I rediscovered a classic this weekend.  My brother was in town and we watched (a TV version) of The Royal Tenenbaums (it’s a classic, but not the classic I was referring to).  Well, it reminded me of this incredible album (that one is the classic). If you saw The Life Aquatic (a different Wes Anderson film, [...]

I’ve been experimenting with particle generation a little bit over the weekend.  I guess that if I were a gamer, particle effects may seem kind of ordinary.  They’re first draft fodder for game guys.  For me, though, there is still a lot of allure and new here. The result: I’ve got myself a new [...]

USA Today, eat your heart out!  This is an incredibly beautiful animated short that depicts a 1969 interview between John Lennon and a young man who had snuck into his hotel room during John’s “bed-in” for peace phase.  The animation has a unique stream of consciousness approach to illustrating the dialogue that puts it somewhere [...]

Let’s face it readers, you and I are not jocks.  I try to run two or three times a week.  You like racquetball.  Other than that, we’re not really sports people.  Not sports people, that is, except when we catch some serious Olympics fever.  And frankly, moments like this make Olympics fever unavoidable. After you’ve made [...]

Beck is usually a little more hit than miss for me, but there is definitely some miss. Even with the misses, though, I always respect his willing to explore new concepts and start from scratch. He’s a chameleon of sorts, he’s constantly reinventing his craft (both musically and as a performer). That can be [...]

This is amazing.  A couple hundred milliseconds of lightning spread out over half a minute.  Via gskinner.

In my mind, there is an undeniable relationship between UI design and graphic design.  They share a similar communication goal and are both concerned with things like layout, color, balance and type.  Whenever I mention that, though, Nate is quick to remind me that, while interaction design may be the illegitimate step child of [...]

…and why I just canceled cable.  Well, that decision actually came before I saw this but it solidified my committment.  Plus, I’ll always have youtube. So I may be the last guy to this party, but if you haven’t heard Mr. Shirky speak then you’ve been missing out (like me).  You can also see a fascinating [...]

This is amazing.  Stefan has managed to get intellisense working in Blend using the new (and secret?) addin support that shipped with the latest Blend preview.  Even better, he used the intellisense code from Kaxaml!  Awesome!  I just hope Kaxaml doesn’t feel bad since it just became a tiny bit more obsolete.  Sorry Kaxaml.  Hey, [...]

Well, 4:00PM was my deadline, so here’s where we landed.  That’s a screenshot of the running app.  I feel pretty good about the progress that I made, but I think it’s going to take a couple more days to finish this up…so one or two more weekends.  For now, you can get the source as [...]

The weekend is quickly slipping away.  I had a lot less time to spend on this than I had hoped (I guess that’s how it always goes).  I helped a friend move this morning and it took a little longer than expected and I ended up running some errands, etc.  You know. Anyway, here’s the visual [...]

Just finished the wireframe for the app.  I built the design around a principle from the book that really struck a chord with.  David Allen talks about horizontal vs. vertical task management.  The Horizontal tasks are all of your projects and the Vertical tasks are all of the action items that you need to [...]

Yikes, I’m already kind of doing things out of order.  I had intended to start with wireframes, but I’ve jumped straight to data.  That said, this isn’t quite as out of order as it might seem.  As I mentioned earlier, I want to be able to sync with Remember The Milk (which you really need [...]

As if you needed more proof (than my new domain name) that I’m a little too much nerd for my own good, I’ve decided to spend my free weekend at home writing software.  That’s right.  I’ve got a free weekend and I’m going to, yup, write an app. Here’s the deal.  I’m a recent discoverer/convert/believer [...]

Just noticed that Karim posted a clarification (err, a correction) to my post about Silverlight 3D.  Turns out that there is better support for markup customization in Silverlight 2 than I had known.  Way to go Silverlight!  If you’re going to take the trip over to Karim’s blog, this post about the beginnings of add-in [...]