A Cry for Help

I just had the interesting experience of buying a “beta book.” Kinda link beta software, it’s a book that’s not quite ready yet. However, some people (like me) want their info NOW, even if there are some typos or bad formatting. Thus, the beta book. Pretty cool.
Not so cool, though, was the incredibly unsatisfying experience [...]

Dear International Motor Group Service Dept, Warwick, RI,
I understand that you don’t make much money off of state mandated car inspections, and thus would like to find another, more lucrative, service to provide me. However, my current bills and student loan debt preclude me from dropping the $500 you requested to install a $130 pipe [...]

Not that you’d be able to tell from the new “design” around here, I’ve been really interested in good design, be it digital or real-world-y (I might tell you what specifically has been fueling that interest, someday).
From the latter category, I thought I’d list some of my favorite winners of the 2005 Industrial Design Excellence [...]

With this beautiful holiday weekend upon us, I’m very excited to have a friend from college visiting RI for the first time. That of course means that I won’t be in front of the computer at all, but to keep the non-updating to a minimum, here’s a picture of my guest enjoying her first Del’s [...]