wtf is pantone?
This stuff actually works! If you’re in NYC and signed up for Umbrella Today you would have gotten one of these this morning.
The Making of Myst. This video was seriously inspirational to me as a kid. I never had the patience to actually play through the game* but I would watch this tiny Cinepak video that came on the CD-ROM over and over.
*I figured out a way to simply view all of the still images of the later worlds. Good enough!
Umbrella Today launched! Try it out for yourself and sign up for the SMS notifications.
For fun, here is a zip code that will expect rain today: 10012 and one that won’t: 90210
My role in this project was the idea (came out of necessity, believe me) and the visual design. The CSS and back end coding were done by my genius colleagues at thoughtbot who even used it as the example for a training session they gave yesterday at the Lone Star Ruby Conference in Austin, Texas.
Turning folding money in to laundry credit. I have laundry in the basement of the new place but I must say I miss sending it out. It’s barely or not at all worth the savings doing it myself.
34th street looking west - from my fire escape.
Subtle Tea has honey sticks!
I had no clue this place existed—I will definitely be checking it out. They have a nice selection of greens.
Houseguest brings fun toys. My friend Jamie (soon to be non-ex-New Yorker) brought this Super-8 movie camera with her.
Chacarero. I need to find one of these in NYC. It’s a Chilean sandwich with green beans on it.
Nice observation
biteofpythias: “democratic speeches have applause lines. Republican speeches have boo lines. Who is negative again?”
Style Icon: Amy Winehouse as a child with an owl on her shoulder.
They tried to make me go to Owl Camp and I said No No No!
Gossip Girl recipes! There’s still time to make at least one of these before the season premiere tonight.
of note:
Hello, my name is Kevin Burg. I am a web designer, I work at thoughtbot, I designed Tasty Planner (plus some other work.) and I live in New York.
Email me at: kevinburg /at/ gmail dot com
