<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss version='2.0'><channel><title>Squaremethod Design Studio RSS Blog Feed</title><link>http://www.squaremethod.com/</link><description>Squaremethod Design Studio: thoughts and news updated daily: by Christof Meyer</description><language>en-us</language><docs>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/rss.xml</docs><item><title><![CDATA[A Baby Must Be On The Way]]></title><link>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=547</link><description><![CDATA[Over the past few weeks (I know, it's been over two months!) I have been busy. My wife is "great with child", our house has become "great with baby-clothes", and I have become great at cutting very small pieces of woods, gluing them together, and sanding the whole thing down.
Why?
Well, I've been doing the ultimate fatherly task of making furniture! Yes. Well, sort of yes. I didn't exactly make a baby dresser, but I did "overhaul" one... Because overhaul sounds much better than....]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:27:17 PST</pubDate><guid>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Settling into Richmond]]></title><link>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=525</link><description><![CDATA[Preface: To see the rest of the images from this recent adventure click here

I decided that I should probably post more "normal stuff" about life in general. After all, what seems normal to one person (me) might seem interesting to someone else (you). Maybe.

In any case, I have been thinking a lot about community and the importance of "really living" somewhere. This is a....]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:11:40 PST</pubDate><guid>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bringing Up A Baby Girl]]></title><link>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=490</link><description><![CDATA[(As I mentioned a few blog posts ago, please slide or click your way through the new "Slideoo" image tool above to see all the pictures)

Megan and I just got back from the doctor and, through the wonders of modern science we were able to see our baby girl, moving around, on the screen, in real time.

Well it was pretty cool.

I guess I'm just like every other dad since the dawn of time that is secretly annoyed at all the fuss surrounding babies - until he has his o....]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:33:32 PST</pubDate><guid>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darden Creates New Innovation Lab]]></title><link>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=448</link><description><![CDATA[Over the past couple of years I have gone through a bit of a "crucible experience". Buckling down to learn the dark arts of high finance and low variance distribution sets, I discovered that, in spite of the steep learning curve for an art major entering a top B-School program, all types of learning share a similar need for creativity. Once one understands a problem (whether one is struggling with how to represent with watercolors the infinite gradient of a glowing Baja sunset, or the near-infin....]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:54:18 PST</pubDate><guid>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Photo Viewer]]></title><link>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=447</link><description><![CDATA[Friends, family, others...

I have been looking for a slick way to display the occasional image for a long time now and only just stumbled across a potentially interesting new application.

The following images are not noteworthy in any way except a. they are my pictures, b. they are streamed directly from Flickr, and c. they are embedded directly in the message itself.

If you like them (or if you don't!) please leave me a comment as I am always trying to find new and inte....]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:05:46 PST</pubDate><guid>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Rest of The Story - Getting Back To Normal]]></title><link>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=438</link><description><![CDATA[If you look over to the left of this layout - in the gallery section - you will find a new gallery from the week of graduation. Darden is such an intense time that it almost HAS to fly by. In the midst of it all it is easy to worry about "not making it", "failing", or "getting dropped".

The truth is, almost nobody drops. Almost everyone passes. And the real worry that more students should try to avoid, is forgetting to fully appreciate the blessing that Darden is/was/will be.  My time....]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:18:20 PST</pubDate><guid>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Life in Richmond]]></title><link>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=437</link><description><![CDATA[Over the past few months no question has been more interesting for me to answer than the following:

"So how do you like living in Richmond?"

I'm not quite sure what people expect me to say, but I tend to lead with the usual "oh, it's very nice, thanks for asking", and then follow immediately with a very specific example of something cool I experienced in the past week. To help you imagine what this exchange might look like, I've devised the following simple game. I'll prete....]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:35:19 PST</pubDate><guid>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A New Soul Rises]]></title><link>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=432</link><description><![CDATA[Since Justin's death I haven't really had too much to say on the internet. Facebook, Twittering, and Blogging all seemed so superficial that I couldn't bring myself to get excited about writing.

However, I've pulled myself together, healing has begun, and Megan and I have the privilege of announcing that we are currently at work on a baby. In truth, as most of you already understand, Megan is the one doing most of the work, but still, I help.

Exactly one week before Justin ....]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:28:30 PST</pubDate><guid>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Life of Justin Key]]></title><link>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=368</link><description><![CDATA[The fact that we are all going to die is one of the most obvious things in life. And yet, any time someone I know dies, it always feels like a shock. In addition, when someone is young and seems to have their whole life in front of them, it seems impossible that they could have won the "reverse lottery" and been taken away. But it looks like that's what happened to Justin. I say "looks like" for a reason... But I'll get to that later.

Justin Key died this past Monday, December 14, ear....]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:01:21 PST</pubDate><guid>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On living]]></title><link>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=366</link><description><![CDATA[The leaves are almost all gone now. From my ringside seat here on the second floor I have been really amazed by the way eastern leaves seem to celebrate their impending death. It reminds me, actually, of the famous quote from the Shawshank Redemption where Morgan Freeman says "Get Busy Living, or Get Busy Dying." I don't think the average person is very inspired by that quote to get busy dying, so I assume generally taken as a rhetorical statement that promotes "really living". These leaves, on ....]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:59:32 PST</pubDate><guid>http://www.squaremethod.com/blog/blog.php?id=366</guid></item></channel></rss>