Personal news, commentary and ramblings
If you are free on any of the last days of December, I strongly urge you to go see House of Large Sizes at a venue near you. HoLS is the best Iowa band ever and one of the best shows I’ve ever seen. Here’s the four concerts they have scheduled for late December:
Seriously, this band rock like nobody’s business. Go see them!
While researching rain gear, I came upon this product. I was unaware that bananas needed protection, but it’s comforting to know that they are out there if we need them.
This game is literally named More Mindless Violence and is a ton of fun.
Level 06 passcode: 88235
Level 08 passcode: 25793
Level 10 passcode: 02922
Portland lawyer Robert Reid says it better than I could ever hope to say it: The Portland Police Bureau shouldn’t be allowed to selectively enforce the law.
There’s no more than 30 seconds of enjoyment, but put it in Manic Mode and knock yourself out.
I found this cool drawing thing today. If you can’t waste 30 minutes of time on it, you need to get out more. Be sure to tweak all the settings for maximum fun and creativity.
A few interesting items I came upon in the last few days:
One of the things I do in my profession is to design user interfaces for software. Most people probably don’t give much thought to how buttons, windows, menus and other elements come together to make your software experience understandable and enjoyable, but software professionals spend alot of time figuring those things out. Today a collegue sent me an excellent article called Visualizing Fitts’ Law, which describes a basic principle for deciding where user interface elements are placed on the screen and how big they should be. Although most of them probably don’t know it, one of the reasons that Mac people hate Windows is because the placement of menus doesn’t take advantage of infinite width.
