be still. .

when i came across be still it was basically love at first sight. this may partially have to do with the fact that i have a serious soft spot for ikat fabrics.. especially when in pillow form. be still is based out of bangkok - that's where all these beautiful fabrics come from. okay i think this time i'll keep the words to a minimum and just let the photos speak for themselves.

mel stringer's etsy store girlie pains..

i really dig mel stringer's illustrations. her odd colored girls w/ funny noses in awkward poses make me feel very comforted in a weird way. her drawings are strange and soothing all at the same time. always a favorite combination of mine. not only do i love that mel's shop's name is girlie pains but what i really love is that mel has on offer original paintings on buttons. i wish i wasn't so broke, i'd buy all 3. yes, folks i'm that broke. but don't let my sob story stop you...you, you should jump at this offer. don't you want to wear a hand painted, rad little pin that says 'you are cute'? what a wonderful way to make the world such a nicer place to live in. don't forget to check out mel's prints, original drawings and her other stuffed brooches (which are just the best by the by.).

Father of Intel 486, Pentium Pro and Net Neutrality Joins VMWare as the New CEO

We just received information that Patrick P. Gelsinger, an industry veteran credited with dozens of information is one step ahead of reaching his goal of becoming a CEO of a technology company.

This chip engineer joined Intel in 1979 and quickly progressed to the role of Director and later become the first CTO (Chief Technology Officer) of Intel. Pat Gelsinger is considered as the key contributor in development of the i286 (16-bit) and i386 (32-bit) microprocessor architectures. He was group leader on developing the Pentium Pro and a person which brought Internet and Wireless-related technologies into Intels product stack. The development of Pentium Pro, as well as Intels pushed focus on Internet technologies represents the founding stone of VMware, a company which Pat will start leading following the official announcement.

Like him or not, he was pushing the technologies inside Intel which would often maddened the competitors, who had no other choice but to follow. However, Pats coming of age inside Intel, and being groomed to become a CEO took a dent downwards with the damaging contract Intel signed with Rambus on bringing RDRAM to market. Mr. Gelsinger pushed RDRAM to Pentium III and upcoming Pentium 4 platform, leading to so-called Caminogate, product recall and a loss of billion dollars. The fall of Intels stock in 2000 is something we believe it should be taught in schools, when a company valued almost half a trillion dollars (peak was $436.69 Billion) tumbled down by $174.88 billion in just two days. To this date, Intels market cap did not pass the value the company lost in just those two days in August and October.

Still, even with the Rambus story not developing in is groups favor, the star darkened when AMDs K7 architecture flat out leveled Pentium III and subsequently less-efficient Pentium 4 "NetBurst" architectures. Pat had a good chance of becoming the CEO of Intel with the success of wireless push and the wireless radio strategy, but insistence of Big Iron Pentium 4, cancellation of Tejas and the rise of Israeli-developed Core (Yonah, Conroe) architecture sent Mr. Gelsinger to push for development of Intels first Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), codenamed Larrabee. Mr. Gelsinger then begun a war against NVIDIA at the time when Larrabee extensively used NVIDIA and AMD intellectual property. With the bill reaching billions of dollars (our sources estimate that including the settlement with NVIDIA, but excluding settlement with AMD, Intel lost around 4-4.5 billion dollars on Larrabee, i.e. LRB). That was also coup de grace for Pat, who was pushed out from Intel and ended up being the Chief Operating Officer e.g. COO at EMC, a company located on the same street as Intel in Santa Clara, California (Intel is 2200 Mission Blvd, EMC is headquartered at 2831 Mission Blvd, just below the college campus).

However, he is credited with the development of a framework with the FCC which later became "Net Neutrality".

With Pat being the CEO of VMware, the company is gaining a person not afraid to take a bet on technology and insists on developing that technology until it wins the market. Will it be enough to take VMware from 11,200 employees and $3.77 Billion going into the future… well see.

