Category: Legacy
hmm, if i had known that generating js array code in js was such a bitch i would have just done it in perl. actually, it wasn’t that bad, although i’m sure that the way i did it was more convoluted than need be. results at the bottom of the page. reload to your heart’s content (avg load of my server right now… 0.00)
derek says helvetica is poised for a comeback. i don’t think so. i stopped by business 2.0’s site earlier tonight. they had just redesigned. completely illegible. tiny, horribly hinted text, bold text that was so crappy that the letters actually are physically melded together. yeah, you know the point already. helvetica is evil. and so are the assholes who use who specify font sizes in px.
well, i just lost a fair bit of typing because of a browser mishap. doesn’t that suck for me? anyway, i got a around to looking through my las vegas photos. nothing really spectacular, (need to call nikon when i get a chance about my huge annoying stuck pixel (and how because of it i get a bright green 9 pixel spot) as well as my ever-disattached camera grip) but i did find a couple of shots i really like.
here’s a shot of bellagio’s fountains going off, which we went to see on thursday, the first night we were there. this is the best one i got of the actual fountains. there are a lot of pipes powering that thing.
this shot from the hotel room i was staying in at the monte carlo. you can see part of the fading sunset. it was pretty spectacular a few minutes earlier. i’m sort of sad that i didn’t get a picture of the whole thing, but i guess i’m sorrier that i can’t really visualize it anymore, even though i told myself i would try to remember it. saddest of all is my crappy account of the situation, but what good is a personal website if you aren’t free to write what you want?
last shot i’m going to post up for now is one i took the night before flying out. the window slid open enough for me to prop my camera against it and take a few shots. most of ’em came out blurry or a bit too blown out, but this one was pretty nice. vegas looks good at night – almost convinces you that it might have some actual worth.
hmm, wasn’t that fun. better than doing real work. fills up some time while i redesign. and i get to look back at this in a few years and alternatively cringe and wonder at my prose. meta meta. also, i only got carded once on the floor. of course, i didn’t really gamble or drink, so…
argh, i spent 3 hours wrestling w/ some regular expressions for no good reason today.
this is random but fun. kismet is an autonomous robot design for social interaction w/ humans, part of the cog project (building a humanoid robot). followed the links from a recent feed article (which is worth the time to read).
interesting info for those who think the ms judgement won’t change anything while the case goes through appeals (it should get kicked up to the supreme court soon anyway)
those wacky mit guys. conversion map v 0.01: an interface for very large-scale conversations.
like many things recently, this has snuck up on me, scott mccloud’s sequel to understanding comics, reinventing comics .
man, i’ve been so behind the times for the past few months. so much to do, so little time. agkckckajdlkfja;slkjfasdlfjalsdfj;a