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Client: “The main thing we want to stress is that we are a global company, and that we are top-quality in the supply chain management industry. So basically what we’re thinking is that we’ll show a semi-dimensional illustration of the world, to emphasize global, and then around the world, we’ll put chains to emphasize the supply chain aspect of our business. We think it’s really strong and will communicate exactly what we’re going for. Could you come up with some comps around that?”

Designer: “…are you sure that’s sending the right message?”

After a few days in Prague, Francesco, Rachel, and I started to wonder whether the dissatisfied, downcast Czech character might also have something to do with their cuisine. The national dish is goulash and dumplings. […] No wonder I didn’t see a fat Czech the whole week—surely no one has ever asked for seconds.

If you’re not a socialist by the age of twenty, you have no heart.
If you’re not a conservative by the age of forty, you have no brain.

Life’s too short to drink bad coffee or read bad blogs.

In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

What I am looking forward to is the collective sounds of all heads turning the other way again, when Apple shows OS XI (which I think will be the next version) next year, along with a ton of integrated, shiny devices. I have a feeling OS 11/XI has been in the works for a while and will represent some radical paradigm shifts in how we use computers.

Cut out a picture of the R8 and put it on your wall. Then buy a Golf.

Q: Why doesn’t Hamilton have an NHL team?
A: Because then Toronto would want one.

I don’t really care what I drive. I’m not going to overextend myself to get a fancier car so I can impress someone on the street. I’d rather spend it on clothes, food, and travel.

Via a series of adapters Apple says will be available shortly, users will be able to attach external display sources, such a DVD players or even other computers, to the iMac’s display. At that point, those sources will take over the iMac’s display, effectively turning it into an external monitor or an HDTV.

The Honda Odyssey minivan was torn in half on impact.

Somewhere in-between fantasy and reality can be a pretty great place to live.

Be mindful of what comes between you and the earth. Buy good tires, good sheets, and good shoes.

Alexander (R-TN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Graham (R-SC)
Gregg (R-NH)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Kyl (R-AZ)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Wicker (R-MS)

For those few hours today
He reminded us all of the peach, the umbrella, the bed, and the flying dog,
And what it was like to be a six year old kid with childhood fantasies, once more.

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Don’t use Microsoft Windows when accessing your bank account online.