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Very cool mix/mashup of Alice in Wonderland.

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Had a pretty lazy Saturday today, mostly just chilled at the house reading, listening to music and playing a video game. I recently read something about how long Starcraft has been around and that it's a bit of a cultural phenomenon in Korea so I thought I would check it out. The game originally came out in 1998, but is still really fun. Anyway, blew through too many hours to mention hoping the sun would come out. Well I guess fun is fun.

Tomorrow I think Josy and I are going to go to the nursery to get some plants for the back yard. We've taken some stuff out that I didn't like and now need to fill in some of the bare spots before the weeds take over. In Seattle, one man's weed in another's flower.

Next week I'll need to kick back into a higher gear while I get ready for the IA Summit that I co-teach with Mike and Samantha. It's the 3rd year we've taught it so I expect it to go fairly smoothly. After the IA course is done I'll be getting ready to teach a 549 section on web development in the fall. It's a special topic class so it'll all be new. Lot's of course prep needs to get done toot-sweet.

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Well I left Avenue A | Razorfish for what I hope will be a better and new challenge. I started last week at Publicis in the West as a Digital Strategy Director. I'm not entirely sure what all that entails, but I'm getting a lot closer to my ultimate goal of being an idea generating machine. I really love what I do and the space in which I work, there are always tons of new things to see and do, and it fits well with my overly digital life. It's really great to get paid to do something that you both enjoy and would probably be doing anyway.

In *hopefully* short order I'll be starting some sort of professional blog. I'm not sure if I'll be the sole author or a contributor, but when it gets going I'll post some info here. I think I still want to keep this blog/URL for my personal communications (primarily with family and friends).

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