This was sent to me by a fellow teacher. It is wonderful. See below

Last night My wife and some friends went to Mustang Allye’s,  upscale bowling and restaurant. It was a little pricey, but really fun!!! THe design and set up of the place was really great. It was confusing on how to do bowling and eat. We had to have two different reservations.

We all had sliders, mini sandwhiches, which were really good. And if you go make sure to get the sweet potato fries, they are to die for. No literally if i had to die I would eat them.

Anyway that is not why I wrote this…the reason I wrote this was to talk about the bowling. I used to bowl in a league when i was younger and I was pretty good! I took lessons, I have my own ball, asn shoes, just a little background. Well, I forgot them last night and I could not bowl with the “standard” balls that the ally provided, so I was really playing awefull last night. However, one time I had a really great shot and I was so excited that……I gave……Lee a high five…..Yes i know…….I feel strange inside…..As soon as I did it Lee said…”you just gave me a high 5″ and all I said was…”DAMN”

~david

On this post i would like people to post design that they have worked on that use just typography and color. I would love and explanation of why you did what you did.

This is a video post about using brushes within photoshop. I will post another video about how to use them.

Since the pet peaves question seemed to generate some interest I am going to ask what musci you are listening to right now, either as you read this or what you are into right now. Here is mine:

1. Fratelli’s new CD and other B sides I found on itunes
2. Black Keys new CD
3. Arctic Monkeys
4. I recently, thought pandora, listening to the Kooks
5. Hives new CD
6. The Blakes
7. Bad Religion

A student recomended this site pandora.com. It is an internet radio station that adjusts to you taste in music. YOu can reject songs and accept songs and will adjust to you recomendations.

When you first go to the site it asks you to pick an artist or song and than creates a station from that. It will start to play other artist and you reject them and it will not play them. If you accept an artist it will give more that fit that tpye of music. I hardly listen to my ipod when I am sitting at my desk because of this.

Go check it out and let me know what you think. You can also create up to 99 stations!!!

I have been telling my students about it and they all say “oh yeah I have been using it for a long time!”..don’t I feel out of it.

~david

This weekend me and my family went up tp Upstate NY for a wedding. Everytime I go thier I think this is so great, but can’t help but feel like a city slicker. We went on a hay ride on my uncles apple orchard and part of the hay ride was feeding cows. My son, age 2 1/2, did not want any part of it, but wanted me to do it. And this is when I felt like a city slicker. Cows are gross animals, with thier long tongues…anyway i fed them 3 times and the other times a rolled apples near them. We took our Honda CRV Through the orachard to get to the cows, i know it has all whell drive, but…

The last thing thati would like to talk about is the fact that nobody locks their house or cars, everything is open….Which again makes me feel like a city slicker.

We had so much fun and love going up there adn my son had so much fun a s well, but it is different. Sometimes I wonder if all the congestion, target’s, locking the doors is worth it, or is a life where there are cows next door, pick apples right form the tree and not lockig your house better? Any thoughts?

Apparently they are changing the typeface on some highway signs to clearview. They are also changing the way the type is being displayed from upper case to lower case. We will see how it looks. Below is a sample taken from http://typographica.org/000931.php#000931

I don’t know how i feel about this look. I would have to see it while i am driving. I am concerned about it being in lower case and not in uppercase while i am driving. I like the typeface in general.

What do you think?

Anyone who is reading this, maybe only two people, please post any pet peeves that they have. I will start.

1. People holding the door for me. I know that sounds strange, but it means that i have to jog so they don’t have to hold the door open to long. I will get there when i get there. I can open a door. thank you
2. When people don’t wave when I let them in while driving, It is just common courtesy.
3. Driving SLOW!!!!
4. Small talk.  I just don’t have the time to invest in talking to you about the weather, sports, and other mundane topics that don’t effect me in any way shape or form. AND do you really want to talk about the weather….really!?!

Those are just a few, there are plenty more!

~dzobel

I was in Cold Stone the other day, An ice cream place, and I was noticing that they do not say what the topping are anywhere in the store. Unless you have been there before you would not know what to do. If i wanted fresh strawberries on my ice cream i would not know they have them. I thought this was an extreme oversite on thier part. They have signs all over the place, but nothing saying what thier toppings or ice creams are untill you get up to the counter.

This makes me very nervous because I am what you call a nervous orderer. I flip flop back and forth and i need ample time to decide… THis did not make it any easier. I don’t like being put on the spot to order, To much pressure. I get gun shy and order items that maybe i don’t want.