It is easy to support your team when they are winning. The Seattle Sounders lost their first game tonight. It was a tough one after captain and goalkeeper Kasey Keller got sent off for a handball. Now we just need to accept the lose, support our Sounders and move on. Go Sounders!

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Technology is amazing. I am realized this as I was writing a post last week. For one month I have been writing this blog. Around 100 people have seen it. It cost me nothing, and took very little time.
 
Contrast that to communication the last couple of centuries. I don't know how long it would take to write 100 four page letters. Not to mention the cost. I love how two of the leading blogging platforms pay homage to Gutenberg with names like WordPress and Movable Type. The ease and speed at which we communicate is incredible. If I know someone's contact info I can basically contact them instantly.
 
That also leads to a problem. Getting a letter from someone is entirely different than receiving an email or a text message. A letter is very personal. We see their handwriting on the address and can see their pen strokes. It seems that communicate moves so fast today we don't take the time to be personal. If I want to invite my friends to a party I just send out a mass invite on facebook.
 
The funny thing is that while I love getting letters, I don't take the time to actually write them. Now if you'll excuse me, I am meeting up with a friend today. After a couple of text messages and a phone call we have it all worked out. I wonder what Gutenberg would think.

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One of my favorite movies this summer was Wall-e. I especially loved the different designs of the characters and the environments. Jay Schuster is an industrial designer that works for Pixar. He was the lead designer for the character Wall-e. Here is the internal schematic that Jay made for Wall-e. In an interview Jay said that they cheated a little in the fact that when Wall-e folds us, in real life, there wouldn't be enough room for all his parts. But I love the attention to detail and intense creative processes that Pixar goes thru when they make their films.

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So I was watching a friends YouTube video and commented. I guess YouTube doesn't want too much participation from their users because I got a comment limit exceeded message. That wasn't the fun part. The best part was there was a link you could click on if you "Can't read" My question is how would I know where to click if I couldn't?

I know that the link refers to the CAPTCHA but I still found it funny.

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