February 2012
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Parent/Child Lectures of the Future Part 3
Grandfather: Are you STILL logged-on to that thing?
Grandchild: Grandpa nobody says "logged-on" anymore.
Grandfather: Back in my day you use to have to pay by the kilobyte to be logged on with those smart phones.
Grandchild: Grandpa nobody calls them "smart phones" anymore. They're just regular phones.
Grandfather: Well whatever, if you had to live just one day of my life when I was your age, you wouldn't take for granted that 3Z connection.
Grandchild: Just go back to reading your iPad Grandpa.
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Parent/Child Lectures of the Future Part 2
Son: Dad, when you were young, did you every try Napster?
Father: Well… to be honest with you son, yes. But it was new and there really weren't any laws against it yet. Also, no one knew about all of the side effects and viruses that it caused.
Son: Did you ever hack?
Father: Heh, can you keep a secret? I once hacked into the local library's email. I sent out a fake message from their account to their ENTIRE email list!
Son: You did! What did it say?
Father: Ehemm, uh, nothing, forget about it.
Son: That's awesome! Can you teach me?
Father: No! It was stupid and reckless and I never should have done it!
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Parent/Child Lectures of the Future Part 1
Daughter: I can't believe you! You're such a hypocrite!
Father: Sweetheart, calm down. I'm just trying to protect you.
Daughter: But YOU were in chat rooms when YOU were my age.
Father: It was a different time. Everyone was doing it. Now they're just full of creeps.
Daughter: When was the last time you logged into one, huh?
Father: Well, it's been a long time.
Daughter: Seeeee, you don't even know what it's like!
Father: I know enough to know that I don't want my teenage daughter getting chatted up by some creepy 40 year old stalker posing as a Justin Bieber look-a-like!
Daughter: If you took any time to meet my online friends you'd know that's not what they're like. And who's Just Bieber anyway?
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“Norris - Van Damme 2012”
– @georgehess via twitter
September 2011
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“15yrs ago if you were tethered to an electronic device & did things like,...”
– @georgehess via twitter
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Barista: Southern California eh?
Me: huh?
Barista: Your t-shirt. You a surfer?
Me: Oh, no I just shop at Old Navy.
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How I met your driver
A long time ago I attended an evening course covering Mass Communications. Yawn right? I know. What I discovered was that some of life’s greatest leassons were not waiting for me inside a classroom… but from behind the wheel of a gently used 1993 Ford Escort.
After one of the sessions had ended, I grabbed my books and began that old familiar walk towards the parking lot. This time a girl joined...
June 2011
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RoadPony
Save the planet and your money - find and share rides with people traveling the same places you are!
RoadPony was conceptualized the day my brother couldn’t find a ride to the airport. He often needs rides and I often make websites… the rest is history.
Project Details
UI / UX
HTML5 / CSS3
Facebook Integration
Google Maps Integration
May 2011
3 posts
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“You BOIL ribs?!”
– My dentist (speaking to the hygienist while filling my cavity)
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Swirly Squirrely
These events took place between 7:00 and 7:30 AM, July 15th 2009, at the private residence of George and Kelley Hess in Bellingham, WA. Stories of what happened that morning have been told by many. This is the true account.
We began our Wednesday much like any other, running late. I could tell that I wasn’t going to make the bus. And since I was already going to miss it, I poured myself...
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Top 10 Homeofficitis Symptoms
The following are the top ten symptoms found in most patients suffering from Homeofficitis.
You call it a 9-5 job but more often than not, mean: 9AM-5PM-9PM-5AM
You regularly shower on your lunch break.
The nearest you’ve been to sexual harassment in the workplace is your SPAM folder.
You consistently overuse emoticons in a desperate attempt to recreate face-to-face communication.
...
April 2011
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March 2011
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“I read the newspaper because there’s something nostalgic about doing...”
– @georgehess via twitter
February 2011
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Big Oak
George Hess <3’s non–profits. Plain and simple, Big Oak is changing lives and I’m always happy to join in on doing some of the good work! Their site was ready for a facelift, so out came the scalpels and bone saws and we put together a nice little WordPress site in a matter of days. It’s going live this week.
Project Details
HTML5 / CSS Layout
WordPress Integration
January 2011
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Design Evolution →
I went through nine comps before settling on a final design for my website. These mock-ups span over a period of 4 years, not because I spent an exceptional amount of time on each of them… but because I could rarely justify working on my own personal projects.
It can be fun (and frightening) to watch how a design and a designer evolve over time.
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Introducing Covelopers!
Covelopers enables independent designers, web developers, and techs to operate like larger businesses by networking them together to collaboratively tackle projects. That’s a lot to try and fit into a single logo – but we managed to meet all of the criteria: High–end, Teamwork, Growth, and Momentum.
Project Details
Branding
Design
Digital Strategy
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Atomic Mobile
Atomic Mobile provides businesses and agencies with mobile technology based solutions. So naturally, they’d better have a snappy mobile website right? Well you guessed it… that’s what we’re working on!
