Chasing My Own Tale
About that Electric Karmann-Ghia:
“It also, albeit more peripherally, occurred to me that many people would only see EVs as viable alternatives to the internal combustion engine if some could be built that could beat gassers in the ultimate test of automotive testosterone – the drag race.”
And so the journey begins. A journey I hope to take one day.
Top twelve most frequent English letters in print, in order, are “etaoinshrdlu” or “e-tao in shrd lu”
So, I’m guessing here, because they’re all the same height: Martin, Andy, Dave, Alan.
http://www.livejournal.com/community/depeche_mode/240003.html?#cutid1
Cute! Super cute!
Lately things have been really busy with work, classes, taxes, other groups I’m involved with, etc. Couple of tech items to note:
Rogue Amoeba’s Airfoil + radio show archives + Airport Express + stereo = “This American Life,” on demand.
My iPod is a constant companion. 90% of the time I’m sitting at a desk, I’m plugged into it. Still haven’t gotten it half way full. I’m planning on moving all of my MP3s from my laptop to the iPod and keeping a back up on my B&WG3 at home.
Still looking for a Bluetooth split-layout keyboard. All SLK’s have either been wired or use a customer non-Bluetooth wireless channel.
The sudden rise of interest in Bluetooth supported by new cell phone that I have for a subcontracting job (ie, I don’t use it for personal calls.) which is a Nokia 6230. iSync on the Mac OS X Panther does not support the device directly, through there’s third party solutions for Nokia Apple iSync issues. Maybe 10.4 (Tiger) will bring support for this cool phone.
The other day, Amy was telling me that the new Crest mouthwash is easier on the mouth, but has a curious side effect.
She said, “I thought you’d like to know that your wife now has a mouth full of Bluetooth.”
Have a look at this very cool animation/jazz piece that’s a great visual representation of a saxophone performance. It was really interesting and engaging to watch. Very satisfying ending as well.
WOW! Authentic proof that Apple has been looking in this direction for a long time. It’s basically a closed PowerBook Duo (see the label on the battery?) with the screen facing outward and molded into one piece (no clamshell). How fricken’ cool is this?!?!
I’d pay big money (if I had it) to get a hold of this puppy. Hell, I’d pay just to play with it for a couple of hours and the chance to download its contents. The guy says that there’s even some specialized software inside. I wonder how portable that might be… It would be OS 8 era, for certain, but it would still be great to play with!
Today I needed to proof a disc image and it was created by Nero, the Windows-only disc burning software. Fortunately it turn out that the easiest possible solution was available to me:
Nero images; how to burn or convert on X
“NGR images are essentially ISO images. You should be able to rename them and use them as ISO. […] You can most certainly rename the files. If they are indeed ISOs, then Disk Utility should have no problem with them.”
Basically, once I renamed the “promo-disc.ngr” to “promo-disc.iso” I had a standard disc image that I could double click. That launched it and mounted it as a new ‘volume’ or virtual disc on my Desktop.
Thanks to the Nero people and the Apple people for making that possible.
And then there was this:
Someone translated my Design method article into Spanish. Nice to know that it’s still considered a worthwhile piece of writing. 🙂
So Amy caught a segment of Loveline the other night and I got it clipped down to the part she wanted to make sure I heard. The guest was from Trading Spaces: Genevieve Gorder a designer on the show. Here’s her exchange with Adam and Dr. Drew about an hour into the show…
Adam: Do you enjoy the design in aircraft and automobiles and bridges and everything?
Genevieve: Yes, yes, everything. Everything I see.
Adam: Alright, favorite car. Do you have a favorite car?
Genevieve: Karmann-Ghia.
Dr. Drew: Oh really?
Adam: Mmm, mm hm. That’s nice… the Volkwagen. Yeah, alright.
Genevieve: If I were a car, that’s what I would be.
Dr. Drew: But you like the form, not the functional aspect of it…
Genevieve: Well form and function make…married together beautifully make good design. Great form and terrible function is still bad design. It has to work.
(Audio MP3 file, 182k for download)
I particularly like how she had that answer down pat. There was no question, not the slightest hesitation in her voice.
Check out the The Asdf Bookmarklet:
Anyone who ends up writing web forms gets tired of going through every field typing “asdf” in each of the blanks during testing. Also, any users of said forms end up getting tired of filling in “asdf” in each of the fields, until the form is satisfied enough for them to move on.
Very handy bookmarklet.
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