Bits Category Archive
There's something in the air
Digitalism - Pogo It's been quite of a while since i could experience your brightness Now you've got a brighter smile and i think i'm going to like it Talking 'bout the better things, you know how to maximize...
Quiet
Not much to say at the moment. Busy as usual. All's well. Carry on. :)...
Sir Richard Branson in Casino Royale
Noticed him and looked into it. Sure enough, it's Branson. In 2002 or so I did a mockup of a public access WiFi portal to be used by Virgin that I know he saw. Haw haw....
autoplay off
heh. sorry about that. Karl mentioned it to me the other day and I thought I fixed it. Sometimes forget that every parameter in an object embedded is duplicated (and I turned off autoplay on only one of them). what...
Music is my...
Grab this nice long mix of last year's great tracks. This is the stuff I have been listening to mostly. This is the kind of stuff that gets me moving in tiny sticky basement nightclubs and swanky undergrounds in Tokyo...
Le Talkie-Walkie
de Serge Gainsbourg J’avais en ma possession un talkie-walkie Made in Japan Il ne m’en reste à présent qu’un grain de folie Un point c’est tout J’avais donné le même appareil à celle que j’aimais On s’appelait pour un...
So out of shape
(sorry about posting these... having fun ;) And the course I ran, mapped on GMap Pedometer. (Funny how mapping a jog like that brings the enormity of Tokyo down to a personal, human scale. If my lungs held out,...
Warming warning
Hiromy posted this photo comparing the same spot in Niigata one year apart almost to the day. Last year was unusually much snow; this year, unusually little. Key word here is "unusual"....
Alternate use
Not jogging, but a leisurely evening with friends visiting an exhibit and ChinaTown in Yokohama. (Train rides of course not account in distances.) Note: The iPod frequently "paused" the "workout"--sensing prolonged periods of immobility--hence it's shortness. The trip lasted...
Toasters
A general statement: "When people buy a toaster, they know it's probably not going to blow up when they plug it in. But when they buy a consumer device like the Nike+iPod kit, they have no idea whether the device...
Texture
Been wearing camo pants ($30 @ Uniqlo) for the last 3 weeks. I am suddenly comfortable with the idea of patterns on my legs. Subtle, ton-sur-ton patterns. Hmmmm... Aside, I was looking for "digital camo"... I didn't know where I...
this is the time on sprockets vere ve ... pump yoo ahp
After Jan called me a weakling in that heavy german accent that could only remind me of Hans und Franz ("you are litta giwly maan! we are gonna pump j00 up!"), because I said it was too cold to...
What the font?
I got an email this morning from "zazaaaaaaa" Azamit: Hey u Would u know anybody that can help me find the name of this font ?....huh!!?? Thx Daah, I thought... I *hate* font searching. Is it Helvetica? No, no, it's...
Today
all actionable. and these are not related to my main client/project. e-mails from that are sorted into 5 other folders, all with lists similarly long....
Stamen hiring
Stamen Design's most recent "Hiring designer" posting is almost as insane (but right on) as any "hiring!" post I've ever written in my head (yeah, I've done that, a few times). We want to see that you are comfortable making...
Mémoire courte
Je ne me souviens plus de ce que je croyais. Tant mieux. Beliefs are memories twisted out of shape by desires....
re-make-up-your-minder
Being indecisive gets you nothing. You may not always know what you want, and you may not always be sure you can handle it. But it's a safe bet that it's better to find out than to always wonder and...
beyond legit
talkin smack mikeIm going to have to get some klaxons, huh bopuci was just listenng to some.. not bad... trendy mikenew rave, here I come! bopucshudder hmm their cover of justin timberlake is not bad wow. very cool mikehehehe dick...
1 minute english
This morning, I picked up Jeremy, my erstwhile assistant who had been backpacking around Delhi for the last 2 weeks, at Shinjuku station. As soon as we boarded the Yamanote train, heading for our connection at Shibuya, a Berlitz commercial...
Twits
twit (twÄt) tr.v., twit·ted, twit·ting, twits. To taunt, ridicule, or tease, especially for embarrassing mistakes or faults. See synonyms at ridicule. n. The act or an instance of twitting. A reproach, gibe, or taunt.Slang. A foolishly annoying person. twitter twit'ter...
