Friday, June 29, 2007
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Fun Fact for Today
The most expensive cartridge for the Neo Geo home system is the European-localized version of Kizuna Encounter: there are only four known copies of the game, with the most recently sold copy selling for $12,000 USD.
Irony 101
GO TO HELL!!
FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
GO TO HELL!!
FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
GO TO HELL!!
FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
GO TO HELL!!
FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
GO TO HELL!!
FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
GO TO HELL!!
FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Thursday, June 21, 2007
ADD
Cognitive Dissonance development (CDD) - In any organization where there are two or more divergent beliefs on how software should be made. The tension between those beliefs, as it’s fought out in various meetings and individual decisions by players on both sides, defines the project more than any individual belief itself.
Cover Your Ass Engineering (CYAE) - The driving force behind most individual efforts is to make sure than when the shit hits the fan, they are not to blame.
Development By Denial (DBD) - Everybody pretends there is a method for what’s being done, and that things are going ok, when in reality, things are a mess and the process is on the floor. The worse things get, the more people depend on their denial of what’s really happening, or their isolation in their own small part of the project, to survive.
Get Me Promoted Methodology (GMPM) - People write code and design things to increase their visibility, satisfy their boss’s whims, and accelerate their path to a raise or the corner office no matter how far outside of stated goals their efforts go. This includes allowing disasters to happen so people can be heroes, writing hacks that look great in the short term but crumble after the individual has moved on, and focusing more on the surface of work than its value.
http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2007/asshole-driven-development/highlighted humility
Humility & the Interaction Designer
When asked what personal qualities make a good interaction designer, Larry Tesler highlighted humility:
“Enough confidence to believe you can solve any design problem and enough humility to understand that most of your ideas are probably bad. Enough humility to listen to ideas from other people that may be better than your own and enough confidence to understand that going with other people’s ideas does not diminish your value as a designer.”
Larry Tesler, Vice President of the User Experience and Design group, Yahoo in Dan Saffer’s Designing for Interaction.
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
album cover autobiography
2. toddlerhood
3. prepubescence
4. puberty
5. mid-life crisis
6. golden years
7. the after-death
Monday, June 18, 2007
Friday, June 15, 2007
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
thanks joe and garth!
i was there when this happened...
Body of teen boy found in Susquehanna
The body of a teenage boy who went missing Friday in the Susquehanna River was found at about 2 p.m. Saturday, Exeter Park Fire Chief David Gutowski said.
Luzerne County Coroner Dr. Jack Consalvo identified the boy as 16-year old Patrick Wolak, of Lincoln Street, Exeter.
The body was found about 100 feet from where the boy was last seen swimming Friday, and about 70 feet upstream from the Hick's Creek Pumping Station, Gutowski said.
Wolack disappeared just before 6 p.m. Friday while swimming with a friend about 75 yards north from the Hick's Creek Pumping Station on state Route 92.
Rescue crews from throughout the Wyoming Valley searched the river until 9 p.m. Friday when it became dark and thunderstorms moved through the region.
Crews resumed the search at about 7 Saturday morning.
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joe
June 9, 2007 at 8:19 PM
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may GOD with you
Garth
June 9, 2007 at 4:46 PM
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John, a human life is more important than a grammar error. It deeply saddens me, as I knew this teenage boy. While you are scouring articles for grammar errors, others are mourning this boy and his family's loss.
Comics
Here is an article i found on using comics to communicate complicated concepts to a non-technical audiance. the article even suggests that comics may be "the universal language"
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/comics-not-just-for
