About splorp / Grant Hutchinson

I'm Male and Taken.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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Newton Your Dog Nose Mundane Details Apple Abusing Personal Technology Typographical Happenstance Power Lines Crazy Characters Urban Nature aPeeling Paint iPodCentral FlickrCentral Dogs! Dogs! Dogs! Macintosh Canon DSLR User Group Austin Bad Signs Hackers Mac Addicts Stuff in the Street Sky Typography and Lettering iChat Architecture Calgary Irony Cult of Mac Last.fmers (was audioscrobblers) Abstract Photos / LEGO Ephemera Dogs! It's Soup! Geometric Beauty Found on a Floppy Canon G series Blue Hue Green is Beautiful ROUGE. Textures atomic number 10 Crayonbox Wonders of Oxidation Rusty Old Cars Orangy Goodness Mellow Yellow S!gns Autumn Leaves Beautiful Clouds Long Exposure Words Desknotes numbers PowerBook & iBook pavement polaroid converse world domination! White Old Photos Urban Decay Stick Figures in Peril Zoo STENCIL manhole cover .:oh so:. bleu The Car Window Anything On White Alberta Meetup Group A Mechanical View Alloys & Metal Leaves (No Trees Please!!!) vintage electronics Pink precious purple Wacky Packages CommandShift3 Stripes Where in Calgary? Scrabble volvo The Small Print urban scrawls and scribbles MAKE Typeface Identification Veer Minimalism DoF Bed Hair streetwise Urban Skylines gossamer glimpse Suburbia background: sky Red White Blue Bisected Beautiful is Boring Bad Type 23 Urban Flattened stairways Shelter -- the Fallout Symbol A Hate-On for Arial horizontal P.I.A. Top-V, The Original 'Top Views' Group top-f [ 25+ faves ] Urban Fragments (No People) heavily-annotated My Desk Desk Space Industrial Decay PDA Handheld Devices Urban Abstracts Transition Linear Love All about the Chrome iFlickr clubhouse waferbaby Yellow Line TypeCon Red Line Blue Line Green Line White Line Black line Orange line Negative Space Utter Urbanity Impossible flags Red and Blue CommandShift4 Whippets Alberta lines Modern City Views (see description) Instructional Drawings Alternate.org Users Stopping Time Parking Garage Canon 20D Abstructure Alberta Floods, 2005 NO! Flickr Dawgz	The Rust Bucket :black:blue:white: concrete canvas Just Photos. Folk Typography Signpaintr Brown and Beige Unlimited! :black:yellow:white: appleStickr Less Is More... yellow \| orange \| red wiring / 配線 piping / 配管 Push Buttons utility pipes & meters ScreenShot bright colors on grey - no cutouts The Panopticon: Pictures Of Surveillance Cameras Maui, Hawaii Painful Upholstery, Caca Carpets MAXIMUM minimalism Vacationography Electronic Porn Litterae Antiquae Illumination \| Delicious Desktops League of the Empty Chair OMGWTFBBQ Autumn colors  The Car is Your Canvas Nouvelle Vague Nine FlickrFotoForum Object Sky Rotten Sneekers Old Computers Only Orange Glowing Apple Logo Hear Mubic Red Rule Vintage Computers Cracked Silian Rail X Marks the Spot Canadian Rockies Ant's Angle poetic shadows on walls Error Messages ♪NowPlaying Mac mini File Magazine windowsills Half Lost Signs Corrugated 68k Macintosh Liberation Army iPodtrait Helvetica Artful Ceilings Historical Calgary  Mac OS X Favorite Apps Guess that Apple The Apple Macbook & Powerbook Portrait tuaw MacWorld SF06 Pictures You Can't Take Anymore BeBox Chromeography Pallet Eaten Screen Grab Confab, vol. V Calgary Zoo Dead Computers Urban Markup Language WestJet - flight operations Urban Blues Grey / Gray CSSReboot Type Specimen Annotated life Buddy Mosaic I Like Grass Calgary Flickrmeets Apple Vintage Kensington dirty keyboard Annotated notes and sketches texture whores Canon EF-S 17-55mm 2.8 IS USM Lens Wash Your Hands Say Yeah Cork'd websiteasgraphs International Spectacular Architecture Ampersandland Doors without handles Ma.gnolia Film posters typeset in Trajan The Fried Chicken Pantheon – exteriors and signage The Unconscious Art Of Demolition Your books CHAIR Concrete MOO MiniCards Your Storage TUAW Desktops The Interestingest! Designer Wallpaper Everything's Geometry iPhone Just Desktops Vimeo Develops Control Panel Typophile Gas Meters Chicken On The Way geekLib{} Boston T Signs Twitter Just Keyboards Animal Signs FIRST Lego League Teams exit SXSWi 2007 Hivelogic Covert Hotel Hallways Web Directions North Hedges & Hedgerows Maccidents Macgasm Cross Of Nature The Items We Carry Amazing Alberta PrefPanes An Event Apart Chicago 2007 Apple Prototypes Fray: True Stories OAuth Television, Telephony and Radio Details of Railroading Butter Label Canadian Cars SXSW Interactive 2008 LUNAR ECLIPSE 2008 Magazine Pile

