March 2009
54 posts
“The point is to get it right, not to win the case, not to sweep under the rug...”
– Edward Tufte, Visual Explanations
February 2009
71 posts
“battle it with unhealthy food and booze for max dmg
tequila offers a 50% chance...”
– Nik is my primary care provider via zoya
re: how to handle a cold
best request ever
I mean, if you look at a page of some list you have its as if you had it all in your head already and you put it to paper so the thoughts wouldn’t overload your brain, you dig. So, what is this voo-doo magic you have. I want to pick your brain and devourer whatever it is that makes your mind strong with function but still gushing with form. Long story short: Teach me how you organize and...
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referring to the guy i had the phone conference...
niK: fucking "paper protocol" and shit
joe: its so easy to make you have a heart attack
joe: fyi *client* stalked you
joe: he said he read your twitter and saw that you put "i've never done a phone conference before"
nik: hahahahaha
joe: i laughed and was like
joe: ya
joe: shes something else
so this guy arranged lots of crayons to look like...
christian faur:
“I have assembled more than one hundred thousand hand cast crayons of varying colors and shades to produce a body of work that, to the best of my knowledge, is unlike anything done before in art.”
i am pretty sure that making images out of repeated, small elements has been done only five hundred million times before. just because you picked “crayons” to be your...
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keeping it real
client: so will having this blog thing be contributing to the... um, collective mass of pollution [on the internet]?
me: yeah, kind of.
client: okay.
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a new record?
my ibook hasn’t been restarted in 87 days and 23 hours.
when you ask a programmer to describe an absent...
luis: it had like some colors on it
luis: maybe green
luis: probably purple
“some call me all kinds of names
some say i don’t play the right kind of...”
– the weepies - hideaway
“when all we want is to be enough
when all we want is to feel enough”
– lydia keeps me floating between happiness, sadness and sweetness. also, this song is called “hospital”
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docx to html converter widget for mac os x →
winner!
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owned
so this class I’ve been trying to get registered (to graduate and all) is $950. nine hundred and fifty fucking dollars. one class. by the way, I go to a state school.
oh and it has to be paid today. like this afternoon.
I almost burst into tears in the bursars office.
talking about the paint on the wall (irl...
nik: yeah it's about #ccc [at home]
marco: that looks way darker than #ccc, maybe more like #aaa?
nik: darker, even. i'd say like #999.
alex: ....
marco: okay i'm going to leave now.
nextnewnetworks iphone wallpaper: round one →
yeeeeeeah coming soon to a mobile site near you!
different strokes and all that
Rentun: "I'M WIKIPEDIAING POMAGRANATES"
Rentun: "OHHHH GOD YESSSS SUCH A RICH HISTORY"
Rentun: "MMMMM YEAH THIS IS A GREAT LIFEHACK"
Rentun: that fantasy sounds really really un-hot nik
Rentun: I can't make it sound sexy at all
nik-: well it's not your fantasy, faggot
why mobile websites?
matt thommes:
The intention was clearly to make viewing this site on the iPhone much easier.
But if the iPhone’s internet is “just the internet,” shouldn’t any moderately standards-based site work just fine?
sites do display just fine on the iphone, but there (at least) are a couple of reasons driving people to make iphone-specific mobile sites:
no matter how...
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“know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from...”
– more from instructions by neil gaiman. after seeing coraline, i was completely taken with the desire to reread this poem. many times.
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#tumblrs goes to skype?
majorthomme: so there was this episode of battlestar galactica-
fwarg: okay just stop. stop right now.
“As Herbst LaZar Bell properly emphasizes, the real challenge to product design...”
– donald a. norman, emotional design
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love job, etc
*photoshop open with screenshot of tumblr*
ian: making a fake valentine?
nik: yeah, someone mentioned the goatse likeness
ian: oh yeah, i've done hearts and goatse before.
ian: you could make the hearts the cheeks.
nik: already there.
hmph
Rentun: compared to you nik, everyone here is boringly sane
Gackto: [21:51] because the other girls are fucking psychos
Gackto: [21:51] that you guys drag in from who knows where
extremely useful information:
so it seems that the iphone functions as a fairly decent bonefolder.
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what my 'network browser checklists' usually look...
network name:
text shadows misaligned hp ie6+7
xyz fucked up ie6
ie7 top ad RANDOM AS SHIT
nav-dropdown ie6 fix’d
you can use your imagination to fill up a page or so with this. yay! sometimes it looks like i just wrote swear words all over my paper.
“There’s not a word yet, for old friends who’ve just met.”
– Jim Henson
