July 29th, 2011
My secret love affair with shoes
I have a confession to make. I love shoes. You probably know me for my thoughts on video games, Hot Wheels, cartoons and other forms of entertainment, but I also long to have a collection of really awesome shoes. However, fortunately for me (and you) shoes are pretty expensive and thus prohibitive for me to [...]
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June 3rd, 2011
Call of Duty Elite, paying for your own information?
I like the Modern Warfare series of Call of Duty. The first Modern Warfare made me enjoy FPS again after years of burn out. I’m not very good at Call of Duty but that doesn’t mean it’s a not a lot of fun. However, not being a hardcore player, the announcement of the new Call [...]
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May 9th, 2011
A laptop alone doesn’t cut it
My desktop PC failed on me this weekend, bad. I figured I could just do the work I was planning on my laptop but I quickly realized I need a desktop for certain tasks.
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April 17th, 2011
Pardon my dust
Yes, it’s that time again…time for a new coat of paint here at Morning Toast. Enough has changed in my blogging world that I think this was necessary to keep me interested. And I see you rolling your eyes…yes, this is a blog post about blogging.
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December 30th, 2010
Design vs. design, a simple misunderstanding
When people ask what I do for a living, I usually say “web designer”. Unfortunately, after years of calling myself such a thing, it’s finally hit me that what people hear is not what I want them to hear…at least not entirely.
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July 3rd, 2010
Four days, three colors and two rooms
You know those times when you need a change but you just can’t figure out what needs to change? I discovered (yet again) that painting the rooms in your house is a great, inexpensive way to make change…and best of all, it’s unchangeable if you don’t like it.
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December 23rd, 2009
Cardboard laptop stand
When we got our new 46″ TV for an early Christmas present, we also got a big 46″ cardboard box that it came in. I kept the box this long for two reasons, 1) just in case it had to be returned to the store, and 2) I’ve been trained to keep anything and everything [...]
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May 30th, 2009
The only thing Andy Williams is good for
Sometimes crafts are really cool but complicated. Sometimes crafts are easy but not very hip. So when we were at Target and saw a could-be craft that was hip and easy, we couldn’t pass it up. Yes, this is just Stolen Idea #872 but it’s a good one. It’s cheap, easy, and quick - The [...]
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March 24th, 2009
Collecting, organizing, and Mythbusters
I’m a collector. Or as some might call it, a pack rat. I can’t help it, it runs in my family. I come from a long line of celebrated pack rats. I like to think I’ve gotten better over the years, but a quick tour of my home and office will certainly argue otherwise. But [...]
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December 16th, 2008
Messin’ with Wordpress
It’s not usually a good sign when you blog about blogging, but in this case it’s not really about getting down on my writing or complaining about how I don’t blog anymore. This time it’s about the technical side of blogging, which then leads to the writing side.
I had to do a fresh install of [...]
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December 7th, 2008
Learning from the intern
My intern’s last day of work was this past week. While it seemed to have been very short, he was here for nearly three months. The experience overall was a good one. However, I don’t think I’m ready to be a supervisor. Sure, it’s “fun” to be able to tell people what to do, but [...]
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November 18th, 2008
When band logos go bad
I like logos. I’m a logo nerd. Logos are some of my favorite things to look at and design, albeit not always successful. Good logos are hard to design. I think logos are special to design because while they are meant to communicate, they don’t have to be straight forward.
Some logos are simply the name [...]
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October 7th, 2008
Somehow I gained an intern
Through luck or curse, I got an intern at work. I’m not really sure how, but I’ll give credit to Human Resources for keeping my name high on their list when a random multimedia student came across their desk looking for work. I don’t really consider myself manager material and really don’t desire to be [...]
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October 7th, 2008
Customizing Hot Wheels
Having already covered the modification of Hot Wheels cars, we come to customization. Frankly, customization is the easy modding and something we all probably did as kids anyway, I know I did. A bottle of paint and a brush goes a long way for a kid. I still have one of the cars I painted. [...]
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July 26th, 2008
The best yard sale sign ever
A long time ago I wrote about effective garage sale signs and just this week I found the best yard sale sign I’ve ever seen strapped the street sign on my corner. It made me happy. It makes me happy to see successful design for unimportant things like a yard sale sign. You wouldn’t think [...]
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July 19th, 2008
It’s that time again
Time for something new. While working on this new theme I found that about this same time last year was when I switched the theme before, into the Big Blue version. It seems I can only tolerate my selected designs for a year. Oh well, keeps things interesting and (sometimes) re-motivates me to write. Your [...]
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July 9th, 2006
Effective garage sale signs
Summer is the season for garage sales and yard sales. Every weekend, masses of people flock to the suburbs to find the next great deal. They’re looking for the furniture to fill their living room, or the next thing to sell on eBay for twice what it’s worth. Regardless, people won’t come if they can’t [...]