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What Happens When I Go to Jo-Ann Fabrics and Get Bored

IM IN UR KRAFT STOR, originally uploaded by JL!.

Pioneer Press Twitter Article with Steph and Me

The Pioneer Press is running an article today about couples who use Twitter and the different ways they handle exchanging such public messages. The article features several couples including Steph and me, and our good friends Kevin and Abby Hendricks. I think the only way to beat being in a front-page article is having a [...]

Microsoft Tries This “Funny” Thing They Heard About

Yesterday the news was all over the web: Jerry Seinfeld has been chosen as spokesman for a new Microsoft ad campaign pushing Vista. This fact strikes me as hilarious in every way except the way Microsoft probably intended.
For starters, the upcoming Seinfeld ads are clearly a response to Apple’s much-parodied, much-discussed Get a Mac campaign. [...]

Holding Out for Keynote Video

It’s keynote day! Today, Steve Jobs will take the stage at WWDC and announce some really exciting and interesting things. On a personal note, one interesting thing about today’s keynote will be that I won’t be able to see it live. I’ve seen just about every keynote for the last six years live, and a [...]

The iPhone, Location, and Product Pricing

A few years ago I had an idea for a website that would help its users to see which stores had a particular item in stock. I was tired of phone shopping for popular items, and I was even more tired of driving to a store only to find that they don’t have the one [...]

The Storm

Last Sunday, the 25th, we were hit by a pretty severe thunderstorm. Large parts of the Twin Cities metro area didn’t feel a thing, but in Forest Lake, we had some really serious winds, crazy sideways rain, and marble-sized hail. I didn’t get video of the worst of it because I was hiding in the [...]

Simplicity in Design