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Draplin Design Co., North America
April 10, 2008
Radar: Filled
Posted at 11:34 AM

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Got all sorts of shit on the radar:

01. Planning up the 2008 DDC Almost Summer Get-Together.
02. Lined up tickets for the parents to come out.
03. Wrapping up a logo for a small, Northwest-based shoe company.
04. Gearing up for the Night Owl Record Show this weekend.
05. Savoring the extra features on the There Will Be Blood. DVD.

06. Rolling up the sleeves for Chunklet on a couple projects.
07. Working out the kinks on the new deal. Soon-to-be-announced.
08. Freaking out about Field Notes. Now taking wholesale orders!
09. Doing a logo for my buddy John’s farm back in Illinois.
10. Sorting Legos at the ranch and gearing up for “a really serious build-out.”

11. Sorta welcoming Spring’s warmer temps. Winter, don’t leave.
12. Planning up the 2008 DDC Fall Tour. Gonna be a good one!
13. Halfway through Willy’s new “Northline” novel. So good.
14. Looking forward to Kozelek next week at the Aladdin.
15. Teaching Gary how to roll over. Zero progress has been made.

16. Beating the tar out of Nakamoto in our dice wars.
17. Moving the flat files out of the house, into the new dig. Oof.
18. Sorting, sorting and sorting 2007’s tax riff raff.
19. Trying to learn a couple old Neil Young songs on the D-35.
20. Enjoying time with Leigh, around the house, and around town.

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I’ll be damned if this link to a bunch of old Heuer watch catalogs didn’t completely derail my so-called “workday.” Fuck it. Not a bad way to go.

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LITTLE_FIELD_NOTE_ICON.gif Lifehacker has a Battle of the Designer Notebooks going on today, and I’ll be damned if we aren’t getting flat out whooped in the voting. But hey, every vote we get fills our hearts with pride. Many thanks. We make little notebooks in America. Pretty proud about just that.

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Got one of these on the wall at the ranch. My favorite skateboard graphic of all time. Mine is teal, and this one is purple, and we aren’t down with purple for a number of dumb reasons.


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Got a method for teaching Gary to roll over. I taught a 12 year old lab to do it (thus proving false the old “Can’t teach an old dog new tricks” adage). First, you’re gonna need some type of treat. Sounds like cheating, but screw the nay sayers. Hopefully, you already have got him to lay down on command. If not, work on that first. Next, hold the treat in your right hand and move it behind his left ear. Move it behind his head. His love of sweet rewards will let his head follow and force his body to continue through. Gary’s pipe-like shape should make it easy. Keep doing this for a while (week or two) and maybe even familiarize him w/ a hand signal whenever you do it. Pretty soon, you won’t need a treat and yo can just use the hand signal. You still might wanna give one every now and then though.

Hope it works. Let me know!
-Timo

Posted by: Timothy Smith on 04/13/08 at 5:43 PM

Got a method for teaching Gary to roll over. I taught a 12 year old lab to do it (thus proving false the old “Can’t teach an old dog new tricks” adage). First, you’re gonna need some type of treat. Sounds like cheating, but screw the nay sayers. Hopefully, you already have got him to lay down on command. If not, work on that first. Next, hold the treat in your right hand and move it behind his left ear. Move it behind his head. His love of sweet rewards will let his head follow and force his body to continue through. Gary’s pipe-like shape should make it easy. Keep doing this for a while (week or two) and maybe even familiarize him w/ a hand signal whenever you do it. Pretty soon, you won’t need a treat and yo can just use the hand signal. You still might wanna give one every now and then though.

Hope it works. Let me know!
-Timo

Posted by: Timothy Smith on 04/13/08 at 5:43 PM
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