I have more than one monitor on my computer, can I have a tablet for each monitor?

what a sick idea. a 22" CRT for my 6"x8" tablet, and then a 17" LCD and a 4"x5" tablet of the same model so that i can use both tablets with the same pen. it would be just wrong.

ViewSonic: Products: Desktop Displays: CRT Monitors: Graphic Series: G220fB

thinking something like this would be nice. dunno if my crappy little desk would hold it.

ViewSonic: Products: Desktop Displays: CRT Monitors: Graphic Series: G220fB

thinking something like this would be nice. dunno if my crappy little desk would hold it.

..::: House Gymnastics :::..

this one's for nick, the jedi physicist, next time i catch him online.

The Political Compass

suppose that makes me an anarchistic communist

Good Experience - Budgeting for Advertising and Customer Experience

weekend reading

Techbargains.com - New Dell Biz Deals

looking for a new computer for home. gonna dump money on monitor(/s) and ram, the rest isn't so big a deal.

OCR B

faking product box info for some user testing at work. jon suggested this font.

Haier XQBM22-C Washing Machine Review at Epinions.com

a freakishly thorough review

KODAK: Taken On The Road-American Mile Markers

How wide is America? Check out the Picture Viewer.

MEHGAN HEANEY-GRIER, Olympic free-diver

...did Keira Knightley’s underwater stunts in Pirates of the Caribbean

Google Local

Have to compare the results here with those of switchboard.com. I find switchboard to often be out of date. Moving to a new location we'll have plenty of oprtunity to try them out.

ESPN.com: Olympics

There are actually a number of interesting sports at the summer olympics. While it's nice to see Tennis' popularity growing, the majority of air time still seems to be devoted to the boring few mainstream american sports. Here are the games I'm going to try to catch more of this August:

• Archery
• Badminton
• Canoe and Kayak
• Fencing
• Handball
• Judo and Taekwondo
• Table Tennis
• Tennis
• Volleyball
• Wrestling

Apartment Floorplan

One of the major changes in my daily life starting in the beginning of August is a move to a new apartment in Sherman Oaks. I've gotten a bit of a head start by measuring the major rooms and drawing up a floorplan (GIF Image, 900x582 pixels). It still needs some work aside from the fact that I've left of the kitchen, bathroom, and all the closets/cupboards due to time constraints when I was doing the measuring. Still have to figure out what to do about bookcases and/or hanging bookshelves, and where all the paintings are going to go. Not satisfied with the living room setup, and even though the bed theoretically ought to go where I put it in that floorplan, I'm going to move it out from under the window so the cats don't knock the fan onto my head (again!).

It's going to be nice having a kitchen large enough for 2 people and an office that's not taking up one wall of the bedroom. This place is basically a two bedroom going for the price of a one. Not thrilled about moving during the hottest month of the year, but as with the other major change, for some things there is no opportune time.

Update: a crazy new scheme from Cybil (as a counter proposal to a foosball table), a full sized ping pong table that would get stored against the wall and fold out to take up the whole living room. It's going to be tight, with 5 feet clearance on either end. Might buy a little more space when I take down the railing along the edge of the loft (room that's a 6" step up off the living room where we're putting the office). Two ways I see of looking at it, 1) anything is better than a stupid quarter-size table, and 2) I need to work on tightening up my swings anyway to increase recovery time between shots.

castlevania

i've mentioned how great it is when games have proper key commands, but this one goes above and beyond. you get to set the controls yourself when the game starts.

Smell of Earth and Clay: East Greenland Songs, translated by Lawrence Millman

Drum-Song Against an Angry Husband, Bad Hunter's Drum-Song and Kuk-ook's Song are particularly fun. Eastern Greenlandic Songs of a wife stealer, a small-penised bad hunter, and a nasty little person.

Update: Michael took my suggestion and added anchors to the individual poems/songs so that people can link to specific ones. I have now done so.

RE. Design News Reluct.com design and architecture news

foo on mister jon and his leaving to work someplace else where he'll get to work with an industrial design vendor. here be a new design blog, and note the feed.

The Polyphonic Spree - The Quest For The Rest

this woulda been cooler if i'd found it before the album, but doug should get a kick out of it nonetheless.

JavaScript optimization examples - Optimizing JavaScript for Execution Speed improves performance for faster optimize javascript speed - Chapter 10

Speed Up Your Site: Web Site Optimization, by Andrew B. King

JavaScript Optimization

- Jeff Greenberg

Boxes and Arrows: Are Useful Requirements Just A Fairy Tale? (and why an IA should care)

you know what, i'm actually going to print this out on paper and read it, might be a good one to pass around work.

jadeleeauthor.com

And another site launches: Jade Lee, Erotic Romance Author. Writing a short piece on where I found the inspiration for the design, and another piece on the technical side of the CSS trickery (no JS!) involved in making a full screen fixed position layout are both on my to do list, right after migrating Rakehell over to PHP.

