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Free Pancake Day at IHOP

We heard that IHOP was giving out free pancakes yesterday. Being grad students, a whole group of us went, got the free short stacks, and ordered little else. Delicious!

March 2, 2011
The Jeff Lam Experience

A bunch of the musicians who play for our church let loose on some classic rock last night to benefit some of the community programs. We had a great time—here’s some phone camera photos of the amazingness.

February 27, 2011
Type Frustrations Revisited

It seems that one of the only solid solutions for ensuring that the Google Fonts display properly is, much to my friends‘ delight, to “get a Mac.” Will Moyer has one of the only viable fixes, a 0.0000000001-degree rotation that fixes the issue in Webkit browsers like Chrome. For Firefox, we have to wait for…

February 24, 2011
Type Frustrations

I would really like to be able to use the Google Fonts API on my website, but so far I haven’t seen very good results with how their fonts are rendered on Windows. I’ve been searching off and on for why this happens and have determined that at least on my system, the problem lies…

February 15, 2011
Crytek Is Going to Be Just Fine

Remember Crysis? That mediocre first-person shooter with massive hardware requirements that turned “But can it run Crysis” into a phrase that still hasn’t left the geek culture consciousness? The studio behind the game, cleverly named “Crytek,” has been working on the sequel (scheduled for release in late March). An unfinished version has leaked online, prompting…

February 14, 2011
Design in Science

I love design, but choosing medical science as a career means that it is never going to be more than a hobby for me. Even so, I try to learn what I can and experiment when I have the time. I follow a lot of talented designers whose inspiring work stands in stark contrast to…

February 12, 2011
Creators Don’t Get to Choose Which Business Model Works

As it becomes harder and harder to attack the logic of the CwF+RtB business model, I’ve seen a lot more people reaching for a kind of compromise or balance option. It goes something like, “Okay, I see how this model can work, but it should be the creator’s choice whether or not they use it.”…

February 5, 2011
New Haircut

I have been trying out a fauxhawk for the past couple of months. This time, I got it cut shorter on the sides so the look is a bit more stark. Standing it up like this takes a good bit of effort though, so I’m unlikely to do it too often.

February 4, 2011

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