The Cashman/Headwarmer Dialogues, Vol. 382
I don't know why I found these "conversations" between Yankees general manager Brian Cashman and his headwarmer so funny ... I just did.

Finally, some recent photos of Amelia...

Sure, I've taken a few zoo photos before, but those suck compared to these -- flamingo & peacock.

A couple additions to the Portfolio section:

• Turtle Soup: MySQL and PHP development for this teen-based cooking site
• Racks For All: some quick design help to improve the home page and main products page

Several people (non-family members, if you can believe it) have "complained" that Amelia's site hasn't been updated in a while. Very true ... expect some photos and/or video in the upcoming weeks.

Surviving Grady has a pretty funny commentary about baseball cards today. (OK, as an avid collector in the late 70s/early 80s, I thought it was funny ... your mileage my vary.)

One interesting thing he notes is the collars on the old Phillies uniforms. While watching an old Red Sox-White Sox game on ESPN Classic this week (Fisk's first game at Fenway not wearing red) I was constantly distracted by the horrible White Sox uniforms from 1981: black road jerseys -- untucked -- with a collar, and a big bland "SOX" on the cap to top it all off.

Typography joke for the day (from here):

Comic Sans walks into a bar and asks for a beer. Says the bartender: "Sorry, we don't serve your type here."

I think that joke is up there with the photo of someone writing "Watch your kerning" next to graffiti in a design school's bathroom. But then again, I'm a geek...

Well, this is some good fun: the museum of bad album covers. There are some I've seen before -- The Many Facets of Roger, Man-O-War, and of course Devastatin' Dave the Turntable Slave. But there are plenty more. Browse them all -- or, if you're in a hurry, just check out the top (bottom?) 10.

Baseball is almost here (and yet another snowstorm approaches): Thursday is the first spring training game for the Red Sox. And today's Boston Globe had an article on Tim Wakefield, which included a cute little part about his newborn son:

Wakefield's is gripping story: Knuckleballer still contributing

Sure, it was great that [Tim's] son [Trevor] was born in the same year that generations of fans were forced to stop complaining that the Sox had not won a World Series in their lifetimes. Better yet that Trevor's mom, Stacey, took him to Game 1 of the World Series, with his father on the hill at the start of the game.

Everyone's already mentioned this, but I feel I have to as well since it's such a cool (and, more importantly, useful) product: Google Maps. It's much easier to read than Yahoo Maps or Mapquest, and more fun to use, too.

It's been out for a few weeks now, but the only reason I didn't mention it sooner is because it didn't work with Safari (my browser of choice on the Mac). But now it does, so I'm switching completely to Google Maps for maps and directions.