Callie Neylan

Callie Neylan

📍 Seattle, Washington

Was Zum Teufel?!

Tuesday, Nov 20 – With the holiday season officially upon us this week, the Weims decided to ring it in by scaring the crap out of the cleaning ladies (no, they’re not short Asian women). When they arrived, Oslo and Mies were loose in the house, not in the kennel

An Interaction Designer's Thanksgiving.

Things we should be thankful for. From Dan Saffer.

German dogs. German coffee cake.

So, I haven’t yet finished WZT for this week. Sorry. But it is Thanksgiving. And a Thanksgiving around which we’re showing the house, too. Hopefully, we will have a tenant lined up soon. And as is customary in this house, we like to have really special treats for

Was Zum Teufel?!

Tuesday, Nov 13 -This week ushers in on the wings of holy matrimony. That’s right, dogs getting married. Today in New Dehli, India, Selva Kumar married a dog: In a ceremony befitting a beautiful Indian bride, the bitch, a former 10-year-old stray named "Selvi," was bathed and

NPR Soundclips.

I love Soundclips, a great segment on NPR. It’s like sound snapshots, which I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. Is there really an audible equivalent to a snapshot? Perhaps, but there won’t be as much identifiable information therein because sound is so much more a product

I want a Polaroid.

originally uploaded by sMacshot. More from the Polaroid genius, sMacshot. I love this series of hers. I’m going to try to hit a thrift store soon in search of an old Polaroid myself…. J’en veux un!

Was Zum Teufel?!

Tuesday, Nov 06 – During these days of falling cows, dancing dogs, severed lips, and feminine hygiene products being used to treat canine skin ailments, Oslo and Mies started the week off on an intellectual note. Oslo, who is helping me weed through my three back editions of the Sunday New

Better than an alarm clock.

originally uploaded by fast boy. A great photo from “fast boy”, one of my Flickr contacts. My mornings are like this, swapping this white dog with two Weims.

Hand Signals and the Design of Everyday Things.

When it’s not raining here in the Emerald City, I like to commute by bike. Part of being a responsible cyclist is following the rules of the road as any other moving vehicle and using standardized hand signals. A couple of weeks ago, I’m flying down the Counterbalance,

Was Zum Teufel?!

Tuesday, Oct 30 – With California’s blazes abating, I continue to put out fires here on the home front sans the Excel-driven planning and organizational precision of my dear husband. Last week it was Mies’s digestive system and the dishwasher going out. This week, it was fighting Weims. For