coffeehouse junkie

Nov 25

Turkey Trot 5K

plan to stop by carrier park to pick up my packet for tomorrow’s 5k

“Facebook will replace email for a new generation. The chat is moving to a multimedia format. Gaming will move from devices directly to the internet. And Apple has a big future because of its strong mobile focus.” — Ram Shriram (via the guardian)

Nov 24

“I think sometimes that being overly type-sensitive is like an allergy, my font nerdiness makes me have bad reactions to things that spoil otherwise pleasant moments.” —

Michael Bierut, partner in Pentagram design group, NYC (via Mistakes in Typography Grate the Purists by Alice Rawsthorn)

Read full article from the New York Times HERE.

(via icatchfoxes)


7knotwind: black friday thoughts…

for the record, i’m not one of the 13 million…

7knotwind: black friday thoughts…

for the record, i’m not one of the 13 million…

malty: So I made ‘Palin’ Shortbread Cookies

malty: So I made ‘Palin’ Shortbread Cookies

Nov 23

“I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.” — Anne Lamott (via crookedtooth)

“The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,” — Robert Frost (via sonhosincolor)

“A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.” — Buckminster Fuller (via 7knotwind)

Nov 21

check out this neat little typographic video, the road less traveled (via typography served)

check out this neat little typographic video, the road less traveled (via typography served)

(via theskyis)

(via theskyis)

outofhabit:  love this idea for a business card - i might have to do something like this myself.  see 16 more creative ideas here. [image via oh, hello friend]

outofhabit:  love this idea for a business card - i might have to do something like this myself.  see 16 more creative ideas here. [image via oh, hello friend]

quality paper action book (via)

quality paper action book (via)

Nov 20

“Creative-writing programs are designed on the theory that students who have never published a poem can teach other students who have never published a poem how to write a publishable poem.” — “Show or Tell: Should creative writing be taught?” by Louis Menand in The New Yorker (via somethingchanged)

internet vices (via) (ht: liz)

internet vices (via) (ht: liz)

Nov 19

the definition of haiku is more than 3-line poems with no more than 17 syllables… the key is the revelatory moment…

Haiku… are short, unrhymed, poems… that juxtapose two images to capture a moment of insight about the world or about oneself. (via poetry foundation)