Nothing I love more than watching ads about the gas station where I’m currently pumping gas. That’s like the channel on the hotel TV that’s, like, about the hotel.
Author: Jake
Reader, writer, designer, creative director. He does web work, print work, and dream work. Heavy advocate of self-care. Updates his blog much less often that he should.
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Peep this band
I’ve been really digging this Monowear nylon band on my Apple Watch. Most of the other bands I have are either slightly too loose or too tight, but this one is perfect every time.
There are times when I step back out of my head for a moment and try to remember what it was like having my entire life stretched out in front of me like an endless stream, but wanting nothing more than to hop on a swing and never stop.
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Jim Carrey
The only way to it is to step into the river of tears and the sorrows of your life. The things that everyone is avoiding with everything from drugs to drink to sex and gadgets and whatever else you can distract yourself with, all of it is designed for you to never stop going and moving and, for god sakes, not feel the abyss. Don’t allow yourself to feel the abandonment and pain that you’ve suffered. And I’ve done it; I’m through it. I’m sure there will be things that happen again, but I realized that by letting myself fall into it completely, that it’s not to be feared. Death is not to be feared.
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Birdseye of Knoebel’s
Last hurrah for a trip out to that great amusement park in Elysburg. A quick snap from the top of the Ferris wheel.
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Rainbow Drive
Driving back from dropping off my daughter, this rainbow practically exploded into view from the tree line. The photo just doesn’t do it justice.
When I moved to the larger screen of the 12.9″ iPad Pro several months ago, I did so with the full intention of using it as my primary computer. For me, that meant at least trying to embrace the iPad in its purest form by using its software keyboard exclusively.
But as a long-time touch typist, coupled with the amount of writing I was doing on the new device, it didn’t take long for me to look into a physical keyboard. As if on cue, a new product arrived for preorder on Studio Neat’s website that caught my eye, the Canopy Keyboard Cover.
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A Brief History of Jacob Haas
Perhaps it would be nice to have this recorded somewhere … a terse history of my life so far.
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Starting Over
I was quite an avid blogger at some point. I suppose it was around the time that blog sites were starting to become a thing. WordPress and Movable Type were still pretty new. To have your own little space on the internet during a time when not literally everyone and their cat had a MySpace or Facebook page… there was an air of exclusivity to it. Because it was still difficult to get everything set up and pointing in the right direction.You sort of had to know what you were doing. And it was crazy fun starting from a Photoshop template and developing CSS that looked more or less exactly like it. So I had my own little website that I kept updated.