My mom got a tooth pulled today.

I thought Comic Sans was the most universally hated font in the world. (I’m not putting a picture of it in my post, cause I hate it too much.) But as it turns out, I may be wrong.

When talking with a coworker (non-designer), he mentioned how much he liked it, because it was the only font he had that resembled handwriting. Then another coworker joined in about how fun it looked, or something. I’m not sure, I wasn’t really paying attention because there was already steam coming out of my ears. I talked about how much I hated it because of its goofy looks and ridiculous overuse. Goofy looks aren’t always bad, and overuse isn’t always bad, but together they’re usually awful.

I’ve seen this font everywhere from bodega signage to high school websites, but nowhere is it featured more prominantly than the inside of Beanie Baby tags. Huuuugggh Huuuulllleeeeehhhp. That’s a vomit noise people. Shouldn’t that particular use be enough to get normal people to stop using it?

What’s more, there are a plethora of free options. So now you have no excuse.

Lately work has been picking up a bit. I’ve had no choice to keep a list of everything on my plate. Luckily I have a premium quality Japanese notebook to keep my to-do list in.

The other day when I was using my brother Paul’s computer, I saw he had set up a BackPack account just for his to-do list. I immediately copied him, and have found it to be a much better way of keeping my tasks organized. It’s free, accessible from any computer, and I don’t need my notebook with me wherever I go. This is living in the 21st century people. Sure I feel a little bit more like a robot, but I love robots. I forget less stuff, and have an easier time meeting deadlines. Why wasn’t I doing this in school? Perhaps because I didn’t do anything in school…

In other news, I’m seeing Kevin Nealon tonight at Cobb’s Comedy Club in SF. I love Weeds, and he was hilarious on SNL. It’s gonna be grand.

If you’re eating dinner at his house, tell him the food is excellent. Or even better, tell him, “I’m in (enter dish name here) heaven!” E.g.: “I’m in taco heaven!” He’ll usually anticipate this happening at the beginning of the meal.

Mention that you sometimes fall asleep in movies

Mention you’d like a job where you get to run errands around downtown San Francisco

Express an interest in any of the following

What happens after my dad likes you?

You can get a free antique waffle iron

After arriving at work yesterday morning, I ate two donuts that my dad brought, and turned my computer on. Just like any other day, right? Wrong! The monitor was blank, but I heard my computer running just fine. It even made the sound notifying me that I had no new mail.

After restarting numerous times, plugging in to other monitors, and praying to our lord and savior Jesus Christ, I was completely at a loss.

So what’s a boy to do? I did some research (on my linux machine, the same computer I’m using right now) and found out it was probably my logic board that needed replacing. I’ve had trouble with my previous iMac’s logic board, and frankly I’m beginning to doubt the logic behind them in the first place.

My dad took it to the Apple Store while I tried to figure out how to work on other computers. When he came back, he said that it would take a week to fix it. My dad will do favors for just about anyone, if he likes them. The good news is it’s incredibly easy for my dad to like you. Basically, all you have to do is tell him you like the food when you eat dinner at our house. And clean your plate, then he’s pretty much at your disposable.

A week? Really? I don’t think I’ve gone more than 2 days without that computer in the year that I’ve had it. I don’t know how I’m going to get through this. Maybe I should just go on vacation. Cut out to Hawaii for a spell, and when I come back, maybe the geniuses at the Genius Bar will have something for me.

Time Machine really saved the day on this one. Thanks to the automatic back ups I had only done about three hours of work that will be lost if they have to wipe the hard drive. Hopefully they won’t have to do that, and I have no idea why they would. When my iMac got it’s logic board replace, I still had all my documents.

So in the meantime, I’m falling behind at work, but I think everything will be fine. Apple has let me down. But I’m thanking my lucky stars I have AppleCare.

Many (and by many, I mean few) of you know how rapidly Augtoberfest 2008 is approaching. Every year, since 2006, I do the artwork for the famous Augtoberfest Tee. Each year, I pour my heart and soul into these designs, and each year the tees are more sought after than the delicious brats skillfully prepared by my brother Mark.

My brother Cameron came up with the idea for this year’s shirt. When he was explaining it to me, I was pretty unsure as to how I was going to tackle this challenge. As I have very little background and experience in illustration or cartoons, the project took a while to get just right, but I’m pretty please with the outcome. I’m glad we went with this idea– Cameron’s other option was an attractive beer girl and an oompa band with erections.

I’ll let you guys know how the Augtoberfest attendees like the shirt.

My employer recently told me that if I wanted I could get a work computer. For about the past year, I’ve been bringing in my laptop everyday. That has worked great, but I guess it’s kinda risky.

Lets talk pros and cons here people.

Pros

• It would be a faster computer
• The software would be legit
• I would have more screen real estate
• I wouldn’t have to bring my computer with me to work everyday. This is a huge deal. Taking my most precious possession on MUNI everyday seems like a bad idea.
• My desk might look a little better

Cons

• It would be pretty expensive for the company
• I wouldn’t be able to work from home as easily
• Setting up a new machine is sometimes a time consuming process

Thoughts guys? I need some help with this one.

Why is this so interesting?

I think it’s because this one of the only web apps that is just as simple as the google homepage or an ipod. No one else is doing stuff like this, and even though JSTN probably isn’t getting rich off of this, he’s a total pioneer and forward thinking dude. Mad props. Helping people discover music must be cool and rewarding thing to work on.

I guess the opposite end of the spectrum is Songbird. It’s very engineered, and complicated, but is still about playing and discovering music on the web. I really like both of these apps, and I think in the future we’ll see more projects like Muxtape coming out, that may shake things up a little more than something big and overwhelming.

So the obvious question here with muxtape is “How far will they take this?”

Right now there is no way to filter any mixes. Which is weird. Also, you can’t take a songs on other user’s mixes and add them to your mix. You can’t browse by artist, genre, or anything at all.

Maybe it’s Google’s job to bring some organization to this, and maybe that’s the future.

I just blew my own mind.

Make a mux, and link in the comments. What do you think of this app?

Really Time Magazine? Really?