I love the instrumental at the end. Fabulous stuff!
I love the instrumental at the end. Fabulous stuff!
10 steps to better blogging by Dan Frommer.
I absolutely LOVE this! I am pasting the 10 in here but please go read the entire article.
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“…few of us ever made good on our vows to quit the site for good.”
“The only sure way to keep something private on Facebook is not to post it to Facebook.”
“Sharing is fun. But if you don’t plan on sharing with everyone, don’t bother.”
And there it is. I can’t be bothered. It was fun for a while but that time has past. Few will miss my Facebook updates, but I just don’t feel comfortable using it anymore. I value my family’s privacy more than sharing.
Until we meet again…
We are down to the final painting!
Old
- Paint baseboards and other trim or finishing
- Finish the upstairs hallway – paint over the patch and neaten up ceiling around the hatch to the attic
- Paint the garage door inside (cotton tail trim color) and outside (dark trim color, no idea if there is enough paint)
New
- Stain and varnish the new shelf in the laundry and the two benches (one in the big room, one in the garage)
- Stain and varnish thresholds
- Paint projector shelf (ceiling color)
- Paint picture moulding (cotton tail trim color)
- (Possible) paint/stain supports for Max’s climbing structure (ceiling color?)
[Click on the pictures below to see larger images.]
A Breif Rant on The Future of Interaction Design
By Brett Victor
I see a device that knows where our body is at all moments. As we move, it registers our unique gestures and translates them into commands. Like augmented reality, everything we interact with (via touch, voice, whatever) can give us feedback and/or amplify our capabilities.
Imagine we pick up a book and flip through the pages. Our device can register each and every one of those pages and display them for us even if we are no longer looking down at the book. If we get annoyed and squint our eyes, the device knows we are no longer interested and takes that information away. If we say; “Wait a minute, what was that quote from this book I heard the other day at the movies?” the device will put up the quote and even link to the part of the movie were it was used.
When we are riding a bike this same device will know how fast we are traveling and how long (with traffic) it will take us to get to our destination. It will even be able to estimate if we are going to want a drink when we get there and have it ready if we confirm it.
Haptic feedback is the key to all of this. We will need gestures not just for “pictures under the glass” but also for real-world interactions.
I want to post many of the movies I take on the web. Lion has messed with my workflow. In the pre-Lion days I could:
1) Open the movie in Quicktime
2) Move the playhead to the “poster frame” I wanted to represent the movie
3) Select File / Export for the web
4) Select the options I wanted and hit return
Quicktime would export a web-ready file along with the poster frame into a folder. While Quicktime would include additional files, none of them were required to get the video working.
That changed in Lion. The new format Qucktime uses to export no longer works in browser. Now you must upload and point to a reference movie. This reference movie (along with a bunch of JavaScript code that you have to clutter your pages with) will choose the appropriate movie format to display. This is all great if everything you want can be accomplished using Apple’s many assumptions. But, alas, it can not be used for my WordPress podcasting plugin of choice PodPress.
But worry not…
1) Instead of exporting for the web… first export it into iTunes by chosing Share / iTunes. (Simple really.)
2) Once it is in iTunes, choose File / Show in Finder
3) Now you can open follow the rest of the steps to get Quicktime to create a poster frame for you.
4) Grab the .jpg poster frame and the iTunes .m4v and upload them to your PodPress directory.
While it involves a few more steps, none of them are difficult.
Oh Happy Day!
I find this fascinating. I need to video more people doing normal things as they go about their day.
I have been watching some of the old Braking Bad outtakes and came across this one. I still think this is one of the best “getting high” plays I have ever seen. It really looks beautiful.
I am glad I never fell sway to the pull.