... I demand more products which improve with age.

Here's a weekend project for you - 20 year old farmer in China built his own helicopter. And it works. http://ping.fm/swj7n

is reading, reading, reading.

Has anyone used Balsamiq Mockups? http://ping.fm/prVdv

I am in love with this site. http://ping.fm/MDefy

Sometimes opportunity knocks. This time it invited me in, and offered me a beer. Cheers to change. ( http://ping.fm/TvpGj )

Great new Event Marketing Service by Constant Contact. ( http://ping.fm/rtxA9 )

is taking pause.

... For the times they are a-changin'.

... iPhone NOT dead. Needed to reboot, which I didn't even know was possible. Thanks again Jeff.

... my iPhone may have just died. Won't charge, won't turn on. Call me at my house, or email me.

... on with a new week.

let the weekend commence.

is seeking sleep before a packed day. Not finding it.

Cool Lego USB Hub

Gotta have it

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is pondering.

is at the doctors office.

is sick. I would have gotten away with it, if it weren't for these meddling kids.

is finally seated, but the gears are whirring.

is Headphones, Web Forms, and Design Tweaks.

is up and at 'em.

... ah, such a long reading list.

@beervangelist .. great review .. The Better Beer Blog: New Holland Night Tripper (http://ping.fm/8sYgB)

YouTube - Do YOU believe in me?

We need more adults like this child.

From: http://ping.fm/KIEZm

is breaking on through to the other side.

is owning Monday morning.

... go to 7th annual Le Style de Vie tomorrow at Butch's. Wine & design festival to benefit Center for Women in Transition. Buy tix here: http://ping.fm/Qb4G7

is counting down .. 2.5 hours til Something Takes Place ... 5 hours of unbridled creative energy for $2. See you at the Park Theatre. http://ping.fm/DWM3I

is seated.

is print edits, logo edits, meeting, meeting, meeting, package print files. Eat. Meeting. Holler if you need me.

is designing a calendar, a logo, hats, social media tactics, wine lists and more. Everyone else out of the office. Feel like it's 2005.

is lunch, then Critter Barn at Rosa Parks and another coat of primer.

labor day-ing.

Something Takes Place - Thursday at the Park - Read here about last month! (http://ping.fm/R1VLG)

is ready for Jack's goodness. Want luscious Americana? Buy it - best man/poet I've met ...

http://ping.fm/jNlxq

... much thanks to Shawn Miller of BusinessManagementLeaders.com for passing us a web site lead. Check out their Thought of the Day here: http://ping.fm/RUXhT

Buy tickets for Le Style de Vie online, directly from Center For Women In Transition! (http://ping.fm/jH9Lk)

is fixing my Ping -> WP

My Ping to WP is busted

This is a test

Buy Le Style de Vie Tickets online from Center For Women In Transition (http://ping.fm/hLpNm)

Great quote / explanation by PT Barnum.

"If the circus is coming to town and you paint a sign saying "Circus Coming to the Fairground Saturday," that's advertising. If you put the sign on the back of an elephant and walk it into town, that's promotion. If the elephant walks through the mayor's flower bed, that's publicity. And if you get the mayor to laugh about it, that's public relations. If the town's citizens go to the circus, you show them the many entertainment booths, explain how much fun they'll have spending money at the booths, answer their questions and ultimately, they spend a lot at the circus, that's sales."


-P.T. Barnum

Buy Le Style de Vie Tickets online from Center For Women In Transition (http://ping.fm/Jne7J)

2009 Trends article on LogoLounge.Com

Great article, with beautiful design references. Thanks BBruce

From: http://ping.fm/KbVEn

is catching up on my instapaper.com reading list.

is weekending.

Buy tickets for Le Style de Vie online, directly from Center For Women In Transition! (http://ping.fm/Lu3SB)

7th Annual Le Style de Vie - September 12 - Support Center for Women in Transition!! (http://ping.fm/qttgw)

4 Days Left - Small Business Foundation Web Site Special (http://ping.fm/gAIP0)

New Holland Brewing Presents Porkapalooza 2009 - Cookout & Music Fest (http://ping.fm/VsU6u)

is learning.

is at Something Takes Place at the Park Theatre. What are YOU doing?

if the universe owes me anything, now would be a good time to pay up.

