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Asia and I just made made this together.

Create your own family sticker graphic at pYzam.com

right there--playing

'round the edge of profound giggles;

any second now--raining

.

wiper blades at the ready

in the deep back seat of an evening;

stretching the long black drive taffy-wise

through charming parallels of story time

.

worlds recited

with open eyes deciding how to

verbalize each past time;

catching glances of the branches we pass

in the fast forward telling of our best-foot lives

.

reaching the gate;

stepping out;

"the now" found just under a raincoat cuff;

in an absentminded thumb painting a smooth smile

on the skin of a wrist

.

once inside

there's everyplace like home

as the cobweb thunderheads break

into a torrent of up-late laughter

.

toes buried deep in a sheepskin beach,

time flies,

while the fireplace barely cracks a smile

.

©2008 Daniel Bushman

Celebrating his same old dissent from the ordinary; a salesman dance, shaking bits of safety glass, to make his diamond backed pitch to children. No, all the black powder in china–worlds of death rattle laughter–couldn't fill the exaggerated shadow puppet silhouette of that impotent matchstick man. ©2008 Daniel Bushman  

It's all in the metaphor and presentation.

One of the biggest problems in the world is the billion or so people who don't have access to clean water. Enter the merry-go-round water pump–harnessing the unlimited power of play.

I'm usually quite a geek, but please forgive me for being a bit of a nerd for a moment. I'll try not to use the word "actually" too much. As in, "actually, not many people know this, but there is a distinct difference between geeks and nerds." (nerds love the word "actually").

Nerds, you see, are really super knowledgeable about stamps and will, given the chance, tell you everything that is currently known about them. Geeks, on the other hand, are really super knowledgeable about stamps so, given the chance, they are spending time with their stamps–not you.

So while you're out shoveling your walks, the nerd is there beside your driveway elucidating the differences in how dwarfs and hobbits handle inclement weather conditions. But where is the geek? Well, he's the one off in his basement gluing hair to his feet.

I think it's kinda funny, seems somehow like a caricatured sketch. If I didn't know Ian and I saw this story, I think I would imagine him to be quite different that he is.

 [from Top 10 Secure Coding Practices] 

An interesting video published by the LDS Church.   

One of the blogs I read is called "Compete on Usability". I love this title. In a software development company, focusing on usability as a competitive advantage is very smart. Usability is so often overlooked and yet adds tremendous value. It doesn't matter how many cool things your software product can do, if no one can use it. To me this is obvious and that's why usability has been the focus of my career.

Two cool articles have popped up recently on that blog. The first gives me warm fuzzies about the outlook of my career. The second shows a preview of a truly innovative interface called Dasher (video below). I think we'll be using something like Dasher for text messaging and text input on game consoles in the near future.