Posted on June 22, 2008 by mvrankin
Oh where oh where can it be?
Top Five Reasons Mike Has Not Been Blogging Lately
5. Been Photoshopping myself into the Celtics victory parade, high-fiving Kevin Garnett.
4. Been writing “I will not forget our anniversary again” on a chalkboard 5000 times.
3. Been driving hundreds of miles in search of gas under $4.
2. Been sulking since the [...]
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Posted on May 29, 2008 by mvrankin
Hope everyone had a nice Memorial Day Weekend. Here in New England the weather was glorious, and we celebrated by partaking of pure All-American fare: amusement park, little league baseball, ice cream, cookout, and Indiana Jones. The kids marched in the parade down Main St (actually they marched down Route 14, but Main St. sounds [...]
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Posted on May 19, 2008 by mvrankin
We left off our home improvement project with cobalt blue dahlias and a ruby red driveway. What else can we do but paint the house green?
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Posted on May 17, 2008 by mvrankin
One of the fringe benefits of a career in publishing tech is that once in a while you get to use your DTP skills to amaze your friends and family. The other main benefit is the catered meeting leftovers at work (mmmm, corporate brownies).
Granted, it’s not as practical as a plumber who can fix anything [...]
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Posted on April 23, 2008 by mvrankin
The colors of spring are starting to pop where I live. The forsythia are spewing pure 100y by the driveway. The birch are popping a crazy out-of-gamut green, something like L74a(65)b65, The magnolias are blooming default [paper] on Comm Ave. and even my grass is a greener shade of brown. So what better time than [...]
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Posted on April 17, 2008 by mvrankin
What started out as a joke in another post becomes a post in itself. C’est la blog.
Here’s my writing routine: Around 9 PM I head downstairs and settle in on the couch in the family room with my laptop. Shortly thereafter I am joined by two 11-week-old Siamese furballs named Sasha and Storm who make [...]
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Posted on April 5, 2008 by mvrankin
Very nice to read over my morning coffee that Adobe has made good on their intentions to revise the Photoshop Express Terms of Service to make them a lot less evil. In my first look at Photoshop Express, I was pretty down on Adobe for writing themselves ownership of your content throught the Universe. I [...]
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Posted on March 24, 2008 by mvrankin
As a family, we can never let Easter pass without watching our DVD of the funniest of all Peanuts specials, It’s The Easter Beagle Charlie Brown. For me, it’s worth watching just for Snoopy’s escalator antics and Woodstock’s insanely funky groove. My kids always scream and squirm and crack up at Marcy’s doomed attempts to [...]
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