... note to self, over-exertion leads to lack of health.

is finally done for the day.

is ready for a new week.

... nothing beats a quiet morning with a cup of coffee, under a shady tree.

is in Naperville for a wedding.

is wondering how it can possibly be the weekend already.

is making it happen.

is ready.

Holland Area Chamber of Commerce - "Something Takes Place" Community Art Event Will Be Held on August 13 (http://ping.fm/2pcRF)

New entries at 36 Squares Blog. (http://ping.fm/tw0ta)

is diving into the last leg of the Holland Historical Trust Executive Director Search Task Force. That's a mouthful.

is figuring out which home project to take on today, before the week starts.

Small Business Foundation Package Summer Savings | 36 Squares

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is back in Holland, refreshed, renewed, gloves off and ready to rock. Bring it on. What can I do for you?

.. first leg home. Driving from Lake George to Albany, then flying home to my beautiful wife just in time to tuck in the kids. See you soon!

is easing into the last full day of vacation. Hoping to do this again before 2013.

is eating big food after a loooooong day at Great Escape. Superb fun time for all.

is headed to Great Escape!!

is sneaking off with Caleb for an early morning kayak.

is in my room hogging bandwidth, watching hulu flix, and counting down hours til the Tommola sisters arrive with cohorts. Viva la homeland.

is back from the Fort. Let the quiet, rainy night commence.

is off to Fort Ticonderoga with the fam. Fort-Ticonderoga.org

has no cell service, but Internet is strong. Email me if you need the landline phone number.

is on the ground in New York. Viva la homeland!

is on the way to the airport.

is 24 hours from upstate New York.

is winding down.

is booking next week's design time so I can relax while on my first vacation in 4 yrs. What do you need? Start this week, done by next.

is banging away at my keyboard.

... had a superb weekend. Great dinner Friday night. Great party Saturday night. Now on to ensuring it extends through the entire week.

is working for the weekend. Just after a great dinner.

Something Takes Place ... Now. Park Theater. Bands. Art. Poetry. Bar. fun for all. Help the Park Theater. $2. Cash bar. And I read poetry.

is simmering.

is Quite Ready.

is having a Monday.

is wishing a Happy Fourth!

... come see Something Takes Place folks having a bit of playtime ... meet at the Kollen Park playground about 8pm. Yeah playtime!

Sebastian Can Do!

Help a college friend and fellow Hope grad raise money for her son's innovative Cerebral Palsy therapies. Buy a raffle ticket for $10 or two for $15, enter to win some great art, and warm your heart all at once.

If 600 people buy 2 tickets each, they will meet their target!!

From: http://ping.fm/v3xNp

is working from home, with kids.

... Gran Torino ...

is ready for the day, but is the day ready for me? We shall see.

... Played late-night, kids-in-bed badminton with Dana for an hour. Super fun.

is without Comcast. They have some outage, relegating me to 8 square inches of Internet. Oi.

is immensely enjoying the entirety of the latest Mos Def album. Buy it NOW! http://ping.fm/3UGfz

is drinking coffee and watching Seth Godin interviews. Could it really be Monday?

is home from the longest week ever. On with sorting soggy books and stuff for tomorrow's flood pickup.

is worn out.

Final Exec Dir interviews, followed by a great 36SQ Friday lunch, and a weekend with the fam. (And sorting all the soggy stuff.)

is ready to devour another busy day.

is ice cream.

... industrial fans & dehumidifiers dry the basement. Insurance is covering damage. AC is in the bedroom. Summertime, and the livin's easy?

Effective Project Preparation Tips. | 36 Squares (http://ping.fm/DryjI)

Effective Project Preparation Tips.

The first of many tip, trick, idea and brainstorm articles to come from 36SQ. Please lend your feedback on this type of content, and any topics you would like addressed in future articles. Our aim is to inform and educate our clients so we share efficient, effective, successful projects.

Much thanks
CT

From: http://ping.fm/MA3Wc

is in the midst of Holland Historical Trust Executive Director interviews.

is quite ready. Executive Director interviews, planning next STP, launching a few web sites, and more. Hope all is well for you and yours.

is trying optimism.The basement needed to be cleaned out anyway. And at least our offices are bone dry. It may just be a windmill morning.

is dragging wet belongings from the 4" of water I have in my basement. Anyone have a pump??

is on with a new week.

