Humor on The Dangling Pointer

When my brain goes on a little adventure

Mon, 28 Dec 2020 20:25:22 +0000

It me.

What a funny (and accurate) way of describing the mental float during conversations when my ADHD is ramped up. This cracks me up! I feel like there should be some background sound effects with this. A nice animated parallax effect would finish it off. 🤪

Professionalism & Kerning

Fri, 06 Oct 2017 19:50:04 +0000

kern | kərn
verb [with object]

(usually as noun kerning) adjust the spacing between (letters or characters) in a piece of text to be printed. • make (letters) overlap.
design (metal type) with a projecting part beyond the body or shank.

When I saw this poorly kerned sign in a doctor's office I suddenly became less trustworthy of their ability to perform as medical professionals.

Vicious Cycles - A Stop Animation Film

Thu, 17 Aug 2017 13:35:28 +0000

My brother recently sent me this video and reminded me how much we thought it was funny as kids. Turns out that film got me interested (for a while) in stop animation. I created a couple hours of stop animation shorts with my friends and brother. Too bad I don't have that footage any more.

Vicious Cycles was created in 1967 by Chuck Menville. Its production value is simple by today's standard but it still is hilarious.

Mondays through the Eyes of ADHD

Mon, 14 Aug 2017 19:25:29 +0000

RayWenderlich.com Christmas Video

Mon, 26 Dec 2016 18:13:01 +0000

I'm an awful singer but decided to help out the RayWenderlich.com team with the annual Christmas video. Check out our excellent work.

Original Post at RayWenderlich.com

How Not to Do Push Notifications

Wed, 28 Sep 2016 22:41:19 +0000

Not pictured: 10 more notifications below these.

Trump's Hair

Thu, 21 Jan 2016 21:05:27 +0000

I just realized today that Trump's hair reminds me of Fizzgig from The Dark Crystal.

Discing or Disking

Tue, 19 Jan 2016 01:56:26 +0000

I prefer discing.

Why? Because I can.

Tater Tots Through Time

Wed, 23 Dec 2015 15:00:45 +0000

Every year at the Automattic Grand Meetup the entire company gets together in one place for a little over a week to work and have fun. Part of that meetup requires everyone to give a four minute flash talk on any subject. This year my coworker Carolyn Sonnek and I decided to team up on our flash talk.

Carolyn and I are Tater Tot experts. EXPERTS. We dug deep and found some interesting facts on Tater Tots and even a conspiracy!

Things With Wheels Flash Talk

Mon, 02 Feb 2015 14:51:25 +0000

Every year at Automattic we get together at what we call the Grand Meetup. Everyone is expected to give a four minute flash talk on any subject - literally any subject. Last year I described a funny story about a boss stealing my iPhone. This year I combined another funny story with some personal philosophies.

Last summer I posted about how Things With Wheels Are Meant To Move and that paired well with my tweets about my philosophy on systems. This flash talk is an amalgamation of those two posts.

Stabby

Thu, 30 Oct 2014 19:00:38 +0000

I love the word "stabby". It typically means, if you're feeling stabby, that you would like to stab someone or something because of your current emotional state. Stabby can also describe the state of a thing - like "pairing bluetooth headsets is stabby" because it's a pain in the ass.

I've tried to pass around the Theory of Stabby to my coworkers at previous jobs and at Automattic. It's definitely been a successful campaign because we managed to get a stabby emoticon added to our chat system, Slack.

How I Got Well Played Revenge

Mon, 07 Apr 2014 12:30:13 +0000

Last fall I gave a four minute flash talk at our company meetup. Everyone is required to give one and it can be on any topic. I chose to tell a story about how I got revenge on my boss.

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