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While I can imagine either sending or receiving a message so pressing that an action would have to be taken at that very moment, I’ve never actually experienced such a scenario. The urgency that drives me to check Twitter or read an email while in the car is entirely a creation of my own mind. All of this data can wait until later – and much of it can wait until never.
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I was asked to try and sell this for a friend of mine. Seems only prudent to run a roll or two through it, right?
The camera is a Voigtlander Prominent, produced from 1952 to 1958. It is very well-made and feels terrific in hand. Details are all wonderful, and match any Leica I’ve used. Too bad it’s so terrible to actually use. The rangefinder is pretty awful, and its window is too far left, especially for left-eyed shooters like me. Focusing is done by turning the top knob on the left. How’s that a good idea? It isn’t.
It’s for sale, but was fun to play with for a roll or two.
Here’s a sample shot (Tri-X @1600 in Diafine)…
(via woodlove)
I’ve wanted a real bathtub since right after seeing this.
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And right now I don’t think it’s helping me to put every single thing I make online the second after I make it.
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My dad is cooler than your dad.
He and my mom spent hours putting together these hula dummies and hooking them up to wood dowels and string. The dance was fabulous. There was a metal bar duct taped to his bare shoulder to keep things in place. Dad is an entertainment badass in a hula skirt and flower bra.
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Is there a name for these things? I’d like to know so I can include them on my list of things that suck.
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“Number fifty-four
The house with the bamboo door”
Andy williams singing “The House of Bamboo.” I have this on 45. Not sure exactly when I got it, but I was quite young. This may have been my very first favorite song.
You wanna stop in when the cats are hoppin’.
Let your two feet move-a to the big beat;
Pick yourself a kitten and listen to a platter
That rocks the juke-box!
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At Fusionary we use Atlassian’s JIRA to manage everything from internal processes to customer support issues. One of the things I do regularly is send lists of JIRA issues via email or to Basecamp. The format I use looks like this…
I do this a number of times every day. Usually it involved selecting the issue key and copying/pasting that into a BBEdit document. Then copying/pasting the issue summary to the document right after the key. Then I use BBEdit’s find and replace (grep) to add the asterisk and square brackets. Finally, I copy and paste the list into basecamp or email or wiki or whatever. Not hard, but still tedious.
There had to be some way to shortcut the process, so I walked over to Karl’s (@kswedberg) desk and asked if he could create some sort of userscript or extension that would help. I wanted to simply click a JIRA issue in the Agile (Greenhopper) view and have my clipboard filled with the issue key and summary formatted as above. Since Javascript doesn’t allow direct access to the clipboard, we tried the next best thing, dynamically adding a small div containing the issue(s), formatted properly.
I run JIRA in a Fluid app, and 30 minutes later Karl sent me a working UserScript. Once installed, I simply double click on a “card” in Greenhopper’s “agile” view and poof! it gets appended to a small area in the lower right of the window. A single copy and paste from there and I’m done. Nice.
With Karl’s permission, I’ve posted the script on Github.
Grab a copy here: dumpbox gist.
Such a small thing, but it makes my life easier. Thanks Karl!
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Each device had its strengths. For some it was speed; for others it was capacity. Some were better with shorter articles; others with longer works. And cost, as always, was a factor. But in the end, one e-reader stood out. The Newspaper.
The most obvious advantage of The Newspaper was the size of its display, which outclassed its rivals both in terms of size and elasticity. The Newspaper display could be read at full size or, when flipped open, twice its normal width. We also had no trouble reading copy when the display was flipped to half or even quarter size. One of our engineers even figured out how to make a hat.
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This seems like a reasonable way to spend a Sunday evening. I should probably turn off the iPad so I can think, but since thinking is only a nice-to-have tonight I’m leaving it on.
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Today, I got rid of my second monitor, a nice 24” Cinema Display, and replaced it with a cassette deck.
So that I could dub “Don Ho Gold”
Weird.
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Kind of an eclectic afternoon so far, I’d say.
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Now Playing: Rick Derringer - All American Boy
Rock And Roll, Hoochie Koo!
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First minute or so of “Three’s a Crowd,” a G.R.A.M.C. film shot on 16mm. I find the opening titles a little creepy.
I was testing the 16mm projector. It won’t hold a film loop for any length of time, so I’ll need to find another.
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Fasttimes at Ridgemont High Sean Penn You Dick scene (via BrettMeisner)
I just watched this again recently and it still makes me laugh. Seeing the students smell the “ditto” paper at the end of this scene almost caused me to OD on nostalgia.
