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photo comps for the girl.dog.truck website

I thought these photos turned out great: in the end they went for a photo on an actual road surface (not shown)

 girl.dog.truck 2009 Zin and Cabernet

To see the photos actually used on the website, visit http://www.girldogtruckwines.com/?page=wines

(download)

Grand Central Station in Low Resolution

This walkthrough of the new Apple store in New York's Grand Central Terminal called up a memory image from another age. Or, rather, the memory of another image from another time.

Kodak. And it wasn't that long ago, either. I remember a New York Times story on Kodak's new Ektar color film, which represented the pinnacle of silver-crystal film process. Two photos taken of Grand Central, one with Ektar, one with another fast film. You could see many real differences throughout the photo, especially the detail in the dark areas of the image.

Now, film has pretty much disappeared, and Kodak is about to. And anyone can walk through Grand Central with a camera and post it on YouTube for free. No biggie. What will we see 25 more years down the road?

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/12/07/video-a-walkthrough-apples-grand-centr...

7 times fun (Seven languages in Seven Weeks, by Bruce Tate)

Already I've found 2 new things about my beloved Ruby, which I thought I knew so well. And I'm only as far as page 15!

There is a one-line form of the "if" statement, which can also take the form of "unless".


x = 42
puts 'This is true' unless x == 43

and

puts "Strewth" if x == 42

These are both lines which each cause output to occur.

The occasion of these new, extremely minor discoveries are the arrival by postal mail of the next book for the patterns study group. I have tried to use the Kindle for study group books, but it just doesn't work all that well. And besides, my Kindle broke and neither Amazon nor I were interested in replacing it. Maybe if I see it in a store and it looks really great, but I'd rather put the $79 toward a new iPad.

The Ruby exercises for day 1 were kind of fun.

James Heckman's Amazing Website

Anyone looking for upstream solutions to the biggest problems facing America should look to Nobel Prize winning University of Chicago Economics Professor James Heckman's work to understand the great gains to be had by investing in early and equal development of human potential.

via heckmanequation.org

I have to say -- who did the information architecture and interaction design on http://www.heckmanequation.org ? I'm impressed. Spend some time on this site and see if you don't agree with me!

Doggone Google+!!!

#googfail I tried to log on to plus.google.com, a site that TRUE Internet trendsetters have already tried and abandoned. To me it looked good, but Mighty Goog told me I needed an invitation. I've heard if invitations on auction sites for .99 cents but you know, you get what you pay for & I think I'd rather have my dollar-minus than my Google-plus

Impatiently yours,

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