Jim's Journal

04/02/2007 13:13 #38719

Wohoo!

So, I run a little photography group and a woman from San Diego stumbled across us, and ended up moving to Buffalo and buying a bar on Niagara that she's fixing up.

A reporter heard about it and wrote a front page story about her and us!

I'm so excited for her :) she's working so hard and really needs the publicity for her new bar.

leetee - 04/03/07 00:05
excellent. nice to see someone excited about buffalo the way we were when we moved here a coupla years ago. :O)

mike - 04/02/07 22:46
that's awesome! I saw that article but didn't now it was your group. That is soo cooL!

paul - 04/02/07 19:46
That's awesome (e:jim) congratulations.

03/23/2007 22:53 #38599

James Turrell - Dark Room

Has anyone been to see this at the Albright Knox? It was fun to sit in the room and watch people come in and figure it out.

jim - 03/24/07 12:52
Not really a performance piece, but definitely more then a blue screen.

metalpeter - 03/24/07 11:54
In the picture all I can see is a blue screen. So I'm guessing that it is a performance piece and the people coming in to try to figure out what it is, is the art itself.

10/26/2006 12:34 #24492

Japanese Garden

Anyone want to help us clean up the Japanese Gardens? This Saturday volunteers will be at the Japanese Garden from 9am to 2pm. If you'd like to stop by and lend a hand, we need it! You don't have to work the whole time, just as much as you're able.

Lots of damage from the storm, we need to clean it out before winter arrives. Workers from Olmsted Conservancy will be there for the heavy lifting. If you come bring work gloves and hand tools (saws, rakes, etc) if you have them, but no power tools.

10/18/2006 11:21 #24491

Tree Damage - Links
Category: storm

I've heard we might lose up to 50% of the trees in Buffalo. The last couple days I was optimistic things would be better, but doing research it looks like many of the trees that look relatively unscathed will be goners. If the top was broken off, they'll likely come down even if otherwise they still look to be in good condition. Almost all the newer trees along Elmwood have damage to their top trunk.

Branches that break off from inside the main trunk instead of splitting off just outside of it are also killers. If you've got a damaged tree, and don't prune it correctly this season, it will be too late next year.

Here are some links to information on nursing trees back to health, and please add more info if you've got it.

Pruning Shade Trees

Storm Damage to Trees

Tree Ice Damage

04/27/2006 00:06 #24490

Launcher
Category: computers

Does anyone know of a launcher similiar to Quicksilver (a Mac app) but for Windows?

I'm going nuts.

EDIT:

Found something.

Colibri is the retarded cousin of Quicksilver, but at least it gets done the launcher aspect of QS, if not the pipes and manipulation actions.

EDIT #2

AppRocket is better than Colibri but still not quite there either, but at least something useful comes up after hitting Ctrl-Space.

tinypliny - 08/03/07 23:19
I wish I had known about this when I had administrative rights at work... Currently, checking it out for my laptop.

scott - 04/27/06 13:57
True, there doesn't seem to be one designed to mimic quicksilver (yet)... I'm sure that could be done, though.

Widgets are mostly graphical, but really they're just scripts and a scripting engine that can do whatever you want (as long as it has rights on the local machine). Most of them are clocks and weatherbars and crap... but there are some useful ones, too.

I think a quicksilver-like widget might be useful. If you develop it, I'd use it ;)

Otherwise, (e:paul)'s suggestion to use the start-R function is the simplest solution to your needs.

jim - 04/27/06 12:21
None of the widgets really are like Quicksilver, unless I'm missing something?

Widgets are graphical, and I'm looking for a keyboard-based launcher, which does text and item manipulation and is scriptable.

I'm checking out <a href="http://candylabs.com/">AppRocket</a> now, a Google search for "Quicksilver for Windows" turned up some possibles.

scott - 04/27/06 11:57
There are several mac-like launcher programs available for free via Yahoo! Widgets.

:::link:::

There's all kinds of other neat things widgets can do. I'm thinking of putting together an estrip widget, if there's interest in having one.

paul - 04/27/06 00:42
It's not exactly the same but hit windows key, then R and type in the program name. If it's in your path it will run.

e.g. windows key +r type 'notepad' starts up maya for me.