Conrad Farms Market Website and Shopping Cart

Conrad Farms Market is a family owned market and farm located in Bixby, just outside of Tulsa.

Design credit:
Kellen

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My boys and their chicks

Anders, Ari, and Asa with Dabby, Chickadee, and Sassy.

We got our chicks about a week ago. So far they have spent almost the whole of their time in my compost pile eating bugs.

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Phxated.com restyled

RadiantCMS website made with commentary and news about the local arts and media scene. PHXated.com

design credit: Kenny Bump

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Aeronetworks.net

A customized RadiantCMS website made for a knowledgeable resource on satellite communications, aeronetworks.net

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Human Brain Compared to Pilot Whale and Elephant

I was stuck by the thought of how big an elephant’s head is. What kind of brain must be in there? And what kinds of thoughts is it capable of? On a Diane Rehm show about elephants the woman that works with these animals said they were capable of telepathy.

Human brains although a little smaller compares well to the elephant and whale brains.

What it would take for humans to learn to communicate with these other animals? Could we be allies?

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Midwest Bike Polo Championships 8

Facing off against Como’s A-team.

My first time in Minneapolis, Minnesota. What a cool city! The streets were truly alive at night which being from Oklahoma kind of shocked me. The Tournament was great too. I played with the “Polo Furries” from Florida, we got 7th out of 48. I really enjoyed playing with Jerret and Jason and learned a lot in the process. It was also my best finish yet.

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PHXated.com

PHXated was started by Bill Wyman to focus on commentary and news about the Phoenix arts and media scene and since launch as amassed over 400 blog articles.

Article written by Yuri one of PHXated’s three new contributors

There is still an equally large part of this site covering events and happenings in Phoenix that is preparing to launch.

See the latest about the news in Phoenix at PHXated.com.

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Split-Lever Polo Brake

Idea from Chris Bottles on
League of Bike Polo

This kind of dual-brake setup would rule the court if it existed. The key is that the outer back brake could pull independently allowing you to skid and the inner front brake could pull together with the outer for immediate stop.

I’m pretty sure no one has ever made a split-lever brake before. In hardcourt bike pole we ride with one hand so this seems like a natural evolution. I can’t take credit for the idea but maybe drawing it out is enough to warrant me co-inventor status.

If anyone out there makes this part please send me a sample to test.

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Bubble Worlds

In Tulsa there are only about 12 polo players. We’ve met twice a week for the past year and had a great time. The style of play that developed was fun and challenging.

Photo by Pdillo at Tracy Park, Tulsa

Mainly one person played goalie and two took on two looked for openings and took nice close shots on goal. It wasn’t especially fast-passed. People didn’t exactly pull out in front of you to “stop short”. There wasn’t a huge amount of hard hacking or aggressive play. In short, we lived in a bubble.

A few months ago we went to a bike polo tournament in Columbia, MO. It was the first time our club had gotten out of our city to play other teams. Our insular circle collided with an other larger circle and things changed.

Our game is now about speed. Now everything is about fast-breaks and pushing the ball up. The goalie is obsolete. The intensity is over the top. We’re like Piranha circling and nipping at the ball and anything within our reach.

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Early look at the new PHXated.com

PHXated is part blog and part events listing. The blog will launch later this week and the events listing will be following over the next few weeks.

A challenge was the DRY concept of not restating the dates for multiple posts on the same date.

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Promise Acres Arena

Promise Acres Arena started July 27th, completion August 11th. Launch Date: August 12th.

Promise Acres Arena has a nice CMS to handle updates, events, and sales. Design, content, plus business logic delivered in two and a half weeks.

It’s still a work in progress but go ahead and take a look: PromiseAcresArena.com

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Midwest Polo Champeenships

It’s totally on!

Tulsa has been playing bike polo for almost a year and this will be our debut tournament. We’re all totally stoked to try out our skills against some real competition.

If you’ve got a team, you want to be on a team, or just want to go please let me know in the comments. We could easily take three teams. There is plenty of housing so no worries there. We’re going down the night before.

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Top Sales Agent Job

Oh yes! I will take that.

I’ve been the chief web developer, designer, project manager, and sales agent for years. Although I like the independence of it, I now see the usefulness of a team. I’ve got the web development and design part nailed down but I think I could use help in the sales department and maybe project management area.

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Up With Trees T-Shirt

Enjoy Forest Living!

Update: This contest was reopened and I was able to enter this shirt design. No news back if I won but if I do I’ll be pretty stoked to see these on the streets.

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New Poster Fontset

After years of hand-drawing letters I thought maybe I’d just go ahead and complete the set.

Making my own fontset was a bit more work then I initially realized. I knew about the twenty-six letters of course but then there’s upper and lower case. On top of that, there’re the numbers and twenty plus special symbols.

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Image Intensive Headers

Blue boxes are drawn around the individual assets

Creating a layered header by cutting small transparent .gifs and weaving them together with html and css delivers smooth sharp loading even on slow internet connections. This approach is a lot of extra work and most people may not notice much difference but to me it’s totally worth it.

This site can be seen at DaddyHinkles.com. If you visit them please leave them a comment and let them know how much you like their new website.

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