Choice - who needs it? All the time? Really?
Sometimes, I can be lazy, I don’t feel like being challenged in any way, and I want what I always have.
I want the safe option. This most often rears its ugly, boring (yet strangely comforting) head in restaurants or other food places, particularly when I’m tired.
If left to my own devices, I’ll pick something [...]
The utility of a bowl….
…is defined by where the bowl is not.
It’s the empty spaces that make a bowl useful. Without the empty space, a bowl would be useless; just a block of wood.
Good design is often more about what to leave out, than what to put in. If you’ve ever talked to a professional about graphic design, you’ve [...]
Not sleeping in
I’ve always considered myself to not be “a morning person”. For years, I’ve set my alarm earlier than I really needed to, knowing that it would go off in the morning, then I’d hit the snooze button a few times, sometimes managing to turn off the alarm entirely, and falling back to sleep. Ultimately, [...]
Abstinence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
We all have things we love, things that we “just can’t do without” in our lives.
In our society most of us don’t need to go without anything. For the most part, we can satisfy most of our desires fairly simply, so we tend to do so.
Let’s say, for the sake of example, that you’re [...]
I yam what I yam….
I’m in the wrong age group or I grew up in the wrong country to have seen much Popeye when I as growing up, but he’s a character who’s a part of the cultural landscape that most of us share.
The quote that sticks in my mind most from Popeye is “I yam what I yam!”, [...]
Working a day job without it eating your life.
This is not an excuse post.
One of my personal strong dislikes are bloggers who repeatedly post excuses about why they’re not posting.
So, I’m not going to do that.
My day job is currently taking up a lot of my normally free time - which isn’t a situation I’m overly happy with. So, here’s what I’m doing [...]