The online playground of Andrea Schwandt-Arbogast:web design, university web development, animals, books, and other slices of life.

“Man, I freaking love you, Big Red gum. You taste like burning.”

“@hadashigirl @strangegrace My friend @andrea suggested that a were-penguin wo…”

“If every Adobe employee that bashes Apple actually fixes a bug in CS4, I woul…”

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Andrea marked as to-read: Introducing HTML5 (Voices That Matter)

Published 1 Sep 2010

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Andrea is currently reading: HTML5 For Web Designers (Paperback)

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Less Framework 2

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“Generalized pronouncements about design grow more boring with each retweet.”

Published 1 Sep 2010

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“whatever comes let it come, whatever goes, let it go”

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“When logging into My AT&T, the progress bar marches right to left.  I fin…”

Published 31 Aug 2010

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Andrea is currently reading: Moon Called (Mercedes Thompson, #1)

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http://thewildernessdowntown.com/ would have been really cool if there was en…

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playing around with Wordpress for the first time. Pretty impressed with the a…

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taking preemptive sick day. thought it was finally cool enough to sit outside…

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CSS gradient generator

Published 28 Aug 2010

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just counted 26 dog toys on the family room floor. how many more before we be…

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Andrea marked as to-read: Dreams of a Dark Warrior (Immortals After Dark, #11)

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Andrea marked as to-read: Demon from the Dark (Immortals After Dark, #10)

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Kresley Cole: The Warlord Wants Forever ★★★

Published 28 Aug 2010

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Andrea is currently reading: Moon Sworn (Riley Jenson Guardian, #9)

Published 28 Aug 2010

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Keri Arthur: Bound to Shadows ★★★

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Keri Arthur: Deadly Desire ★★★

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Keri Arthur: The Darkest Kiss ★★★

Published 28 Aug 2010

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another morning spent cleaning up dog crap. sadly, this is not a metaphor.

Published 28 Aug 2010

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“Startups in 137 chars: Make something someone specific needs, launch fast, le…”

Published 27 Aug 2010

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surprise call from @goodwitch. Day made. :)

Published 26 Aug 2010

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Am I the only one that doesn’t like the idea of having our money look like th…

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banana nut muffin, i think i love you

Published 26 Aug 2010

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about to jump through the many hoops required to get my car registered in NC….

Published 25 Aug 2010

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“My daughter’s theory of evolution: “God had Jesus, and Jesus had some toys, a…”

Published 24 Aug 2010

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serenity now.

Published 24 Aug 2010

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“The other excitement, testing this! o/ http://yfrog.com/msmrxlj /cc @s1mn”

Published 23 Aug 2010

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“Just gave dog a piece of cheese. He was so happy! I should be so happy. I hav…”

Published 23 Aug 2010

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beach trip yesterday was a success: 3 exhausted puppies and not nearly as muc…

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http://hungoverowls.tumblr.com is my new favorite site. Thanks, @pixeldiva!

Published 23 Aug 2010

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trying to get up the gumption to take the dogs to the beach. will the 50-poun…

Published 22 Aug 2010

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long, hot, sweaty walk with the dogs only succeeded in tiring out the humans….

Published 21 Aug 2010

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finally giving up and just turning Twitter into my feed reader. Even though i…

Published 21 Aug 2010

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“Let the putting of the coffee in the face commence.”

Published 21 Aug 2010

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“I still like to pretend I’m a giant when I eat broccoli.”

Published 20 Aug 2010

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wow, fell into a multi-day rabbit hole at work . Luckily, I was able to tunne…

Published 20 Aug 2010

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“But I’ll leave it at this: if content is 100% under marketing, it’s a disserv…”

Published 19 Aug 2010

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relaxing with some games after agility class. Lola was headstrong but did wel…

Published 18 Aug 2010

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Exhausted after class. I swear the new dog is smarter than I am. http://falle…

Published 17 Aug 2010

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that was an epic mayonnaise explosion. my office looks quite obscene right now.

Published 17 Aug 2010

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craziness with wine and dogs tonight seems to have erased the benefits of thi…

Published 16 Aug 2010

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building a gigantic framework and hoping it doesn’t all come crashing down ar…

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jamming through some code this morning, so I can get to the fun stuff this af…

Published 16 Aug 2010

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#ebz Death is not always permanent in Fallen London.  This gives rise to a pe…

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The only way to stay sane was to create a cunningly disguised mushroom-based …

Published 14 Aug 2010

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I seem to have fallen into Fallen London. May have to set up an new Twitter a…

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#ebz They say it’s the key that opens Mr Stones’ vaults. They say it’s concea…

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“I’m not a ‘rockstar programmer’. I’m a donkey programmer: strong headed, sure…”

Published 12 Aug 2010

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tomorrow’s division retreat is causing more stress than it’s likely to reliev…

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kayaked with the folks all afternoon yesterday. this afternoon I will be sitt…

Published 9 Aug 2010

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One of Inception’s best qualities: no sex or exploitation of body parts in th…

