Panic is a Mac development company that produces some great work. If you’ve been designing with a Mac (or without a Mac, maybe) for any length of time you know of them.
This is their Founder’s Room. When I tell my wife that I want my next house to have a secret passageway to a hidden room, this is what I’m talking about. This room makes me want to start my own buisness just so I can have a room like this. Absolutely great work. Like it says in the article, this is an example of how Cabel and Steven’s attention to detail and humor permiate every part of their lives.
Can I visit sometime?
Great googly moogly, I get so fed up trying to find owner’s manuals when I really need them. I mean, honestly, if I kept the owner’s manual for every gadget I buy, I’d probably have to, like, file them away. It probably wouldn’t take too much space, thinking about it. Just a small filing cabnet would do.
But I don’t! I always think, “Well, I can always find it online.” Wrong! Wronger! Wrongest!
You have be a Google-fu master just to find a blurry, tiny scan of the owner’s manual you are looking for most of the time. Thankfully I just found out about OwnerIQ.net. While I’m sure they don’t have every single manual ever made, they do have thousands which is a good starting point.
This post is more for myself in the future, when I’ll need to access owner’s manuals again. Because why should I store the darn things when it’s all online.
Just started listening to a new band called God Is An Astronaut. For anyone waiting for a great band to go next to their Explosions In The Sky discography on the shelf, this is your band. You can listen to selected songs from a couple of their albums on their MySpace page, if you’re willing to subject yourself to the trappings of MySpace, you desperate individual you.
As always, this band is close but not quite in the same field as the Explosions. God Is An Astronaut is more of a rock band than the Explosions are, but that is a good thing to me right now. While their songs can be slow building, each one is filled with tension and release. I know musical tension can drive some people nuts, but it really connects with me. On top of that, the release is also in my personal style; it does not come in a violin oveture or driving hook, but in huge guitar riffs and banging piano marches. Put another way, when the time is right it kicks ass.
I don’t know what the name God Is An Astronaut is about, but the music is right on. On a scale of three to nine, I give it an eight!
Stamp prices are expected to rise again on May 11. It’s been hard to keep up with the litany of stamp price increases lately, which is why the post office offers the Forever Stamps that will always cover the postage for first class letters. Forever Stamps cost the same as first class stamps online at $8.40 for a book, making them my new default stamp selection.
You know, for my frequent post office stamp purchases.