Seigneur
Forgot, way back when, to point out one of the nice and playful linguistic corollaries in the whole Web 2.0 / Esclavage 2.0 (Slavery 2.0) metaphor rant. In french, the master of a domain (DNS?), the guy who essentially and...
Updated string 2 color
I needed to update my string to hexcolor function to also check the luminosity before returning a color cause I was often getting colors too bright to be legible when applied to text on a white background. It now takes...
Quarto
Waiting for my laundry this evening, I went for a walk down St-Denis to find some food. Walking buy a "smart games" boutique, I decided to duck in and see if I could find... Quarto is the game Chicken...
Words of wisdom
Mike couldn't remember the source, but I needed to take this down one way or another: tell em what you're going to tell emtell emthen tell em what you told em However, now that I think of it, I do...
Everything part II
continuation of previous post They say there is opportunity in chaos. The chaos they speak of exists generally outside, and on the fringes of, "The System". Humanity, for better or worse, seeks always to order, structure, the chaos and...
Create a culture of design
This is exactly what I hope to set up around me, for my eventual team, modulo all the emphasis on games/gaming: pasta and vinegar � Creating a culture of design research 1. Create a space that encourages design research: “the...
So you wanna buy a computer eh?
From Revenue Canada: If you lease computers, cellular telephones, fax machines, and other equipment, you can deduct the percentage of the lease costs that reasonably relates to earning your fishing income. You can also deduct the percentage of air-time expenses...
WoW pwned Joi's island
(screen cap of Kula island in Second Life)...
Royducord
This afternoon, Boris zipped into downtown, to return a pair of heavenly soft flannel black wide-set chalkline pinstripe slacks because, frankly, he just can't get into slacks. Even though they were a size too small, the feeling of nakedness was...
Internet Love
- Ping? - Ping....
Ooohhh
Phoenix If I Ever Feel Better They say an end can be a start Feels like I've been buried yet I'm still alive It's like a bad day that never ends I feel the chaos around me A thing I...
DuHL
another silly IM convo... #dumb dt{font-style:italic;}bopuca DHL delivery bounced today and looking at the tracking it left Sacramento yesterday...bopuci didnt order anythingbopucmaybe it's...bopuca brocoli pizza from Arnie!!!stemanshahabopuchehestemansEsti de Calisse de Sacramento! bopuchahahahastemanshehehehbopucseriously thobopucNOBODY ships as fast as DHL... i've NEVER...
GVO has won the 2006 Knight-Batten award for innovations in journalism
Big congrats to the team. This is a pretty big deal. The Knight-Batten awards were created by combining the existing "Batten Awards for Excellence in Civic Journalism" and a new endeavor by the Knight Foundation, of James Knight Batten, founder...
Borisu in Korea
Karl found this gallery/café in Seoul. In Japan I am sometimes called "Borisu". It's a written language thing....
Audio moblog halted
Since I got this Nokia N80 with WiFi, I've felt the very strong urge to use it to do multi-media mobile logging, and alot of it. Like, every moment of the day... ;) Yes. Mmmoblogging. Deal. Anyways, so I thought...
BoTone
This morning I received a parcel from Toys'R'Us. It was my copy of ElectroPlankton. What a treat. Trying to relax on the couch this evening, I noticed in one of the modes you could turn on a display ("A" button)...
Chu chu rockets
Just because I came across it in my video archives (dated April 2000). An old TV commercial for a Sega Dreamcast game. At the time it was one the first things that made me really think "whoa, what's going...
Beach Borg
"Everybody's Photos" on Flickr popped up this one. In it's "next" box was this one. The juxtaposition seemed obvious (even if my execution is terrible... ;) ooookay, back to work. :p...
Video blog
So I've started playing with Vimeo since I got the email-over-WiFi from my mobile to work... ;) You will notice the new thumbnails in the left side navbar on the homepage here. So far, clips from the counter of a...
Mu
(seen here, via Michal) and (from Steven) (Mu)...
Odd thematic concurrence
From the Montreal Craigslist "Pets" listing: - Pet caretaker for hire (Plateau) - 2 cats for adoption - moving out of country, please help (montreal) - BEWARE: A cat killer/torturer is loose in Montreal! (Montreal) - Sweet cat about 2...