Project Details:
UI/UX Design
Mobile Design & Development
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Anonymous asked: Regarding WordPress:
I was wondering if you knew how to display the excerpt for next and previous posts in the side bar if you are on a blog page?
I was wondering if you knew how to display the excerpt for next and previous posts in the side bar if you are on a blog page?
December 2010
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10 Guidelines for Project Managers
or: How I Learned to Stop Pulling My Hair Out and Love the Client
Most likely, none of what you’re about to read will increase your productivity. No, this is all for your well being. To possibly help lower your blood pressure and reveal a few little truths I wish someone had told me many moons ago. Once upon a time I had the privilege of being a project manager for a web development firm....
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“Social Media is all dorky dudes pretending to be attractive and attractive...”
– Alex Blagg via bajillionhits
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CSS Keyframe Animation Flicker
Just for the record (since I couldn’t find any help on this issue), if you are animating a translateX, translateY, translate3d, or opacity CSS attribute by way of a webkit keyframe animation you may notice a flicker at the end of its iteration. It is very noticeable on Android 2. The flicker is caused by the animation resetting to the beginning keframe for just a split second. This happens...
October 2010
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Thou Shalt Not Envy
I have struggled for the longest time to understand why so many women compare themselves to the air-brushed covergirls that grace our checkout lines and newsstands. To me, it would be like comparing apples to wax oranges. Does-not-compute. One is real, one is fake. One tastes nice to kiss, the other like newsprint… not like I ever tried kissing the Cameron Diaz 1996 edition of Rolling...
September 2010
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The Transaction
Me: I'd like to make a deposit.
Male Teller: That's quite the German name you have.
Me: Are you German?
Male Teller: No, I date them.
Me: ?
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“After small talk concluded, man opened suitcase & offered me 2 ziploc bags...”
– @georgehess via twitter
August 2010
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George Hess gets Skype
For immediate release: George Hess, a long time cell phone user, made a game changing decision last month when he signed up for Skype - a web based communication tool.
“Ever since the Feds broke up Ma Bell it’s been one problem after another”, said the new voice over internal protocol user. Though the biggest determining factor in Mr. Hess’s choice was not customer...
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Mobile sites, it's 1999 all over again
Today I had deja vu.
I was optimizing a mobile site to look and function at its best - that of course, was greatly based upon what mobile device was viewing it. I had a browser sniffer to add/remove style sheets and javascript, and alter the markup for each device. It was very slick. But really, just a new way of saying,
“Netscape users click here!!!”
There has been a big debate...
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“People ask me why my website is so lame. I tell them that I made a better one -...”
– @georgehess via twitter
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Front End Dev, now more than just pixel pushing
The days of handing a PSD off to a front end developer with the instructions “make it pixel perfect” are coming to a close. In the past we were all just nerdy, overly organized, graphic artists. Now, as front end developers, we have become a legitimate component to many professional web development companies. And though we mostly still receive a blank stare when replying to the dreaded...
June 2010
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“Mid-checkup my doctor asked me how much a website costs. I quoted a very low...”
– @georgehess via twitter
February 2009
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SaveTheDevelopers.gone
There’s been a lot of talk going around about the end of Internet Explorer 6. I used to think the day would never come. Then, sites like SaveTheDevelopers.org, ieDeathMarch.org, and most recently, DearIE6.com began sprouting up. I had hope. While many of the anti-IE6 website acted like a support group for developers needing a good cry, SaveTheDevelopers.org actually provided a little bit of...
March 2008
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Does your branding stink of old wieners?
…well maybe it should!
I used to think of myself as an artistic fellow. Someone with an inherit knack for the graphic arts. But I was recently humbled by the branding genius of a local Mexican restaurant. I will only go so far – these amigos however are “shaping” the future.
One of the Wienerschnitzels, a fast food franchise tailored to hot dog consumers, went out of business in Mount Vernon,...
February 2008
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IE, My Job Security
I heard it again today. Another story of a brother in arms, who in waging war against the world wide web, lost a battle against IE. His website was reduced to shreds as soon as a coworker (who will remain nameless) “logged on” to the site via Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 - and then it broke.
I kind of arrogantly smirked and thought to myself from atop my high horse (in a British accent of...
December 2007
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The Friendly Face of Pepsi
Pepsi’s latest can design is a throw back to the days when life was a little more slow-paced. It has a nostalgic sort of, “remember when” look to it. But as for myself, a child born in the early winter of ‘82, I remember when Pepsi was, Oh ‘ow du yew zay, not so classy?
I must confess, I cannot take a completely objective approach to the subject of Pepsi Cola. Call...
March 2007
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A Bus Ride to Remember
So the other day began like any other. It was a bright and blue spring morning and as typical of March, there was a light mist in the air. I got on the bus to head for work and as typical of me I fell right to sleep. There is just something about the gentle hum of a 1970’s diesel motor that knocks me right out… at least I hope it’s the hum and not the fumes… either way I was jarred out of my...