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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
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 “Coolâ€, 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….
links for 2007-11-12
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email that guy & ask for “eps”
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trippy.
links for 2007-11-11
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oh hey. that’s a cool idea.
links for 2007-11-10
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pretty freaking sweet.
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this is the year of the grid, apparently. nice JS bookmarklet, going to be using this a lot soon I think.(tags: grid javascripty)
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pretty decent suggestions. (having been a web generalist since before there were specialists. in my day, we had to layout 8 tables, both ways, in the snow.) and that reminds me of something….
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nowhere near good enough for production use IMHO, but an interesting thought experiment.
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yes, the basics.
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nothing too surprising, but worth it for the pyramid vs. pyramid graphic.
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C loves them, I think they taste nasty.
links for 2007-11-09
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slightly overweight people have the lowest death rates, then normal weight, then obese & underweight. how odd. according to their calculator, the weight I’ve plateaued at for the last week+ is just under the wire of a normal BMI. which means, technically,
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via Dylan W. this was very helpful today.
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sizes of banners. the math on placing these in the same design doesn’t seem to work, unless I’m missing something.
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also very useful. also via Dylan.(tags: grid photoshoppery)
links for 2007-11-08
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(text in Spanish) I like the ones with the little penguins, and the whole exercise reminds me of the Keds I wore through junior high, because of marching band, which always eventually got covered with 4-color ballpoint scrawls.
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beautiful. reminds me of…can’t remember his name. mexican-style artist who I saw at Tacoma Art Museum 15 yrs ago. would love to see her do something with LA maps.(tags: arts)
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alas, unsurprising to me. I spent 6 years working in a concrete bunker, and the building I’m in now had to have film put over the windows, when what it really needed was to have been designed with awnings.(tags: architecture)
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surprisingly easy.(tags: photoshoppery)
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I like the look of that thermos-style bento.
links for 2007-11-07
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cool & weird
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heh.
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I saw it last night! No, it didn’t look that cool, but I found it with the naked eye while standing in my backyard, and again w/binoculars. A definite greenish tinge, and a bit smudged in comparison to the nearby stars.
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This is something I want…although I also want a victorian-style monument. I love those. (Strange but true: for 16 years of my life I have lived just a short walk from a cemetery. I find them beautiful.)
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The neighborhood association does this! I had no idea there was a national center for it.