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Archive: May 2009

Flickr Groups Can Be Weird

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Ugh

I took a photo of the palm of my hand today; there was nothing particularly interesting on it — just the intervals I was going to do at the track, along with my goal times. I figured it would be a good idea to take a photo of my hand since it would get smeared by sweat and it would save me from figuring out the pace times later on.

This photo was then uploaded to Flickr.

Later in the day, I go back to Flickr and see a message that one sees much too often on Flickr: ‘Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Palms, and we’d love to have this added to the group!’.

palms

I’m all for groups and what-not, but  seriously?
My palm photo has absolutely no aesthetic value. It was taken with my phone, wasn’t composed — you see where I’m coming from. I’m not saying spontaeous photos shouldn’t go in groups, I’m saying that group admin’s could be a teensy bit more selective over the quality of what they’d like in their groups; am I crazy?  Get some decent photos of peoples’ palms, damn it!

WEIRD.

Who Runs on Escalators Anyway?

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zombie-escalator

Splooooosh

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A lovely organic wave-like wallpaper for instant eye-pleasure.

Now that you’ve seen this, go listen to this awesome Metric song.

post-it

Oh, so this little wave wallpaper your looking at is the byproduct of a sticky note I doodled on several weeks ago and pinned to my monitor at work. I had been meaning to do something with it for a good couple weeks now. Finally took it home today and got’r'done.

Also of note today: managed to get django running on my little slice via a fastcgi process and Nginx. YEAH! *Pat on the back*. Those were some agonizingly slow hours that I will never get back. Next: MySQL + Django (not looking forward to that).

Three QuickLook Plugins Which Just Changed My Life

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  1. BrushViewQL
    If you happen to have a folder filled to the brim with .abr files this plugin is a godsend. It still annoys me to no end that Photoshop/Bridge doesn’t have some way to preview brush files — at least that I’m aware of. This plugin bridges the gap! Yay!
  2. EPSQuickLookPlugin and one for Illustrator docs
    The second and third are related and for previewing EPS’s and AI’s. Definitely nice to not have to sift through Bridge to preview those. Ahh …

Ahhh, now to go discover what’s in some of the many mysterious brush files.

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