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Archive for July, 2006
Aches
Since I wrote about the Mirra chair I’ve really come to think about how much my bad seating affects me. Don’t get much done when you have to get up every 15 minutes. Have to do something about that.
Crash nostalgia
I got this error message twice today (click for un-cropped version, it didn’t resize well). Must have been about 13 years since the last time I saw that as an actual error message (in a non-crash context I’ve seen it when playing around with Linux and there was an error-message screensaver that came with KDE).
Any, seeing the good, ol’ Amiga guru meditating on my WinXP machine was one of those fascinating “wtf…?” experiences. My first thought was “virus!”, but the nostalgia made me less worried than I normally would be about a weird error message. Like that little familiar flavour would make it alright if my PC suddenly started smoking…
Anyway, after a bit of googling it seems to be some Winamp coder who decided to go old-fashioned on the error reporting. Software errors aren’t actually fun, but I guess that when they bring a smile like that… :)
Intimately crafty
Father’s day gifts, flowers, seasonal ornaments… and they are all made of tampons! I honestly don’t know why I think that’s so funny… (via the always stimulating growabrain)
One of those annoying little things…
This is probably not worth blogging about, but since it’s four in the morning and I don’t have anything better to do I’m going to do just that anyway. First – lacking good, noise free close-ups of it – here’s a blurred and generally weird image of my Chief Wiggum-like nose:
The image is partially to illustrate the affected area, but mostly a filler. Anyway, the whole thing has to do with shaving. I think a good shave often can be one of those good little things, it’s very refreshing, but there is one thing that can make it damned annoying: getting shaving cream up my nose!
I don’t know if my application process is particularly sloppy, but it seems to happen to me about every three or four times I shave. And, to me, having that dab of foamy stuff there is the tactile equivalent of a high frequency ambient noise or that sticky sweet taste in your mouth that sometimes comes after eating ice cream. Not to mention that feeling of a sneeze that never comes.
I could wipe it off, but usually I don’t notice it until I have rinsed my hands and am about to go on with the actual shaving, and poking around there could end up with me having to reapply shaving cream… so I just let it be and stress through the rest of the shave, sometimes managing the feat of cutting myself on a Mach 3 blade – so I can finally get rid of the blob that by then seems to be swelling to horror-film proportions in my nose.
Uhm, to make some sort of point to this… if there’s any representatives of the Gillette brand reading this I’m willing to discuss the sale of my idea for nose-plugs. Otherwise, stay tuned for more drivel. :)
The City of Galvez
By Oscar Guzmán, a series of 16 photos that “constitute a document of a place that exists at some level of Reality”. (flash link)
Ad eggs
CBS will promote their fall lineup with 35 million eggs. Eggs that have been laser-etched with show logos and “eggsiting” slogans, that is. I like the concept. Could use it for some art project.
Currently reading
Stumbled on China Miéville’s Perdido Street Station at the library. Grew bored with fantasy a long time ago, but this “New Weird” stuff is refreshingly different.
Mirra chair – I so want one of these
Time to put that “The best…” category to a little more use by appointing Mirra from Herman Miller “The best work chair I have ever seen”.
I love good design, the kind where both aesthetics and functionality are perfect, where the first doesn’t compromise the other. And with the level of complexity involved, achieving those goals in a work chair must be one of the greatest challenges for a designer.
Since I havn’t actually sat on one, I can’t really speak for the functionality aspect, but by the looks of it the designers seem to have thought of just everything that involves comfort, support and adjustability.
And the aesthetics then… it’s perfect. It manages to be eyecatching, but at the same time it is so neutral that I can imagine that chair in just about any environment. And looking closer, it appears that all of it derives from the main aspect of a work chair which is, as mentioned before, functionality.
But it is a chair in the thousand dollar range, and that’s a bit out of my reach. But god knows we (me and my lumbar) could use a proper chair.
Newflesh “devatars” – default avatars set
I got a mail from someone who thought my default gravatar image was “artsy” and asked for permission to use it. I decided to take it one step further and created newflesh “devatars”, a set with several versions, and publish it for free with a cc-license.
