A Great Story of Free Speech @ UW-Stout

It’s unfortunate that a ‘climate of sensitivity’ was enforced so heavy-handedly. It’s unfortunate so many other players had to get involved to re-establish common sense. Especially at a campus that – at least when I was there – had gun lockers in the dorms for students. I trust the administration and police will be more …

Unblaze

“But a dangerous thing happens when we follow a trail: We stop paying attention to the environment. Since the trail is so easy to follow, we allow our minds to wander and neglect to observe where we are.”- Peter Bregman, 18 Minutes

What Matters

“What’s ‘small stuff?’ Roughly, work that has zero chance of being mentioned in your obituary.” – Paul Graham “Meaning: When deciding whether to commit to something, if I feel anything less than, “Wow! That would be amazing! Absolutely! Hell yeah!” – then my answer is no.”

how to install fontforge on os x lion

After losing the fight with a native build-from-source multiple times, my currently recommended method of installing fontforge on the Mac OS X Lion is: brew install fontforge sudo brew link fontforge Update: 23 January 2012 Austin Sabel emailed, “I was having trouble getting an old cairo font document working in Lion. This saved me. However …

What Color is Your Couch?

There are 2 couches in my house. One is a dark chocolate brown and the other is a light beige-y/tan. So, I found it interesting that I bumped into these 2 logos today. Not that there’s any confusion between these two services. More an observation on the popularity of red couches.