You have nice boots
Actually, new bag. Thank you for suggestion of Sudahanp, Hiromi. (The title of this entry is an inside joke between some old old friends of mine back home. It is said with a heavy french canadian accent and is...
Moved
So if you see this, it means the move went well and we are live from my new server. Big.Evil.Grin....
Thoughts on this morning's train ride
There are 6 billion kinds of people in this world... Fast food slows you down. It is incorrect to say "A was drowned by you and you were drowned by B". More correct would be: "A allowed herself to be...
Exotic flavor
---- From: Dich Thuat cwe99@hn.vnn.vn Subject: DINH THUAT DA NGU Date: May 31, 2006 12:13:49 PM JST To: boris@ ---- Sven: you're getting email from vietnam... sweet... bopuc: spam from the 'Nam Sven: oh, hehe From Ho Chi Minh... to...
About the fitness ball-as-desk chair
I'm about 6 foot tall. For a comfortable seating experience I recommend the 55cm ball, inflated to be quite firm; or the 65cm ball, left kinda squooshy. They key being to have your knees bent at around 90 degrees when...
Green
Dammit. Montreal's green again. As am I with envy......
Inspiring, and well written, obituary
Last night, after returning to the Stamen offices with Eric Rodenbeck and his wife Nikki to pick up my bag, we ended up in a raucous and rolling conversation while finishing off a bottle of Veuve Clicquot. At one point,...
Say what?
According to the Rosetta Project, which is "Building an archive of all documented human languages" (though judging from the casing of their banner blurb, proper english escapes them), no one in Canada speaks english or french. Funny... I though those...
Classic
I know you know how this feels. (thx Stevey. Everyone, go see Stevey, he blogs neat stuff! Like robot sharks with frikkin' lazers! And that guy who makes ski area maps!)...
Peach, plum, pear
from "The Milk-Eyed Mender" by Joanna Newsom JoannaNewsom-PeachPlumPear.mp3 We speak in the store I'm a sensitive bore you seem markedly more and I'm oozing surprise But it's late in the day and you're well on your way what was golden...
digitized
Sweeeet! Original by Yuki...
re: 101 word short story contest - 9/6/95
"The year after the Last Century" Nobody expected not to wake up; so nobody didn't. No one thought it was strange and, even if one had thought of it, no one thought anything of it. The fact was, that nothing...
Notes from a bookstore visit
(CCA Bookstore, summer 2005) Aberrant presupposition & Aberrant decoding, Umberto Eco Eco reworks the standard communication model by expanding the message as a text subject on the side of the addresser to presuppositional influences (private biases, orienting circumstances, ambiguities relating...
Not my father's encyclopaedia
What should I do with my complete edition Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1961, white leather bound, gold leaf trim, which I inherited? Perhaps ship it off and donate it to Jimmy Wales... or Tim Berners-Lee... or Google... ;)...
Yuki's t-shirts
Yuki is selling a bunch of her very cool t-shirts... T-Shirts by MaIL-s: We still have a lot left from the festival.....
Here we goooo
So like... where is everyone? (I will write more about this later... seriously weird stuff.)...
My black iPod nano for sale
Yup. One month old black 4Gig iPod nano. Perfect working condition, all original packaging included. Reasonable offers welcome. (To keep in mind: I paid $300.00 CND + tax, only 4 weeks ago) I'm gonna hold out for someone local who...
Noguchi
Stevey sent me this a few days ago and I chuckled and thought to myself "yup, that's how I file files on my computer" and moved on. Michal just wrote about it with some deeper pondering. Some quick thoughts of...
Self-lessness
A good artist is conscious of his environment. A great artist is unconscious of himself....
On *isms
Cynicism is, IMHO, the worst *ism there is, for it is the only *ism that cannot be cured with more education. That said, here is a nice set of guidelines for civil discourse....
Safe travels gaucho
So, Steven's probably sitting on the tarmac at Pierre Elliott Trudeau Airport right now, beginning a 2 month trip to Cuba and, I suspect, to the core of himself. No, he's not going to go sit on the beach. He's...
