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February 11, 2008

Update Your Bookmarks!!

Filed under: BRANDING, BREAKDOWNS, BREVITY, REVIEWS, THOUGHTS — zaiss @ 9:11 pm

Thanks for being patient everyone… the time has finally arrived. The new blog design is done, and is ready for the unveiling. Without further ado, I’m pleased to present Zaissian Logic. Check out the first post on the new blog today and let me know what you think. Oh, and don’t forget to subscribe to the RSS feed!

February 3, 2008

What in Tarnation?

Filed under: BREVITY — zaiss @ 2:51 pm

Yeah, different look for the old blog…

First of all, this is not the redesign I’ve been alluding to for the past few months, rest assured. However, as part of the redesign (that I’ve been working on over this weekend), I needed to upgrade the current blog to transfer all my posts over. The upgrade broke the old theme, hence the visual changes.

Bigger changes coming soon, the new blog is looking great (if I do say so myself). Stay tuned!

August 17, 2007

Your Money is Now Our Money

Filed under: BREVITY — zaiss @ 12:34 am

What a good time it was to see the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie in the theaters. Now that the DVD has been released, Facebook has an ad encouraging me to buy it, which says the following:

The ATHF DVD is full of exciting special features including an 80 minute alternate movie, music videos and a new intro.

I’ve heard of alternate endings, but alternate movies? Isn’t that just an additional feature film? Or could this be the next wave of DVD releases?

August 16, 2007

I’m Famous!

Filed under: BREVITY — zaiss @ 12:44 am

Autumn pointed out to me that the Acropolis Meet the Team video has been posted to Channel 9. For those who don’t know, Acropolis is the team inside Visual Studio that I work with every day - and I even make an appearance in the video!

A shot of me in the Acropolis Meet the Team video

Scroll ahead to to 7:30 to see that section. You also get to see my office mate Kathy, who is the videographer’s guide for the segment.

Unfortunately, the video is really large, and even if you take time to download it, playing it on a Mac isn’t straight forward, even with Windows Media Player. You’ll just have to take my word for it that, for a brief moment, I was a star.

July 18, 2007

Cuz You Had a Bad Day

Filed under: BREVITY — zaiss @ 9:02 pm

Meghan passed along an interesting article that made me feel particularly validated in my choice of profession. Why is good design matter? Because nobody wants to be this guy…

July 8, 2007

A Fowl Competition

Filed under: BREVITY — zaiss @ 1:49 pm

Sure, I get to see a bit of wildlife around here. Perhaps the occasional duck…

A duck looking out over Juanita Bay

But it’s not holding a candle to what my parents send me from Hummel Park. I’ve posted a few of these shots before (see here and here), but the latest shot makes me wish that ducks had a little more character.

A male turkey strutting his stuff, all puffed out with his tail feathers sticking straight up

See what I mean? Ducks are cute, but they never make you laugh quite like turkeys can.

July 4, 2007

A Day Off From Blogging

Filed under: BREVITY — zaiss @ 12:07 am

It’s Sunday, and I just discovered a handy feature in how this blog is setup - if I post-date a blog entry, it won’t show up on the blog until that date! That’s pretty neat. So even though you’re reading my 4th of July post on the 4th of July, I’m actually taking the day off from blogging today. :)

Happy Independence Day!

Fireworks!

July 3, 2007

Aimless Explorations

Filed under: BREVITY — zaiss @ 12:30 am

A benefit to living near Juanita Bay is that you get to explore the walking trails nearby. Nothing too fancy, but this weekend the photographers were out in droves to catch three bald eagles that were flying around. Alas, my cell phone camera is far too crappy to catch a bald eagle… but I did manage to snag a mother duck swimming along with her ducklings!

A cute picture of a mother duck and five ducklings swimming in Juanita Bay

July 2, 2007

Jumping on the Apple Bandwagon

Filed under: BREVITY — zaiss @ 12:52 am

Look what I found in Best Buy today!

A huge Apple computer kiosk inside Best Buy

I remember a time in high school when I went to Best Buy just looking for some floppy disks for my parents’ Mac computer. The associate scoffed at me, saying (in a snooty tone), “We don’t carry anything Mac compatible.” My, how the tables have turned…

June 30, 2007

Don’t Put Off For Tomorrow…

Filed under: BREVITY — zaiss @ 7:02 pm

…what you can blog about today! Is this my revitalized push for blogging? Think that if you like (and we’ll see if I deliver), but I’m actually coming at this from the proverb angle.

If you’ve watched the movie Amelie, you’ll know that someone who knows his / her proverbs must be a good person (and if you haven’t seen Amelie, go rent it tonight). Do you know your proverbs? Lisa passed on a little brain teaser called The Genius Test, which a unique way to test your mental skills by asking you to fill in proverbs.

The genius test logo

How many can you fill in? After an hour I have 25 on part 1 and 20 on part 2 (which isn’t as hard as the warning would have you believe). Give it a try!

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