• November 12, 2012: “Treat your partner like you treat your dearest friends (i.e. not like a punching bag). Protect *each other* from stress.”
• November 8, 2012: “Give passionately without expectation. Receive graciously without owing.”
• September 20, 2012: “Stop whatever unhealthy thing you’re doing right now. Sit up straight, stop smoking, eat a salad, take a walk, do your homework!”
• August 21, 2012: “Find harmony in authenticity: Know what you feel. Say what you mean. Watch what you do.”
• August 3, 2012: “Sometimes I’m boring and lame… Sometimes I am energetic and awesome! No one is ever anything all the time, and I accept myself.”
• July 30, 2012: “Rule number one: Do not blame others for your own pain.”
• July 12, 2012: “I gladly sever connection from ppl whose only communication with me is their deliberate attempts to annoy me. I’m more than buttons to push.”
• June 2, 2012: “Try to accept compliments graciously. They’re good for you! You’ll eventually learn to believe them!”
• March 14, 2012: “Happiness > approachability > opportunity”
• December 22, 2012: “Counting your problems is not dealing with them. It’s just counting.”
• December 20, 2012: “Good leaders ask for opinions w/out coercion, delegate w/out overtaking, and give credit w/out narcissism. Are you a leader, or a fascist?”
• November 15, 2012: “Are you responding appropriately? Or are you just simply reacting? Remember you have a choice.”
• April 27, 2011: “I mean what I say” shows integrity, and “I say what I mean” shows authenticity. Strive for both.
• April 20, 2011: Hoarders let go of what they “can’t let go of” by letting other crap accumulate over it.
• April 17, 2011: Entertainment is important in life, but there is more genuine enjoyment through participation. Engage. Involve. … Evolve
• April 14, 2011: Knowing you’re “able”, or thinking you “would if you had to”, doesn’t propel you. Present evidence & move onto the next thing.
• March 9, 2011: Choosing to fear what “could” happen is setting yourself up for it to become a reality. Stop fearing what hasn’t happened or it WILL happen!
• March 2, 2011: Cliché excuses ≠ accepting responsibility for one’s own actions.
• March 2, 2011: Look at the synchronicities & patterns in your life. You brought them there. They’re yours to study & change. Why ignore them? #lifelesson
• January 7, 2011: Less talk, more do. Show your work using both sides of the paper if needed.

Current Mood: Pensive

So tired of the confusion. Kissy faces are not duck faces, guys.

Current Mood: Silly

Turntable.fm is a great, cute way to learn about new music and chat at the same time. I’ve been on it since July 2011 and it’s connected me to so many awesome music-lovers. My main room is “Orange Bear Party Indie” (OBPI), and we’re mostly all connected via multiple social networks. We even share music via DropBox, and have video chats via Google+ from time to time. Plus, I dated one of them for a while! Now I’ll tell you a little story about how Turntable.fm led me to be part of a SXSW showcase…

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Current Mood: Excited

Two accomplished designers… Dan Stiles (left), and Mike Dornseif (right). Who’s homaging whom?

I actually got to chat with Dan Stiles during Flatstock at SXSW a couple of weeks ago. I told him how there’s a Shutterstock copycat out there with the same birds as his Feist poster (see my old post about this), and he told me that sometimes he has to involve expensive lawyers in matters like those.

I was pretty sad I didn’t get to see Mike Budai this year. But at least I ended up getting a pretty good haul. Pictured above are posters for/of: Pavement, Cults, Yeasayer, bad breath ghosts, Donkey Kong sprite kaleidoscope, and Origin of the Species. The “bad breath ghosts” & Yeasayer are in my cubicle at my new job! :) And I plan to give “Origin of the Species” to my BFF’s 3yr old for his birthday.

Current Mood: Fine

Today’s internet consists of three main social networks: Google+, Twitter, and Facebook. This means a lot of people have three very different audiences. In the interest of keeping things simple while supporting the newest network, I will tell you how I cross-post to all three networks from Google+.

• Step One: Connecting your Google+ to your Twitter

  In my search, I found a lot of very bad ways to connect these accounts. One was to make a special Google+ circle for just Facebook and another for just Twitter, using special respective email addresses, but there was a ridiculously small character limit. It’s pointless! Another was to use a Chrome Extension, but simplicity is still the goal. It must be easy and universal—any browser; any device.

  The best way I’ve found is by using ManageFlitter. You just fill in your Google+ account URL (the original kind with all the numbers), then sign in using your Twitter account, and it connects them for you. So now when you post from Google+, it also goes to your Twitter.

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Current Mood: Awake