touring Tucson with DJ Slappy Duck

on the ground in the land of cactus

Fussy & Jessica minding the grrls

wardrobe in a duffle + office in a backpack = 3 weeks on the road

leaving grey skies in my wake

greating the predawn with analog media

and so spring begins

Rory with belly full o cheeseburger

Rory’s experiment with PhotoBooth

storm clouds over Spencer

“Beneath every no / lays a passion for yes that had never been broken.”



- Wallace Stevens

listening to cholera in the time of podcasts, driving by the nation’s forensic lab.

driving past a red horse on the roof of a hotel, listening to Brazilian Klezmer music, now merging onto the American Autobahn.

problem w/ Interstate highways: all look alike… mind drifts… time & space pass… focus! huh? where am i!?

the black paper sentence of this scarcely trafficked oragami night is punctuated by screaming eyes of neon halogen lies.

Since everyone creating a Facebook account is (more or less) required and expected to use their real name, and a verified email address, you can search for your friends by typing their name or email address into Facebook’s search field.

Facebook’s Find Your Friends tool gives you many other options, such as entering your account name and password from various other services (like Gmail, Yahoo, AIM, MSN), thereby giving Facebook permission to search your address book for people who already have their own Facebook account.

Maybe the most natural thing to do is look at your existing Facebook friends and see whom they are friends with.  (For example, you could look at my assorted friends.)

Using any of these methods, you can select those folks you both know and like, then ask them to be your friend.

stop spam by reading books: …one word at a time!   reCAPTCHA provides a free captcha service to any website that needs it.  What does reCAPTCHA get in return?  Each captcha that is entered by your users helps digitize pre-digital-age books.  So when OCR fails, the word is farmed out as a captcha to participating sites.

(condensed & reblogged from aaronwhite)

If you’re promoting a web site in an email, you want to make it as easy as possible for people to remember and visit that site.  When you type or cut-n-paste the web address, include the whole URL, like this, including the HTTP bits:

http://PrompterToGo.com

Most email programs will allow curious readers to double click on a complete URL, taking them directly to your web site (in their default web browser).  Also, with multi-word domain names, use capital letters (like I did above) to designate the first letter of each word; this just makes it easier to read (since you can’t use spaces).

Not all email applications and services work the same.  Some allow slick formatting options which others cannot read.  This is a lowest common denominator approach, which should be readable and effective in most email software.

Shel Israel Parody Puppet Announced Flickr Video For TechCrunch (reblogged via p0ps) 

Muxtape: makes online “mixtapes”

office-in-a-backpack deployed on-the-road

Twitter bookmarks:

Since I first started using and writing about Twitter last year, it’s popularity has soared.  It seems like every day news tools, services, applications, bots, sites and more appear to extend it functionality for every conceivable circumstance, need, user and distraction.  As of this writing, i’ve bookmarked well over a hundred of them.  

Given their sheer numbers, and diverse specialities, I’ve only had time to try a fraction of them. But if you’ve ever wished that Twitter could do something more, there’s an ever growing chance that someone else with the same thought has actually created a tool that will help you do it.  So take a look, browse through my short descriptions, and see if any of these are for you.

As I setup my new MacBook Pro to be the workhorse of my portable office, by installing the applications I just can’t live without, I’m micro-blogging about each of them on my Twitter account.   

This is effectively a simple list of my favorite software for the Mac — if you wondered.  For easier future reference, these posts are also saved in my Favorites.

the little Gorillapod will steady your camera in a variety of situations, without taking up much space in a bag.   starting at just over $20 at Amazon.

 (reblogged from amyphetamine.) 

“If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said a faster horse.”



- Henry Ford

Setting up this ultra slim Bluetooth keyboard to “pair” with my laptops took about a minute.  I’ll be adding this to my portable-office-in-a-bag, for more ergonomic typing on the road.

 

can you spot the Mac in this picture?

(Nik, thought you might enjoy this Steampunk mod.)

AppleCare: why, when & where to get it: I don’t usually buy the extended warranties on electronics that sales people love to push on you. These programs are mostly designed to take cash out of your pocket, up front, while delivering little in the way of actual service, down the line….

FauvePainter: is there something on one of your websites recommending printers?

MYKLbiz: no, i haven't shopped for printers in a while. what you want depends very very much on what you're using it for.

FauvePainter: mostly just to print papers and whatnot. i don't want one that has really expensive cartridges. that drives me nuts.

MYKLbiz: pretty much ALL ink jet printers -- which is to say all the cheapest printers -- have expensive cartridges -- which is to say expensive PER PAGE printing costs. which is fine, if you only print a few pages every once in a while.

FauvePainter: and other printers?

MYKLbiz: if you print a lot, the per page cost is much lower for laser printers.

FauvePainter: how much do those run?

MYKLbiz: low hundreds on up for laser printers.

FauvePainter: doable.

MYKLbiz: street price of laser cartridges varies from mid $20s to low $100s for black, and around $100+ for color.

FauvePainter: but they last a long time?

MYKLbiz: one cartridge prints thousands of pages. so cost-benefit really comes down to how many pages you're gonna print every month. a laser printer and it's cartridges generally cost more up front, but you'll eventually get more pages printed for your buck.

FauvePainter: i print a lot of stuff at work :)

MYKLbiz: you can't beat the economy of printing on someone else's dime. as for buying your own, you might wanna read the printer reviews at MacWorld.com and MacReviewZone.com (Laser Printers, Ink Jet & Other Printers).

FauvePainter: we have a printer; haven't used it in awhile. the cartridges run about 70.

MYKLbiz: definitely find out the real world price of cartridges, and how many pages they each print, before deciding on a printer. that, and a pocket calculator, will give an idea of the true cost of printing with it, over time.