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1st Annual Dave & Faye Mega-Walk

Mark it down on your calendars for next year, because the 1st Annual Dave & Faye Mega-Walk, held August 18th 2007, was a thing of beauty.

The walk officially began at 11AM on the corner of 77th and Greenwood and wrapped up some five hours later at Le Pitchet, 1933 1st Ave.

Two breaks are required on the Mega-Walk: Lunch at Paseo (a no-brainer really) and refreshing drinks on the top of Queen Anne hill.

Celebratory wine and cheese is a must at Le Pichet while you plot your return home. We took the bus.


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See you next year, third Saturday in August... 11AM sharp!

19/08/2007 in Articles, Notes




POP Launches arcade.pop.us

I'm happy to announce the launch of a POP sibling site we've created to showcase some of our favorite interactive entertainment experiences:

http://arcade.pop.us

28/01/2007 in Articles, Design, Flash, Portfolio




POP Featured In Impress Web Design Magazine

Impress Web Design Magazine

POP is featured with an article/interview in the latest issue of Impress Web Design Magazine (Korea) for our work on the New Super Mario Bros. website!

Check out the head shots they selected for me and Brad (sorry Joel). Hilarious!

Impress Web Design Magazine
22/07/2006 in Articles, Design, Flash




SnapNames, Saggydimes, and Buying My Own Name

I've wanted to own davidcurry.com for a long time now. Who wouldn't want their own name, right? Sure I should have bought it back in the day, but i owned some other domains and honestly didn't care about it... That changed a few years later and the only thing left was jdavidcurry.com, so I grabbed it. I'd like to get davecurry.com too, but another Dave has that one locked up until 2012. Fine.

SO anyway, earlier this year, I noticed that davidcurry.com's expiration was nearing. I started doing some research and found Mike Davidson's excellent article on how to snatch an expiring domain. Davidcurry.com was registered through Network Solutions, so I signed up at SnapNames and placed my backorder. I'd pay $60 bucks if SnapNames secured my name and figured an auction situation would only happen if there was another Dave out there who wanted davidcurry.com as badly as I did.

For a few weeks I just waited. Then one morning I checked SnapNames and saw that another user, Saggydimes, had placed an initial bid of $60 for davidcurry.com, turning my simple backorder into an auction. Another Dave I thought. Great!

A few days later I got curious and googled Saggydimes only to discover that I was now in an auction situation with a supposed bot owned by BuyDomains.

Fantastic.

Saggydimes had been bidding in an awful lot of SnapNames' auctions, he(it) almost always won, some of his(its) bids were in the thousands of dollars, and now he(it) wanted my name. I mean how much marketing potential does davidcurry.com have? And exactly how much money would a robot(person) be willing to spend?

I was stressed.

Yesterday, right before noon, davidcurry.com dropped and SnapNames snagged it.

Moments later I got an email saying I had been outbid. It was on.

For about 20 minutes, I would bid, and Saggydimes would bid me up. I was prepared to bid $100, but not much more. Then I got to $100 and couldn't stop. I hit $110 and saw another one of these:

Damn You Saggydimes!

How much was Saggydimes going to spend for my name? Geesh!

What really sucks about this "auction" set up is that everytime a new bid is recieved, SnapNames extends the auction by 5 minutes or so. I'm assuming this is done so bots, and maybe slow-clicking patrons, have time to respond with a bid. Thanks A LOT SnapNames.

I placed one final bid of $120 and waited. One minute passed and no counter bid had been placed, then two minutes, then three.

Damn You Saggydimes!

(FYI, I edited this image to fit and removed my actual user id)

Finally, the auction closed. I had secured davidcurry.com. Yay!

I received confirmation from SnapNames, they billed me immediately, but I'm still waiting on an email from Networks Solutions, so there's nothing at davidcurry.com yet.

And the cost? Not too bad in the grand scheme of things. I'm out $120 instead of $60, thanks to a loveable bot(person? company?) named Saggydimes.

If you're name is available, go buy it right now before some domain-buying company snatches it up.

11/03/2006 in Articles, Notes




My FWA Interview

On top of the Electroplankton win, FWA was kind enough to ask me to play 20 questions and give them an interview. I was more than happy to comply and the interview went live today.

Direct link to interview

Give it a read, it's heartwarming and tender. I recommend having tissues at the ready, it'll make you cry more than Brokeback Mountain.

17/01/2006 in Articles, Flash