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

“Showed my daughter an illustration of human evolution. “Daddy, I think you’re…”

can’t wait to get my @goodwitch fix tomorrow. i am seriously in withdrawal.

HTML5: The Difference Between
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Published 10 Mar 2010

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“It looks like I will have to combine two of my least favourite things today: …”

Published 9 Mar 2010

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“The most important thing to recognize here is that, whether we like it or not…”

Published 9 Mar 2010

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Waiting for our active shooter drill to begin. Good timing-- we can now add O…

Published 9 Mar 2010

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SXSW 2010: Fieldnotes | booktwo.org

Published 9 Mar 2010

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Thought I’d have a glass of wine on the porch after work & enjoy the nice wea…

Published 8 Mar 2010

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Books in the Age of the iPad — Craig Mod

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(Image)

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teeter is fun, om nom nom http://brizzly.com/pic/1NOY

Published 8 Mar 2010

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crappy pic, but Lola has mastered the teeter. http://brizzly.com/pic/1NOX

Published 8 Mar 2010

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Watching the dogs play Bone Wars.

Published 7 Mar 2010

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“Just heard husband in other room singing “You are the Sunshine of My Life” …..”

Published 6 Mar 2010

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hoping i can survive one more week of this before i can get out of town and h…

Published 4 Mar 2010

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overreacting man is overreacting.

Published 3 Mar 2010

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i seem to have lost the funny. time for more puppies.

Published 2 Mar 2010

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Am I the only person that seriously can’t stand the word “douche”? Tempted to…

Published 1 Mar 2010

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i want to shoot the whole day down

Published 1 Mar 2010

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now i think i want to be a shiba inu puppy when i grow up. www.ustream.tv/……

Published 26 Feb 2010

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need more puppies. please send puppies stat.

Published 26 Feb 2010

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omg the drama. it’s a website, people!

Published 25 Feb 2010

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I scored 62/100 on the How Millennial Are You quiz. It’s that tattoo that pus…

Published 24 Feb 2010

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“I wish people wouldn’t confuse the need to speak truth to power with the desi…”

Published 23 Feb 2010

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“Sooner or later we’re all hypocrites.”

Published 22 Feb 2010

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counting down the hours til beer o’clock. It’s a couple hours earlier on a Mo…

Published 22 Feb 2010

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words of wisdom from my beer bottlecap: The weight is not as heavy as you think.

Published 21 Feb 2010

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just finish a couple hours guerilla attacks on the styles of the business sch…

Published 21 Feb 2010

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“(I am at a party. So of course I’m hiding in a back room, twittering & pe…”

Published 20 Feb 2010

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pup ripped off a toenail yesterday evening, been nursing her all day. This is…

Published 20 Feb 2010

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Useless meeting is useless. Please kill me now.

Published 19 Feb 2010

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Why did I not think of this? I may have a new career in the works: www.busine…

Published 19 Feb 2010

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“My sole mission in life is to prove that people scroll. I need data!”

Published 18 Feb 2010

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just wrangled a desk chair that doesn’t suck. Moving into the big leagues.

Published 18 Feb 2010

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apparently, I can’t sleep anymore. Possibly related: feeling very stabby

Published 17 Feb 2010

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whoever decided that this school’s identifying color should be teal needs to …

Published 16 Feb 2010

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new meds seem to be giving me hot flashes. or else I have some really weird f…

Published 15 Feb 2010

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liking the brizzly extension for chrome. gets rid of the trends and stuff I d…

Published 12 Feb 2010

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celebrated officially losing 15 pounds with the biggest, chocolatiest chocola…

Published 12 Feb 2010

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between the 2 dogs, the cat and the husband I think someone farted in the bed…

Published 10 Feb 2010

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“the new “f” words in our office, “fold” and “footer"”

Published 10 Feb 2010

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“Spelunking through Google Analytics. So far it’s been like exploring the most…”

Published 9 Feb 2010

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Pretty impressed myself after leading off a new game of Words with Friends wi…

Published 8 Feb 2010

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“It must be Monday. Someone incompetent at her own job is telling me how to do…”

Published 8 Feb 2010

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just heard from neighbor that there have been 2 coyotes roaming our neighborh…

Published 8 Feb 2010

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“The problem with natural selection is that there is no one to blame for the d…”

Published 8 Feb 2010

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late to monday morning meeting because I had to chase the dog all over the ne…

Published 8 Feb 2010

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No, Fireworks, you did not quit unexpectedly. I told you to quit. Just do it …

Published 5 Feb 2010

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cleaning up other people’s messes. Who’s going to clean up mine? Because I pl…

Published 4 Feb 2010

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omg, inbox zero. To-do list, well, not zero. But not too bad, akshully.

