May 2010
25 posts
engrish
“Refer the dimension at cannot to drawing, because the dimension not match, if need to smooth the shape, the center cannot to do 15mm.”
Oh how I love getting emails from China!
to dork out or not...
Would I be totally lame if I got a new outfit for when I meet some of my design heroes/firms I totally want to work for?
interviews
It’s pretty surreal listening to my boss interview a friend for a job. So strange to hear what’s going on from this end and knowing exactly how it feels on the other.
to the SUMMIT!
I’m going to an innovation summit on June 2-4th. I’m pretty siked, but I need business cards and fast.
anyone know of a quick and dirty way to get some that don’t look like I printed them at home?
radiolab - famous tumors
Radiolab is doing an hour of famous tumors. I’m about to hurl, but at the same time, it’s totally sweet.
listen to tumors!
8 to do’s
1 of them is drink wine.
7 of them are finish projects
oh bother
I got an assignment to design an eco-friendly line. Awesome right? Oh but I have to use the existing tool, and I have to use plastic, oh yah, and it’s all virgin material not recycled.
“uh… so what makes it eco?”
It’s polypropylene so it can be recycled.
wtf? I’m gonna push back hard on this one. Green washing really pisses me off.
woe.
Once again Alias, you have failed me.
*Blamo!*
Will someone please wallop Mitch McConnell on the back of the head?
“I HATE PROGRESS! I HATE JUSTICE! I HATE EFFICIENCY IN MY GOVERNMENT!!!”
best commercial ever... →
awesome. just watched this with my boss. everything’s better with an eagle scream.
(via adifferentjames)
“YOU HIT A SEMI!?!”
– overheard at the office. not so much a fan of driving in atl.
bp oil
So I’m pretty pissed about the oil slick in the gulf coast, but I was listening to npr this morning and Steve Inskeep interviewed the CEO of BP and asked him if he would take responsibility for the disaster and if he would also be footing the bill. I fully expected him to give some sort of political answer where he never said yes and dodged around what was clearly true, but the man...