a family that hikes together

Look at this, isn’t it beautiful?I figured out where DanO gets the energy to do everything that he does. The entire O family likes to do stuff. We hardly ever sit still. Well, unless we’re sitting still to eat, but even then our mouths are still moving, catching up with loved ones about the year they just spent in Africa as missionaries/the wedding colors they have picked out/ their new baby. We’re a busy troop.Check out the family vacation schedule, day one:An octopus has three hearts, by the by. I think I won a piece of chocolate, but does it really count if I texted someone with internet access and asked them to look it up?I’ll let you be the judge.The first morning of vacation, nearly the entire troop hiked a trail to a water fall. Well, we never actually saw the waterfall. Somehow in a group of 23 hikers (two not pictured) we all sort of missed the stairs down from this platform to see what we actually hiked in to see.“Well, this is a pretty sweet deck.” We thought, and then turned around to head back.To be fair, three of the hikers were under three years old and cannot be held accountable for our lack of observation.But these three hikers, the ones that keep us young, they should have noticed.Hello, little balls of energy!What with their being so gosh durn full of excitement about life and everything, you’d think they would have noticed the stairs. At one point after realizing we took a wrong turn (O, good morning campers! Hope all 23 of us marching past your quiet camp site talking loudly about years abroad, babies and weddings didn’t wake you.) we about-faced and headed back, and not a moment later, these three little O’s were jogging past us all on the left so they could regain the lead.What, you didn’t think they would stay in the back of the pack, did you?Neither did I.Meanwhile, DanO was too distracted by his fashion statement to notice the stairs. Check out my baby daddy, sporting the Moby Wrap for the very first time.This is his “I’m glad my wife didn’t get one with flowers on it” face. Chocolate brown: so unisex, but so hot and sweaty on sunny days. You can’t win them all.O, what’s that in the group picture that I see? Is that another Moby Wrap?!Why yes, yes it is. It’s a Moby Wrap on which I earned no commission (as I’ve said before, if someone wants to pay me after the fact, I’d be down with that) but one that could be said to be purchased because of me. That’s right, folks, I made a fist Moby convert.That’s Cousin A in the Original Moby Wrap in sage. She’s the proud mama of two of the three hikersunderthree, little ‘dub-ya’ is the one in the pouch. He’s got two and a half weeks of life outside the womb on OBaby, and I wish you could see his eyelashes in this picture. They are absolutely beautiful.Just like O My Family when they get together. Absolutely beautiful.

you capture food

I grew up just south of the border with Washington. I thought I knew apples.I was wrong.Midwesterners know apples. In fact, O My Family knows apples. Apple pie, that is.When O My Family does apple pie (as with most things) they don’t mess around. They are all out, 15 people’s hands on deck, assembly line where everyone knows their job, mass scale production apple pie makers.They buy bulk food items the likes of which I’d never seen. You’d think they were preparing for the apocalypse 2012, but no, they’re just making apple pies. 52 apple pies to be exact.And I wasn’t kidding about the all hands on deck and everyone having a job on the assembly line.There are apples to be peeled and cored.Spices to be mixedPie tops to be flutedDough to be mixed and separatedEven babywearing mommy bloggers are given important jobs. Don’t ever tell me you can’t make 52 pies in 2 hours while wearing your baby. I am living proof. (Well, me and one or two or fourteen others.)There was so much fun going on, so many jobs and people to watch, OBaby was over-joyed (before getting overwhelmed and needing a nap). I know that in two short years he will be dying to ‘help’ this grand production.And what a tasty production it is.A for Allison. Or maybe it was for apple. I’m not sure.~~~~~~This is a you capture post hosted by Beth of I Should Be Folding Laundry (who I am so excited to meet at CUPCAKE ’10).

busy baby in a bookstore

Last week I had the fabulous opportunity of introducing a bloggy friend, Alyssa of Adventures of the SAHM, to my favorite children’s book store ever (PS: yes, this bookstore was the scene of that first).She and her precious 5 month old Nathaniel joined OBaby and I for lunch and then we ventured over to admire the entire wall of board books housed inside the Red Balloon Bookshop.Soon after entering, Alyssa and Nathaniel settled in with a good book to devour. Alyssa read and turned the pages while Nathaniel sat in her lap engaged by the pictures.Meanwhile, my soexcitedtobemobile child was off in that direction.And in that one.Nathaniel, content to listen to his mother’s narration of a piece of classic children’s literature: My child, crawling so fast that I can’t properly focus the camera on him:Nathaniel:My son:(Why yes that is dry-crusted banana on the side of his jeans. Thanks for asking.)(We are a class act around here, folks.)So, we may not have sat quietly for long enough to read a single book (OK we didn’t sit at all), but both OBaby and I had an absolute blast. A blast, I tell you.The interesting thing about this unpredictable, uncontrollable almost-toddler stage is that as a mother I am finding it increasingly easy to embrace. No really, I mean that. The path of destruction in his wake? The crawling ev.er.y.where.? The food throwing? The quasi-tantrums?I can dig it.For me, compared to the early newborn stages of frantic attempts to just make the crying stop, good GRIEF just make.it.stop., pre-toddlerdom is a breeze.A messy, busy, blurry breeze.~~~~~~The winner of the Pear Tree Greetings giveaway for 5 sets of adorable address labels is……drum roll…Comment number 7 was left by Mae of Parenting in Progress. Congratulations!If you’re still drooling over those Pear Tree address labels, there is good news (even if you didn’t win)! Here is a coupon code for 10% of all orders over $19 in the month of June: PEARJUN10Happy Monday!

It's Nice That Zine If Drawings Were Photographs..

Well, it had to happen. And THANK GOD it has. It's Nice That has finally released their very first zine, If Drawings Were Photographs. And judging by what I have seen it couldn't be any better as their first kick off. Billed simply as - "Tom gave drawings to Rob and Rob tried to make them into photographs." Brilliant. I laughed out loud after reading that. How fun. Purchase the brand new baby here.

 

 

Orange et Sosh ouvrent les précommandes pour le Samsung Galaxy S4

Après SFR, c’est au tour de Sosh et Orange de dévoiler les forfaits et tarifs autour du Galaxy S4 de Samsung. Comptez 79 euros pour un Galaxy S4 et un Origami Jet et 669 euros avec Sosh…

Orange et sa branche en ligne et sans engagement Sosh ont lancé les précommandes pour le rouleau compresseur Galaxy S4.
L’occasion pour le potentiel client de comparer la grille tarifaire du premier opérateur hexagonal avec SFR qui a dévoilé ses offres la semaine dernière.