A bit more about splorp...

Hometown:	Calgary, Alberta
Occupation:	Interface considerations and feature deprecation
Interests:	Macintosh, Newton, Compunabula, Science Fiction, Dark Beer, Floppy Disks, Limes, Vintage Technology, Marmoleum, Soldering, Typography, Scrabble, Hot Sauce, Slinkys, Scrabble, Textures, Knobby Tires, Found Objects, Signage, Australian Cabernet Shiraz, Converse Chuck Taylor High Tops, Whippets, Woodtype, Slide Rules, Nixie Tubes, Coffee
Favorite Books & Authors:	Richard Feynman, Frank Herbert, William Gibson, Douglas Adams, Arthur C. Clarke, Bruce Tognazzini, Douglas Coupland, Jeffrey Zeldman
Favorite Movies, Stars & Directors:	A Mighty Wind, Best In Show, Dark Star, Raising Arizona, Altered States, Brazil, Blade Runner, Tron, Silent Running, Time Bandits, The Muppet Movie, The Princess Bride, Sneakers
Favorite Music & Artists:	Aerospace, Aleksi Virta, Arling & Cameron, Bad Religion, Barcelona, Beck, Bitshifter, Bloc Party, Blue Rodeo, Braces Tower, Cake, California Oranges, Chemical Brothers, Death By Chocolate, Depeche Mode, Dim Dim, Eels, Fantastic Plastic Machine, Fluke, Franz Ferdinand, Freezepop, Frente!, Homescience, Lake Holiday, Land of The Loops, Matthew Sweet, Okapi, Orbital, Pete Yorn, Pizzacato Five, Pop Will Eat Itself, Printed Circuit, Propellerheads, Puffy Ami Yumi, Rolling Calf Sinfonette, Rufus Wainwright, Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet, Stereolab, The Beagle Ranch, The Coconut Monkeyrocket, The Fatales, The Go! Team, The Grid, The Hives, The Presidents of the United States of America, The Strokes, They Might Be Giants, To Rococo Rot, Twizzle, Underworld, Weezer, Xymox

Testimonials

Grant Neufeld says:
"A geek among geeks (which, as anyone who knows me well may attest, is a very high compliment indeed)."

dvsjr says:
"A newton genius, designer and blogger with mad chops, helpful and all around nice guy. I point him out whenever someone mentions my compulsion for collecting arcane antique computer crap as a "like minded felon"."

mathewh says:
"Splorp. Wow. What can I say? He's a delightful chap what is keen on the type and all things design."

Slowtron says:
"He's a veritable creative machine. Oh, and he collects veritable creative machines. One day I think he'll open a museum dedicated to creative machines. I'm lucky enough to sit across from him everyday and even luckier to call him a curmudgeon, er friend.

Sometimes it's so easy to be better than everyone else."

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