Laugh more, worry less. Spend less time being entertained and more time being creative. Drink less, exercise more. Eat more fruit and fewer french fries. Take more bubble baths, make fewer to-do lists. Go to the beach more and hate this place less. Cook adventurous meals more and go to the same old restaurants less. [...]

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Design is not a process of trial and error; it’s a process of try and better. Share on Facebook

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At the MOMA store, you can get a “charming” necklace cast in sterling silver and “hand-etched by artisans in Kathmandu”…that resembles a crumbled-up taxicab receipt. According to I.D. Magazine, this is a statement encouraging us “to be diligent and not allow personal resources to go to waste. Apparently this $250 trinket is supposed to remind [...]

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This could be the cure for my inability to get up as early as I’d like. Especially if I had about three of them at various distances from the bed. Unfortunately, my sleeping-in-and-proud-of-it husband would probably divorce me. Although it might be worth it just to drive the cat mad. Share on Facebook

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That’s all your house is…it’s a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.” –George Carlin I’ve been cleaning out the attic the last few days. I need to clean out the attic because it’s chock full of stuff, and I’m moving my studio to a home office, and I [...]

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I want to emphasize this point: I was NOT looking for a job. Heck, I’m scheduled to speak at an IABC meeting this month about the joys of not having a job. A couple of weeks ago I got an email from someone saying “we have a job opening, here’s the description, are you open [...]

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We have internet access at home via Time Warner Roadrunner. Since cable internet access time can vary depending on the current load, I wanted to find out two things: what is the maximum Mbps of our service (the package we have only lists “high speed internet” which doesn’t jive with any of the verbiage of [...]

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