Jesse Mullan

He Wrote the Book on CSS

Written on Monday, the 14^th of April, 2008 at 10:53 pm and was filed under: Diversions

No, not the super fun Brazilian band CSS, the web technology called CSS. Eric Meyer asked if I would join his posse, but I wasn’t up to the initiation, which involves a semantic beatdown.

Leaving on a Jet Plane

Written on Monday, the 14^th of April, 2008 at 1:25 am and was filed under: Diversions

I suppose that if I were to say “jet” you wouldn’t also need to hear “plane” to know what I was saying — seeing as there aren’t very many jet boats around and the promise of jet cars was never fulfilled. All to my endless dismay. Todaymow (the amalgamation of today and tomorrow that is created when you are awake into the tomorrow of what was once today but is now yesterday, but nonetheless you don’t really want to let go) I fly to San Jose for a MySql conference. After three days of manning a booth and fighting sleep during sessions, I will migrate to San Francisco to accompany Sarah on miles of walking around the city. We just watched Zodiac. I’m not allowed to touch knives in Sarah’s presence anymore — or wear the black hood.

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Daily Doodle: Fairy Tales

Written on Tuesday, the 8^th of April, 2008 at 11:09 pm and was filed under: Daily Doodle

This week’s theme is “Fairy Tales.” I figured that I should try to be a little less horrifying, so I tried to get Goldy to dress up as a fairy tale character. Goldy was thoroughly nonplussed.

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Daily Doodle: End Game

Written on Sunday, the 6^th of April, 2008 at 8:57 pm and was filed under: Daily Doodle

It’s a sad announcement…

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Daily Doodle: April Fools again

Written on Friday, the 4^th of April, 2008 at 1:40 pm and was filed under: Daily Doodle

I have been waiting for a cease-and-desist letter from the Daily, but I got this instead:

Hello Jesse,

I have been monitoring your Daily Doodle submissions for the past two weeks and I have one thing to say…

Oh, the anticipation! What does he have to say?

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Relaxation

Written on Thursday, the 3^rd of April, 2008 at 8:42 pm and was filed under: Diversions

Sarah and I like to eat out, which is good, because I find her smile to be relaxing.

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Perfect Day Elise

Written on Wednesday, the 2^nd of April, 2008 at 9:06 pm and was filed under: Diversions

It was Elise’s birthday, but this time I did not accidentally suckle on a stripper’s nipple.

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Daily Doodle: Aprils Fools

Written on Wednesday, the 2^nd of April, 2008 at 12:44 am and was filed under: Daily Doodle

“I’m not a joke newspaper”

“April Fools! You are!”

Sigh, just one more unpublished doodle.

Family Breakfast

Written on Tuesday, the 1^st of April, 2008 at 11:40 pm and was filed under: Photography, Family, Food

Lisa, Stan, and Noah went to breakfast with Sarah and me at Butter in South Minneapolis. I guess I’m not such a big fan of snooty breakfast places, but I will eat anywhere with the Keathlys.

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Hey, It’s That Guy From My Linguistics Class

Written on Sunday, the 30^th of March, 2008 at 2:52 am and was filed under: Diversions

No, not the two classmates whom I saw in the Electric Fetus today, it was the guy who emcees for the Northstar Roller Girls. Bear in mind that I have barely heard him say one sentence as he slumps in the front row of lecture.

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