I was just reading about the latest demo of Google’s Android mobile operating system. The Android Community site got an exclusive live preview of the latest version, and posted plenty of pictures and video, most importantly, this:
In a nut-shell, this system is already looking like it can do whatever the snazzy iPhone can dish out, [...]
Filed under: business, rants, technology on May 30th, 2008 | No Comments »
While reading about the unsurprisingly bad consumer confidence numbers, I came across this article focusing on the Florida consumer confidence numbers.
In the midst of the numbers, and the suggestion that the stimulus checks (as I expected) had no effect on consumer confidence, I found a glimmer of good news:
Although most economists foresee price declines extending [...]
Filed under: business, news on May 29th, 2008 | No Comments »
The Sunset Glint, originally uploaded by ASurroca.
Still at the artwork in Photoshop… I started off with this piece, took out all the ribbony bits, and focused on turning the photos into this abstract piece here. I did add a few new ribbony bits that (purposely) make a screen-door effect.
Filed under: artwork on May 28th, 2008 | No Comments »
In Rainbows, originally uploaded by ASurroca.
Why the title? Duh. I started making something bright and airy and with a white background, and I ended up with this instead.
Reminds me of the Stanley Donwood’s artwork for Radiohead’s current album. I’d say it’s inspired by it, but it really isn’t; this is just the way this bit [...]
Filed under: artwork on May 28th, 2008 | No Comments »
“When I walk down the street and only 3 or 4 shots are fired at me, I find it hard to stay awake.”
That’s the quote that stood out, among numerous outstanding quotes from this excerpt of a book of post-modern stream-of-consciousness madness by an author known only by the initials H.C.
It’s not new, especially [...]
Filed under: humor, technology, thoughts on May 26th, 2008 | No Comments »
One day, years ago, I wrote the following, stream-of-consciousness style, immediately upon waking. Something about crapping out a sort of story out of my subconscious while still in a half-asleep daze makes me smile. Here it is:
She wore a robe of burgundy and gold. Her home was made of felt and porcelain, satin and ceramic. [...]
Filed under: personal, thoughts, writing on May 25th, 2008 | No Comments »
One Drive Cable, originally uploaded by ASurroca.
I’m still on a color kick, and filled with much linear love. Once again, I headed over to COLOURlovers to make myself a five-color palette and got to work.
If you cannot tell, this is a hard disk drive cable; well, it would be an HDD cable, were HDD cables [...]
Filed under: artwork on May 24th, 2008 | No Comments »
asurroca’s last.fm, originally uploaded by ASurroca.
Web services interacting with one another to create new and fun things…I love you, internet
Filed under: technology on May 23rd, 2008 | No Comments »
It seems you can’t hit Craigslist for even a few moments without coming across something hilarious. Today, I was browsing the local job boards for freelance graphic design or web development work, and I come across this post:
model wanted artistic photography
Model wanted: prefer nubile fresh petite
and willing. Artistic photographer
compiling book on petite models
adding to portfolio. [...]
Filed under: humor on May 23rd, 2008 | No Comments »
Here is a dialog box I’m often greeted with in Adobe Dreamweaver while working with XHTML/CSS files that have linked graphics:
[name of file] has changed on the remote server since your last get or put operation. Putting the file may overwrite changes to the file. Do you wish to put the file anyway?
In the case [...]
Filed under: rants on May 21st, 2008 | No Comments »