come on, now.
i hear you’re feeling down.
well i can ease your pain,
get you on your feet again.
relax.
i need some information first.
just the basic facts,
can you show me where it hurts?
there is no pain, you are receding.
a distant ship’s smoke on the horizon.
you are only coming through in waves.
your lips move but i can’t hear what you’re sayin’.
I love naming things for the sake of naming them. Especially things that don’t have a reason for being named in the first place.
Below is the list of names for my assorted hard drives mentioned earlier.
The astute reader will notice:
The pump n’ dump spammers are finally hiring MS Paintbrush schooled art directors to improve their images.
My iBook G4 had a 60GB internal hard disk which I once thought would last forever. The PowerBook G4 I’m using today has 100GB, which is comfortable for music, photos and the documents I’m working on currently.
Today I picked up a 320GB external HD by Western Digital. Slick.
I finally have breathing room to place all my movies and old documents somewhere else. Much better this way.
I’m also using my pocket-sized 80GB WD Passport exclusively for backups of documents, pictures and email. Will do my very best to back these up weekly.
The hard disk tally:
Five years from now we will look at this post and laugh.
I am mentally debating whether I should post books/movies/comics/products I’ve liked in the past into consuming. The upside is that the site becomes an increasingly complete overview of everything that goes into shaping who I am, while the downside is that it’s a lot of work over a lot of time with no real benefit. :)
On a different note: I never keep boxes or instruction manuals for things I buy.
when you’re a web-developer, every situation you confront becomes an idea for a site.
when you’re writing scripts, situations becomes ideas for films.
or television series.
situations become problems looking a business solution.
or ideas for a piece of art.
it all depends on how we choose to view our surroundings.
…it feels like being locked inside a glass box.
Laugh all you want, but back in July 2002 I actually plotted how many photos I took per month with my P5.
Good news is that I did not keep up the prolificity.
I’m a huge supporter of the OLPC (”$150 Laptop”) project, but not smart enought to write anything clever about it. So here are my thoughts, stolen from today’s NYTimes:
Seymour Papert, a computer scientist and educator who is an adviser to the project, has argued that if young people are given computers and allowed to explore, they will “learn how to learn.” That, Mr. Papert argues, is a more valuable skill than traditional teaching strategies that focus on memorization and testing.
The idea is also that children can take on much of the responsibility for maintaining the systems, rather than relying on or creating bureaucracies to do so.
Everyone who claims that “third-world countries are better off spending the money on food and infrastructure” are completely missing the point.
A sign you’ve been watching Heroes far too much. :)
I have not yet chimed in on the PS3 vs. Wii “battle”, though everyone knows I’ll be picking up a Wii some time soon, and have no plans in hell on getting close to a PS3. The Onion nails the argument better than I ever could anyway:
102,981,500 is a number calculated in the 1974 for a particular reason. I just noticed the correct one is actually 102,981,504, as the figure was originally rounded down. I still have the former memorized, in swedish.
Props to whoever finds out what the hell I’m talking about.
Having a DSLR means carrying lenses*, which means carrying a nifty camerabag, which means thinking twice: if you’re actually going to use the camera while outside.
The economics to this decision tend to go against taking the camera along. The heft and weight and bulk add up very quickly. So from now on, I figure, coming back home with one good shot accounts for a success. :)
* eventually.
A fellow named Laser 3.14 has been tagging some witty, semi-philosophical phrases on construction boards around town at least since I got here. He seems to be particularaly fond of the Jordaan and Westerpark area, and you can’t go far without running into one or more of his tags.
I love streetart in general. Laser’s tags are always amusing to spot, and impossible to condone as graffiti since it’s always on done on temporary boards. I do my best to photograph them, and were I a bit more diligent in tagging (heh) the photos on flickr, you’d find a few dozen more pics here.
The laser314 tag has tons more.
Leela: “There is already a soda like that. It’s called Soylent Cola.”
Fry: “So, how does it taste?”
Leela: “It varies from person to person.”
“Any chat with video quickly becomes an excercise of show and tell”
~ ricky
I could not agree more. :)
I HATE SITES THAT DON’T LINK TO ARTICLES THEY’RE TALKING ABOUT OR FEATURE PICTURES THEY’RE TALKING ABOUT
(I would link to the offending “blog” post that pissed me off, but unsurprisingly that particular blog doesn’t use permalinks.)
aligning 20 logos to a grid is not as easy as it sounds. logos are ungriddable.
Dear Apple,
Please standardize the assigning of stars to objects across your apps. iPhoto has us pressing command-[number], Aperture a combination of 0 and \ and =, while iTunes doesn’t even supply keyboard shortcuts.
Bad Apple.
Short of taking amazing photos, the trick to getting attention to your shots on Flickr seems to be twofold:
The former works because it’s organic and feels natural. The latter feels wrong to me. Plus it’s a huge hassle to use groups. Clunky and poorly thought out.
I’ll be retiring the domain inspira.art.br in a short while… The project itself has been on hiatus since 2003, and I haven’t been using the email address for much too long. Furthermore, I have no plans or intentions on doing anything useful with the site in the future. Too many other, exciting things to do. :)
So if you still have my @inspira.art.br in your address book, please update to my @gmail.com.
(this was really, really not my kind of place.)
What if the Caller ID funtion on your phone also showed where the caller is located? I imagine the Jaiku’s and Plazer’s of this world are probably working on something like this, but I want it now.
The call already answers the Who (Caller ID), When (now or past timestamp), Why (contextual) and the What (the call itself). All we’re missing is the Where.
It’s dead easy for the operators to figure out from the location of their cells. If there’s enough resolution, they should give us the streetname or neighbourhood; if not, city or at worst country. It’s only a few bits to send along with the GSM packets.
A pity they’d charge us an extra €9.99 per month for the privilege of sending this data.
So Tess is having her book published in the very near future. I’ve been helping out a tad with refreshing her personal homepage, taking some time to future-proof the code to implement the bigger changes we’ve got in mind. Nothing major.
Tess also said Omega-3 helps to combat The Darkness© and Rain. Must give it a try.
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