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Posts from January 2008

Bunny Racetrack

.flickr-photo { } .flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Bunny Racetrack, originally uploaded by jazzmasterson. Shown here, the Oni model racebun cools off after a grueling marathon race […]


Beverly Cleary can bite my ass.

Cecily and I recently moved to a new apartment in an old, multi-family home. It’s had many, many occupants, some of whom have treated it better than others. The owners have been diligent and conscientious in their upkeep, so the wear on the apartment has tended to take the form of character, rather than neglect. […]


Ewan McIntosh on technology and education

Via my del.icio.us network, I find this post by Ewan McIntosh, titled CESI: Why people (not you) dread Change, Innovation and Creativity “One of the reasons Interactive Whiteboards are not really delivering significant educational returns is because people don’t see how to exploit them in the long-term for what they’re good at: […]


Ubuntu: Ancient african word for ‘less painful than a poke in the eye’

My five year old, home-built PC is now running Ubuntu seven point something something. It was that, or reinstall Windows XP. Again. Let’s just say that if I was going to put XP on this machine again, I’d be using an axe to do it. There are limits beyond which no-one should be pushed. So. How […]


Behance Dot Grid sketchbook — Beautiful and Frustrating

My Behance Dot Grid Book is open on my desk, taunting me. It’s a handsome spiral-bound sketchbook, with slightly-toothy paper that takes pencil well, and erases nicely. I’ve had a love-hate relationship with it for the last few weeks, and I’m trying to work out why. Impression The book is attractive in a way that’s qualitatively different […]


Sucking is the enemy of perpetual incompleteness

New, blank sketchbooks are intimidating. I tend to self-edit when there’s no Undo command. If you only put the good ideas down, then you’re improving the quality of your output, right? Except, it doesn’t work that way. The only way you get to the good ideas is by having dozens of bad ones. And the […]


Exactly how lame I am.

.flickr-photo { } .flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Exactly how lame I am., originally uploaded by jazzmasterson. I get all excited by a sketchbook and forget […]