New T-Mobile Commercial

It’s nice to see a single dad represented positively in a commercial. It won’t make me switch until they get the IPhone, but it’s a nice ad.

Matt Siber – Floating Logos

Inspired by the proliferation of very tall signs in the American Mid-West, Floating Logos seeks to draw attention to this often overlooked form of advertising.

http://www.siberart.com/home%20pages/homeframeset.html

Data.gov is coming.

Open Up Government Data – Wired How-To Wiki.

Letterpress Printing Services – Studio On Fire

Beautiful Letterpress work. I may need some new business cards soon.

http://www.studioonfire.com

Website of the Day, Photos, Clevr | geeksugar – Technology & Gadgets

http://www.geeksugar.com/2893526

Valentine’s Day at Jonathan Adler

Valentine’s Day at Jonathan Adler.

The perfect gift guide if you have too much disposable income. My personal favorite:

A List Apart: Articles: The Details That Matter

A List Apart: Articles: The Details That Matter.

Maddie’s letter to the new president

She’s so excited that we have a new pres.

Parenthood Magazine: Co-parenting

Parenthood Magazine is running a series on divorced parents working together to raise their children that turns out to be a pretty good read. It’s nice to see a parenting magazine not aimed exclusively to 1950s families from the Hamptons or just moms and not ignoring the needs of divorced people. I especially like their rule number 2 in the opening article:

Respect each other as parents. You’re likely to have a lot of bad feelings toward your former partner, but you need to separate your parenting from those feelings. Your goal is to create a good life for your children, and you can best do that by parenting together in a respectful, cooperative manner.

As much hurt feelings as there may be in a divorce, and there always is, you have to set that aside when dealing with your children. It’s not easy I know, but believe me, it’s worth the struggle.

Big Tex

The girls and I spent about three hours walking around in the blistering sun eating fried crap on a stick and petting camels. That’s right, The Great State Fair of Texas. I had never been to the State Fair before, so I decided it was about high time I made it, and the girls deserved a treat for adjusting to their new schedules.

We got to the parking lot for the fair around 12:20, and managed to meander our way to the ticket booth by 1 p.m. We had to park about three miles away, and the line for the shuttle would have taken longer than the walk, so we opted to hoof it. I hoisted Wu Tang onto my shoulders, and she proceeded to pet my beard like a puppy as she always does when I let her ride. It was a brutal walk, but we got lucky when we got in line to buy tickets. A nice Japanese woman had extra tickets from her school district and slipped them to me as we got in line, so I only had to pay for my admission, a cool $14.