Get crazy. If you’re in a bunch of debt, get angry about it. Stop telling your kids that debt is a tool. Instead, get a hammer and beat the crap out of your credit cards. Stick them in a shredder. Introduce them to your power drill. Do whatever it takes to stop being normal when it comes to your money.

via Are Credit Cards a Way of Life? – daveramsey.com.

While I have no problem with spending and keep my cards tucked away in the closet under lock and key, I thought this visualization was awesome.  When I’m home for lunch today I may just take my cards, a 1/2 drill bit, go to town, and hang the results on the wall.  I  *do grow furious when reviewing debt (especially when I realize it was nearly all non-essential) but out-of-sight, out-of-mind, right?  I need some motivational art work.

How appropriate.  Stacy and I were talking over lunch today about creating dreamlike landscapes and capturing a bit of the surreal that comes to us in dreams.

Check out Erik’s portfolio at http://alltelleringet.com/.

I remember when my alma mater introduced web development to it’s graphic design curriculum (I jumped ship before ever taking the courses, but I’m talking timeline).  Later that year I was exposed to HTML for an unrelated year-end project and began a long road of self-education.  Now the web is the center of my career.

I’m sure my kids will learn HTML by the time they’re in early grade school and it will be for them what cracking c64 software was for me.  No one taught me how to crack into code—I journeyed into that world on my own and don’t think I could have taken any other path. When you get a kid interested in anything early there’s no holding them back—but you can’t institutionalize enthusiasm.

Academia moves slowly—that’s why I majored in ancient history. The tech landscape is moving way too quickly to keep up.

We live in what you *might call a tiny house (under 800sqf) and often run into walls where we’ll excuse creative endeavors saying “if only I had the space…”.  So here’s the deal—we have the space, we just don’t use it.  There’s a garage full of stuff we don’t really want sitting in the backyard.  There’s a patio with high ceilings attached to the house that we park the Jeep in.  Convert the garage? Move the Jeep to the garage and convert the patio? We have options.  This mini-house is an inspiration to re-purposing what’s available into what you want it to be.

FIELD NOTES COLORS Limited-Edition Memo Books.

I’m very tempted to go here soon.

In this post from Apartment Therapy I particularly enjoyed:

Overhead basement book storage

Pallet Garden

I suspect it’s because I don’t read the papers, but I’m glad to learn a year later that “the Palace,” a well preserved 7000 year old prehistoric settlement (with woman, infant, and housing foundations) was discovered a short drive from the old homestead:

“It’s always fun to find the oldest of something … but the real significance lies in how well-preserved it is,” State Archaeologist John Doershuk said. “This site is important because it was intensively occupied and very quickly river floods sealed the deposits and very quickly preserved items that otherwise could have been lost. It’s all about preservation context, and that’s what this site really has in abundance that other sites don’t.”

Read more at the Gazette.

Tel-Aviv University demos quantum superconductors locked in a magnetic field (www.quantumlevitation.com). For an explanation of the physics behind this demonstration, visit www.quantumlevitation.com/levitation/The_physics.html.