I’m smiling because this is the forecast for my vacation in a few days. I hope it snows in NYC while I’m gone… is that malicious?

I got bored with Garfield when I graduated from elementary school (around the time I started to dig Foxtrot). I got over the novelty of Garfield’s cynicism… I realized that Monday’s could be great :)
BUT, today I found Garfield Minus Garfield. I’m obsessed.
It’s Garfield comics with Garfield and all his lines Photoshopped [...]

I went to the IFC Center this weekend to see all the Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts. Here’s my thoughts on each of them.
- I Met The Walrus: A 14 year old kid somehow manages to get a taped interview with John Lennon. This is a real interview, with wild animation that supplements and [...]

I can’t get over how many amazing and inventive hacks have been created using the Twitter API. It’s as if the Twitter API is the new spray paint and developers are the new graffiti artists: constantly competing against each other to tag (no pun intended) the most ridiculous locations in the most interesting ways. [...]

I’m torn between what’s the greater “net good”… donating to a political candidate that I think could affect public policy positively, or donating to a charity where my proceeds will go to improve a cause.
That last sentence is a little vague because I don’t want to get bogged down in the definitions of things like [...]

95% of consumer electronics aesthetic design is flat-out boring. The lid of every laptop is a wasted opportunity for artistic expression. They are canvases that are ignorantly left blank.
I wish the industrial designers behind consumer electronics devices would take a page from skateboard designers (or dare I say: skateboard artists). What if the [...]

Union Square Ventures is looking for a new analyst. If you think you might be interested in entering Venture Capital, this would be a great way to dip your toes in the water for 2 years. More details about the position and the application are on our blog.
Also, Charlie’s exit post on the [...]

Space Invader

Originally uploaded by Michael Surtees

I found this Space Invader in the meat packing district the other day. This is 3 blocks away from my new apartment.
Little Space Invader mosaic tile graffiti are scattered all around the world. They a created by an [...]

Update: Turns out I’m no longer listed in any Google SERPs, not just ‘Andrew Parker.’ My site was hacked (yet again) and contained a TON of links to porn sites which were made invisible with a CSS trick. I upgraded my WordPress install to the latest version and removed all the offensive crap, [...]