kirabug’s idea files

Someone at work sent me this one - it’s worth the read.

Happiness as Your Business Model.

*edited to take out the embedded code that doesn’t work worth a damn on IE. frackin’ crap browser.

Doc Holds Fourth: Questions to ask for any UX project was posted to one of the information architecture mailing lists I’m on. If more folks thought about these things before even building a website, the web would be a much nicer place to be.

Why does the weasel go pop? - the secret meaning of our best-loved nursery rhymes. is an awesome look at some of the more popular nursery rhymes.

Ok I lied. Here’s Kaylee on the sofa and Chance in my lap.

Kaylee’s flight went very well and we were all home together by 11:00, which is pretty good time considering the traffic.

She and Chance are rapidly working out their differences. He’s easily the more dominant at the moment, being twice Kaylee’s size, but she doesn’t take a significant amount of crap from him either, so we’ll see who stays on top.

Chance is the one having a rough day. First Kaylee came home and invaded his turf, then he threw up on the lawn a few times. Then we tried to introduce him to one of the yorkies that our neighbor owns and Puddin bit Chance almost as soon as they went nose to nose.

Chance is fine physically. Emotionally I think he’s exhausted. Right now I have him draped across my lap and Kaylee sleeping on the arm of the sofa a few inches away.

I’ll post some better pics of the pack later, but right now I think I’ll just stay here and be mom.

Kaylee will be on a plane to Philadelphia tomorrow morning, and we pick her up at Cargo City around 9:00 am. With any luck, the next post (of any valuable length, anyway) will be replete with puppy pictures.

I’m nervous about this one, much more than with Chance. I’ve never flown a dog anywhere, nor driven one home such a long distance. Kaylee’s breeder doesn’t provide nearly as much communication as Chance’s, so I don’t even really know what my baby looks like. But she’ll be home soon…..

For you science geeks out there, here’s an article on using games to solve real-world problems which links to a protein-folding game.