Of all the gin joints …
via niemann.blogs.nytimes.com A lot more parody maps if you click the link.
Austin TX-bound
I'm heading to SXSWi (i for interactive) this Friday and will be there through Tuesday. I had a fabulous time last year, learned a bunch of things, met cool people, and even got a client for Mary Holste Design out of it. Not a bad run! This time looks to be even more fun, with better weather through the weekend than the cold we got hit with last time. On the downside, Mary isn't able to make it this year. But I expect to see lots of Tacoma folks there, including Seamus of Gridwork Design who introduced me to SXSW last Read more…
Words With Friends
I’m still enjoying playing Words With Friends. I’ve been playing for the past few weeks and have yet to get bored with it. It’s basically Scrabble, but with a slightly different board. Here’s a sample of what it looks like. If you have it on your phone start a game with me. My username is erikemery. Warning: I know all the mean words like Za and Qi and I play ’em. 🙂
Live and Let Die
Among other things I'm reading, I've been going through the James Bond books in order. Live and Let Die is, surprisingly, the 2nd book in the series. I say surprisingly because it feels later, thanks to the movies. The book and the movie actually bear a passing resemblance to each other, which is more than you can say for some of the other Roger Moore movies, and especially the later movies when they just pulled in the title and nothing more. Mr. Big is a pretty great villain, and he loves the gadgets in both the book and the movie. Read more…
I know it’s a commercial but still …
Pretty cool. via Emily.
George H. W. Bush
via whitehouse.gov I finished a short biography of George HW Bush over the weekend (the book I read was by Timothy Naftali and it’s part of the American Presidents series). Bush was the first President in my presidential reading list who didn’t have a wealth of biographies to choose from–my hunch is some of these presidents will get harder and harder to read up on. HW was a major inspiration behind this whole project of mine. After seeing Oliver Stone’s W. (which I didn’t like), I thought Bush Sr. was by far the most interesting character. And Obama referenced him Read more…
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