Archive for April, 2005
Friday, April 29th, 2005
My geek love for DIT, continued.
Oh, DIT. They saved my butt again this week on the whole RAM issue. As it turns out, Photoshop will detect a max of 1.7 GB. (What’s up with that, by the way?) DIT was kind enough to test my RAM to make sure it wasn’t faulty and then save me [...]
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Tuesday, April 26th, 2005
Digital doldrums.
Windows finds 3 GB of RAM. Photoshop sees 2. Time to play a guessing game…
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Friday, April 15th, 2005
Fear of the Blank Page/Craft Madness
I forgot how involved writing is (when you’re not just spewing gibberish about your working/personal life on the inter-web.) It’s especially painful to try and distill very specific scientific literature into a couple of interesting pages without messing up the science part. Almost like legal writing — tiny words can make a big [...]
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Thursday, April 14th, 2005
Kearney Update
Oh, The Archway. Do they really call it a museum? Maybe I’m a museum snob, but tape loops and concrete do not a learning experience make. It puts itself forth as a technological marvel (the lights rise and fade in time with the story, and the headsets somehow know where you are [...]
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2005
Feeling my age.
The first computer I ever owned (back in ‘97) had a 1 GB hard drive, which my Dad thought was a little excessive. Then I moved to college, discovered mp3s and the joys of having a T1 line in my room. That drive was packed full in three months. (Lest you think [...]
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Tuesday, April 5th, 2005
Ted Kooser wins the Pulitzer.
Congratulations, Ted.
I had the pleasure of meeting him earlier this year when Joel photographed him for the newspaper. His essay “Lying for the Sake of Making Art” has been a huge influence on me creatively, and his work ethic as a poet is to be admired. Many of the people who [...]