Orange et Sosh expédieront le Galaxy S4 à partir du 26 avril.

80 euros avec un Origami Jet à 80 euros/mois
Avec un Origami Jet International (79.90 euros/mois) et un engagement sur 24 mois, le ticket d’entrée est fixé à 79 euros (249 euros moins 170 euros d’offre de remboursement valable jusqu’au 12/06 ).
Sur deux ans d’engagement, le Galaxy S4 et cet Origami Jet vous reviendront à 1997.5 euros.

Avec un Origami Play 4 Go 4G ( 60.9 euros/mois ) et un engagement sur 24 mois, le Galaxy S4 passe à 179.90 euros ( 249.90 moins 70 euros d’ODR ).
Sur deux ans avec cette formule, compter 1641.5 euros.

Avec un Play 2 Go 4G (40.90 euros/mois ) et un engagement sur 24 mois, le Galaxy S4 est proposé 299.90 euros ( 369.90 moins 70 euros d’ODR ).
Sur deux ans, l’ensemble vous coutera  1281.5 euros.

Le smartphone est également proposé nu chez l’opérateur à 689.90 euros.

669 euros chez Sosh
Le fleuron de Samsung sera disponible chez Sosh contre 669 euros avec la possibilité de profiter d’un paiement étalé en 4 fois sans frais. 
Si l’offre est sans engagement, à titre d’indication sur 2 ans d’abonnement, compter 1266.6 euros pour le S4 adossé au forfait Sosh 3Go H+ ( 24.90 euros /mois ).

Teenagers in Love New Look Book..

Friends Teenagers In Love sure had a swell time with their latest look book. For those of you outside of San Francisco, we're just starting to enjoy our Summer here and TIL's tanks couldn't be a better way to kick it off. For the rest of you, sweatshirts are also available and the tanks are great layering pieces. ;) The look book was shot by Travis Deuel.

OBabys first vlog (O, and a giveaway)

It’s rainy and yucky out. OBaby and I are inside and bored, so we decided to vlog. I need to apologize in advance for the poor framing throughout… pretty much right below where you can see, I’m working to keep OBaby from knocking off the computer the entire time (which would explain the ending) so the camera angle kept changing.I hope you enjoy, and we mean what we say at the end of the video: we think you guys are great (and we’re not often wrong about those kinds of things)!{Also, there is a giveaway below! Go take a look-see!}~~~~~~I have a new crush and his name is Pear Tree Greetings. Luckily, I get to share a taste of their awesomeness with one of you today:I am giving away 5 sets of address labels (up to 120 labels) from Pear Tree! (Winner will be given a code redeemable on peartreegreetings.com for 5 free sets of address labels.)No, seriously. These are not your grandma’s address labels. See for yourself. (Are you starting to understand the crush thing now?)To enter:Leave a comment on this post. Any comment. The end.Over acheivers:If you’d like, you can hop over and see Pear Tree Greetings’ entire collection of address labels here, then come back and leave one additional comment telling me about your favorite one. (Warning: it will be hard to choose. Very hard.)Disclosure:Pear Tree Greetings is providing the spoils of this giveaway today. (Thank you!)UPDATE: Somehow I forgot this lil’ nugget of info: This giveaway will close at 10pm CST on Sunday. I will announce the winner Monday morning!

Exquisite Book Signing Drawing Event..

Tonight I'll be heading over to Rare Device for their Exquisite Book Signing and Live Drawing event. Co-author Julia Rothman, and local participating artists will be there: including Caitlin Keegan, Lisa Congdon, Eunice Moyle, Tom Neely, Kelly Lynn Jones, Susie Ghahremani and Lorena Sim.

I am really excited to say hello to everyone. The book is such a wild and awesome concept (the practice of the exquisite corpse game is taken and put into book form through the drawings of 100 artists). I have poured over it a number of times since I received my copy last week. I'll post pics of the event and more extensive images of the book next week during the book's 'blog tour'!

O My BIG NEWS

Now that the grandparents have been officially informed, I can share with all of you:OBaby took his first steps yesterday!He walked from DanO about three steps toward me.O. My. Heart.Also? Here’s a sneak peek at the family pictures we took yesterday.Have a blessed Sunday!

Sneak Peek Devastate Your Real Estate..

I am super excited for Devastate Your Real Estate that opens Friday night at Bodega's 4th Wall Gallery. On show will be all new works and installations galore from this hyper-talented crew: Illside Ink, Kenji Nakayama, Buildmore Shrines, Dark Cloud, Josh Falk, Metal Wing, NEVER and Evoker.

I've gathered a few sneak peek pics (thanks to Josh Falk) and a shaky video of the install this week (Thanks to Oliver Mak who skated through the gallery taking it!) to share with you. From the looks of what's on display here it's going to be a sick display of East Coast graf/street artists, most definitely not to be missed.