Ben Hesse

Kellogg’s Limited Edition Indiana Jones Chocolate Cereal With Marshmallows

bhesse — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:56:47 +0000

Naturally and Artificially Flavored. Enlarged to show texture.

I know that the DJIA dropping 700+ points may be on your mind, but there are other important events afoot. Like the coolest anniversary present ever, which I am taste testing right now. My initial response was:

Wait… this is just Cocoa Puffs with some reject Lucky Charms marshmallows in it.

All it took was another serving and a bit more enthusiasm. Back in my day, this cereal would have come with a real bull whip inside, or at least a way to send off for the gold plastic deco bowl pictured on the box. But I’m not greedy. I live on main street, not wall street. A printed box containing premium cereal is prize enough for me.

Anyway, I’m just warming up for a wiki how. I can sure as hell tell you how to eat this cereal.

Pour the milk in with conviction.
Marvel at the realism of the marshmallow skulls, hats, and torches.
Sing the theme song to yourself while you eat.

See? With a little imagination, you can actually taste the dust, cobwebs, and precious artifacts. Indy, cover your heart!

Technorati

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:47:29 +0000

I claim this Technorati Profile for the Queen of Georgia Drive.

That’s all I have to say about that, but I would also like to say hello some old friends with a CSS hack roundup. There’s the old voice-family Tantek route. There are IE conditional comments. Then there’s * html and *:first-child+html. Finally, this blather.

property: value; /* hello erbody */
#property: value; /* hello Internet Explorer */
_property: value; /* hello Internet Explorer 6, you dog…*/

I consider it a major victory to use none of the above, but I just had to untangle this last one, so I’m slapping this sticky note on my forehead. The octothorpe (#) filter can also be done with a period (.). Fun times.

Hummingbird central

bhesse — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:09:15 +0000

There are quite a few hummingbirds this week. Instead of the usual pair playing feeder-tag, there are dogfights going on right when walk out the door.
Note to next year self, compare migration pattern. Oh, and, baby cardinals. Again.

Don Chambers and GOAT

bhesse — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:56:22 +0000

Congratulations to local musicians Don Chambers and GOAT on a fine redesign. The art Don provided is great and I’m grateful to Jenn for including me on the project.

Given an atypical navigation, there’s the option of slicing it up crazy and chucking alt values at it. But not for Don, are you kidding? This called for a Staropramen served in an Old Style shot glass. If running around naked with your style sheets disabled is your thing, that’s ok.

Now go buy you some music.

Birds

bhesse — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:07:52 +0000

Birds around, right about now. This is roughly in order of prevalence where we are.

Cardinal
House Finch
Titmouse
Black Capped Chickadee
Ruby-Throated Hummingbird
Goldfinch

Walkability

bhesse — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:42:42 +0000

Packt like sardines in a 3G box

bhesse — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:57:01 +0000

Sitting in LAX tethered to a power outlet, I’m going to let the virtual keypad’s corrective spelling do its thing. At Cliff’s suggetion I took the scenic route here. I went north to go south and avoided congestion in the process. Again I have an hour plus of downtime in an airport, but it’s a good thing; I’m sure we’re still at orange threat despite the wiretap green light bill passing today. Want to bet we are orange for the rest of W’s term? Politics is probably a bad topic, as it is at the sagebrush. What a longhorn is doing in Calabasas makes no matter to me.

Rambling on, I was behind a Buddhist monk in the security line. As I waited patiently, he asked me to go on ahead. Damn, I should have known better than to try to be emptier than him. Now I am marveling at the hustle and bustle, the quest for relevance within shortening attention spans, and the undoubtable commoditization of power outlets and networks. We joked today about giant cellphones in the 80s, and how children will not only find vinyl records incredible but also CDs, and possibly even the metaphor of a keyboard. That guy is so old he knows touch typing. He even remembers white out.
“have yourself a good time its nothing at all”.

With increasing time zone delirium,
Your humble narrator

Independence

bhesse — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:08:43 +0000

Declared independence from the keyboard for two days…

You get much more shopping experience per dollar at the goodwill, and also see garments as they should be–in spectral order.

This bling could have been yours for the amazingly low price of: the gaul to dismantle this brilliant installation. At these prices, bling goes fast.

An Event Apart

bhesse — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:21:59 +0000

I flew into Boston a bit sleep deprived from attending a concert. I was in “fan” mode, and prepared to apply a rock and roll metaphor to An Event Apart. The speakers delivered skillfully, so my expectations were met.

What set it apart was how engaged the speakers and attendees were. I simply hadn’t anticipated the energy and healthy level of participation. Accessible, friendly, social, enthused…that we were.

Some mobile blurbiage from the event, cleaned up a bit:

Waiting for the start of day one. Saw Eric Meyer at breakfast.

A/V booth: “Introduce yourself!”

E.M.: “I’m just an MC. Call me J style.”

“Tell them Eric Meyer says you need more.” -in response to my question about style sheets sans context. Now I’m empowered.

Douglas Bowman sat with us at lunch. Then Doug spoke on scale.

Excellent talks all around. We went to the party at Stix, hosted by Media Temple. Fun. It was Jason Santa Maria’s birthday. Talked to Christopher Fahey. Afterward Mirick, John and I met Borys. We went out for Tuna tartar and what not.

A great day 2 that ended with getting my name drawn for critique with Jeffrey Zeldman on stage (no really). Spoke more after with Doug, Christopher and David Sleight, whose cadence reminds me a bit of Chris Brown. Then Mirick, John and I went north for some Italian food. Va bene.

REM/Modest Mouse, ATL

admin — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:58:32 +0000

The setlist, as reported on remring.com:

Soundcheck

1 Strange Currencies (without Vocals)
2 Strange Currencies (w/Vocals)
3 So Fast, So Numb
4 Time After Time (Annelise)
5 Living Wells The Best Revenge
6 Nightswimming

Setlist

1 These Days
2 Living Well Is the Best Revenge
3 So Fast, So Numb
4 What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?
5 Time After Time (Annelise)
6 Driver 8
7 Man Sized Wreath
8 Walk Unafraid
9 Hollow Man
10 Ignoreland
11 Houston
12 Electrolite

13 (Don’t Go Back to) Rockville
14 Auctioneer (Another Engine)
15 Harborcoat
16 The One I Love
17 I’ve Been High
18 Let Me In
19 Bad Day
20 Horse To Water
21 Orange Crush
22 I’m Gonna DJ

Encore

23 Supernatural Superserious
24 Losing My Religion
25 Pretty Persuasion
26 Nightswimming
27 Fall On Me (w/Johnny Marr)
28 Man on the Moon (w/Johnny Marr)