"Colors" written by Paul on estrip.org

Category: work

01/06/11 11:47 - 27.ºF - ID#53402

Colors

At work I designed and programmed the new intranet over the last year. Instead of jamming a color scheme down people's throats I decided to let people choose there own color and then created a formula to scheme from there.

People seem to like it because out of the ~1,500 people that use a computer each day, almost 1,000 chose a color.

You would be surprised at how many people pick hot pink/peach and bright oranges. There are even a few hot sea foam greens. To be fair there are many more woman, but even some guys have pinks and purples.

Its funny because the corporate push/marketing designers would be for corporate blues and boring greys but clearly, the people voting with colors picked much brighter hues.

This fire orange, I copied from (e:tinypliny) who had it for a while.

The saturated areas are the parts you kind of ignore, like you links to most used content, etc. The white space is then focused on things like the search and content areas.

You can pick pastels too but I really like the bright colors.

Each one of those dots on the quilt represent a color swatch that people chose. The color scheme is from one of the users.

Today the videographer told me that my work is ugly because I am not a designer. Ugly is so subjective. The ironic part is I actually have an MFA in computer media studies. I wonder if he does?

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Category: mobile

01/05/11 11:51 - 19.ºF - ID#53397

My Newer Dreamphone

That went fast. Just as soon as I thought I wanted that phone, this one came out

It has a dual processor, and a webtop accessory that lets the phone become a netbook. I hope it is available by my birthday but I doubt it.

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Category: mobile

01/05/11 01:33 - 26.ºF - ID#53395

My new dream phone

AT&T is releasing so many android phones at CES. This 4.5 incher looks amazing.

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Category: computers

01/03/11 12:29 - 24.ºF - ID#53386

No android port for xournal ;(

I wish that xournal would get ported to android. It would so incredible to have an app for PDF notation and highlighting on android. I wish I was able to do it, but its so out of my league and I don't have much freetime to work on anything else.

I first found the app when I was using the nokia N810 back in 2008 (e:paul,43019). Since then I used it a bunch on my linux desktop although a windows port exists too.

I keep searching, each time I hope someone will have done it. I mean the source code is available so I imagine its only a matter of time before it or something like it comes out.

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Category: food

01/02/11 06:19 - 22.ºF - ID#53384

Garrett County Ham from Lexington Coop

Last week I bought a 10lb nitrate-free/antibiotic free Garret County Ham from the Lexington coop. It was $3.99/lb which isn't that bad and considering we ate Ham for like 3 meals a day for a week and still have some frozen, it was totally worth it. I freaking love ham.

Example daily Ham diet:

chopped Ham and scrambled eggs for breakfast
split pea and Ham soup for lunch
Ham steak with rice and veggies for dinner
Ham and vanilla ice cream smoothie for dessert
procuitto wrapped Ham and cheese with cracker snack plate

UPDATE: I was just at the coop and they have a bunch more for $1.99/lb. That only $20 for a 20lb Ham.

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Category: android

01/02/11 02:28 - 35.ºF - ID#53378

Nook Development

I updated my android SDK as I am now on eclipse Helios 3.6 and I wanted to make a few updates to the estrip publisher app since seeing it on the nook tablet.

I discovered they do have their own nook SDK which is nice but on the shitty side it only works with their nook emulator so far. This is cool if you don't have a nook but not so cool if you do. I remember from the estrip app. Testing on the Nexus One was so much better than on the stupid emulator. Its just not the same trying to get a feel for it. Luckily, a rooted nook will let me put apps on it for testing but its annoying and a hack.

I wish so bad that B&N would just allow the regular android store. Having it on my rooted nook is incredible. It makes the device so damn useful that I can't put it down. In fact I love typing on it with the new gingerbread keyboard I downloaded.

I mean, I get why they don't want it. I am sure they are terrified of people using the kindle app on it and buying book from amazon instead. They shouldn't have too much to worry about because the reading experience on the native nook app is so much better than with the Kindle app. For example, kindle won't let me pinch and zoom on my books. Plus the notetaking and sharing quotes, lending feature, etc.

I can't wait for them to open up whatever market they are going to open. I would love to get in on it but it seems like they are really playing up to the big company devs more than the small guy. Reading through the forum this is pissing off a lot of developers who feel they if they are going to be treated as second class devs, they might as well develop for the ipad's larger market.

Well, anyways, here is hoping that whatever it is I end up developing finds its way into the store when its done and they I stay dedicated to working on it without knowing for sure if it will. Its just so hard to be motivated for something that might just turned down at the last stage. That's exactly why I never developed the estrip app for iphone.

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Category: weather

01/01/11 06:10 - 44.ºF - ID#53375

warm weather

The. weather here has been so warm. I think it was around 50 degrees. Felt more like St Patrick's. day than New Year's day.

All of the the snow melted, not that there was much ti begin with, revealing all the cigarette butts people threw into the snow on Hertel. Why do people think it is okay to throw small peices of fiberglass everywhere? I think somehow they think that because it is wrapped in paper it is natural.

We should just illegalize filtered cigarettes. Either go hardcore and be litter free or quit. It's not like those filters really protect anyone anyways.

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Category: food

01/01/11 06:06 - 44.ºF - ID#53374

Kosta's octopus

We went to kostas for lunch today. I for the octopus as usual. It is the only place I have found it here I'm buffalo. Does anyone else know a place?

