Critical Mass went down McAllister again tonight. As before, I was alerted by music coming through my open window. I couldn’t identify what they were playing at first, but they soon switched to something I could . . . Crazy Train.
Add comment September 30th, 2005
Those words don’t look like they belong together, do they?
Most TV ads just plain suck (with the significant exception of Super Bowl Sunday), but these ads for the L. A. County Fair is pretty cute. The Fair closes on 2 October–if you’ve been there, what’s it like?
Add comment September 30th, 2005
A conversation from the elevator this evening:
Fellow student: Do you know what time it is?
Me: Just after eleven–they just kicked me out of the library. Well, not exactly, but they were starting to clean, and I was getting tired, so I left.
FS: Oh, if they were starting to clean, then you were kicked out.
AE: Well, they didn’t ask me directly. One might say I was constructively kicked out.
Add comment September 28th, 2005
The Optimus Keyboard, a design from the Art. Lebedev Studio, is a physical incarnation of the Key Caps desk accessory from the old-style MacOS. (Apparently it’s called Keyboard Viewer now.) Every single key is a 32×32 OLED screen. This would make learning new keyboard interfaces and typing special characters much easier, and it’s a valuable illustration of what can happen when objects document themselves as much as possible. And it’s amazingly cool to boot.
Add comment September 27th, 2005
The UC Hastings library is under renovation this year, and a large fraction of the collection is now in a former student lounge. The lounge also has a few vending machines, and some of them display vaguely authoritarian messages:
I wonder what’s next. Perhaps something like this:
Add comment September 27th, 2005
From the Star Tribune. The “Founding Fathers in drag” concept sounds as if it would be terrible and wonderful to behold.
Add comment September 24th, 2005
Would somebody tell me exactly why Microsoft Word thinks that “estoppel” isn’t a word, but has no problem with the far less common “estoppels”?
Edit: “Promisor” and “promisee” are missing as well. Microsoft totally fails Contracts. Do not pass Go, do not collect specific performance.
Add comment September 19th, 2005
Apparently, somebody thought the street needed a nickname.
Add comment September 17th, 2005
Look! The Prior-Art-O-Matic has turned me into a nifty product!
Add comment September 17th, 2005
Fellow ex-Minneapolitan and punk cartoonist Mitch Clem very nearly cost me a keyboard with this comic. (This might be useful background information if you have no idea what he’s talking about.) Bananarchy!
Add comment September 16th, 2005
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