Dude, yer waiting on a Dell!
Monitor update. So, they are out of stock and estimating another 5 days before they get them in. Then, if they do, it's a few more days to get it shipped to me. To make matters worse, this info is...
embers
golden-red sheen. a flame cracks and licks the darkness one last time...
I can see!
(merci Francis!) Update: The so-called leader in e-commerce computer sales failed to send me the expected email confirmation, and upon logging back into the e-commerce site, it told me it had no record of my order. Calling the 1-800-WWW-DELL...
Enoshima Jump
Enoshima Jump, originally uploaded by mmdc. Jim's really hard on his photography skills. Needlessly. Wonderful shot. :)...
Enoshima Jump
Enoshima Jump, originally uploaded by mmdc. Jim's really hard on his photography skills. Needlessly. Wonderful shot. :)...
Be careful what you ...
I'm somewhat late delivering a project. I'm workin workin workin to get it done. The plan was to wrap it up tonight and start migrating parts before morning. I've been pulling all nighters for the last 2 months so it's...
Attention Siobhan
You just sent me an inquiry via my contact form. But you did not supply a valid email address. (I need to pop in some kind of validator...)...
Long ride
14 miles... 21 kilometers. Olympic Stadium and the "Biodome" geodesic dome on Ile Ste-Helene. We stopped for japanese dinner at Osaka on way home. :)...
Global Voices
So, we launched our redesign of Global Voices this evening. We absolutely had to "let 'er rip" today for various reasons, and as such we've allowed a few loose ends which I need to nail down over the coming days....
Slow motion cold
I've had a raw sore throat for well over two weeks now, and horking up small wads of mucous from the back of my throat. At first it was just annoying and, in typical fashion, I just bore it and...
Contact form snafu
I just realized my contact form was busted. I received three blanks from it recently and just now decided to investigate - and fix. Please, if you've tried contacting me via it in the last 2 weeks, give it one...
Been busy much?
I rarely talk about work here - and I will soon have a place to do only that - but I figure I should mention some of what's been keeping me busy lately. Summer started with a bang really. On...
Test two
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } -->NSFW ;) 007, originally uploaded by gzcjun. Steven: how come you're not in the pics?...
Just a thought
(to be expanded on) Is it not entirely possible that we are rapidly approaching the point in time where we will no longer have the resources and/or organizational stability to save ourselves from our then inevitable extinction? In other words,...
Eyes??
Hah, I just noticed the theme in my last two posts. What a totally unconscious coincidence......
It's all in the eyes
Happy birthday Murad. :)...
Shady fellows in the environs
bopuc:what is aloft, George currency?sven:Oh, thou art aware how we proceed in this district.sven:How goes?bopuc:oh, merely striking the vixens and pleasing the strumpets...sven:Very well; carry on good fellow!bopuc:may I "notetaker-connected-by-electric-means" this conversation?sven:Indeed, daring would not I be to forbid thee...
Yes, Minister
It always seemed rather strange to even myself that I thoroughly enjoyed watching this British political satire situation comedy. The writing was simply superb, the characters equally profoundly witty, when not nit-witted, and the clever pace helped via laughter, one's...
Seekrit... aaagent man
Dav says he feels Agents will make a comeback. I agree 200%. We should talk Dav... ;)...
Clever
Very clever. Spam email I just received. One big link....
Funner
Steven dreams out loud about where he'd like to be someday: I managed to hitch a ride on the floating city 'GCS New Mosul' by agreeing to give my presentation 'Safeguarding your cyberprivacy - without slowing down your interface' at...
I'm not gullible
It's just that when you don't believe anything, everything becomes plausible/possible. ;) Water on Mars I hate Japan...
Firefox behavioral mystery solved
So, I had mentioned a while back that I was seemingly unable to get Firefox to run on my system. I had tried everything and basically given up. Then, "miraculously", one day, it worked. Now, I haven't switched from Saf...
What I Heard about Iraq
London Review of Books | Eliot Weinberger : What I Heard about Iraq Loooong and anger inducing....
Survivor
Warren from Plank just emailed to share the info that a former coworker of ours, Jen, was in Phuket, Thailand, on "the day". Her personal account....