Qbasic on Rails. *snrglt*
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Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
Qbasic on Rails. *snrglt*
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Under the Pier.
Odd: Google Photos actually increased saturation on this. Half the time the auto-awesome (or whatever they’re calling it these days) takes a photo with bright, interesting colors and makes it a dull black and white (it hardly ever picks the shots that actually look good in B&W).
We had a rare summer thunderstorm today.
Pollywog Park.
In “Play of the Year” (March 1943), a theater producer sabotages a rival’s production by faking a measles outbreak among the cast. The boarding house where they’re all staying is immediately quarantined.
Of course, this is a Jay Garrick Flash story, so there’s a madcap solution: the Flash will perform every part in the play at once!
Golden Age Flash vs. the Measles
As someone who grew up after the measles vaccine, I tended to think of it as not a big deal, just one of those childhood diseases that previous generations had to deal with. So back in the mid-2000s when I was tracking down every Golden Age Flash story I could find, I was surprised to see that Flash Comics #39 treated it as serious business (which, of course, it is).
I hate that Mac/PC email interaction still manages to transform curly apostrophes and quotation marks into superscript numbers. Shouldn’t this be a solved problem by now?
Looking through my email this morning, I had the following messages regarding today’s online protests against mass surveillance.
EFF: Call Congress, spread the word
Google: Call Congress, spread the word
TheDayWeFightBack.org: Call congress, spread the word
O’Reilly: Save 50% on books about privacy.
One of these things is not like the others…
Hey, Google. If I want to recommend something to my friends, I’ll recommend it to them!
Back to my Les Miserables commentary!
After 250 pages only seeing them from Marius’ POV, we meet Valjean, Cosette and their home in the Rue Plumet…and see their side of Marius & Cosette’s stealth courtship. Let’s just say Valjean is a lot more perceptive than Marius.
Comments on Google+:
Darrin Matteson: saw the musical and I’ve TRIED reading the book. I got about 60 pages into it and was bored to tears by the Bishop of Digne. I’ve read that the book was originally published in serial form in the Paris newspaper over a 20+ year span which explains why the book is so long and detailed.
Me: It picks up eventually, but even in the middle there are long stretches that leave you wondering just why on earth they were included. As for publishing, I don’t think it was serialized over that much time. It may have been published in several volumes, but I think they all hit in 1862.
Yeah, I can see how that might be a barrier to app development.
(Screenshot from https://www.wired.com/2013/09/how-ios-7-paves-the-way-for-a-golden-age-of-apps/ )
“I keep trying to click on it, but it just oozes out of the way.” “Well, it is a GUI interface.”
Apparently the <blink> tag was originally meant as a joke. Suddenly it makes a lot more sense.
Stacy adds on Google+: An idea born in the pub! How much more open source can you get? 😉
None. None more open source. 🙂
I’m going to have to go back and look at this again.
Creator of xkcd Reveals Secret Backstory of His Epic 3,099-Panel Comic
This is a cool idea. The full title is “Raising a Reader! How Comics & Graphic Novels Can Help Your Kids Love To Read!”
CBLDF Releases RAISING A READER, a Resource for Parents and Educators | Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
Intense stress, doing the impossible, meeting artists, keeping a toddler entertained, chaos good and bad, and a genuine medical emergency.
All this, and I still managed to finish my convention write-up on time. (How did that happen?)
And this year, that’s saying something. (I’ll get into that later.)
“Let’s establish a simple usability principle: avoid taunting the customers.”
Users might overlook things that change too fast—and even when they do notice, changeable screen elements are harder to understand in a limited timeframe.