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What the Hell Is This & Who is This Handsome Man?

My name is Michael
Gadsby. I am the
creative director at
O3 World, a Philadelphia Web Design Company. I have a passion for all things Beer, Baseball & Design. This is my blog. Enjoy.

10 February 2010, 6:33pm

Touché

Me: This project was a total pain in the ass. I thought it was only going to take me a couple hours... it took me eight.
Wife: I feel like that's how all your projects are.
22 January 2010, 9:58pm

When Jeff Buckley Saved My Life

So I’m watching this Hope for Haiti benefit… very on point… totally impressive. I just watched Justin Timberlake and some other guy I didn’t recognize rip up a righteous version of Hallelujah. It was moving. Of course this conjures up memories of Jeff Buckley and his (in my opinion) masterpiece, Grace. Too bad he died so young.

For me, it brings back the summer of 2003… my first date with Lisa. I didn’t think much of it at first… just another date… another restaurant… another glass of wine. But then I asked her about music.

“What do you listen to? What kind of music do you like?”
She responded… “I’m really into Jeff Buckley.”
To which I gushed… “Holy shit… Grace… a perfect album.”
She blushed.

We spent the rest of the night making fools of ourselves bouncing from bar to bar… making out in front of total strangers. We were married two years later.

20 January 2010, 7:27pm
I don’t think I like Facebook… there are too many people on there.

My Wife… 10 minutes after signing up

1 January 2010, 10:16am

Introducing Hot Dogs and Lager… now where the hell is everyone?

Welcome. If you are reading this you are most likely my mom or my dad or my wife… or I pay you in some capacity or another. Or maybe you’re a friend and a little curious about this… anyways… thanks for stopping by.

I have worked on this damn thing for 3 months. I chose Tumblr for a few reasons…

  1. I’m busy, and this was really easy to set up… and I didn’t have to bother one of my programmers to help. Just Brandon. Thanks Brandon.
  2. I really like using big icons, and I couldn’t figure out how to make it work with Wordpress.
  3. I’m a dad… and not like a super-duper dad who can juggle his life, his job, his hobbies and his unhealthy obsession with the Phillies and Yuengling Lager with a confident smile and perfect hair… no, I’m a regular dad who is so overwhelmed that I can barely manage to shave once a week.

So maybe that’s like 7 or 8 reasons. Whatever… I’m at peace with all of them.

I’d say the biggest reason I’m doing this is because I’m 31… (or maybe 32… I can’t recall at the moment) and I don’t want to forget certain things. Great beers I’ve tasted… great things I’ve read or heard… great moments with my son…

And I guess they don’t all have to be *great* per se. Just some stuff I don’t want to forget.

So, I wanted this to turn into a rant about how when you launch a website it takes an army of people and services to push traffic to it… but my wife is giving me that “get off the computer and help me raise our son” look… so, I’ll have to get around to that some other time.

(BTW… I have no idea what the hell this thing below is for… maybe for polls or something? I enabled it for some reason, and I can’t figure out how to turn it off. So… feel free to drop an “answer” if you like. If you need a question, here’s one: “What the is the ‘answer’ component below used for?”… okay, go.)