Tinywords.com is a tiny web site that will dilligently send a tiny haiku to you via email every afternoon. Generally, I delete them. But this one made me giggle, so I had to stay it’s execution.
clipping toenails -
each one chooses
a new direction-Edmund Hardy
Okay, I slacked and didn’t get the Black Spot before it sold out. But now I have two more chances: Damn Scientists and Bleeding Heart.
I swear, those folks at Threadless.com must not sleep at night.
[Update] Just checked out celsiusdesign.net, the web site of John Slabyk who designed both Black Spot and Damn Scientists. He’s apparently restructuring stuff, but the pic he’s got up as a placeholder is incredible. Go have a peek.
Let’s define disgusting, shall we? I’ll give an example. A certain company charges 200 bucks to upgrade their $795 plug-in set from version 3.5.1 to 3.5.2. (I’d supply a link to prove the price, but you need to be a registered user to even see how much it costs. If I were bending my customers over for an upgrade, you can be sure I’d hide it, too!)
200 bucks! Bastards.
What do I get for 200 bucks? Compatibility with After Effects version 5. Compare and contrast with these nice people who give the AFx5 upgrade and the Mac OS X upgrade for their excellent $695 plug-in set to their users for free.
Now tell me, which one of these companies am I more likely to do repeat business with?
Today is November 5. If you live in the US, that means you need to vote, because if you don’t vote you can’t bitch.
We got a special treat last week.
I had given up looking for Fall colors this season. It seemed the trees were too pooped to bust out the bright colors so they made a collective decision to go with dried-up variations on brown. Light brown, medium brown, reddish brown, almost tan… In a word, boring.
Last weekend they must’ve found some hidden reserve of motivation (”You can do it!”) and burst into the full-color cacophony we know and love—reds piled on yellows piled on ochres piled on purples. Marvelous.
And then the mean old wind came on Friday and blew them all away.
Now showing on nature’s immersive wide-screen theatre with surround sound and Smell-o-Vision: “Browns, Greys, Old Man Winter’s Clammy Claws and Seasonal Affective Disorder”. Bring your own poppy-corn and something warm to drink.