05/05/10 01:02 - 76ºF - ID#51510

Lunch

This is Adobe's fault. GRAR.

tinypliny writes at 09:45:14 05/06/10 - Comment #56086: I think it oozes down from his hair.

jim writes at 09:44:55 05/06/10 - Comment #56085: Same pic as in my "chop chop" journal.

jim writes at 09:44:29 05/06/10 - Comment #56084: Ha. Resize smushiness.

paul writes at 09:07:44 05/06/10 - Comment #56083: Holy crap you look so young in your new userpic, where do you get your botox done? ;)

jim writes at 08:56:34 05/06/10 - Comment #56082: It's a margarita, as in Adobe drove me to drink on my lunch break.

tinypliny writes at 08:10:54 05/06/10 - Comment #56081: btw, I never understood the connection between adobe and that milk shake on the table. Is is some sort of insult? :)

jim writes at 07:40:25 05/06/10 - Comment #56079: No not at all! I was just clarifying what I was looking for and then ranting a bit more :)

tinypliny writes at 06:34:44 05/06/10 - Comment #56078: I think exorbitantly priced pieces of software are all written by dissatisfied coders who get fired frequently. Every bit of code is a forced patchwork on someone else's sloppy ill-paid discontented piece of code. I only have to look at SAS and (windoze 7) to identify with what you are saying.

tinypliny writes at 06:31:54 05/06/10 - Comment #56076: man, looks like I uttered the wrong word. (It's only what you'd expect from an oppressed windoze user). ;-)

jim writes at 10:28:56 05/06/10 - Comment #56067: Tinypliny: myPaint is not a native Mac app. It's built on top of python GTK with SWIG as a cross platform tool, so it's not for me. My Adobe issues strongly relate to its cross platform inadequacies and bugs.

It's not about looks, it's about function. Which is *not* to say it's about a feature list. I mean a consistent work experience -- without requiring extensive, fragile, customization that must be repeated across multiple machines.

It's about what you can drag and drop to and from. Text navigation and editing with standard key commands. The ability to control UI elements via the keyboard with standard OS accessibility features. File system layouts that put things in the right places. Installs that don't spew randomness into every nook and cranny of the system. File proxy icons in title bars that allow jumping to the right folder. Maximizing and minimizing correctly. Staying running when visible windows are closed when a multi-doc app. Not prompting for out of band issues modally.

Just a bunch of little things that add up to either happy flow or else frustration when you're working fast and just trying to get something done instead of thinking about how you're doing it.

I'm getting too old and cranky to accept anything else.

tinypliny writes at 10:20:04 05/05/10 - Comment #56063: myPaint?

paul writes at 07:00:14 05/05/10 - Comment #56062: Ya too bad that inkscape sucks so bad on the mac, its almost unusable. It works well on linux and has been a great illustrator substitute for me, minus gradient meshes. I wonder if its all adobe CS5 products or just the ones on mac.

metalpeter writes at 06:48:00 05/05/10 - Comment #56061: I can't make wish I could go out Someplace for Cinco De Mayo (Even If I could I'm so broke well at least till thurs, It wouldn't really be fun), Hope everyone has a great time.

jim writes at 06:07:18 05/05/10 - Comment #56059: I couldn't get Fireworks CS4 to load without it maximizing bigger then my monitor (seriously it opened to 5000px by like 2000px), thus pushing all its controls above the menubar inaccessibly, and then finally when I deleted the preference plist when it would open all the UI components were brokenly connected to each other, so it was impossible to see some controls without deleting preference plist and restarting about 20 times until finally I lucked out on a working layout. Then CS5 photoshop or CS5 fireworks, which I tried the demo of, would respectively crash on resizing PNG's or crash on trying to save.

I've paid adobe around $3k over the years for software and have never once had an iteration of their products that hasn't put me in a foul mood by letting my down over simple shit like starting, quitting, saving, or resizing. The worst was the joy of the 6 month period where anytime I tried to select a different font any open CS4 app would crash lasted about 6 months, despite reinstalling my entire OS and CS4 several times in a vain attempt to get a working install. I still am not sure how it got fixed, one complete re-install finally did it.

CS5 was supposed to focus a lot on stability, and I'm still kinda hoping it might be a worthwhile upgrade. But at this point I think I'll vote with my dollars and just stop buying Adobe products.

I've found Opacity.app to be a decent replacement for drawing UI elements, and Aperture is great for photography. I'll just need to find a replacement vector editor and my Adobe days will be over.

(And Gimp is out of the question due to using X11, unfortunately.)

paul writes at 05:40:06 05/05/10 - Comment #56058: What happened with adobe?

mrmike writes at 04:34:23 05/05/10 - Comment #56053: Those bastards!! putting frosty beverages in close promixity like that

james writes at 02:12:31 05/05/10 - Comment #56049: JIM!

I am going to Fugazi with Jobst for Cinco de Mayo. You should come.

That is also true for all you estripers. I will be there around 9-9:30.

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05/01/10 12:48 - 73ºF - ID#51485

Chop Chop

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Formica Sunrise

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04/20/10 11:38 - 49ºF - ID#51424

Vacation & Conference

I'm super excited. I'll be in Portland, OR from 5/26 to 6/5.

The last few days of the trip are to attend the Open Source Bridge Conference, which just looks completely awesome.

Very happy and this will be the first real vacation, non-family, long distance, etc, I've had in a really long time.

(e:James) is going to tag along too, so we'll hopefully paint the town red. James says that the town has the highest per-capita rate of both strippers and micro-breweries in the country, so we should have a lot of fun ^_^

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04/12/10 08:41 - 50ºF - ID#51390

Yay

4431m new record

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04/11/10 07:01 - 54ºF - ID#51376

Mode

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04/03/10 10:54 - 74ºF - ID#51318

iPad

Happy birthday to me :)

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04/03/10 10:02 - 63ºF - ID#51317

Greasy Honky Pie

GREASY HONKY PIE

You will need the following:
- ground beef, maybe half a kilo? ish?
- family size box of mac & cheese
- a packet of taco seasonings, maybe two
- tater tots
- mashed potato, preferably left over from like 3 days ago
- delicious shredded cheese product of your choice
- casserole dish at least an inch or so deep
- an oven (you'd think this was obvious, right? guess again.)

01. bake tater tots on a baking sheet until crunchy as all hell
02. make entire box of mac & cheese
03. stir-fry the ground beef in the greasy frying substance of your choice
04. mix in the taco seasoning
05. lightly butter casserole dish, and line it with tater tots. LIKE A DELICIOUS PIE CRUST OF TATERY AWESOMENESS
06. mix the mac & cheese up with the taco-y beef. feel free to do this in a giant bowl, using your hands. hungrily devour enormous handfuls when no one is looking. share it with the doggy and then feel guilty for not washing your hands after. >_>
07. dump it in your tater pie crust
07a. if you're using a really deep casserole dish, you can put in a second layer of tots before adding the rest of the beefyroni.
08. smear mashed potatos on top in a shepherd's pie-esque manner
09. put it in the oven at like, 350 or something, til the mash on top gets crusty
10. dump a fuckton of grated cheese on top and put it back in the oven til the cheese is bubbly
11. NOM NOM NOM. try not to burn your mouth on eebil molten cheese, the napalm of the food world. enjoy with a sixer of xibeca or san miguel, or the incredibly cheap local beer of your choice.

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