A NY mag article about Edward Tufte, who I am completely obsessed with. His books on graphic presentation of information are amazing. His next book is supposed to be crazy - all real life physical stuff, not graphics.
I've been dying to go to one of his day long seminars. Anyone up for a road trip?
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06/15/2007 12:23 #39674
"The only graphic designer with roadies"Category: design
06/15/2007 08:11 #39667
Painful InternetCategory: life
At our new place we are sharing the internet connection of the guys downstairs, but the wireless reception is completely painful. It's totally out for about 5 minutes out of every hour, and the rest of the time is really slow - like dialup slow, plus really long latencies. I just ordered a wireless bridge and am praying that that will be my salvation. If not I'll have to buy them a giant antenna to stick on their access point.
Also speaking of utilities, I've been cursing my morning showers because the water hasn't been very hot, but it turned out (e:james) had just turned the thermostat on the water heater way down. At least that is an easy fix :)
Also speaking of utilities, I've been cursing my morning showers because the water hasn't been very hot, but it turned out (e:james) had just turned the thermostat on the water heater way down. At least that is an easy fix :)
06/14/2007 19:32 #39660
RoswellCategory: work
So I've been officially offered a contract position for Roswell. Thanks Paul!
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jim - 06/15/07 12:02
Interesting user icon there...
Interesting user icon there...
mrdeadlier - 06/15/07 09:18
Looking forward to working with you. :)
Looking forward to working with you. :)
fellyconnelly - 06/14/07 22:53
and i'll wander the corridors selling cell phones to all ofyou!
Congrats!
and i'll wander the corridors selling cell phones to all ofyou!
Congrats!
tinypliny - 06/14/07 22:50
Woohoo! I start very soon at Roswell too! :)
Woohoo! I start very soon at Roswell too! :)
james - 06/14/07 21:08
Oh hell no Carolinian.
(e:Jim) may work there but he is not getting involved in those sick Roswell inbreeding orgies.
well... not unless I can come to.
Oh hell no Carolinian.
(e:Jim) may work there but he is not getting involved in those sick Roswell inbreeding orgies.
well... not unless I can come to.
imk2 - 06/14/07 20:57
n.b. only super cool people work at roswell. and the cool roswell people that blog on estrip are definitely THE coolest of the bunch.
n.b. only super cool people work at roswell. and the cool roswell people that blog on estrip are definitely THE coolest of the bunch.
carolinian - 06/14/07 20:54
Congrats!
I think sooner or later Roswell is going to wind up being one big inbred family of (e:peeps).
Congrats!
I think sooner or later Roswell is going to wind up being one big inbred family of (e:peeps).
imk2 - 06/14/07 20:54
yay! so that now makes it how many roswellstippers?
yay! so that now makes it how many roswellstippers?
06/11/2007 21:45 #39614
Sort of excitedCategory: apple
I've been working on a flash card site for learning foreign languages, and I'm really looking forward to making it work with the iPhone. It's the perfect size and seems like a good excuse to try to get (e:james) let me buy one :) (yeah right)
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OK and now I spent like 4 hours wondering why my apache rewrite rules were behaving so erratically and of course it was because i forgot to set ''RewriteEngine on'' but strangely some of the rules still were working just fine.
All of the stuff I know about Apache I have learned painfully. It's just that sort of a beast.
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OK and now I spent like 4 hours wondering why my apache rewrite rules were behaving so erratically and of course it was because i forgot to set ''RewriteEngine on'' but strangely some of the rules still were working just fine.
All of the stuff I know about Apache I have learned painfully. It's just that sort of a beast.
jim - 06/12/07 07:40
Right right - I still don't get it. I had a list of about a dozen re-write rules, and only the first one didn't work when I didn't turn on the rewrite engine. That was just maddening.
Right right - I still don't get it. I had a list of about a dozen re-write rules, and only the first one didn't work when I didn't turn on the rewrite engine. That was just maddening.
carolinian - 06/12/07 02:53
It never ceases to amaze me how the folks at Apache were able to take something so entirely simple and basic as the HTTP protocol and turn it into something so needlessly complex and forbidding as httpd.conf.
It never ceases to amaze me how the folks at Apache were able to take something so entirely simple and basic as the HTTP protocol and turn it into something so needlessly complex and forbidding as httpd.conf.
06/11/2007 12:03 #39606
100+Category: estrip
100+
Do I win anything?
Oh and Happy Monday!
Do I win anything?
Oh and Happy Monday!
ahh, i love the easy fix. When I first moved into my house, i kept running out of hot water, which I didn't understand. I mean I don't take SHORT showers, but I'm not in there for half an hour, either. And there used to be THREE girls living there, and I can't imagine they'd tolerate hot water that runs out after 15 min. finally went downstairs, and found that the hot water heater was turned way down. yay.