Millions of Heroes fans like myself download the episodes from iTunes. Am I paying for free TV? Of course I am, but it's worth it to me so I don't have to be a slave to a network's programming schedule. Plus, no commercials. Now, because NBC and Apple can't come to an agreement about royalties or something dumb like that, NBC decided to not renew it's contract with iTunes to sell their programming.

Right now is such an exciting period! We have our first retail store opening up a week from Monday. It's the culmination of an insane amount of hard work by a lot of us to get it going. It's been so fun getting to design for new mediums such as product displays and exterior signage. I simply cannot wait for the doors to finally open! Then on the 14th of September we're throwing a HUGE grand opening party at Metro. I've never put together a show in my life, much less a giant party which is actually 2 shows with 6 bands, 2 DJ, and one amazing juggler. I don't know how people do this for a living. It's so stressful!

In 1999, when I first decided that I wanted to be a professional graphic designer, one of the first things that I did was come up with a company name. I'm not even sure what motivated me to do. Honestly, I can't even remember how I came up with what I did, but it stuck. That company name was inFORMATION Design Lab. The first word is a play on "in formation", as in "I'm gonna put all your info in formation". Man, I'm clever. The second word, "design" is obvious, and the third word, "lab"... well, lab just sounded cool.

In news that just about every Mac enthusiast is talking about today, Apple released their new ultra-thin, ultra-powerful iMac. I honestly couldn't care less about it. It's a cool computer, but I'm not a Mac fan-boy so it's really not a big deal to me. What does impress me about it though, is not what Apple put in it, but what they left out. The famed Apple key.

Large coffee, extra cream, extra-extra sugar. I have no shame about how I take my coffee. Honestly, I'm not sure you can even call it coffee after I'm done with it. More like beige sugar-milk. I go to the same DD every morning for my fix. It's pretty hit or miss most mornings, usually more towards "miss" on the not-enough-sugar side. This morning, however, a morning when I couldn't have needed it more, it's so spot on I felt like writing about it. And now I'm going to get back to it, as it's getting cold.