Such good weather in Seattle today! Totally makes up for the last couple weeks.  I did nothing productive except tan at Greenlake and drink tasty beer. Tonight I’m going to taste home brewed beer that my friends make. It is (usually) surprisingly good. My friend Cailey also successfully completed her first marathon today, and finished in 4:27:51!  She is far more awesome than I for doing that.

And R.I.P. to my favorite sandals. You have lasted since 2002 in Berkeley. Way to break right as I was running to catch the bus. Also what is it with guys and nice weather who think that whistling at me is a classy way of communicating?

…because it is sunny again in Seattle! w00t! I am now done updating the site for the moment. I condensed the nonsense on here thanks to the informal usability advice of “Richard Branson.” Today is my last day off this week so I would plan on tanning, but there are definitely a lot of construction workers that can see me. So maybe not so much.

And borrowed from the amazing D.A. Clements, Information School lecturer and mentor extraordinaire,  5 books to read on web design/interaction design from the iSchool webmaster:

• BIll Buxton. Sketching User Experience
• DK Van Duyne, JA Landry, JI Hong. Design of Sites
• Jenifer Tidwell. Designing Interfaces
• Dan Brown (not the Da Vinci Code guy). Communicating Design
• Andrew Dupont. Practical Prototyping and Scriptaculous

I’ve read parts of the Bill Buxton and I think Tidwell books, but not the others.  Now I have time to read this stuff, but I’m still finishing the Polar Bear book. I’ve skimmed it before, but I’m trying to pay attention this time. I didn’t realize Scriptaculous was supposed to be any better for prototyping than another Javascript library, but the same things can probably be applied to other libraries.