Category: long story short
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Simple versus complex
Interesting how the Goog ranks results about carbohydrates in terms of authority: NutritionMD.org fitday.com verydayhealth.com diabetes.about.com nlm.nih.gov cdc.gov briancalkins.com Bodybuilding.com livestrong.com health.harvard.edu I recommend numbers 5, 6, and 10.
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Gratitude unbound
I have a lot to be grateful for.
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Old-school time travel
Privileged to read an advance draft of Martha Conway‘s stunning new novel, Thieving Forest, I was thrilled to attend her book launch party in San Francisco over the weekend. Besides the great spread of victuals and lovely wine (a champagne, a chablis, and a pinot noir) at the sadly now-closed Beast & the Hare, we also…
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Jumpstarting the flow
The one thing I do know is that introducing even a mild amount of a toxin to an organism triggers a reaction designed to protect sensitive surfaces and vulnerable processes. Lubricants flow. The nose runs. The bowels stir. The coffee, the cigarette do their work. The flow needs spice.
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Not my longest blogging drought yet
Stay tuned for more regular writingses.
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One day in California, 1987
What I do know is that at the end of the first set, Steve was basically a convert, utterly convinced that this was a thing and he was doing it. I’d gotten other friends to this point, especially after the exciting crescendo at the end of a first set. It’s a bit of a crossroads:…
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Ride the hype cycle, baby!
riding the Gartner hype cycle
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Sketchnotes 2011
Recently, my colleague Jerome Domurat showed me this bound collection of Eva-Lotta Lamm’s sketchnotes and I was pleased to be reminded of the beautiful one-pager she did of my “Playful Design” talk from UX Lisbon: Christian Crumlish: Playful Design at UXLX, a photo by evalottchen on Flickr.
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Birth month
I was out at dinner with B the other night, celebrating my birthday, and I mentioned how I wasn’t following my old tradition of posting a note about the birthday of my blog (because I started breathing room on my 33rd birthday and briefly considered calling it “Outliving Christ”) because, as with so many things…
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Plugin test
Twitter tools just made me install Mailchimp’s social plugin, which may have munged my comment area, hence this test post. UPDATE: Well, updating the plugins still hasn’t restored the tweets to the banner area of the blog, and there have been a serious of crash/freeze/hangs, so now I’ve disabled the “social” and “twitter tools” plugins…
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Quick test of a new comment plug-in
Looking to see if I can integrate my comment system with fubber and twudder…
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Must-share flotsam: Dylan and the Band live
For your listening pleasure, this Bob Dylan and The Band 1969-1970 Compilation DVD:
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Understand, rubberband?
After we moved uptown we lived close enough to the park that we could go there on our own (with permission) on weekends and during school breaks to visit the zoo or the pond where people floated their mechanical boats, but most of the time we went to the playgrounds.
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There's no 'I' in 'corporate brand' (or is there?)
Jeff Gothelf has just published an article in Smashing Magazine on How to Maintain Your Personal Brand as a Corporate Employee. He interviewed me, as well as David Armano and Luke Wroblewski, while researching the article, and I’m quoted a few times in it. Here’s part of his conclusion: Be respectful of your employer and…
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My shattering mophie case
UPDATE: Bless Mophie’s hearts – they say this post and sent me two replacement caps. Thanks, Mophie! When my friend Bill De Rouchey showed me the external battery he was using with his iPhone at Web Visions a few months ago in Portland I got excited. Whenever I’m out all day at a conference or…
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Greetings from Sifnos
where we’ve been these past few weeks…
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anachronisms
xian posted a photo:
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AOL?!? Really?
Some thoughts on my first few days on my new job as a consumer experience evangelist at AOL, and what I hope to help the team here accomplish.