May 2009
7 posts
shoebox
two weeks ago, my old credit card - the first one i ever had, with an apr of 28%(!) - credited me $1.33 for back interest. my balance had been zero on it for over a year. so my balance on this was -$1.33, and i wondered what to do. i figured it was safe to err on the side of having a zero balance, so i transferred the $1.33 over to my checking account - and then was hit with a $10 transaction...
eucalyptus →
equal parts staggering and mindnumbing: an e-book reader with, at first blush, substantially better design and UI than stanza and kindle is rejected because it allows users to download the kama sutra - which, for the record, you can download with stanza. is it possible to view this as anything but censorship? is apple shooting themselves in the foot by not posting a paid app that i would have...
i want a way to make some extra money that involves making creative and interesting things and fits with my writing schedule.
i’d love to work on letterpress again, and will probably try to set type wherever i can get access to a vandercook uni 1 or 4. but that’s only one potential option; i think there’s an awful lot of other things that i could be doing, but right now...
think indie →
strike 1: splash screen. strike 2: only the caption is clickable on the splash screen. strike 3: the first thing i see here is a “black sheep” which has nothing to do with the site name or domain name. strike 4: “prelaunch” is not a word anybody besides the owners of the site give half a damn about. strike 5: when you’ve put your site on the internet in a way that is...
jump
i connect to a wireless network in a coffee shop and within 5 minutes, 2 users have connected and are streaming music; one is listening to konigsforst and i wonder about that particular album’s appropriateness to a coffee shop (or really any situation besides either a very dark room or a forest where it just rained). i am on a balcony and that balcony is the 22nd floor patio of the tribune...
process design in a chinese restaurant
there’s a chinese restaurant nearby where i work in downtown chicago that makes okay food and sells it on the super cheap (well, cheap for the loop). it was one of the first places i went when i started working downtown. i tend to go back once or twice a week.
fortunately, when i started going there it was less than a month old, so i’ve had a great chance to witness all the changes...