| super o'heroes |
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--from designrfix'spage of Comic Book Inspired Vector Artwork |
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| robotrafficcop |
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--Man -- some people get PAID to do "the robot"! Kind of makes me wish our traffic lights were smart and more aware of traffic waiting. I am unwilling to relocate to North Korea to get that however. |
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| short attention span theater |
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Increasingly, nowadays, the context for writing is a very short form utterance, with constant interaction. I worry that people will lose the ability to state a thesis in unambiguous terms and a clear logical progression. But because they'll be in instantaneous contact with their audience, they can restate their ideas as needed until ambiguities are cleared up and their reasoning is unveiled. And they'll be learning from others along with way. Making an elegant and persuasive initial statement won't be so important because that statement will be only the first step of many. Let's admit that dialog is emerging as our generation's way to develop and share knowledge. [...] If the Romantic ideal of the solitary genius is fading, what model for information exchange do we have? Check Plato's Symposium. Thinkers were expected to engage with each other (and to have fun while doing so). Socrates denigrated reading, because one could not interrogate the author. To him, dialog was more fertile and more conducive to truth. --Andy Oram, http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/01/pew-research-asks-questions-ab.html The other week at my UU Science and Spirituality reading group, one of the members asked "could I make a request? Could you finish a sentence before starting another one?" And I know I'm a tangential thinker, but I also think it is a different form of communication based less on the monologue and more on the classic dialog. Still, I tried to mold my sentences to be a little more complete before I uttered them, and preweed the tangents. |
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| befunk |
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BeFunky.com is a very cool website, lots of nifty photopshopy filters to play with. And yeah, I gotta get over this photo as my "go to" photo for image manipulation fun. Still it came out kinda nifty here. |
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| always wanted one of these!? well we've got two - you can have 'em both! |
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--Man, I gotta get my TV huckster voice going. |
| welcome to the working week |
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Something I wrote recently to rile up the Libertarian types who frequent a private message boards I sometimes frequent
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_statutory_minimum_employment_leave_... So of, like, all the Industrialized world, we're the one with no minimum leave. I know the Conservative/Libertarian view is it should be left strictly as a negotiation between employer and employee, but the fact is the base line for what's "typical" is awfully low here, getting 3 weeks feels like a triumph, when with many other places it would below the minimum. It also makes me think about "productivity". Increased productivity does correlate with higher unemployment, right? To some degree. Take it too far and it's worse for everyone. But a small company that's squeaking by with 3 employees doesn't want to higher a 4th til this all blows over... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_time - when I hear about how bad Unions are, I think about the bumper sticker that points out it's what brought us to a 5 day, 40 hour working week. I value the 2 day weekend so much i can barely imagine life w/o it. I think about this, from the great online mini graphic novel The Guy I Almost Was What I would be doing for a living? I didn't care. According to OMNI magazine, the technological changes of the Eighties were going to be so vast, so profound, that the job market would be unrecognizable by the time I entered the workforce. And of course that's a fantasy. But why? If it could work like that, would it be better? Or at least splitting the difference? Heh, Lex, maybe with your studies in Utopia/Dystopia, youi can tell me which that would be... |
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| smart monster |
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--I always wanted this kind of look for the Honda Civic Hatchback I had in the 90s or my current Scion xA... that, or just mad hydraulics to go jump, jump down the street.
via Archmage's Friday Pix, always a nice weekly read. |
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| beeracer time trials |
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beeracer TT - source - built with processing Made for THE 371-IN-1 KLIK & PLAY PIRATE KART II: KLIK HARDER. |
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| what's the big todo |
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Five years and one day ago I posted my "big project" Todo list. A year and a half ago I went back to that page, crossed out the stuff I had gotten done, italicized the stuff that didn't matter to me any more.
Time to remake that list! Now organized by site/field of interest. kisrael.com
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| playlist: season_2009 4 winter |
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Like I made after last summer and
the fall, here is a list of the music I discovered or rediscovered and added into my collection over December through February.
(I like putting the new music in really heavy notation for a while, so it becomes more a part of my life than it would otherwise before going into the mix with the 2,000 other songs I deem iPod-worthy.) So, most interesting is the (fairly?) new music I ran into: 3 cheers for Shazam and its ability to ID a tune, and 3 cheers for friends who keep me in mind in their own musical journeys and send me sugestions - or sometimes it's just "making the rounds" online.
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| did you mean: alright |
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I'm weirdly captivated by the "makes me a big deal. Ha ha." part of this add for Palm at South Station.
In a similar note, I'm both amused and alarmed at what I've been teaching my iPhone auto-correct... 
I went with Amber and Kjersten to see the Alice in Wonderland. The "lightshow" they do beforehand is kind of boring (but where else is one going to hear Big Bad Voodoo Daddy these days?) so we made our own fun with pictures. 
Kjersten apparently had a lot of trouble getting just the right shot of me and Amber so I made a montage of this series... 
smal gif cinema version: 
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| the ape in someone else |
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The other day I was wondering around and found a used book store in the basement of the Old South Meeting House.... I picked up a book, "The Ape in Me" by Cornelia Otis Skinner. She's a bit like Thurber and Dorothy Parker with a touch of Erma Bombeck, writing here in the late 50s. Anyway, in the entire book, a single passage was outline in pencil (with "hell") double outlined:
It's usually into the outer hallway where, after bustling into wraps and coats, they come to a dead halt. And there they linger because they all at once recall an anecdote they've forgotten to tell you, or they feel obliged to repeat some of the ones they've already told you, and there you stand on one foot, then the other, trying to make polite response and hoping that the wan leer on your face is concealing the ardent wish in your hear that they'd get the hell on out.I just like the rage and frustration expressed in choosing that particular passage...  ...also I was a little surprised at the amount of breastage on the cover. |
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| spidercon |
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spidercon - source - built with processing Actually I modified it from the Pirate Kart version; originally the control was just like beetimetrials, where you used the dial to control the direction and thrust of the bee. Now, however, the control is relative to the current position of the Bee, which means you can use the mouse as a rough form of aiming. (But you have to watch out and not gain too much speed, lest you go crashing into the spider you're trying to take down.) Made for THE 371-IN-1 KLIK & PLAY PIRATE KART II: KLIK HARDER. |
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| rocket dorkicus |
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rocketdorkicus - source - built with processing With both versions of Dorkicus, it's interesting how it feels like it would be a very different game if the goal was stated as "shove blocks at your opponents side" vs "bring blocks to your own side". (I didn't have a good idea for the color coding for the former case, so I went with the latter... also it feels like more complex of a goal somehow.) Made for THE 371-IN-1 KLIK & PLAY PIRATE KART II: KLIK HARDER. |
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