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Thinking about affordances & convention in web design
I wrote the following intending to include it in an email newsletter I send out. I had Chey read it and it seems the word “affordance” used in this way is a bit too esoteric. I’ve started trying to rewrite it, starting from the user-testing paragraph, but I’m having trouble writing about this concept without…
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. . .And they’re off!
So the girls and I spent 6 hours on campus today. We went to the children’s garden, the butterfly house, toured the horticulture gardens outside, walked up to Kresge which is closed until september, went to the fountain at Nat Sci, went to the bank on Grand River, went to the Parlour (which may turn…
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Once a Thief. . .
Ok i have stolen this picture. But it is a photo of two of my favorite people in the whole world and I think they look CUTE! That is Cole Hekki (he’s the little one) and Cole Provencal (She’s slightly larger). My two favorite Coles. I stole that picture from Noel. I’m impressed that I…
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The Greatest Mac. . .
I am currently watching what may be the worse movie ever: Starsky and Hutch. But despite the sheer stupidity of this film there was one priceless quote: “Some one once said, ‘to err is human, to forgive, Divine.’ “–Huggy Bear (i.e. snoop dogg) “What idiot said that?” -Hutch “I believe it was God–The greatest Mac…
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Nice horns
If you cross your eyes a little until the photo blurs, the horns kind of look like arms or legs and the body looks like some kind of contortionist act. Or maybe that’s just me. And, yes, I have this habit of crossing my eyes when looking at images.
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Fleeing monkey narrowly escapes three-year-old zoo-goer
So we watched Shipping News a couple nights ago. I enjoyed it. In it, the protagonist occassionally mumbles headlines to himself. So, I made up a headline. Feel free to comment with your own.
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One more thing. . .
For all the resident geeks. today I have used my airport card for the first time (at Van Java–buy coffee, spend money, they’re going under). It seems to make my computer a little slow and sluggish, but remember we are dealing with a tangerine dream that is older than both my children combined and that…
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Wait, there’s more. . .
Ok, I’ve got a few things for you. 1) I heard the funniest thing today: So there was this guy (it’s good already, isn’t it) sitting on a bench (see previous post). And this guy was not moving. He was just sitting there, doing nothing, just sitting. Not even moving. So some people were on…
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How HTML and CSS is like an egg hatching.
A discussion has been building in a web developer community email list I receive. The discussion looks at the field of “professional web developer/designer/etc.” One of the posters wrote up a long response to many comments; one of the things he said struck me as true, but a shallow observation. It was this: Stuff like…
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It’s a headache that’s got you.
So working has it’s ups and downs. For example, currently it is 4 in the morning. No, I am not working but I am awake. I have taken to falling asleep around 9:30 at night. Now, in theory that would be a good thing, except if either of the children wakes me up, say around…