KmikeyM

Daytum.com allows you to beautifully track information. I started using it late last year to track certain work criteria, but I'm modifying what I track for 2009 in order to get a better representation of my productivity. Here is my info from last year (which I re-plotted in Numbers):

Breakfast

I only ate breakfast 25% of the time. I am tempted to keep tracking this, as I think I perform better when I do eat breakfast, but a 75% failure rate is also a clear trend that I am not a breakfast eater.

Lunch

Again we see a clear trend to eating sandwiches at lunch. I knew it was going to be high, but I was surprised!

Arrival

This one is bad news. In my defense, I was mostly tracking the end of the year with the holidays and snow storms, but still...

Coffee

This is the number of cups of coffee I drank while working. If you take the 29 days I tracked this means I was drinking 1.7 cups of coffee per work day. Not terrible!

For the majority of 2008 there have been 1623 shares on the market, with an average price of $2.34. Starting on January 1st and running for seven days will be the first time new shares are being auctioned off. During these seven days anyone can submit a bid for a set number of the 300 shares at a set price (for example: 50 shares at $2.15 each) by sending an email.

Once the seven days is over KmikeyM shares will be sold starting at the highest offer per share (1 share at $15.00 will be sold before 10 shares at $10.00). Once the 300 shares are sold to the highest bidders, the auction will be over. Anyone who bid below the price of the 300th highest share will win no shares.

According to Last.fm, this is what I listened to the most in 2008*.

1. Daft Punk
2. YACHT
3. Wombats
4. Andrew W.K.
5. Rick Ross
6. Desmond Dekker
7. M.I.A.
8. Gnarls Barkley
9. Brian Eno
10. Mirah

My top five words on Twitter: good, new, timbers, work, *****.

* Last.fm only tracks the music I listen to at work.

Thanks to Curt.

Community is defined as a group of people living in a particular local area. Our perception "local" means we view community as something that shares close physical space. But electronic innovation (cellphones, internet, etc.) create a new "local" space that is no longer bound by physical interactions.

The whole point of community is not the local aspect, but the living. Where you live and who you live with is your community, and the internet and cellphone allow us to live with people who we may share little physical space with.

Spending 8+ hours a day on the computer, instant messenger defines who I am living with more than my co-workers. I might be mere feet from another person, but I'm talking to people much farther away more often throughout my day. People in Georgia, Michigan, New York, Los Angeles, and California are as easy to contact as the person sitting next to me.

The chat room or message board creates a much better community that a two-way closed chat. Now we have a group of people, most who know each other, "living" in a space. It doesn't matter where I am, because where I live is not physical space.

Watching the rise and fall of Tammy Faye I am especially impressed with the empires that were created before everything fell apart. The TBN and the massive Heritage Theme Park... The villain (Jerry Falwell) is devious and all the more horrible in that he is real. The documentary paints Tammy Faye in the best light possible and tells the story through her "eyes".

Need some last minute holiday gifts? Well, we don't have a store yet, but we do have some inventory!

The first UrbanHonking T-shirts have been printed and are only $15.00. (American Apparel sizing chart) Just shoot me an email and we can arrange to meet or I can mail it.

We also have a few copies of Matthew Stadler's latest publication, "Where We Live Now" for $30.00.

Stadler's latest work follows from the belief that many lives and places are made invisible or illegible by our old ideals of city and countryside. The principal remedy he has found is the work of German urbanist Thomas Sieverts, whose descriptions of zwischenstadt, or "in-between landscapes," provide a better lens for seeing where we live clearly. Stadler's latest project, Where We Live Now, is an annotated reader that includes a new translation of Sieverts' foundational text, along with work by Rem Koolhaas, Aaron Betsky, Saskia Sassen, and many others, In the book, Stadler argues that the "in-between landscapes" of the contemporary city were prefigured by the settlement patterns of the indigenous peoples of North Pacific America. His talk offers new descriptions of de-centered cities and suggests ways that art and writing can help equip us to live here fully and well. -Center for Urban Pedagogy

If you need either or both of these, just send me an email (kmikeym@kmikeym.com) and we'll work it out!

I met with RCH to discuss fonts and typography yesterday and I wanted to archive some notes she gave me.

Amazon link to Typographic Design: Form and Communication.

Notes Page

Other notes: The not totally reliable MyFonts.com. The Broadsheet format. The Lined & Unlined blog.

I just created a new blog, a Productivity Diary that I'll use to post short updates on how I spent my time the previous day. As a publicly traded person I have an obligation to spend my time working on projects that will increase shareholder value, and the Productivity Diary gives me a log of what projects I've been working on and also a forum for feedback for those who want to follow along.

Have you seen The Game? If you haven't, then you shouldn't read this, because I want to talk about some serious spoilers.

Dir. David Fincher loves a twist ending. Se7en, The Game, Fight Club... I haven't seen some his more recent films, but it seems like he has a style. The problem with this style is that it makes watching any of these films again (less so for Se7en perhaps) a very odd experience. The impact of the twist is dulled when you know it's coming, and the whole film is cast in a strange light that exposes the strings of the plot.

In short, The Game was not that good the second time around. I remember really liking it! And while all the elements were great, it left me feeling pretty dissatisfied. HE WAS DRIVEN TO SUICIDE! What kind of fucking present is that? How does that help your life? What the fuck?

Artists in the West are not lazy and therefore not artists but rather producers of something...
-Mladen Stilnovic

To be bored is to stop reacting to the external world, and to explore the internal one.
-Carolyn Y. Johnson

My desire to create (bring into existence) or produce (cause to happen) is often stronger than my own sense of quality. As I have a reserve of funds at my disposal I find that the desire to take action is higher than usual. I empathize with the corporate CEO seeking to show his quarterly profits and increases and my respect for the long term strategies of an investor like Warren Buffet appear much more impressive.