Too Damn Tall, Aerolineas Mexicanas edition
Light pole, rural California
When I’m wearing my contacts (most of the time), I can’t tell the difference between the Retina display and my iPhone 3GS display - they both look great, actually. And, hell, I can hold it any way I please.
Daisybot Original, part of a series
Why is it that PowerPoint 2008 for the Mac is still (poorly) riffing off of the visual style of the original iMacs? I mean, that was in style back in 1998, and we’re 12 years hence.
Ballhead boy
Original, part of a series
iPad Love-bot
Original, part of a series
Playing with a Wacom
You know you’ve been doing a lot of international work when you type website.com.us by accident instead of website.com, because you’re so used to typing website.com.mx or website.co.jp.
The office today, two weeks ago
Wavebot
Original, part of a series
via img.ffffound.com
This reminds me of one day in the mid-1990’s when my monochrome Compaq laptop locked up. I had just poured an hour of sweat and tears into a two-paragraph intro to a whitepaper, without saving (this being in the earlier days when a save took a good half minute), and Windows decided to give me the one-finger salute.
So, I did pretty much exactly what you see here, and photocopied my screen before rebooting. And you know what, it actually worked out ok, right there on the 6th floor of 100 South Wacker in Chicago.
I think this gets me my Karma points for the week
Went to the ATM to withdraw money today, and the guy before me in the line left himself ‘logged in’ to the terminal, having forgotten to answer “Do you want to do any more transactions today?” I was a good boy, and pressed “no”.
That does bring up the point of defining transactional boundaries. It used to be that the machine would hold your card until you were done, which made it relatively clear that you weren’t done yet. However, it’s been eons since I’ve seen one of those style terminals - they’re all the ‘dip and remove’ style around here.
Perhaps a big red border around the screen, with your name or “Transacting” in the corner, which appears until the transaction is entirely over?
And then one day
you realize that your entire past 20 years of work output could disappear in the blink of an eye with an EMF burst
