who are you trying to convince
“you’re a good father, you don’t have to act like it. you’re a good man, you don’t have to act like it. you’re not just folks, you’re not plain spoken. do not act like it... then make this about smart and not. make it about engaged and not. make it about heavyweight and not.”
designer for hire
i formulate concepts, generate ideas, develop ads, design stuff, build websites, solve problems, shag girls, eat sandwiches, drink coke, snort nothing, play football, compete intensely, walk slowly, watch trailers, read science fiction, impersonate arnie, build pcs, use macs, like minion, prefer pencils, shoot light, kill time, crack corny jokes, talk too much and am available for hire.
find yourself in another place
- change your mood
- change your surroundings by changing channels
- sounds that soothe
- sounds that calm
- sounds that cool
- new sounds from a far away place
a time to love, and a time to hate
we have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden, only because we let them slip by.
do you have a weapon of some kind which can kill incompletely implemented web browsers
in order to deal with both old tag soup written to old browser quirks and new standards-compliant pages, mozilla (and mozilla-based browsers), mac ie 5, windows ie 6, safari, opera 7 and konqueror 3.2 have two main layout modes. in one mode the layout engine attempts to render conforming pages according the css and html recommendations. in the other mode, the layout engine tries to mimic old browsers. in mozilla these modes are known as “the standards mode” (like this example site) and “the quirks mode” (like so) respectively. henri sivonen has an excellent list detailing the mode browsers render pages.
talk (too much) show host
unlike most people, the designer (also a full time thinker, tinkerer, problem solver, interactive do-it-all guy) likes to watch his favourite sports on television and his favourite match-day snacks are an unholy combination of various kinds of chocolate and coke. he likes to also think a lot about the path not taken and wonders what he would be doing now if he had not discovered photoshop, tomato or lynx within the space of a few months back in 1995. being an aquarian, he also likes to think of himself as a social idealist & feels he sometimes is a victim of his own purity of thought (whatever that is supposed to mean). there is no activity like sleeping to him (although being an obsessed designer, he doesn’t really do much of it sometimes as he feels a little pressed for time). for some unknown reason the designer also calls himself the incandescent subfusc. he also has an annoying habit of leaving things in various states of incompletion…
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