Be sure to read this AP article - Attacks, praise stretch truth at GOP convention

Checked out the Tapestry Arts Festival in downtown San Jose — seems to be a yearly tradition!
I went with the idea of a theme - TEXTURE! (This has to be said with a wide sweeping hand gesture to get the full effect.)

Well I tried! Sometimes I feel weird taking photos of people’s artwork. This apprehension may have started when a guy at the Alameda Antiques market got all pissy because I was taking a photo of his old hockey table game. Pfft to him! Now for photos…

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Last night was an AWESOME roller derby game. You missed out. You should have gone. You’ll go next time, I know.

Check out my “motion” shots (heh) — next time I’m bringing more lens and equipment and picking a better spot to sit (so I don’t have to stand up in front of people or stand in the wrong area and be told to move, hehe oops.)

An absolutely moving story about having to make one of those decisions you just don’t want to, but you know it’s for the best. It totally made me cry, so you’ve been warned.

I wish I could embed it here, but ABC News doesn’t seem to allow that. Pfft on them.

I found this link on Matt Nathanson’s MySpace status… and here I thought ABC News just used one of his songs as the story intro…

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=5665944

I can’t stop watching this…

• Advertising agency creative directors at play, designing mock presidential ads
  My favorites are the R/GA motion-sensing digital sign concepts. Though, I also like the Kaplan Thaler Group's tagline of "If this is all you're hearing, you're not listening".
  (tags: Advertising ads politics obama mccain)

• The crime that created Superman: Did fatal robbery spawn Man of Steel? - USATODAY.com
  "America did not get Superman from our greatest legends, but because a boy lost his father," Meltzer says. "Superman came not out of our strength but out of our vulnerability."

  Additionally, the part about the letter in the newspaper a day after the robbery would've given me a shock as well.

  (tags: comics superman article)

I fixed the coffee maker at work today. Yes I did, I think I should put that on my resume - Coffee Maker Fixer-Upper. It was missing a crucial piece that, when you put the coffee pot into the machine, opens the gate for all the coffee to flow into the pot. When this piece is missing, coffee grounds bubble out and spew everywhere. Wet coffee grounds, while they are not deadly nor rancid, are not fun to get all over you or clean up. Yuckie.

And as my reward, I’m watching 3 episodes of Dirty Jobs in a row. A Mike RowE if you will. ::teehee::

Look at what I made for Game Night. It was super easy, even though I didn’t have all the right decorating tools. All I did was make a 9×13 cake, cut it in half and stack it. Put some fondant on and do some decorating. I didn’t have the right kind of icing pen tool for the black parts (numbers, details on the arrow-pad, etc) so I used toothpicks dipped in black icing as a “pen”. I think I will invest in some decorating brushes for the next time.

• Tiger Woods 09 - Walk on Water
  Not a big fan of Tiger, but a big fan of well done marketing. This is EA’s response to a glitch in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08. Well done.
  [via Micro Persuasion]
  (tags: Games marketing humor viral Advertising)