Had a great conversation with Abigail about books. I suggested The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Lots happening. I am out of my regular schedule. This page from Don Norman caught my eye. I aspire one day to be on it. Read the part about Outlook. I had no idea this was possible. In the date field…
I am thinking I should go Andre Agassi and shave my head. Or maybe I should just use the buzzer with one spacer and have it super short. Please vote. Shaved head or not.
Many designers use a particular set of latin for "dummy copy". It starts with, " "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet…". On a lark, I looked up it’s translation on this website. Apparently, it has been in use for 500 years. The translation is pretty surprising. Basically it is talking about sadism. Take a look at…
I just read a passage in the book Flow. (page 148) I had to highlight it. Since childhood he had been fascinated with machinery of every kind. He was especially drawn to anything that wasn’t working properly: "Like when my mother’s toaster went on the fritz, I asked myself: ‘If I were that toaster and…
I just got into work. The floor is dark. None of the lights are on. No one is here. Should I streak down the halls buck nekkit? Helllloooooooo! (echo) Fridays here are often like this. Reminds me of the night Andy and I played pool at Sporting Life. It was a converted warehouse, huge tall…
Getting a little comfortable with WordPress now. The way plugins work is actually pretty easy. I tried out a whole bunch of standard editor plugins. The reason for this is that the out-of-the-box WordPress does not include spell checking. I tried 5 different ones. Ajax Spell Checker EditorMonkey Visual.SpellCheck WYSI-Wordpress Xinha4WP combined with Text Control…
DirecTV sent me a letter. It looks like they finally figured out the legal issues and now can broadcast local channels in HD. This has been a big competitive pitch by the cable companies. So the letter said, 'Call us and we will hook you up with a new satellite and a new receiver'. This…
There is a band called Lipkandy. That has Lipka in it. heh heh.
I had previously written (in 2004) that my goal was Wisdom. I think this was my 26th post. However, I want to log a few thoughts on intelligence. I had read somewhere that intelligence is the ability to see signal in what would otherwise be perceived as random noise. For example, when I see numbers…
I put Matthew down on his mattress on the floor next to our bed. He starts chanting. “dohwannaseep, Mama!” “dohwannaseep, Mama!” “dohwannaseep, Mama!” “dohwannaseep, Mama!” “dohwannaseep, Mama!” “dohwannaseep, Mama!” Insistent little guy. In wonderful news, my cousin Andy had his first child today! I know nothing of details yet.
This weekend was non-stop. We went to Sacramento on Saturday morning and visited the Train Museum. It was interesting, but didn’t really hold the kids attention for too long. It was 3900 degrees that day. 3500 in the shade, which was nice, except there was no shade. Then we went to Melynda’s house for her…
Started to read Flow, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Woof, what a name. It is interesting, but I don’t know if I am going to like it. Basically, he is saying that we can control if we are happy or not. Despite having said this before to people, something just strikes me odd about it. Happiness. Such…
Ok, this is my new theme. I hope it works for everyone. Monday was Matthew’s birthday. On Sunday, we all went to Six Flag’s Marine World in Vallejo. It was pretty fun. Ethan wanted to go on the Roller Coasters, but he was 1 inch too short for them, thank god. (47 inches) Jared and…
Well, I am still getting used to WordPress. It certainly works better in Firefox than in IE. This theme also works better in Firefox than in IE. There are so many features of this software. Truly, I am overwhelmed. So, what do you think? Does this theme say commadot.com to you? Make a suggestion for…