... STP a success, check. FB vanity name, check. Coffee, check. Spending QT with the kids and Dana and working on house ... here I come.

Dave Brubeck: An Unlikely Hit, 50 Years Strong : NPR Music

So much great jazz turning 50 this year. Thank you NPR for keeping tabs on it all.

From: http://ping.fm/MLKwW

is coffee-ing myself awake after a fantastic Something Takes Place. Join us again on July 9 - artists & performers signup at http://ping.fm/Xlo2y

Something Takes Place - RIGHT NOW - second set starting ... Don't miss it - running til 1:30. GREAT ARTISTS. Music / Poets / Gallery art.

SomethingTakesPlace TOMORROW at Park Theater, 730pm-130. MUCH art - 7 musical, 3 poetic, 1 dance, and a GALLERY of visual art. Only $2.

is on with the show!!

is curious why my status isn't updating.

is taking the week by the horns.

is having a slow and easy Sunday after a long and fun week.

is at NHBC for Southpaw Players. Tight.

is playing golf ..

is sleep. And then meeting, meeting, golf, sleep. It's not always that easy.

is hearing Scheherezade for the first time in likely a decade. I suggest it.

is on with the list.

is at the Holland Chamber "Lessons in Leadership" luncheon.

is ready for Something Takes Place, Live at the Park Theater. June 11, 730pm-130am. Watch Facebook this week for schedule of performers.

is quite ready.

is shifting to Olu Dara .. if you haven't heard, do. And thank John Erskine for it - he made me buy it about 8 years ago ;)

is fightin' the good fight.

is off to a photo shoot at HEL, Inc. with Jon from Junebug Photography.

SomethingTakesPlace welcomes Square Peg Events to our team. Thanks Cynthia for your great energy and ideas! June 11 is SURE to be big fun.

is having a great day. The next Holland Museum ED will be top-notch, lots of great people contributing to the Search Committee efforts.

Limbaugh is a Fool.

1. There is no such thing as reverse racism. Racism is treating people differently based on their race. Not better, not worse. Differently. The concept of "reverse" racism is .. racist.

2. Sotomayor's comments in the speech referred to are not racist. She is not treating someone differently because of their race. She is commenting on life experiences and how they effect thought processes. She is stating that the (implied) negatives of being a double "minority" offer insight that a white man simply cannot have. And I, as a white man, agree.

From: http://ping.fm/VzZtZ

is seeking businesses interested in strengthening their brand. Online or off we support our clients in creating the right tools for the job.

HAVANA MOJITO - The Genuine Cuban Mojito by Havana Club

Enjoy the taste of summer. And check out the great web site too!

From: http://ping.fm/0n2EW

If you're hungry, don't look ... Scanwiches (http://scanwiches.com/)

... great day with kid time and Dana time. Even read part of a book. Doing it all again tomorrow. Good times.

is enjoying the tuna app at Butch's. Never had Cajun and wasabi together. Throw in the cool lemon avocado aioli & ginger - great balance.

is pleased with the weather.

From Adium to Ping.fm .. where's it go?

is plotting.

is ready for tomorrow's 20 hour day ... Almost.

is going to exhaust this week of all it has to offer.

is dividing and conquering .. Dana and Marley girl day, Caleb and I boy day. Go.

Something Takes Place - NOW LIVE ! ! (http://ping.fm/fv8sf)

SomethingTakesPlace.com > How? What? Why? Who? (http://ping.fm/Eu1X0)

Something Takes Place

You might call it "art for art's sake" and we'd be okay with that. Really, what else is there to say about a FREE forum where you can upload and share virtually any digital medium? It's all good-ness, all free, we won't start charging fees after six months or any similar deviousness. It's all in good fun. We might try to sell you a logo tee to help us along, but hell, it's a hot logo.

Holler at create@somethingtakesplace.com with questions. See you Friday.

From: http://ping.fm/tGqPv

is putting it out there SomethingTakesPlace.com ... first a web site, then, who knows what'll happen ...

is done repairing and preparing kids bikes for the night ... back to work.

YouTube - Google Chrome, Japan

A very clean and simple, video / stop motion mix, ad ... I don't use Chrome, but I love the ad. Makes me want to do some 36squares.com ads with a video camera. Lend your thoughts ...

