I have moved -

Friends and foes – I have moved to my own domain… I study digital media, and it was only a matter of time, of course. I will dig into technical solutions one day – but for the time being:
HERE is my new home.. Wish me luck, and thanks for all the fish :-)

Simons cat

Sweet, funny and true.

Helvetica, gods of fonts. I don’t like the a.

I finally saw the much-trumpeted film. It was amusing; mainly for the characters in it – and I mean the designers, not the fontface. That helvetica is everywhere is no surprise. It is clean, bland, large, simple and good for signage. Generally.
But the designers was the funniest bits. Some of them are clearly off their rockers, and I love it. Especially Erik Spiekermann is a raving loony, a man with wit, opinions and a careless regards of others. “I am always on time, but always a year late”, he says. He despises Helvetica for having no contrast; no rhythm. He shrugs, and says bad design is everywhere.

Found

Have found some good pictures out there on the big web. I like the genuinely miserable look on the left guys face.

All my secret passwords

You have to love ThinkGeek for coming up with the Top Secret Password Notepad. It is so obvious, no one will ever suspect. Especially not a bunch of dumb penguins we know…
Hide it in plain view they say. It’s the same technique elefants use when they hide in cherry trees.
Genius.

Command line silliness

The silliest terminal command to date:

sudo osascript -e ’say “Dum dum dum dum dum dum dum he he he ho ho ho fa lah lah lah lah lah lah fa lah full hoo hoo hoo” using “Cellos”‘

I know a guy who cannot stop laughing
:-)

Insomnia – nightly expedition and sneaking around on the net

I live in a shithole. I try to ignore that I live in a shithole.  My sleep pattern gone haywire, my eating habits likewise. Time does funny things, and seems to coil and loop. That is why I drove out last night, at three thirty in the morning to capture the early morning light.

Living in misery – all for the love of a cat

What I will not do for my kitty..
Due to a million things, I now live – temporarily – in a smelly basement in the most boring town in Norway. I assure you, there’s stiff competition. A filthy kitchen upstairs, where cat is not welcome. The first thing I had to do was to scrub the stove. I am not hysterically antiseptic or dainty, but there seemed to be things living there. So, for the smelly basement – the smell sends me back to ireland; a mouldy, damp cat-pee infested mess of old sofas and wrecked furniture. Naked lightbulbs. Concrete floor. Mouldy carpet. Nice…
All because of a general aversion to cats, lack of information and communication.
I could kill to get out of here. I am pissed off. Too pissed off to take a photo of the dungheap.
I have been here less than three nights, and I grow more miserable by the minute.
And to top it off, the wireless connection is atrocious.

I alternately hate and love my cat – I live here for lack of options because I refuse to get rid of her. Clearly love won.

Bollocks.

Crop circles, math and outer space

I know a lot of strange people. Some of them are the kind you might think the most ordinary figures, until.. something seeps out.

I know a guy who believes crop circles are made by creatures from outer space, the «wee folk» or «unidentified streams of energy». That is pretty off, but extraordinary coming from him. He is a great fan of science, in practicality.

custom css, exams finished and the shoemakers children

Had the last exam today, in digital documents, and now I’m free (!) for 12 weeks! (an old hag like me- I have no idea what to do with all that time..) The idea is that I’ll fix a custom css here, learn flash, set up a website proper, and get some good webdesigns done. And looking forward to read some fiction, and not programming books only.

……..but as the saying goes, the shoemakers children go barefoot. And good intentions never changed anything. Ask me how it went in 12 weeks time. And a happy holiday to all :-)