Family and Parenthood
08 19th, 2008Here are some of the best. (A few are classics, like Kevin Mitnick’s; others are new to me.)
Also, you might have a look at this great card — ready to assemble into a working Blue Box! If you don’t know what a Blue Box is, yet, then your adventure has just begun.
When I see a truly great business card, I always feel the urge to redesign my own. Hah. The shoemaker’s children go barefoot; the graphic designer never gets their own card printed. I’m always planning great cards… Good thing I got out of design, or I’d never have gotten some of my own.
“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.” (Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon)
It’s good to be back to the blog…
I was just watching a camp video; the background music is of the “modern hasidic” style. The main melody line is nice but bland; the bridges between stanzas are the theme music from Beverly Hills Cop — a very popular Eddie Murphy movie when I was a teenager, notable for being one of the first of the wildly popular comedy movies that was rated R. It’s fairly safe to assume that the arranger of this more recent music has no idea where the theme comes from; it’s been copied, re-copied and re-recorded since the day it came out. Still, the association is funny.
I haven’t been on an airplane in eight weeks. It’s been a wonderful chance to stick to a more normal schedule — less catching-up-before-I-leave and digging-out-from-what-piled-up.
Sticking around has meant more time to bake with my little ones, play games with the middle ones, and hang out with the big ones. It’s been really good.
Tonight I’m off to Japan, and hoping for a really good trip. Posting to the blog will probably be light for the next week, although I’ve already got a backlog of items and ideas… well, that much more to look forward to, I guess.
We’re celebrating 300 posts in the Really Sarah Syndication blog since November! Thanks for reading!
What if there were no stop signs… and a major corporation was charged with inventing one?
If you’ve ever worked on the design side of the desk… don’t miss this great YouTube video!
From a consistently fascinating blog, Arthur Shapiro’s Illusion Sciences. Illusion Sciences isn’t in the class of trick pictures you looked at in a 6th-grade science unit; it explores what makes the mind interpret (and mis-interpret) images. Take a look at the site. You’ll be surprised.
Click on the image to go to the Illusion Sciences site, where the image is active:
If I were one of the people involved in inventing, developing, funding or launching GPS service, I’d be feeling very gratified right now (in addition to being rich). It’s sick that we need this kind of protection available, but it’s also exactly what technology is for. Good on them.
If only we could tag people just before they act.
GPS devices have been used for years to monitor sex offenders. But technological advances have now made it possible for the systems to issue warnings by cell phone if the offender gets too close to a specific victim.
Massachusetts adopted a law last year that lets judges require electronic monitoring of people who violate personal protection orders. Michigan, Oklahoma and Hawaii followed suit this year with GPS laws, bringing to 11 the number of states with related measures, said Diane Rosenfeld, a lecturer at Harvard Law School who proposed the Massachusetts law.
[via CNN.com]
Ischia. The newest Motorola handset to clear FCC certification. Good grief, who thought of “Ischia”? How do they plan to pronounce it?
Being medically-minded, I look at that brand name and think instantly: Ischemia.
(Ischemia: A decrease in the blood supply — and therefore oxygen flow — to an organ, tissue, or body part. Ischemia is often associated with tissue destruction or death.)
An ischemic limb might be blue or black… you get the point. “Ischia” is not evoking pretty pictures in my mind.
The only other word that comes to mind is eschar (eschar: a necrotic mass of tissue).
Ew.
[via Crave]
Some people are in a race to “keep up with the Joneses”. Some people are in a race to “keep down with the Cohens“. As for hats…
[today’s offering from xkcd]
