As Far As I Can Tell

It is imperative that you check out Photo Studio, the new online issue of Colors Magazine. It’s a peak into nine photo studios throughout the world, from Chicago to Lebanon, low art to high.

The website is based on a horizontal scrolling navigation, which rarely works to optimal effect but seems appropriate here. It contains subtle colors and lovely illustrations from Tomson Jennings (Cheddelton). Angela Lidderdale (New York) did the design, as she has with some other Colors issues. Creative direction on the site was added by Andey Cameron (London) and it was built by Enrique Grullon (Los Angeles).

I mention all that info not just as link filler for this entry, but to point how successful Colors is with their strive for internationalism. Each issues not only attempts to showcase how one idea or theme plays out throughout the world, but employs a world wide staff to make it happen. It’s also nice that such disparate people can pull together to create a single thing.

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John Wagner loves Pacman

I’m at work. I’m waiting to hear back from a client if some banner ads I did are approved or need changes; either way, it has to be done tonight. I’m tired and hungry, but I’m still here. At least I found out that they still have juice in the fridge. I had been looking in the wrong fridge all this time. Just when I start to complain I remember that there’s all the free juice, coffee, and ice cream I could want.

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Last night I discovered the that Mac I bought on eBay isn’t exactly what it was advertised as. The auction says it has an AGP graphic card in it, implying that it has an AGP bus. This was important to me since it meant that it was the Sawtooth model and not the Yikes! model. I was fooled into thinking it was an AGP slot even after looking at it since it’s a different size than the others. It’s a special 66Mhz PCI slot meant for video cards…but that’s not an AGP slot. This means that Quartz Extreme doesn’t work on my Mac. This also means I got ripped off.

I’m emailing the guy to see if I can get a refund, return, or something. Who knows how responsive he’ll be. It was over 2 months ago that the auction ended.

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I’ve just deleted a paragraph of text. It won’t appear on my weblog because I won’t treat this site like a personal diary. Unfortunately that means most of what’s written here is superficial bullshit. Just so you know what to expect.

I just woke up in Chicago, air mattress slightly deflated, morning light streaming into Ivo’s living room, and a somewhat under the weather birthday girl still waking up. Today is Meredith’s first as an officially aged adult citizen, and all the new rights that tag along with that. I’m glad we’re in the city this weekend, though the plan for later is more heavily slanted towards dancing and drinking than I’d like. Either way we’ll have fun.

Last night we ate at Bite after getting into town, going upstairs afterwards to visit with Matt and Chris. The walk there took us by a handful of houses that I wished I lived in. Squatty old story-and-a-half homes with ornate window flourishes, squashed between the taller three story standards. My favorite has a large round window in the front that make it seem like the steering port of a house shaped submarine.

Were heading off to Leo’s for breakfast. I’m most looking forward to the birthday dinner at Alice and Friends. Veggie duck! — I’ve been waiting for months.

Meredith’s sister Jen is in town from California and got married in her parent’s front yard this last weekend. The ceremony was fall-o-rific and the Lonesome Moonlight Trio were there playing old-time bluegrass all day long. Lots of Adams and Smarts were there from Illinois and a giant game of bachi ball was played.

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My Mac is now up and running, along with my KVM switch which lets me swap over to it with a double-press of the Scroll Lock key. It’s probably the first useful thing I’ve ever done with that key. The switch doesn’t support the extra two buttons on the sides of my mouse, so I’m running a separate mouse for the Mac. I’m able to use the same keyboard though, and thanks to Double Command I’ve re-mapped the Ctrl and Alt keys to work like I expect them to. I haven’t played with the Mac that much, but it’s up on my network and I’m able to share files with my Windows machine. I’ve spent most of my time in the terminal window seeing what UNIX utilities are built it. So far I’m impressed.

Jake/Dan

Meredith/Simon

Birdie/Birdie