Published 6 Aug 2010

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“Upcoming IACC Services Subcommittee Conference Call – August 10, 2010: …”

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going to see Inception with my folks, and then have a big gourmet Italian din…

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my parents are in town for the weekend, and Sylvie barks at then every time t…

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“the squirrels’ attempt at deception increased in direct proportion to the pe…

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“Everyone just posted the same joke about Google Wave. If we were all on Googl…”

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really enjoying coding with HTML5’s new elements. (and I really mean HTML5 he…

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“If you’ve come to the conclusion “SharePoint is the answer” you’re probably s…”

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“Starting to suspect that @wordridden’s Wii Fit trainer is flirting with her. …”

Published 3 Aug 2010

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day 1 of boot camp for Sylvie: learn about the Invisible Fence. About to cond…

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thinking about information hierarchies and watching the dogs wrestle. their h…

Published 3 Aug 2010

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The Man, apparently, can tell that I’m a girl.

Published 2 Aug 2010

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fundamentally, my computer may not be able to tell that I’m a girl. But I don…

Published 2 Aug 2010

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“Two strong coffees for breakfast…. bunghole… tee-pee for!”

Published 1 Aug 2010

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right now, my life is summed up nicely by this: xkcd.com/…

Published 30 Jul 2010

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twitterverse: is there a bug in webkit where bullets of list items disappear …

Published 29 Jul 2010

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“If you think CSS3 is sexy, maybe you need to go have sex.”

Published 28 Jul 2010

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“for @andrea :) RT @cssquirrel: Don’t mess w/squirrels - they r smarter than u…”

Published 27 Jul 2010

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brother-in-law visiting with his 12 week old puppy this week. So there are no…

Published 26 Jul 2010

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creating templates for the site redesign. setting up the new web cms. we have…

Published 23 Jul 2010

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dog #3 has tipped the balance: my life is now fully scheduled. haven’t had 5 …

Published 22 Jul 2010

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wow. worst headache ever.

Published 21 Jul 2010

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it’s amazing to me that we got to the moon 41 years ago, but we can still bar…

Published 20 Jul 2010

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waiting for hubby’s delayed flight to get here so that I can talk to a human …

Published 18 Jul 2010

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Andrea marked as to-read: Mona Lisa Eclipsing (Monère: Children of the Moon, #7)

Published 16 Jul 2010

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Andrea marked as to-read: Mona Lisa Darkening (Monère: Children of the Moon, #6)

Published 16 Jul 2010

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Andrea marked as to-read: Mona Lisa Craving (Monère: Children of the Moon, #5)

Published 16 Jul 2010

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Andrea marked as to-read: On the Prowl (Monère: Children of the Moon, #4) (Br…

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Sunny: Mona Lisa Blossoming ★★★

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Sunny: Mona Lisa Awakening ★★★

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“I don’t know about Jesus, but I do know that back ups save. They save your ass.”

Published 15 Jul 2010

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“Be passionate about life and about what makes you happy. Just don’t force you…”

Published 14 Jul 2010

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great. @zeldman and @happycog have just made it MORE fun to browse Zappos. I …

Published 14 Jul 2010

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Keep it classy, Fox News: www.foxnews.com/…. #fb

Published 14 Jul 2010

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“@KuraFire Doctor, heal thyself. Do something instead of complaining. Do you a…”

Published 14 Jul 2010

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enjoying 2 weeks of bachlorettehood, but combined w/ teleworking I’m afraid t…

Published 13 Jul 2010

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Men without hats - Safety Dance literal version (via HystericTV)

Published 12 Jul 2010

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“is enjoying the use of a ball winder. For yarn, not balls.”

Published 7 Jul 2010

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four meetings today, and then class tonight. This is the not the right way to…

Published 7 Jul 2010

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feeling secretly smug that I have no idea who Bob Probert is/was. #detroiterb…

Published 6 Jul 2010

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Back from dog park. Beautiful weather. Deciding whether to work on personal p…

Published 3 Jul 2010

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watching 2 herding dogs try to herd each other. there’s a metaphor in there s…

Published 3 Jul 2010

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registered 2 of the 3 dogs in the AKC Canine Partners program so we can compe…

Published 30 Jun 2010

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just won epic work battle. when will they learn that I always win and quit ma…

Published 30 Jun 2010

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“"Dad, is this {movie set in} the olden days?” “No, it’s now.” “Then where’s t…”

Published 29 Jun 2010

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Finger Painting on the Apple iPad

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In: Margarita on the Rocks

This section contains all the rants and most of the fun posts. It’s the kind of stuff we would talk about if we went to the bar for a drink. I may be full of it when I post things here, so take it with a grain of salt.

Coffee at my Desk

Thanks, Ada

I think Matto has said it best for me today:

I have it on decent authority that the world is full of women who kick ass in Tech. …More »

Cocoa on the Couch

SXSW 2009 wrap-up

I’ve been trying to figure out how to sum up SXSW 2009 since I got back, and I’m still not sure I can do it. It was a much …More »