Good Morning.
September 23rd, 2011
Squaring up
August 23rd, 2011
I felt that the iOS as Point-of-sale device phenomenon would take hold among smaller retailers and freelancers in a big way. I’ve been looking for Square card readers every time I hit a garage sale or farmer’s market in Western New York, but have yet to see one in the wild. Not sure how far the word has spread around here yet, but one thing’s for certain — MY garage sale will take credit card.
Meanwhile, according this article by Tricia Duryee at AllThingsD, it looks like major retail is jumping right in with solutions of their own.
My Life in Inkjet
August 22nd, 2011
When I started working with inkjet proofing, around, say 10 years ago, two years after I was hired to know RIPs and production apps, I was lost. My knowledge of the science behind color management was weak. Why should it not have been? The techs I knew were neatly divided into two camps: color guys and app/workflow guys. What wasn’t obvious to me then, but soon would be, was that the entire industry was about to experience an episode of ‘punctuated equilibrium’ as CTP hit the tipping point, and customer adoption exploded. Film-based proofing disappeared overnight at many shops, and inkjet was the logical replacement. Due to the sheer number of systems that needed to be installed and the lower margins inherent in the inkjet solutions, the color burden was shifted to guys like me. I knew it was going to be a lot to learn. Unfortunately, I had no idea of the forces working against me.
Paul Haggis Vs. the Church of Scientology
February 8th, 2011
The New Yorker:
Carrying an empty, locked briefcase, Haggis went to the Advanced Organization building in Los Angeles, where the material was held. A supervisor then handed him a folder, which Haggis put in the briefcase. He entered a study room, where he finally got to examine the secret document—a couple of pages, in Hubbard’s bold scrawl. After a few minutes, he returned to the supervisor.
‘I don’t understand,’ Haggis said.
‘Do you know the words?’ the supervisor asked.
‘I know the words, I just don’t understand.’
‘Go back and read it again,’ the supervisor suggested.
Haggis did so. In a moment, he returned. ‘Is this a metaphor?’ he asked the supervisor.
‘No,’ the supervisor responded. ‘It is what it is. Do the actions that are required.’
Maybe it’s an insanity test, Haggis thought—if you believe it, you’re automatically kicked out. ‘I sat with that for a while,’ he says. But when he read it again he decided, ‘This is madness.’”
Read More: Paul Haggis Vs. the Church of Scientology
“The killer’s weapon a 40-ton truck!”
November 17th, 2010
Duel was without a doubt my favorite made for TV movie when I was a kid. Maybe it was the fact that we owned a Plymouth Valiant at the time, which was the car Dennis Weaver’s character drove in the movie. Mostly though, it was because you never saw the driver of that evil 18 wheeler…
Based on a story by Richard Matheson, it was Steven Spielberg’s first full-length movie as a director.
Dig the Poster… what a tagline.
UPDATE: The truck (one of them at least) survives!
Starbucks Mobile Card App now nationwide
March 31st, 2010
The Rip
March 31st, 2010
With HDMI being a digital signal, sending a string of 1′s and 0′s, it either works perfectly or not at all…
At The Movies Cancelled, Reborn?
March 27th, 2010
Roger Ebert on the ambitious plans for the next iteration of what once was Sneak Previews, which he co-hosted with the late Gene Siskel. I had just recently caught a few episodes of what is now known as At The Movies with the latest hosts, The New York Times‘ A.O. Scott and Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune, and thought that the show might have finally found it’s chemistry again. It was canceled last Wednesday.
Visualizing One Trillion Dollars
March 27th, 2010
I’d be more than happy with that little $1,000,000 stack.
Most Expensive Condo in NYC?
March 26th, 2010
Alex Rodriguez and his neighbor, Henry Silverman, may be moving soon. Their landlord, Leroy Schecter, would like to combine their apartments into what may end up being the most expensive condo in NYC.