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Probably the next book I'll be reading: Invisible Ink, a book about story-telling. From the description: "Acclaimed by successful screenwriters and authors, Invisible Ink is a helpful, accessible guide to the essential elements of the best storytelling."

I’m not much of a gift-wrapper, but I turned on the fireplace and It’s a Wonderful Life and gave it my best shot.

‘twas a cold, mountain-y morning, and not a creature was stirring.

Cool.

Pixar’s 22 rules of storytelling.

I’m not sure if there’s a joke in here somewhere, but some interesting people are talking about the anic programming language (http://code.google.com/p/anic/), while its wiki page shows that the project itself is dead.

Question of the evening: If you could go back in time, where would you go?

While traveling the last few weeks I worked on a little “iOS 7 + Mac OS X” UI concept. This is what the main window of my Wikipedia Reader application looks like. This is just a work in progress, but it’s getting interesting. I’m creating widgets like the frame and tabs as reusable components.

This is what my car looks like after a recent road trip. I hit some bad weather in Kentucky and Indiana, seeing many stranded cars and accidents, but fortunately I just ended up with a salty, dirty car.

Apple is up to six job positions mentioning Scala. I think they like it. :) I look forward to being their first employee when they open an office in Talkeetna, Alaska.

(Search for “scala” at jobs.apple.com for more details.)