Art for art’s sake.
Ed Chao’s personal illustrations are both inspiring and relaxing at the same time:
https://www.thatedchao.com/published/2020/09/14/illustration
I love the sleeping dog, playful coffee culture, and the old man’s face at the bottom. Pushing the AeroPress that last little bit!
Lots of depth in these simple strokes.
An inside joke among map makers: if you accidentally land at 0° latitude, 0° longitude on the globe, there happens to be an imaginary island conveniently displayed.
(Via The Map Room.)
There are no problems. There are only opportunities to wake up.
Jim Dethmer of The Conscious Leadership Group
Author’s notes:
lance user on WordPress.com.This milestone caught me by surprise. As early user on WordPress.com (username ID between 600 and 700) I blogged here a bit in early days but not too consistently. My tech-focused blog ran on self-hosted WordPress1 until 2011, and I didn’t pick up a regular personal blogging habit on this lance.blog iteration until late 2014.
Another interesting fact, the lance username is tied to my Automattic work account. This blog is powered by lancewillett (registered later).
That’s all the tech trivia I’ve got for today. However, I’d love to see what y’all are blogging these days. Share your existing blog links in a comment.
New to blogging? An invitation: Try out a WordPress.com blog and sign up for Tumblr; you can connect them to share across automatically on both platforms. Both have great mobile apps, too. Then, use ’em and send feedback and notes. What do you like best? What needs work?
Happy blogging!
[1] See this primer on self-hosted WordPress versus WordPress.com.
Why English is such a great language for puns in The Economist is a punny book review of Away With Words: An Irreverent Tour Through the World of Pun Competitions by Joe Berkowitz.
“Honey, there’s a crazy running guy in the front, drinking from our hose. And he’s talking to himself too, something about freedom…” You gotta love a story like that right, so the name stuck […]
The story behind the nickname “crazy running guy,” my Automattic colleague Joe Boydston. Via The road most traveled — crazy running guy.
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