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This Week’s Noted Songs
Whenever a song that I like comes on, I always write it down, whether I know it well or is new to me. Here’s a few I wrote down this week: The Vaccines – Love To Walk AwayThere are a few songs by The Vaccines that keep coming up in my list. I think this […]
Read MoreStumbled across the word, “paracosm” today. Such a great word, not only in the way it sounds, but in it’s meaning (used to describe richly detailed imaginary worlds, often created by children, that exist alongside the real one)
It’s difficult, but those small things that make a design nice, really have to come while in the throes of the main project. After the urgency subsides, those things seem to never really get the attention needed.
Sometimes a well-worded email is equal to several hours of work that I currently don’t have time for.
I just put a session on my daily schedule titled, “Cat Videos”. I think this is how you’re supposed to do life.
There is something kind of nice about the feeling you get after putting our fires all morning. Just a bit of calm and lightness that wouldn’t be there otherwise.
Updates to AI.Mirren Home Page
After a couple of years with the same home page design, it felt like the Mirren AI Conference was due for a refresh, at least with the top section of the page.
Read MoreOptimizing Population Density for Scientific Discovery and Technological Advancement
In a previous post, I started playing with thoughts around there being an ideal amount of population density — certainly more than the density of suburban development, but also perhaps less than some of the maximum densities we see in some very isolated pockets in a few North American cities. But there is obviously varying […]
Read MoreI’ve started a dangerous practice of starting sentences with conjunctions. And I feel so rebellious.
I read a great article in the New York Magazine — the content was fine, but I really enjoyed the writing style. I need to do a better job of following authors, writers, directors, and other people who create things that I enjoy.
It’s good to keep a design cohesive, but sometimes you need to push some design in a specific area of the site, and let it get a little ahead. It’s ok, the rest of the website can catch up later.
It’s that time of year where I’m starting to get really nice evening light on the trees out my window towards the end of my workday.
Finished Diaspora by Greg Egan. Honestly I was lost for a few segments of it, but I got hints of pretty interesting concepts and ideas. I’ll probably re-read it at some point in the future, now that I have a better overall view of it (and since I found the glossary at the end, once I finished the book. Would have been helpful to realize that was there when I was getting started).
Fort Stockton Drive and Goldfinch Development
I’ve been eager to see what new development is headed for the corner of Fort Stockton Drive and Goldfinch Street here in Mission Hills. The site was cleared two years ago — turning it from a single family house that had been various businesses over the years to a vacant lot. But it looks like […]
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Evening Reading and Tea
I’ve been wanting to read more, so I recently started making tea after dinner, heading out to the patio, and reading under the stars and patio lights for twenty or thirty minutes. It’s been a really nice way to wind down the day, and something that I’m really starting to look forward to.
It’s always nice to have some business budget in the bank for those times when you’re not really all that inspired to do real work.
https://cas.uoregon.edu/news/Fascinated-with-Fractals
I think 75% of my days are spent just trying to figure out why something isn’t working.