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Category: holidays

01/01/11 05:17 - 55.ºF - ID#53372

New years eve 2011

The new years party 2011 was awesome. It was the first party where I only spent lime an hour cleaning up. Some highlights:

The tabletstravaganza on the couch with (e:Heidi) and (e:Chris). I was nervous at firs that I would regret the nook when I saw the other android tablets but instead it reenforced my feelings that t was the best electronics purchase I ever made. The bigger ones were too heavy and big. The screens were also crappy for reading which is what I care about most. The windows 7 one almost seemed like a joke. The interface was lame. For example, when you pressed an input to type, instead of Beijing up the keyboard a you would expect, it brought up a keyboard icon that you! have to press to bringup the keyboard. It was so freaking frustrating. Plus just imagineho slow it would get over time running windows.
discussing enlightenment linux desktop with (e:uncutsanifkush). Too bad Tim was gone at that point.
dealing with Geoffrey's supposed Volvo car robbery this morning. Turned out it was parked a couple blocks away and he forgot, but not before an hour long freakout. I used that time to clean the kitchen.
meeting Eric's friend Lara. I wish I got to talk with her some more.
Drinking the pink nuvo stuff that (e:metalpeter) brought.
Realized that we did in fact have a snookie of our very own, she just needed a little mike plus tumeric and paprika rub skin treatment and hairspray. She accompanied ball drop.
Droping the lit up ball down the stairwell, it is my very favorite part of new years. Next year I am going to make it crazier. Maybe a countdown clock or drop it off the roof.

metalpeter writes at 06:02:25 01/03/11 - Comment #60094: If I would have Know that Efrat's dress was pet-able that might have led to some fun if she is who I think she was , HA... I have no idea who Lourdes is but this explanation is still a help.......

uncutsaniflush writes at 10:52:33 01/02/11 - Comment #60080: (e:paul) - I wish that I was able to give a geeky explanation of why the EFL (Enlightenment Foundation Libraries) rocked and why they were better than what the kids from Gnome and KDE and Xfce etc were coming up with. EFL is efficient fast and light. Compatible with gnome. Conforms to Linux Desktop standards. Hell, I can't do a good job of talking about e17 even when I'm sober.

I'm glad you found it interesting.

heidi writes at 12:40:34 01/02/11 - Comment #60075: Thank you, (e:PMT), for hosting a lovely party! Nerding about the tablets was a highlight for me, too. We kinda did that instead of talking to Eric & Lara :-/

(e:metalpeter) - yes, the woman with black hair and fuchsia top with great cleavage is Jolene, (e:puddlediving)'s roommate. The woman with the pet-able black velvet dress is Efrat, accent on the second syllable. The woman with the novella name is Lourdes.

metalpeter writes at 09:42:39 01/02/11 - Comment #60072: I think but not sure Lara is the blond with the Polka dots who was wearing the big Feather..... You can't tell it in the photos but she looks pretty well stacked if you know what I mean trying to keep it classy she is pretty cute... In Terms of the Person with the Novella name I don't know who you mean but the girl with the arm tattoo is pretty hot as well.... Now the Lady (again lovely and stacked) with red top on is named Joleen (not sure how it spelled) Kinda like the song, but I think I know the song from a remake and not the original artist......

I admit I may have this wrong and aren't sure who that other person you are talking about is.... Maybe someone else who was there will read this and update whom everyone is.......

tinypliny writes at 11:44:14 01/01/11 - Comment #60067: Atleast I learned that I hate hairspray. thank you, mike.

lol

tinypliny writes at 11:43:18 01/01/11 - Comment #60066: So Lara is the one with the blazer and tie?

tinypliny writes at 11:40:35 01/01/11 - Comment #60064: I LOVED the ball drop - its an awesome concept. :)

I am not so sad I missed the tabletstravaganza because really, my core interest is only in tablets with styluses and PDF markup and of course any tablet that can be loaded with software like mypaint and I can use the stylus to draw precisely.

I have been trying out your nokia a bit.. Thus far, I have just learnt to navigate because I have been running analyses in R all day...

Who is lara? The one in the black velvet dress who was with that girl who had the classic novella name (that I can't remember now!) and the gorgeous buffalo tattoo?

Geoffrey nearly matched that banned bloke (Chris?) yesterday. I wish your organ had been okay - atleast all his craziness would have been translated to good music instead of making it weird for everyone...

metalpeter writes at 07:19:57 01/01/11 - Comment #60058: glad I'm not the only one posting pictures......... That guy you mentioned is crazy or at least drunk he is.... On a side note hopefully Lara finds the pictures I posted of her on here... It was a good time

I like how you did the bulletins.................

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Category: hardware

12/31/10 05:12 - 48.ºF - ID#53366

Nexus 1 froyo 2.2 vs rooted nook with 2.1 eclair speed

The rooted nook color is so much easier to use than my phone because of the screensize that it appears to me to be faster, yet according to the quadrant benchmark it is in fact slower, although faster than a non 2.2 Nexus One.

Games like angry birds seem snappy as can be. I guess for the stuff I do with it speed doesn't matter and if I could trade some speed for battery life it seems perfectly worth it and typing on it is fantastic. This is definitely the perfect size for me.

I signed up for a dev account today. I am so curious how you are supposed to distribute apps considering there is no normal android market yet. The official specs are in this ::READ PDF::