From: http://ping.fm/aT2v4

is watching Darjeeling Limited. You should too. ;)

The Obsession With Twitter�s Business Model - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

How is it that a company who's "still trying to figure out" their business model and revenue stream can get $55 million in investments?? I'd like to shake the hand of that sales person. And swipe their wallet while they're not looking.

From: http://ping.fm/PDXjh

is loving the fact that I am one of a chosen few on our block who actually enjoy the neighbor kid practicing his bagpipes.

is pondering the fact that every time the clock says 7 I am drinking coffee and trying to get kids to eat ...

is curious. And hopeful.

is waiting for Something big.

is offering free Brand Consultations to small businesses in West MI. See here: http://ping.fm/cZadB Or contact the Studio at 616.796.9936

is curious ... What is your creative / artistic outlet? Do tell ...

is ready for a whole new week, and summer. Just wait and see what we have in store ...

is watching the Prairie Home Companion movie .. and in so doing, lifting the skirt of my childhood a bit.

is curious what kind of world we're creating when CNN.com sounds like bad tabloids .. but it's all real ...

is settling into a Sunday afternoon movie.

I love my kids.

So the kids have made it through another stressful semester of mom being in college. She moved from exams straight into the busy Prom Season. (She's a floral designer at the amazing Indigo Floral downtown Holland) This past Friday, Dana dropped them at the 36SQ Studio for our Open House. That was a great time, and I really liked the kids meeting some of the business people in my life.

The best part though, was Saturday morning. We were watching cartoons and they both thanked me for "letting them" hang out at my party.

I am so entirely relieved that they are so positive in their demeanor. From where I was standing, they were shuffled into the mix of a busy day. But they were just glad to have fun and be there. Man, I'm a lucky guy.

is kindly thanking all who attended our event. It was exactly the celebration we all needed on this beautiful day.

36SQ / 451 Columbia Ave / 5-7 pm / Eat, Drink and be Artsy / personal artwork by 36SQ team. All are welcome. Esp. people we haven't met.

is reminding everyone to come to the 36 Squares studio in Columbia Art District, tomorrow from 5-7 for fun and friends. Call with questions.

is taking it all in.

is breathing deeply.

is Quite Ready.

is remembering an old poem. Here's the line that is stuck in my head

"within the silence of steeping tea"

is up and ready for another week. Committee meetings, project meetings, intern meetings and Dana's last week of GVSU (this semester).

is seeking relaxation, patience, and energy. If you know where it went, please let me know.

is watching a movie with Cuban jazz. Makes me want to polish the trumpets and be a musician again.

is chill-axin with the kids. Shrek the Third. Baby shower in a couple hours.

is making orange nut muffins with Marley.

is making light work of tying these services together.

is playing at the park.

Expanding the Web.

I have added Flickr, Friendster, Plurk, Tumblr, FriendFeed, Jaiku, Bebo, Hi5, Koornk, Mashable, YouAre, iMeem, Vox, ShoutEm, and Utterli to my web weaving experiment. Next step is Pikchur an either iLike or Pandora. So far, so good.

is adding about 20 more social apps to my interwoven web. We shall see the results.

Only one month til Farmer's Market!!

New Holland Artisan Spirits in Grand Rapids Magazine! (http://ping.fm/0i40H)

is hard at work.

Ancient microbes discovered alive beneath Antarctic glacier - CNN.com (http://ping.fm/ZgGKP)

Please participate in my LinkedIn Poll: http://ping.fm/nuouK

is off and running.

Build a Beard Workshop | helloatto.com (http://ping.fm/DPqdT)

is gearing up for a very busy day.

Making dinner and hangin with the kids - 1.5 weeks til Dana's semester ends !!!

is just out of Historical Trust board meeting. On to the studio to turn ideas into tools.

is home from a busy day full of productive consultations and project meetings. Kid time. See you all in a few hours.

is working on a logo for a non-profit.

is home with the fam.

is fired up for the Kendall Senior Portfolio Review. http://kcad.edu

Hostage captain rescued; Navy snipers kill 3 pirates - CNN.com (http://ping.fm/E1PRi)

An "All Blogs" test

Ping to FB / WP / BL