How cool?! My uncle, Jim, has been creating pieces of art in various forms for as long as I can remember. Lately he has been creating t-shirt designs. Tonight at midnight, his first approved shirt.woot.com design goes on sale.

He has titled this piece Feed The Whale.

Jim describes it as "a kind of Haida and Tlingit
Indian influenced thing"

From what I hear, the shirt will be a creme american apparel shirt.

Very cool, and way to go Jim!

Check out more of Jim's art at his flickr page here.

I was looking at some text today that contained the oh-so familiar "@" sign and I tried to say it out loud and realized I didn't know what to call the character, except to just call it "at sign".  

Other characters have their own cool names:

#is called (among other things) "pound sign", "number sign", "hash / hash mark / hash sign".  

& is called "ampersand" or "and sign" and has the special privilege of taking on a few different shapes.  

So, it seems that our good friend @ should sport some cool alter egos right? 

@   As far as I can tell @ is simply referred to as "at sign".   

There goes 15 minutes of my life I will never get back. 

Recently the Vista tour bus/van/thing came rolling by the place of our employment. Seeing the perfect opportunity for shenanigans, I thought "Lets go slap some Ubuntu stickers on that thing!"

Well, unfortunately neither Dave , Conrad or myself had any stickers left so we were left with unarmed and unhappy.

We didn't really care to go in the actual bus itself, but I did happen to capture Dave displaying his true feelings about Microsoft. (The truth comes out Dave)