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  • Oonie’s P8tch Action Photo

    I asked my ex-Digitas-colleague Oonie Chase to do a p8tch action photo, and HOLY COW did she ever deliver: Oonie, this kicks HUGE amounts of ass. And takes names. And flies around the Syd Mead-designed mega-skyscrapers of New Toronto in a fusion-powered Porsche, apparently. If YOU want to look as cool as Oonie while you…

  • MOL Gator needlepoint progress

    Here’s a snapshot to show progress on the MOL gator needlepoint project: Unfortunately, I lost my skein of red! I have to go to Fireside to get some more. Fortunately, my work is definitely not precision enough to require matching a dye lot! In other needlepoint news, I think Matt and I are going to…

  • P8tch Rubber Stamp (Cattle Brand?)

    I took one of my p8tch project QRcodes and sent it to Simon’s Stamps to be made into a 3" square rubber stamp. 3" is a little bit bigger than I had pictured in my head; you have to kind of swab the stamp all over the pad to ink it. But the image looks…

  • Third Rail Design Lab’s Commando Nerd

    Thom Chiaramonte from Third Rail Design Lab was one of the original p8tch customers. He was really patient while waiting the REALLY LONG TIME to get his original order, and in looking him up to get his address, I saw that he was a comic artist! I asked him to do a "commando nerd", and…

  • From FDR’s First Inaugural Address: March 4, 1933

    “…Our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered because they believed and were not afraid, we have still much to be thankful for. Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it. Plenty is at our doorstep,…

  • MacGuffin Repair Mission: FAILURE

    There’s an article about the West Chester Guerilla Drive-In coming out in tomorrow’s Citypaper! I had heard some reports that the MacGuffin wasn’t transmitting properly, which means that Citypaper readers wouldn’t be able to earn their Official GDI Member Numbers in time for the last 2008 showing on October 25th. So after work, Lydia and…

  • Will Ronco, Iron Developer

    Tikaro Interactive developer Will Ronco turned in an awesome time at the Lake Placid Iron Man a few months ago, and he’s now in Kona, Hawaii getting ready for the world championship this weekend (he toured the lava field yesterday.) He’s also prepping for a Drupal site launch next week. You know, in his spare…

  • ACAC Barcode Tattoo Booth at the West Chester Chili Cookoff

    One of the goals of my development shop, Tikaro Interactive, is to connect the online and offline worlds. For the past year, I’ve been especially interested in barcodes. So far, the channels I’ve been developing are needlepoint, nerd fashion accessories. And now (drum roll, please…) barcode tattoos. Here’s the program we set up this Sunday…

  • Oaklands Farm Barrel Cars: HIGHLIGHT OF THE YEAR

    On Saturday, we went to the Fall party at Oaklands Farm where all the McIlvaines live (about a mile down the road from where I grew up.) The highlight of Lydia’s YEAR is riding around in the barrel cars. Many of the McIlvaines are welders, and the barrel cars are homemade. Seriously, that is BADASS.…

  • A brief personal history of machismo, told in posters

    Armpit Man, from the wall of Oriental World Martial Arts Studio (and every other karate school in America.) Twenty years later… From Conkey’s Poultry Book (1932), found at backyardchickens.com.I dunno, I think the rooster has a steelier gaze than Armpit Man.