Archive for February, 2009
The last two years, I’ve attended Frostbike, QBP‘s trade show that they run. In 2008, most of my time was spent attending seminars of the shop operations variety. This year, I missed Saturday due to my housewarming party, and thus missed a lot of the meaty/useful stuff. So Sunday, I opted to really dig into [...]
Words written on Bubble this weekend: 0. Accomplished this weekend: helped Kate clean the entire house from top to bottom, had an awesome housewarming party, attended the Frostbike tradeshow at QBP, and fought with bronchitis. Sometimes, writing should take a back seat to everything else. Remember that.
It’s always important to look back at your work as an artist to see where you’ve come from. It gives a certain gauge, I think, of your progression and growth in a particular medium. Recently, I undertook an operation to completely organize all of the Fontosaurus legacy files. During that process, I had the opportunity [...]
Great title, huh? Well, gotta admit that I have no idea where this post is going yet. Maybe in a few sentences, it’ll kick in. Went to the bike shop earlier this week, just to check in and see how the off-season has been treating them. Looks like I’ll be back to ordering new parts [...]
I’m of the opinion that work ethic is hugely important if you’re going to be a writer. The damn things don’t write themselves, after all. Over at 43 Things, there’s a great piece with Eric Idle, talking about writing with John Cleese, and the exhaustion factor. Worth watching.
Update: Don’t really expect anything. Busy enough at the office where I worked through lunch (as usual), and tonight Kate’s got her best friend over to watch Grey’s Anatomy (a title that I never thought would grace an entry in this blog). Thus, I am going to sequester myself in the office and play Civilization [...]
18-19 by krautwald. I had forgotten just how tedious font design can be when you’re doing it right. Back in the day, when Fontosaurus was putting out 1-2 free fonts a week, I was able to take designs from sketch to production in a matter of hours. But those were free fonts, with incomplete character [...]
Here in Minneapolis on Sunday, we had the annual “bike swap” at the velodrome. I went, of course, and was looking for one of two things, primarily — an inexpensive track frame, or an inexpensive singlespeed 29′er frame. Neither really happened. The only track frame I was able to locate in my size was a [...]
Time (t) is the enemy of all writers. It was certainly mine this weekend — I accomplished nothing. Granted, in my case, that was because I regularly placed other priorities ahead of my writing. This is something that has frequently been a problem since I departed college — time, or lack thereof, has a serious [...]
You can’t always rely on a schedule to get you through a day and get everything accomplished. I managed to miss yesterday’s post, but that’s okay. With a hectic day at the office, a good happy hour, some post-happy hour drama (which I won’t delve into here), and accomplishing a bunch of housework when I [...]
