Fiskars Cuts+More Will Make Your Other Scissors Look So, So Lame [Officesupplies] Here’s something that should’ve happened way sooner: a pair of scissors that doesn’t just pathetically snip snip snip at things but opens bottles, cuts through wire, shreds boxes, pierces holes and does a bunch of other rad stuff. Diagram, please: Ah yes. I […]
number trees
Math Monday: Wearable geometry By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics If you love geometry, you can let everyone know by wearing dodecahedra with elegance and style! These dresses with sewn-on paper polyhedra embellishments were designed by Amila Hrustic. I’m not sure how one sits in a dress textured with tetrahedra, but it certainly […]
November 11, 2010
or, more specifically time zones. I left the us before the clock changeover, and am returning after it. My meetings this trip have been at 8 am, far earlier than I do anything in my own timezone. I stayed up last night to the horrifically late hour of 10 pm to field some afternoon work […]
Time
There are very few things that are more comforting to me than apple store wi-fi when I’m travelling. With AT&T’s lovely international data rates I always turn roaming off, but I can rely on apple stores to provide me with a bit of internet. Even, apparently, when they are closed. I worry a bit that […]
Apple store wi-fi
…why do I always get to them so early? In better news, the normal wordpress editor seems to work fine on my phone. And I have a plan for chocolate tomorrow. I definitely remembered pajamas for this trip. I wonder what I forgot. There is always something.
Airports
167 triangles
iso-tri 3D typography
My thoughts have apparently been technical for the past couple days, and today is no different. I have discovered a way to use osx’s Colors outside of an application. All you need to do is make an applescript with the contents “choose color”, save as an app, and, voila, you have your own independent color […]
colors
So, CSS is a bit confusing with inheretance and #’ing things to give them ID’s, but with Mary’s help I think I figured out what needed to be figured. Also, I now really want to open up my giant iMac and replace its optical drive with an SSD. It would be so fast and delicious. […]
CSS and SSD
php is is rather hard to figure out by staring at it, especially when wrapped in <? ?> all the time