Have you ever had someone call you by a name that is legally not your own? I’m sure most of us have. It’s a very odd experience. “Hey Eric!” [me looks around for peoples named Eric] — What do you say here? “Oh, you’re an idiot and that’s not my name.” Or perhaps, “Oh, that was an honest mistake, but my name is Brian actually. No, wait. Not Brian Actually, as if ‘actually’ was my last name—because that would be weird (okay kinda cool)…see…oh forget it.” I always just let this slide right on by without saying anything.
So this week, Eric presents Five Things that (he) Loves for Friday:
- The Audi TT Clubsport Quattro concept - First impression was “meh, it’s okay.” Now it has totally grown on me. I was obsessed w/ the original Audi TT when it debuted years ago, as it was such a beautiful design (and still is!). And while I’m not a big fan of most convertible designs, this is kinda slick.
- 2nd Annual Smallest, Coolest Apartment Contest - Sure, you need a lot of scrilla to have digs like these folks. But you’ve got to hand it to them, they’ve taken a very small amount of space and brilliantly crafted not only livable solutions, but beautifully designed spaces as well. You’ve gotta like contemporary design though…
- Patience - I brewed two beers in April, a light honey ale and an apricot wheat. After being bottled for a week, I began sampling one 12oz’er of each every 7-10 days. I was utterly convinced that I had screwed up somehow because the taste was just terrible. Cloyingly sweet, little hop presence and severely unbalanced. I blamed everything from my sanitation practices to recipe formulation to water chemistry (damn those chloramines!) Turns out, they just needed to age a bit longer than other beers in the bottle. Last week the honey ale turned a corner and became an entirely different brew altogether. Let’s hope the wheat follows the lead soon.
- This photo of the Pennybacker Bridge - A bridge, a tree and a skyline. Sounds like a boring setup. Shot in HDR (very tastefully so), Craig does a great job of moving the viewer’s eye forward in the composition, left to right, foreground to background. Very nicely composed.
- The Big Noob returns - I think I’ve linked to them before in the past, but the site fell by the wayside for awhile. Now back in full effect, Ryan, Keegan and Brad bring the funk with a redesign that makes me jealous.
Funny story: when I was in high school during soccer tryouts, two kids I didn’t know called me by a name of someone that I reminded them of, and I responded. So for four years I was branded as Chuck Harvey. I guarantee that at my 20 year reunion people will still think my name is Chuck.
