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We have a boy!
Jace Aaron decided to crash this party a little early last night at 7:51pm.
The little champ weighed in at 5 pounds 10 ounces.
Mom and baby are doing well.
We are at Lutheran hospital room 517 for those who want to visit.
Filed under: Annoucements, FamilyMickie’s water broke last night, we came into the hospital this morning and are a few hours into the process.
It’s been quite a surprise again since Mickie was not due for another 4 weeks.
I’m doing more frequent updates through Twitter, so if you want the latest information check there.
I’ll post here with major news.
Filed under: Annoucements, Family, ObservationsI’ve updated this post and moved it to my new Wordpress Magazine, Pressing Pixels.
Filed under: Annoucements, Graphic Design, Plugins, Wordpress
Fresh is good. Fresh is fun. Fresh is clean. Fresh is re-freshing. I like fresh.
And so I bring you, my family, friends, and internet companions, a new and fresh joshbyers.com.
Enjoy it, read it, savor it.
Fresh is good. Because you’ll never hear anybody say – “Man, I wish this popcorn was a little more stale.”
Filed under: Annoucements, Graphic Design
A few weeks ago I wrote about the new social networking site called Virb. I still think it’s the best social site in terms of what it allows the individual to do with their pages. You have full control over the CSS and even the html (which is rare and cool). This allows people to do some really cool things with their profile pages.
I worked on mine for a couple days and I think it ended up pretty nice. You can see it here. I was fortunate to get noticed a bit as well. My profile ended up being featured on the “Virb Is” page which is reserved to show newcomers to the site what the site is capable of. They tend to feature unique and cool profiles so being included was a big honor and pretty cool.
My profile also caught the eyes of several other sites that feature interesting profiles. Virbrocks.com and MyVirb.net have featured my profile.
Since designers and creative types have gravitated toward Virb I’ve met a lot of new interesting people. Hopefully I’ll be able to colaborate with some of them on future projects.
If you still don’t have a Virb profile what are you waiting for? Get over there, sign up and join in the frivolity!
Filed under: Annoucements, Graphic DesignI’ve written about the nastiness of MySpace several times and the regular influx of provocative friend requests finally led to my divorce of “the largest social network on planet earth.”
So now where do I go for all my social goodness? It’s a question I’m really not that concerned with frankly but when I found out about Virb, I had a new home.
Mike Davidson introduced me to this glorious MySpace replacement that not only looks a million times better, it functions infinitely better.
What I like best is the ability to radically modify your profile page. You can see what I’ve done with mine here.
Check it out and create a profile for yourself.
Filed under: Annoucements, Graphic Design
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Filed under: Annoucements, Family, PhotosMickie and I recently acquired a treadmill and in the interest of not being fat have decided to have a contest. We are going to run across Iowa. I made up a couple of charts where we’ll keep track of our progress.
The incentive just to win and get fit wasn’t enough as we have also decided that the winner will take home a fabulous prize!
But we haven’t decided on the prizes yet. It can be one thing that we both would want or it could be a different prize depending on who wins.
Tell us who you think will win and give a suggestion for a prize. If we choose your idea maybe you’ll win something too!
Filed under: Annoucements, Other StuffCue trumpet and drumroll please…
Yeah! Its a new design! Tell all your friends and family.
If you subscribe to the rss feed or have the content delievered to your email you might notice a bunch of weird ones. Ignore them if you want. I am in the process of chaging over my portfolio to be managed by Wordpress (the cms that runs my site).
Let me know if there are any problems or bugs.
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I submitted a tee shirt design called A Series of Tubes to Threadless.com to be voted on and hopefully printed.
If I get enough high scores the shirt will be printed and sold from the site and I will win some prizes. Take a look at it and if you like it, sign up and give it a score.
URL: http://www.threadless.com/submission/84246/A_Series_of_Tubes
Thanks!
P.S. I’m sure Threadless would be happy if you bought a tee too!
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