getting to the fun part
Posted on March 28, 2003
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I spent an hour at the house today. The lighting fixtures arrived and I had to go through all the boxes and mark for the contractors which lights go in which rooms. The bathroom and hallway tiles also arrived. Mike tells me that the bannister is due in about a week. It’s so close to the end, that it’s getting very exciting. A month from now we’ll probably be living in our new home!
Right now the girls are going through wallpaper books, trying to decide what kind of borders they want around their rooms. I’m trying hard not to censor them. I want them to pick something that they really want, without worrying about whether or not they’ll outgrow it. I want them to have the rooms of their fantasies, just as I’m getting the house of mine.
sick of Starbucks
Posted on March 27, 2003
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I’ve spent at least 2-3 hours each of the last 4 days at Starbucks getting work done and keeping up with things online. I do have a “borrowed” connection at the hotel (on right now) but it’s spotty and very slow.
Would you believe that I’ve actually *cut back* on my coffee drinking? I have one cup in the morning and then maybe a cup towards the evening. Other than that, I can be found at the table closest to the power outlet with a big bottle of water. I have been counting my points very carefully this week and have been drinking 50-60 oz. of water a day which is fantastic for me. I hope it shows at my next weigh-in. Somehow giving up meetings where I talk about weight loss for 3 hours during the week has helped motivate my own efforts. I may finally kick that last 5 lbs. and get back to goal.
Eric tells me that the local Holiday Inn has wi-fi in all the public areas and I may check it out just for the change of scenery. Today, I just couldn’t concentrate over the noise in the Starbucks. I ended up taking out my headphones and firing up an “ambient” radio station in iTunes. The combination of Starbucks’ in-house music, coffee blenders, nearby conversation and “ambient” mood music made for an interesting audio mix.
Now *this* is funny
Posted on March 26, 2003
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“Trading Spaces fan fiction.”:http://www.fanfiction.net/list.php?categoryid=1330
An excerpt from a story entitled “Sisterly Love”:http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=949236
Skye Davis was no stranger to the Trading Spaces set. In fact, she’d been there multiple times with her older sister, Paige. Paige had beaten her and been offered work as the host of the show, and had accepted, even though she’d known that Skye had never wanted anything more.
ROFLMAO! For sensitive eyes, be careful when clicking on the above link as “::Rating will change as sexual content is added::” Scary. Trading Spaces is a favorite show, I don’t think I’ll be able to look at Paige Davis the same again, and I didn’t read further than the prologue. !../images/blog/wink.gif!
link from “stevenf”:http://stevenf.com/mt/archives/000242.php
equal opportunity bummer
Posted on March 25, 2003
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A while back I “took Macromedia to task”:http://www.momathome.com/viewfromhome/archives/000170.html for their site redesign and general anti-Mac sentiments. Well, now it’s “Adobe’s”:http://www.adobe.com turn.
Now “they have posted”:http://www.adobe.com/motion/pcpreferred.html a page on their site which tells readers why they should choose a PC over a Mac. Now mind you, it’s not like they say that exactly. Instead, they spotlight an “online magazine article”:http://www.digitalvideoediting.com/cgi-bin/getframeletter.cgi?/2002/11_nov/reviews/cw_macvspciii.htm which drew that conclusion.
There is so much more that goes into the user experience in graphic applications aside from raw speed. There are things that Macromedia Fireworks does much faster than Photoshop (setting type and applying/using styles comes immediately to mind) but there are times where I will use Photoshop to complete a task simply because the interface is better and/or the results are more reliable. Is Adobe saying that one should choose a PC over a Mac simply because it tests faster? Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.
*update:* Apple has responded to the article (skirting the more pertinent issue that Adobe re-published it in the first place given Apple and Adobe’s tight relationship over the years), according to a statement published by “MacCentral:”:http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/03/25/appleresponds/
“Apple stands by our claims that our latest Power Mac systems perform equal to or better than competing PC systems,” Apple said in a statement given to MacCentral. “The reported tests on Adobe’s Web site showing slower performance of After Effects on a Mac than a PC is more an application test than a platform test and is not indicative of all Pro application performance on the Mac.”
JFK
Posted on March 25, 2003
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America as the world’s self-appointed judge, jury and executioner? “We must face the fact,” President John F. Kennedy once said, “that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient — that we are only 6% of the world’s population — that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94% of mankind — that we cannot right every wrong or reverse each adversity — and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem.”
Here’s “a very good read”:http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0322-01.htm by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. which includes the above quote. I agree so strongly, it gave me chills reading it.
