tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36579712009-03-10T23:15:43.372-06:00Writing, spawned from thoughts, which emanated from feelings about the things that surround me. These may or may not scare you. However, I assure you, I am quite able to control myself in large crowds if I have to. And, I can behave around clients too. Hear that you clients? Hello?Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03342774426472586555pat@patryan.comBlogger141125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3657971.post-41304147219494568602009-01-07T16:13:00.002-07:002009-01-07T16:17:46.305-07:00

BEFORE THE age of homogenization and micro-machinery, before the tyrannous efficiency of internal combustion and the domestication of electricity, lived beautiful, monstrous machines that lived and breathed and exploded unexpectedly at inconvenient moments. It was a time where art and craft were united, where unique wonders were invented and forgotten, and punks roamed the streets, living in

Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03342774426472586555pat@patryan.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3657971.post-19235984065318639042009-01-02T13:10:00.004-07:002009-01-02T13:16:31.762-07:00

A new beginning. A time to put the nebulous New Year's resolutions into place. I, for one, have used them effectively in the past.I find myself thinking, "Whatever you were just doing, you need to do the opposite now." The opposite? Isn't that a little drastic? We'll soon find out. I think it may be time to just look up. Maybe just look at what I have not seen in awhile.Happy New Year. For

Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03342774426472586555pat@patryan.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3657971.post-41092498037962900882008-12-09T15:44:00.001-07:002008-12-09T15:48:14.759-07:00

This is a fun book to read and is full of handy little ideas and tips. It is pretty old-school but most of these techniques are the same today as they were way back in the day. The only thing we aren't doing too much of nowadays is using hot rivets to bond steel plate and beams.

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I have recently become infatuated with my past. No, not my ancestral beginnings in Ireland or Japan or wherever the hell I'm from... but in the relatively recent era of what I am calling my "Party Days." We are talking about a brief era circa 1980 through about 1990 (yes, I understand that the era in question - the Party Days - lasted 10 years. I know math.) roughly encompassing my years as an

Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03342774426472586555pat@patryan.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3657971.post-2534707063524102382008-08-21T23:22:00.003-06:002008-08-21T23:25:12.356-06:00

Oh Joy! is a design blog worth perusing. Her coverage of Urban Outfitter's new, incredibly cool store, Terrain in Concordville, PA is awesome! Go to her Flickr pages to see what I would call pure, luscious retail garden store porn!

Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03342774426472586555pat@patryan.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3657971.post-76914125530147435682008-08-12T15:03:00.003-06:002008-08-12T15:14:19.590-06:00

Reposting this blog entry from here.Between design projects for clients that are willing to pay for my services, and the projects I choose to do for fun, I also do things that are a combination of fun AND necessity. One of those projects it the rebuilding and "restoration" - I am using that term loosely - of my 1987 Toyota FJ-60 Landcruiser.This project is one of those that always seem to take a

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Ok... so I need to go on a high-priority mission now. Will return soon with either the goods or a frowny face. Wish me luck.

Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03342774426472586555pat@patryan.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3657971.post-73102071304677581082008-08-04T22:10:00.007-06:002008-08-05T00:07:38.327-06:00

Because the location apps are so cool for the iPhone, I installed Yelp on mine today and set up a web profile too.I like being able to use these GPS-location driven services to find stuff and Yelp seems like it is fairly well-developed and has a pretty good following. Anyway, I noticed the selections for Mayfair were a bit on the weak side so I did my part to add some action to the Mayfair scene

Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03342774426472586555pat@patryan.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3657971.post-78494545212256303362008-08-02T11:15:00.001-06:002008-08-02T11:15:32.121-06:00

I am updating from the new iPhone using ping.fm

Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03342774426472586555pat@patryan.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3657971.post-71629657144774116272008-07-29T20:26:00.001-06:002008-07-29T20:28:24.245-06:00

Found via Twitter then Flickr.You know your application is a success when it spawns rabid empathy and the desire to create images like this.Twitter becomes an addiction after awhile. Especially if you have friends and followers who actively use the service to communicate and share.Just today, the 5.4 magnitude Southern California earthquake was being talked about on Twitter while the old-coot

Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03342774426472586555pat@patryan.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3657971.post-7125982384618557222008-07-19T09:34:00.005-06:002008-07-19T09:53:25.453-06:00

This is the Sitemeter log that I see when someone visits my site here. As you can see from the Operating System and Browser type above, I was visited by a system using a Safari Browser on a MacOSX. Then, the data is revealed:iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_0 like Mac OS X; en-us)AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1Mobile/5A347 Safari/525.20And see that screen resolution? 320 x 396.

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Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03342774426472586555pat@patryan.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3657971.post-73307096377334962432008-07-08T16:06:00.001-06:002008-07-08T16:06:24.304-06:00

Ping.fm seems to be a nice tool.. the only problem I am having right now is finding out where posts are going in my network.. status' go one place, microblogs go another... and you need a word count.

Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03342774426472586555pat@patryan.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3657971.post-66953870233312370882008-07-08T16:03:00.001-06:002008-07-08T16:03:28.112-06:00

This is the posting app from iGoogle desktop.

Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03342774426472586555pat@patryan.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3657971.post-66765157498847902692008-06-19T01:45:00.002-06:002008-06-19T01:47:38.813-06:00

I have been working on the design for this project. Wish me luck!

Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03342774426472586555pat@patryan.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3657971.post-86121893673720814942008-05-31T22:15:00.002-06:002008-05-31T22:21:18.382-06:00

I have a new online portfolio up now with work done over the past several years.It looks best when you just let it run as a slideshow.Here

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