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  • Little Susie

    Reflections on the past year and a glimpse of the little me as I turn a year older.

  • Recent comics read

    Here's the most recent comics I've been reading. It's been so fantastic to get so many wonderful recommendations from fellow comic readers. Thank you all so much!

  • Success

    I got off the paved road a while ago, it just didn’t seem worth it to me. Because other things than what my culture tells me is success is what I feel makes me successful. But it isn't always easy.

  • Reputation not brand

    I only knew David Carr by reading his column almost every week. Since he died last week, I've read a lot of the various remembrances of him because he, now that I'm learning more, was a fascinating person.

  • Ms. Marvel

    I know, I just wrote about comics last week, but I'm writing about them again. Because I read my first super hero comic over the weekend, actually I devoured it.

  • Responsive Web Design, Second Edition

    I read the first edition of Ethan Marcotte's <em>Responsive Web Design</em> when it came out and just today finished reading the second edition. Ethan is a wonderful writer, making me laugh and keeping my attention, even when the division sign is used a lot.

  • Designing for Performance: Weighing Aesthetics and Speed

    I finally read Lara Hogan's fantastic <em>Designing for Performance: Weighing Aesthetics and Speed</em> over the past couple days. It's a fantastic read, along with Scott Jehl's book <em>Responsible Responsive Design</em> should be read by pretty much everyone working on the design and front end of sites today since performance is such a crucial element of our work.

  • Comics, comics, comics

    Almost one year ago I read my first comic. I know, I'm a late bloomer here. But since that first trade of <em>Fables</em> I've become a comic lover. Since I'm trying to record what I've read on this site, comics are no different, but since I don't really highlight from them, I'm just going to do a roundup here of the latest series I've started reading in the last month.

  • Making a journal

    Last Saturday I got up and had an easy morning and then packed up a tote with supplies and headed to the southeast campus of Portland Community College to take a class on book binding, specifically learning to make journals.

  • Part time

    Part-time work doesn't seem to exist in the tech industry and I find that intriguing and perplexing. Why? Why are companies not filling gaps with part-time employees?

  • Boredom

    The other day I was making dinner and, as is my routine, I was listening to All Things Considered on NPR while moving about the kitchen. A story about boredom came on. If you haven't listened to it, the crux of it is that there is a lack of creativity because we are never bored anymore, thanks to our smart phones.

  • 2014 year end review

    2014 was a tumultuous year for me. What I was doing at the end of the year was nothing like what I expected when the year began.

  • The Manual, Issue 4

    <em>The Manual&#58; Issue 4</em> lives up to the high bar set by the first three issues of the publication.

  • Lucifer

    2014 will always be associated with comics for me. It was the year I started reading them, diving into <em>Fables</em> and catching up with current issues, then the entire <em>Sandman</em> series, <em>Saga</em>, and making a start on <em>Lucifer</em>.

  • CSS Animation&#58; An Interactive Guide

    I am woefully behind in reading a lot of tech books that I have purchased in the last 6 months. Between client work, getting ready to speak, and just plain old not wanting to always think about CSS, I've let things sit for a bit. But it's a new year and I'm back at it! Vicki Murley's book <em>CSS Animation: An Interactive Guide</em> is fantastic.