“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify them, or vilify them. But the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do…”

- Kerouac

Here’s a great resource for all of you freelance folks out there: Full Frontal Freelance.

Full Frontal Freelance is a “Tumblelog for the free and fearless” created by Aja West. It is filled to the brim with all sorts of useful resources not only for freelancers, but for anyone in any sort of creative industry. Also be sure to lookout for random links and writings by yours truly among other great, creative folks.

Ojon’s Rub-Out Dry Cleaner is a must have for anybody living in the hot and humid south. I didn’t know a thing like this existed until a good, and obviously female friend told me about this.

The heat and humidity here in Texas does ungodly things to one’s hair. Usually about half of the way through your day, your hair is a competely gross and oily mess that makes it look like your hair has not seen the graces of shampoo in weeks. This wonderful spray (available in either 2oz or 4½oz cans) removes all the gunk from your hair, returning it to the state it was in when you left your place of dwelling in the morning.

What it really comes down to, in an effort to sum things up, is that this spray is nothing short of pure magic.

It can be purchased at your local Sephora for the reasonable price of $10 for the 2oz and $24 for the 4½oz can.

So as you may or may not know, I am definitely an Mac enthusiast. That said, at work I am unfortunately using a Windows machine, much to my dismay. It has been quite the challenge  hunting down any sort of freeware that compares with the options for Mac machines, but I’ve finally managed to found one that I find pretty awesome.

I had been going through various different freeware programs for different uses, ftp clients and code editors were the main ones that I was having a great deal of trouble finding solutions that I’d be happy with. Last week I stumbled on Scriptly by Webocton and was beyond pleased with what I found.

Scriptly is a code editor that is filled with all sorts of useful features. From the seven different preset syntax highlighting methods, as well as any custom configuration you may want to the incredibly useful sidebar containing search functions, code snippets, a color picker / hex value converter, and various other useful tidbits. Scriptly is definitely a program worth the download. I’m actually finding myself wishing for the first time that a Windows program was available as a Mac one as well. This is by far the best piece of freeware I’ve ever come across on this Windows machine.

So I was doing my daily browsing of Uncrate this morning and saw this gem of a t-shirt.

Needless to say, if anyone wants to buy that wonderful bit of pure cotton geekery, feel free. The shirt is sold by Threadless who never fails to provide a quality product. I’d love to purchase it now, but alas, the ole automobile needs a bit of fixing up.

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My mom doesn’t understand Twitter. Big surprise. I think the possibilites as far as uses for Twitter goes are endless but all my mom, and probably your mom sees it as is another worthless bit of the internet. After our last internet-related conversation, I got to thinking about all of the different ways that someone could use it, so mom, this one’s for you.

Ok, I’ve almost got this new theme ready to go. A few more modifications and everything will be in proper working order. The design that I’m currently using is a temporary thing as I’ll be doing a custom theme once I get caught up on projects that people besides myself are waiting on. I hope this whole site works out and everything stays beautiful and functional.

Thanks for stopping by!

So I was perusing the wonderful internet this morning while taking a slight break from work duties and came across these wonderful little coasters featured on Design Junky (thanks!).

They are created with a letterpress and are 3.5″ round. The set comes with eight coasters and costs a very reasonable $12. You can purchase these fine gems on Etsy from sarahparrot825. I ordered a set today, I’ll  be sure to let you know how they turn out!

Enjoy!

I’m so tired of writing and implementing hacks and workarounds to get my CSS to display properly in Internet Explorer. It seems as thought that’s all that I’ve been doing with this redesign. At least in doing so I feel better about the site’s layout and the structural soundness of it.

Recently I’ve actually moved onto trying to stritcly use conditional comments, albeit the shortest stylesheets within them as I can, but conditional comments none the less. They really help in taking care of all of Internet Explorer’s inconsistancies and what-not all in one big hoorah!

If for whatever reason you’re not familiar with conditional comments, which is probably only if you’re relatively new to CSS, or if you’ve simply been using standard hacks and workarounds for all of the problems associated with trying to write cross-browser compatible stylesheets, you should definitely check out the page on MSDN regarding such. They have definitely been making stylesheet organization much easier with all of the shenanigans that come along with writing CSS for IE.

The Wilco Book is an excellent book based around incredible photos by photographer Michael Schmelling and short essays and commentary by the members of the band, and authors Henry Miller and Rick Moody, among much more. The book focuses on the band as a whole and their surroundings, from bits about their practice space and gear, to their love for music and where they draw their inspiration from. Included with the book is a CD featuring twelve previously unreleased tunes which is quite the bit of experimental songs and demo tracks from previous albums. I managed to come across this at Half Price Books in the Rice Village, but it is also widely available at book stores worldwide as well as the official Wilco website and of course, Amazon. It was definitely worth every penny.