Published 3 Feb 2010

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meetings all got cancelled, but I’m not teling anyone. planning to get much w…

Published 3 Feb 2010

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“Do the following: Smile. Hold it while counting to 5 slowly. Think of just th…”

Published 2 Feb 2010

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looking for a desktop app to manage project files and tasks in one place. OS …

Published 2 Feb 2010

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Common grackle:  http://brizzly.com/pic/1ASJ

Published 30 Jan 2010

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Red-bellied woodpecker: http://brizzly.com/pic/1ASI

Published 30 Jan 2010

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Pileated woodpecker in our yard this morning: http://brizzly.com/pic/1ASH

Published 30 Jan 2010

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ack. make that dogs, not gods.

Published 30 Jan 2010

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…and squirrels and gods of course. All without leaving the couch. I love th…

Published 30 Jan 2010

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in the last 2 hours: grackles, pileated woodpeckers, red-bellied woodpecker, …

Published 30 Jan 2010

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Pileated woodpecker now. Make that two. Yes, I am live-tweeting birds. We nee…

Published 30 Jan 2010

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grackle frenzy at the feeder. they look really pretty in this light. who knew?

Published 30 Jan 2010

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not getting the NC snow, but getting lots of really cold rain. Think I’ll be …

Published 30 Jan 2010

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creating a Google sitemap for the whole darn University. Have 16,000 pages so…

Published 28 Jan 2010

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i dunno, i think it’s a stupid name.

Published 27 Jan 2010

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trying to resist the urge to just crawl back into bed and forget it all

Published 26 Jan 2010

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that idea I had a while ago about using the old scientific illustrations on m…

Published 25 Jan 2010

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on hold with the IRS. this day just gets better.

Published 25 Jan 2010

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Adobe Contribute is making my job hell.

Published 25 Jan 2010

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power company refunded our deposit for being customers in good standing. Abou…

Published 24 Jan 2010

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gowalla may have a fatal flaw for me: the most interesting places I go have n…

Published 24 Jan 2010

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out of the house for the first time in 3 days. Not sure what to do with all t…

Published 23 Jan 2010

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left work early yesterday. have been asleep about 20 of the last 24 hours. Gu…

Published 21 Jan 2010

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boss is telling me to go home sick. why am I not listening to her?

Published 20 Jan 2010

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drawing parallels between the @adactio @cackhanded @Hicksdesign conversation …

Published 18 Jan 2010

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agility class today kicked my ass-- image if i had to jump & climb things lik…

Published 17 Jan 2010

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“We left the car lot today with a car that can comfortably seat a family of 10…”

Published 16 Jan 2010

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“Stella learns to alphabetize from iPod; Porter learns to read from Knock-Knoc…”

Published 15 Jan 2010

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My #firstgig was Culture Club at Saint Andrew Hall in Detroit in 1983. My fri…

Published 15 Jan 2010

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“Yesterday I got room 404. The concierge didn’t get it when I told him I could…”

Published 15 Jan 2010

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“HTML5 is a (beautiful) mess: www.sitepoint.com/… Good discussion with @bruc…”

Published 15 Jan 2010

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why I am always the only one that shows up on time?

Published 14 Jan 2010

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so tired. 4th day of ASP.NET training is not helping to change this.

Published 14 Jan 2010

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needs to borrow @nefarioustim’s BFK for a bit…

Published 13 Jan 2010

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what part of “ I am not available to meet with you today” do you not understa…

Published 13 Jan 2010

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“And lo, Google Reader did verily change their flippin’ markup AGAIN. And ther…”

Published 13 Jan 2010

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mmm. cookies.

Published 13 Jan 2010

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“Ah, found it: http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/rendering.html#Use…”

Published 13 Jan 2010

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“Had an awful night, dreamt I was being chased by a giant font tag, my only we…”

Published 12 Jan 2010

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just got a fail narwhal on @wildlifenearyou. lolz.

Published 12 Jan 2010

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RT @simonw: For the latest news on www.wildlifenearyou.com follow @WildlifeNe…

Published 12 Jan 2010

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“@andrea yo dawg, I heard u liked wysiwyg so I programmed some wysiwyg into yr…”

Published 12 Jan 2010

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maybe it’s just me, but wysiwyg styling of your wysiwyg programming seems lik…

Published 12 Jan 2010

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news flash: we’re no longer restricted to web-safe colors. Image the possibil…

Published 12 Jan 2010

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now the ASP.NET instructor is teaching us CSS. class = “boldLink”. Aw, yeah.

Published 12 Jan 2010

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lovely meeting this morning gave me bigger headache than the ASP.NET training…

Published 12 Jan 2010

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“I like the look of Stacey App 2. Need time to have a play with it. http://sta…”

Published 12 Jan 2010

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“RT @Hicksdesign: …TotalFinder is great: http://totalfinder.binaryage.com/ J…”

Published 12 Jan 2010

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the only thing keeping me awake in this training is that it is about to snow …

Published 11 Jan 2010

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starting ASP.NET training. this should be fun…

Published 11 Jan 2010

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spent the day reading and playing wii. hoping that this totally lazy day will…

Published 9 Jan 2010

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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 »