Last weekend, Keya and I went on a bit of an expedition down into the Maze District in the Canyonlands. It was unbelievable. If you’re thinking about going, you’ll probably want a pretty high clearance vehicle, as much water as you can carry, a few good maps, and maybe some extra gas. It’s pretty dang […]
Author Archives: Michael Arestad
Colorado photo dump
I’ve been a bit radio silent on this blog, so here are a bunch of photos and a little about what I’ve been up to. Steamboat Oh, and Joshua brought his nifty drone with us when we went snowshoeing and cut together this quick video. https://vimeo.com/200755706 Mathews-Winters Open Space Copper Mountain Eldorado Canyon Breckenridge Switzerland […]
Home sweet boat in Amsterdam
Several weeks ago, I was looking for a place for Jeff, Rick, and me to stay in. I jokingly suggested we stay in a houseboat, but in the end we decided against it thinking there just wouldn’t be enough space. Instead, I found a nice looking place for a reasonable price. They both took a look at […]
Design.blog
A fellow designer and coworker of mine at Automattic, John Maeda, has been curating articles on the fairly new design.blog since August last year. After WordCamp US, he invited Mel Choyce and me to write an article for it each. He also asked me to design the cover. Designing the cover felt similar to coding for CSS Zen Garden, […]
Safari, I want to love you, but I just can’t
I have been using Safari as my default browser for the last few months. I really wanted to see what Apple has been up to with their browser and wondered if I could use it effectively for designing and building websites. The gist is that the browser is pretty dang nice for the most part. I […]
Down the west coast – part 2
Okay. It’s time to continue from where I left off in part 1 post Damascus, OR. Cannon Beach to North Bend I drove up from Damascus to Cannon beach to get some lunch and wander further down the coastal highway. I ended up stopping and camping near the Oregon dunes. It was a bit rainy so I […]
When 2016 zigs, you get a Zag
Nine days ago, I walked out of an animal shelter with a new best friend and I couldn’t be happier about it. I first saw Zag sleeping in the back of a kennel away from the other dog, Domino. There was no information about him, but he seemed interesting enough to meet. I asked about him […]
Down the west coast – part one
Earlier this year I drove from Tofino on Vancouver Island all the way down the coast to San Diego. I took the coastal highways most of the way going back and forth between the 101 and the 1. I tried to stay as close to the coast as possible from Canon Beach all the way […]
blog. to .blog
I’m super excited to finally ditch my old blog.michaelarestad.com blog address for something a bit nicer. Thanks to my generous employer, I now am the super proud owner of michael.blog. I went through the process of setting up the domain on get.blog and I have to say, it was pretty dang slick. I moved all […]
Reclaiming my hard drive
In the middle of a Zoom call a couple weeks ago, I got a system notice that I was running out of space on my startup disk. It said I had 1.6 gigabytes free and the number was dropping rapidly. Crap. I did some quick measures to get through the call by deleting some unused […]