January 2000

Braves Pitcher John Rocker Suspended to May. I’m glad, what a backwards dude. I don’t agree he should be forced to seek psychological counseling by the baseball league. Basically, the league and the team are his employers, and they should take the same steps of progressive discipline a thoughtful, concerned employer would take. But they’re…

The Lomo Camera. Neat stuff – alternative imaging, fast and cheap cameras, photography with an attitude. Someone at work pointed it out, hope to check out some prints.

ugh, More Priests Die of AIDS. What’s wrong with the Catholic Church is not so much that this is happening, but that it’s not talked about. The failure to be open and responsive, much less proactive, is a tragedy. via rebecca.

Forecast for 2/5/2000: Friday…fair. Low in the mid to upper 20s. High in the lower to mid 40s. 5 days ago the forecast for today: “Sunday…fair. Low 25 to 30. High in the mid to upper 30s.” But’s it’s colder and snowing hard, so that would be incorrect. 3 right, 5 wrong. Maybe I’ll go…

Appreciation for the American Way of Life: …they might have bombed cities for this, or sold apples in the rain. but whoever did it, today I wish to thank them all the way.

Forecast for 2/3/2000 and 2/4/2000: Wednesday and Thursday…partly cloudy. Low in the mid 20s. High in the upper 30s. Looking back 5 days ago, they thought today would be “fair, low in the mid 20s. High 30 to 35.” It was sunny between 15 and 36. Close enough for me. 3 right, 4 wrong.

Looking for a reason for Futurama not being on the air (after looking for the time slot everywhere, not finding it, and thinking every TV listing on the web was broken), I found Futurama Chronicles. Now, I know of course that this TV show would inspire fan sites, but I was still wow’d that someone…

idea for children’s book for the current generation of future info-savvy adults… Irene and Her Info Irene watches her father read the newspaper He reads the newspaper everyday He pulls the newspaper apart into sections Then he flips the pages Sometimes he tells Irene what he’s reading about One day, Irene made her own newspaper…

Being Jakob Nielson: The Story of the Blue and the Green is funny and honest and insightful. The aspect that most gets me is the zen perspective: he takes Jakob’s rantings and accepts them as zen koans. What a great attitude. Makes me feel like a whiny fuck. Humans destroy each other, we let horrible…

Forecasted 5 days ago for today: “Friday…partly cloudy. Low around 20. High 25 to 30.” Let’s see, it’s been sunny between 16 and 28 with a wind chill that makes it feel like -10. So they kinda missed the low, were right on the high, but without mention of the wind they would have mis-managed…

Forecast for 1/31/2000: Monday…cloudy with a chance of rain or snow. Low in the upper 20s to lower 30s. High in the mid 30s. Forecast for 2/1/2000: Tuesday…cloudy. Low in the mid to upper 20s. High in the upper 30s. The forecast 5 days ago for today said, “Thursday…cloudy with a chance of snow. Low…

Today’s weather in NYC: partly cloudy between 24 and 35 degrees. 5 days ago they predicted a chance of snow (nope, that was yesterday) and a high in the upper 20s. Not exactly wrong but not really right either, I won’t count this one either way.

peterme points to Task-Centered User Interface Design which has gone shareware (shareread?). The user testing stuff could be valuable, but the “Creating the Initial Design” section is notable for its defeatest and possibly Neilsonian approach: The foundation of good interface design is INTELLIGENT BORROWING. That is, you should be building your design on other people’s…

Forecast for 1/30/2000: Sunday…fair. Low 25 to 30. High in the mid to upper 30s. Hmmmmm, the forecast 5 days ago for today said, “partly cloudy. Low 20 to 25. High around 30” when actually we experienced nor’easter weather: several inches of snow changing to freezing rain and (currently) back to snow. They weren’t far…

Forecast for 1/28/2000: Friday…partly cloudy. Low around 20. High 25 to 30. Forecast for 1/29/2000: Saturday…fair. Low in the mid 20s. High 30 to 35. The forecast 5 days ago for today said, “Monday…windy with a chance of snow. Low 20 to 25. High 25 to 30” and the weather is cloudy (no snow) between…