Open letter to Sharpie on their new “Sharpie Pen”

Dear Sharpie,

I recently purchased a Sharpie Pen and was very pleased with the quality of experience when writing notes and drawing flow documents. Because of this experience, I purchased several larger packs for my team of product managers and designers.

Within a week, many of the pens began leaking from the joint of the tip and the body, staining several people’s clothes, and at least one office chair. We’ve obviously discarded the pens since.

While I understand the volatile nature of any new product, I would expect that your QA staff would have spent more effort focusing on such catastrophic failures to protect against these types of situations.

Thx, the mgt.

Browser Benchmarks - No Surprises

ZDnet has a great compare on browsers, specifically focused on JS render speeds. Not surprising that the Safari 4 beta leaves the others in the dust. IE8 seems to be a large improvement over IE 7 (let’s not even talk about IE 6), but still has some overhead holding it back.

If safari had the plugin community that FF has grown, it’d probably be more popular as a primary browser.

Article Here: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-272792.html

The Oscars

The best thing about the Oscars? It helps me find movies for my Netflix queue. Better get on the waiting list for Slumdog Millionaire now. The format for introducing the nominees for actor/actress was strange and seemed wholly out of place and burdensome.

I kinda wish John Stewart had hosted.

New Wacom Tablet

I forgot how much I like to sketch. It amazes me that I have any amount of skill anymore. Just a couple quick pieces I threw down last night. A portrait of Anna for use as an avatar on her Etsy store, one of Dottie craning her neck backwards like she does, and one strangely random perspective-laden train.