Also in the works is an update to my portfolio with the following projects:

• advoy.com
• advancingbiosurgery.com
• baxter-concours.be
• cr2004.com
• jadeleeauthor.com
• leifdevine.com
• demo.xinasoft.org

And then, if I'm still alive after all that, and moving to a new apartment, I've been thinking about writing up a business plan and making those shoe-string personal/author sites a regular thing. The design is invigorating, the one-on-one work with a client is improving my professional soft-skills, and the extra cash is nice too. Might even be able to pick up a real monitor to use at home; I'm getting totally spoiled by the 22" at work, the Jade Lee site wasn't even possible to fully debug running 1024x678, even though the design works on smaller than 800x600.

hottpants

all panties, all the time.

Recommended Dragonlance Reading List

Lately I've been hanging out with my old high school companions. This guide to the series is helping me to re-build my library, as well as introducing the fifth age a the war of the souls. (link updated)

LeifDevine.com

After finding the inspiration a couple months I have finally finished my brother's site, 445 days past the original launch date.

To design the header I took a piece of construction paper, folded it in half, and drew a bunch of curves and points. Then I cut it out, unfolded it, and traced it with my tablet. I've found it's easier to draw a good curved by erasing extra "ink" than by painting it, so when I colored in my tracing I went over the lines. Then I chopped it back to the curve by flipping the pen and using the eraser end. Here's a step by step walk-through with images:

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1. Trace the shape, going over tricky curves several times*
2. Fill in the lines, being generous with the paint
3. Erase the excess paint
4. Hide the trace lines

*"Don't be afraid to build scaffolding" - Jon

Not much to say about the coding except that a) there are background images on a number of elements and b) it was a bitch getting everything to line up in the center of the page (still off by 1 pixel in IE). Oh, and one other thing; the design works with images turned off.

Monster raindrops delight experts

to taunt jfred. poor bastard having the hardest time coming up with a name for his company.

The Swedish Schoolnet: Lexin - Swedish-English dictionary

yes, blogging as a substitute to taking good notes about work related stuff again. this Swedish - English Dictionary could be helpful here, as we at times take translation into our own hands.

gridlock

a shifting maze (flash). this is my kinda puzzle.

The Japan Hierarchy

in case you're reading this Isaac

Losing Sleep Over a To-Do List

Couldn't sleep. Jon would say I was trying to hold too much state in my head. Dunno if that makes sense if you're not a geek. Had to break out the white board:

That bottom right quarter of the board is lurking somewhere, I'm going to try to sleep on it.

Ah! That's it. A list of all the things I've been meaning to write about in my blog.

Weddington Apartment

We had to turn down an apartment today. It was this gorgeous little duplex style place on Weddington in Sherman Oaks, a small residential street in a convenient location. The place is well kept, has it's own water heater, convenient laundry facilities, hardwood floors, an efficient air conditioner, shade trees but also good light, high ceilings, and even a freakin' front lawn. The problem was, it's just too small. I even went so far as to go back and measure the living room and bedroom, measure all of our furniture and draw up a floorplan. I managed to fit our stuff, but there wasn't any room left for storage. It has no closets to speak of, and minimal cupboard space. There isn't enough space on the counters for our appliances, and I couldn't figure out where the hell the cat boxes could go.

So we're still searching. I've been doing a lot of thinking about all the different factors that influence our decisions to choose a place. Here are the things I've thought of so far,

1. size
2. geographic location
3. neighborhood
4. nice/well kept
5. accepts cats
6. amenities (A/C, laundry, dishwasher)
7. and last but not least, price

We each of course put different amounts of emphasis on different things. Cybil wants a big place, she's got a total gym and a large volume of books. I'm currently concerned about location and neighborhood, the commute to westlake is dragging me down, and I hate the heat so I'm looking for someplace with trees.

Are there any other general factors that you consider when looking for a place?

Web Applications, promise or hype?

weekend reading

racing game

flash game with an astroids feel, zero-g with friction. excellent key commands, nice to see in a flach game. hit Enter.

Spite Your Face Productions Ltd. - Spider-Man: The Peril of Doc Ock

the exciting new animated short from Spite Your Face Productions Ltd, commisioned by Sony Pictures/Marvel Studios/The Lego Group to accompany the release of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 2.

Maxim hometown hotties

cast your vote! if only presidential elections were this easy on the eyes..

• Bethany
  Portland, ME
• Jen
  Los Angeles, CA
• Amber
  Bellevue, WA
• Desiree
  New Brighton, MN
• Michelle
  Savannah, GA
• Rhea
  Brookshire, TX
• Nikki
  Marina Del Rey, CA
• Sylvia
  Hillsborough, NJ
• Jamie
  Modesto, CA
• Gina
  Hermosa Beach, CA

Are the Browser Wars Back? - How Mozilla's Firefox trumps Internet Explorer. By Paul Boutin

and this from a microsoft owned magazine

Fixed Positioning for Internet Explorer on Windows

this could be a clean solution to my layout problem. i really would rather find a CSS solution than hack it with javascript, but i'll do what i have to to acheive the design. that's the problem with coding my own design, i can't go back to the designer and say, "sorry, that can't be done."