February 2009
71 posts
“in an architecture of content, the information becomes the interface.”
– edward tufte
January 2009
69 posts
sing it loud.
if i would ever, EVER, find myself...
“marshmallows + chocolate + smore poptarts + fire - yes a smore made with smore...”
– luis
the original post isn’t really about this at all but OH MY GOD why did i never think of doing this.
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quoting myself only because i am rarely this...
nik: ah well, i look at them more like
nik: circles spread out across a large area
nik: rather than in a line
nik: if each circle was a relationship
nik: so i try not to relate them to each other too too much, especially my younger ones
nik: because i mean let's face it young people are retarded
“the beauty i have seen i cannot keep
it seems the more i dream
the less i want...”
– the jealous sound “above the waters”
weird feeling: when you feel like you’re sleeping too much and not getting enough sleep at the same time.
“all our accidents were purposeful and felt
stripped of providence or any way to...”
– the weakerthans, “benediction”
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first impressions
the first thing i said to my feminist art history professor included the word “tits”.
quick searches
grahamgrafx:
geoweasel:
I hate it when I mistake the Google search bar for the address bar.
It seems I do that a lot as well.
use quick searches, and eliminate the google search bar altogether. type “google whatever” in your address bar and it will function like the search bar. applicable to any site with a search form (right click on it and select “add a keyword for this...
diseases that make lovely baby girl's names →
found this on wordie. the comments are particularly interesting:
These are great names for fantasy role playing gaming.
“Like designers, if you give a programmer a problem with parameters, they’ll...”
– programmers are tiny gods via slantback and brocatus
okay, i am really getting sick of both designers and programmers with their high-horse shit. you shouldn’t have to approach your designer or your programmer with caution, they should be willing and ready to take whatever you throw at them...
feelings on nielsen
Vidar: i've read some of nielsen's "actual" stuff and it's like
Vidar: yeah that's cool, and BORING.
Vidar: if that's what the internet is gonna look like, i'd rather use lynx
nik: nielsen's stuff is not to be applied to the final style of anything, ever
nik: it is relevant to underlying structure
nik: i would never let that man touch a font or a hex color
nik: it would wither and die under his touch
first month reading list: selected chapters
Edward Tufte: Visual Explanations
- the smallest effective difference - parallelism: repetition + change, comparison + surprise - multiples in space + time - visual confections (story) (pretty much the second half of the book)
Edward Tufte: Visual Display of Quantitative Information
- sources of graphical integrity + sophistication - chart junk: vibrations, grids and ducks -...
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speculations on the absurdity of myself having a...
fwarg: "stfu mommy is on photoshop"
fwarg: "husband, I am tired of this child"
fwarg: "nik...she's only 3 days old"
“we’re talking about me being punched in the face… in relation to...”
– lee to jeremy as he walked into a heated discussion about how duchamp’s fountain is like me punching lee in the face.
how nerds talk dirty
cubicle17: I have naked Moleskines begging for stickers.
nik-: naked and waiting huh?
cubicle17: That's what they tell me
cubicle17: Giggity.
“inside your point and clicking industry
you overlooked the heart in me
this is...”
– - her space holiday, “the young machines”
found this by random downloading. i knew i would love this artist as soon as i let the words ‘her space holiday’ sink in. quirky, electronic and a little fucked up at times. just how i like it.
“one size fits most… anorexics.”
– kat, re: thigh highs
re: women's college
"i cannot live around this much vagina"
"it is inhumane"
"oh god please my whole floor has their period at the same time"
pfft, of course i do.
fwarg: if you honestly judged your friends from tumblr
fwarg: it would be a sad world
inky: what do you mean?
fwarg: I would think inky was a blowhard who insists on sucking up to everyone by +
fwarg: and that nik spends all of her time in a basement with photoshop open
fwarg: thinking
fwarg: how could I make something cute
inky: so nik really doesn't sit in a basement all day making cute, physically deformed animals in photoshop?
reasons to major in art (1 of 1)
inky: my college experience is almost the exact opposite of naked people
“I left because I was curious. And because I was tired. Life as a human contains...”
– - gilbert in sandman #16
some context for the previous post title. if you haven’t read the sandman you are missing out on quite an experience. do it for the art, the mythology, the contemporary tie-ins, the words, the humor and the always delicate picking apart of man and his ways.
the little victories, and the tiny defeats
awesome: realizing that by combining the outline property and the border property, i can achieve a two-color double border effect with no extra markup!
suck: if you use text-indent to hide text on an element inside of something with a visible outline, the outline stretches as far as you indent your text :(
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freelancing ideas
fetherston: i was joking, i could totally see you working on a sex related site
nik-_: i'd be so into it
nik-_: my mom would be so not-proud of me
fetherston: hahahah
fetherston: i would
nik-_: "nik i am not amused"
we rape out of love
nik-_: so i can crash there if i ever come to visit
nik-_: without having to worry about raep
Rentun: well
Rentun: you'll still have to worry about it
Rentun: just not by him
nik-_: duly noted
nik-_: dont bitch and moan next time i decline then
nik-_: assface
Rentun: you know
Rentun: I'd brush it off
Rentun: but I know that you would LEGITIMATELY worry about that if you ever did visit
nik-_: well i mean
nik-_: it's not like you guys haven't all been cracking rape jokes
nik-_: since like
nik-_: we first started talking on the internet
Rentun: touche
Rathmar: would you rather we didn't crack rape jokes
Rathmar: I never want a girl to feel unwanted
Rentun: just staying true to my roots hun
Rathmar: so I crack the rape jokes
Rentun: yeah
Rentun: we rape out of love nik
joe: i got this 'life' thing under control, shits 2ez imo
nik: then pump it up
nik: to eleven
joe: haha
joe: theres been a signifigant increase in pop culture related allusions from you over the past 3 years
toki doki sample sale: nyc →
january 22-25th, address in the link. 60-80% current and past collections.
oh my god this might break my bank account.
“ignore the stuff that doesn’t make sense”
– re: current project @ work jeremy knows how to get things done
“i must, we must never stop watching the sky with our hands in our pockets,
stop...”
– the weakerthans - “sounds familiar”
knitting
ktroseknows:
when I get out of work to get started on learning how to knit! Anyone know how? Or have any idea what materials I should pick up?
most certainly! pick up the klutz knitting book/kit - it’s what i learned with. klutz forever, yo. that company taught me how to do so many random things as a child. the book comes with size 8 wooden needles. you may want to grab your own pair - i...
structural tags in HTML5 →
section header footer nav article and aside
i have been drooling at the idea of this for so long. i will most certainly have to utilize them in upcoming projects. what a sexy start to a monday morning.
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