How I Waste My Precious Time

The blog of Jeff Hottinger, spouting BS as usual.

Category: Design

Maybe Money Isn’t That Bad

The updated $100 bill design isn’t as bad as some of the shit-talkers are making it out to be.

The PS3 was Designed by Morons

After having played around on my PS3 for many hours over several months, I can confidently say that the Software and Services appear to have been designed by total fucking idiots. UPDATE: Never finished writing this post from a couple months ago, but upon review it looks just fine to me the way it is. [...]

PSP Initial Impressions

Worried that I was being too productive with my free time, I “decided”* to buy a PlayStation Portable today. When it comes to irrational behaviors, spending chunks of money on things I don’t need is one of my favorites. Here are my initial thoughts after playing around with this new toy for half an hour. [...]

Sean Haefeli Concert

April 16th, Double Door, Chicago. April 28th, Dakota Lounge, LA

use iPhone Simulator for web testing

The new iPhone SDK comes with an iPhone simulator named Aspen Simulator, which is a full iPhone emulator and includes a few built in Apps including the iPhone Safari (Mobile Safari, Safari Touch?). Using this simulator is a sweet way to test how webpages look on an iPhone without using a scrunched up Safari window [...]

Commonalities

Common’s new album: Finding Forever is firstly awesome, but also has this cool detail of the Chicago skyline on the cover art that reminds me of the header image up above. Cool!

Sean Haefeli Vector Art

Here is the original illustration that I used for Sean’s new album art, free from effects and surroundings. Crappy nasty gradient edition.

Changed my mind about the CS3 icons

In response to my Dad’s curiousity about some people talking about the new CS3 icons (one didn’t like them and linked to Adam Betts’s replacements: Betts CS3) I wrote this: Good question. Icons are a passionate topic for many Mac users. Mac icons have always been better than Windows icons, with the capability of being [...]

The Haefster's latest jams: Sound Strategy

Sean Haefeli has just released his latest album, a 4 track EP featuring cover art by me. Check out some samples of the tunes at his website. The album shipped in a sleeve, so the art is just a front and back image. No inserts or anything extra. The best looking part actually turned out [...]

Theme editing

The current theme, Gray gets Green by Fred Banuelos, started with this image up top, which is gorgeous: I hope it’s not too plagiarist to steal the idea and colors and rebuild it with my own imagery. I decided a Chicago skyline would give it a nice local touch, and this resulted: I think it [...]