With limited dalliances in Windows and Linux, I have always used a Mac.
Not because it was faster, easier, or smarter. But because I have.

Rest in Peace, Steve.

I shouldn't need to explain to most of you why this is a fail:

Even if you asked me to, I couldn't come up with a better way to cripple the readability of an online offering. It's got the trifecta electronic reading death:

1. Flash
2. Text that doesn't auto flow.
3. Slow as hell rendering.

Consider this evidence number 149,503 in the case against print media vs. user experience.

We have, for weeks, had the ongoing debate at our house as to whether it is "Tiki Room" or "Jiggy Room."

I don't know what a Jiggy Room is, but I totally want one.

Gabe: Watertown Grass Fed Ground Beef is $4.19 per pound.
Jeni: geez.
Jeni: factory meats it is!
Gabe: Ground Elk Patties are $8 per pound.
Gabe: Elk Tenderloin is $29.00 per pound.
Jeni: We would be better off splitting a cow with someone.
Gabe: Just like in Apocalypse Now.
Jeni: Umm, sure...
Gabe: This is the end...
Gabe: My only friend...
Gabe: The End.
Jeni: Ok, Colonel Kurtz.

Source. For.

Source.
For.

Mmmm... First up north meal of the year.

I'm going to ask you to gauge your reaction to these questions:

How much money do you think has been spent developing a copy protection system for Blue Ray movie disks?
How much money do you think has been spent developing a bullet that only fires from a legally purchased gun?
How much money do you think has been spent developing a system by which you pay a royalty each and every time you listen to a song?

One of these things is not like the other.

I had the great fortune of attending DrupalCon Chicago last week. My favorite session was the Clay Shirky keynote. Thanks to the gang at Phase II Technology, who handed out these excellent little notebooks, I decided to go ahead and take some notes in the style of the sketchnoter.
The whole set is published at flickr.

I'm going to have to tweak my scanning set up in order to get better, more consistant scans, but I didn't want the relentless pursuit of perfection keep these notes from being shared. Enjoy!

Sometimes, I think I put too much on my daughter. She's a five-year-old in a very harsh world. It's easy to focus on the ways she doesn't meet my expectations. But, this weekend, at every corner, she's showed me how much love, compassion and joy she's capable of sharing with the world.

On Friday, Gaia gave me a fortune cookie, but I forgot to eat it.
Today, I found it. And since the world has seemed relatively unsettled lately, the cookie's message gave me comfort.
I stuck it to a post-it and scanned it.

I hope it comforts you, if not inspires you, as it has for me.