Archive for November 2007
trying to wind down
easing out of hours in front of shiny boxes by pondering the rain and the past.
links for 2007-11-16
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fabulous LOLCats comment on Shelley’s post. (I want to find that Joe Clark quote about being a curmudgeon…..)
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Interesting. Dunno.(tags: creditunion web_dev)
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Yes, this would’ve been my preference too.
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horrible install experience, then “they waited for two hours on a bench outside before being told that the manager had left for the day”, and then…..
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sounds tasty, like making tortillas at home, but more poofy.
links for 2007-11-15
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just something to keep in mind as I sit at this plateau. (also, it’s very similar to falling back into depression.)
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gah. and/or, WTF?
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I hope Chia actually sent this to the city council, and didn’t just post it to OlyBlog, because that’s a damn good point. There’s got to be ways to engage all that energy into something that builds rather than blocks.
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I’ve had that exact same thought. (The classic example: Sharepoint.)
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space news
scatter
in which the author rambles on for a while.
links for 2007-11-14
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I liked them, C was not so thrilled.
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I once had a cube that had a wooden column in the center of the entrance, was next to the main printer, and got no natural light. (You could see it passing overhead in the summer.) If I had a nickel for every joke about the column…well, I probably woul
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as in, curly fries will kill you.
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“When Elaine turned 11, her mother sent her to train under Donald Knuth in his mountain hideaway.” heh.
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yay!
links for 2007-11-13
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“increased problems are causing users to work on shortcuts to bypass the increased security”
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“A typical response from a customer was: “When I see a picture like that I just think marketing. […]” yep. the happy smiling people get less and less effective over time.
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I recently used some of this on a design comp.(tags: photoshoppery)
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From the comments: “Please remove yourself from my brain.” Many many many of these bits map themselves onto my life. “Next time you hear “Cool”, I want you to ask, “What’d I just say?”” Guilty as charged.
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I am very often like this when I get home. Interesting that yoga is a suggestion for breaking out of it. (When is that yoga class finally going to start?)(tags: personal)
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weird page ;-p(tags: gaming)
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(tags: gaming)
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I wish I’d known this much when I was writing stuff for the website. I need to get better at my journalistic skillz. Alas, I hated hated hated my journalism classes.(tags: creditunion)
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a research project about megacities. also, includes largest cities for 1000, 1500, 1800, 1900, 1950 & 2005.
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interesting. I’m not sure what I’d do with it right now, but….
