Sam and I always laugh at how different we are. One major difference is I love to read books, mostly ones with words. Currently, I am reading books on a variety of topics, everything from business, to life, to interesting topics I want to learn about. With so much information available on the internet, we both do a lot of reading and learning that way, but I still love the feel of grabbing a good book and going off to find a preferably sunny spot to enjoy it.

Sam's criteria for a good book, however, is one with less words and more pictures. Sam's all-time favorite books to read are..., yes, comic books. And magazines, does that count as a book? (We both love magazines!) Back to comics, though, his current favorite is the Ultimate Spiderman series and other super-hero stories.

Recently, though, we've both come to appreciate our differences. Sam managed to read through a whole short book on design, The Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda, that was recommended by a good friend of ours. And I finally read through a whole Spiderman comic, which Sam got for me as a gift, which is actually quite good!

Here's a fun project Sam worked on some time last year that I managed to dig up while "spring cleaning" my files. It is a line art drawing that Sam drew from an actual photo of me. I love the way it looks like a cartoon, and reminds me of Sam's love for comics!

Back to spring cleaning!