inch Nails… # Hannah Montana was the #1movie this weekend. Have I…

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The other day I watched, with some amusement, the re-broadcast on the Biography Channel of the Star Trek 25th Anniversary special. It was chock-full of 1991 goodness – LOOK! Cell phones, as big as kids’ size 10 shoes, that look…

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Ah, updating my WordPress blog to 2.7.1 – how exciting!! # The new josephdickerson.com looks great. Awesome chunks of awesomeness. # Using http://namechk.com/ to see what social media sites I am not a member of – jiminy cricket, there’s a…

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If your guess was 100 times, you’re correct!

I saw Real Life, Albert Brooks’ first movie, last week, and was quite impressed. The film, which was inspired by the American Family documentary in the late 70s, was a very sly parody of the whole notion of reality TV,…

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Not actual words spoken in my house last week, but close…

Well, finally got around to throwing together and updating stuff on ye’ old blog, and am pretty pleased with the results. I also added my music station from blip.fm (with choices only an unmutual soul like yours truly would make)…

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Here’s one of his latest action figures…

Those sneaky sneaky sonsabitches – they promote a free screening of The Wrath of Khan at the Alamo Drafthouse last night… 10 minutes into it, the film breaks… and then… well, let’s just watch, shall we? It was a ruse…

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