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What did I do on my iPad today
I read some more of the Steve Jobs autobiography. I read articles in Flipboard and Google Reader. I watched the Batman Brave and Bold Cartoon from Friday in my Comcast Xfinity App. I watched a few segments from Meet the Press. I read some comic books. I browsed some video "how to" tutorials in an app called VideoJug. I experimented with a vector drawing program: Inkpad. I looked at the weekly ads for most of the major retail stores. I checked out my social networks. I read some magazines (Wizard World, Distro) and more.
It's a very delightful device.
Advice to the 1% from Lemony Snicket
source: Boing Boing
Thirteen Observations made by Lemony Snicket while watching Occupy Wall Street from a Discreet Distance
1. If you work hard, and become successful, it does not necessarily mean you are successful because you worked hard, just as if you are tall with long hair it doesnt mean you would be a midget if you were bald.
2. "Fortune" is a word for having a lot of money and for having a lot of luck, but that does not mean the word has two definitions.
3. Money is like a child—rarely unaccompanied. When it disappears, look to those who were supposed to be keeping an eye on it while you were at the grocery store. You might also look for someone who has a lot of extra children sitting around, with long, suspicious explanations for how they got there.
4. People who say money doesnt matter are like people who say cake doesnt matter--its probably because theyve already had a few slices.
5. There may not be a reason to share your cake. It is, after all, yours. You probably baked it yourself, in an oven of your own construction with ingredients you harvested yourself. It may be possible to keep your entire cake while explaining to any nearby hungry people just how reasonable you are.
6. Nobody wants to fall into a safety net, because it means the structure in which theyve been living is in a state of collapse and they have no choice but to tumble downwards. However, it beats the alternative.
7. Someone feeling wronged is like someone feeling thirsty. Dont tell them they arent. Sit with them and have a drink.
8. Dont ask yourself if something is fair. Ask someone else--a stranger in the street, for example.
9. People gathering in the streets feeling wronged tend to be loud, as it is difficult to make oneself heard on the other side of an impressive edifice.
10. It is not always the job of people shouting outside impressive buildings to solve problems. It is often the job of the people inside, who have paper, pens, desks, and an impressive view.
11. Historically, a story about people inside impressive buildings ignoring or even taunting people standing outside shouting at them turns out to be a story with an unhappy ending.
12. If you have a large crowd shouting outside your building, there might not be room for a safety net if youre the one tumbling down when it collapses.
13. 99 percent is a very large percentage. For instance, easily 99 percent of people want a roof over their heads, food on their tables, and the occasional slice of cake for dessert. Surely an arrangement can be made with that niggling 1 percent who disagree.
Very interesting camera. Captures the entire light field and you focus AFTER the picture has been taken. Cost $400, which is more than I feel I can spend on such a thing at the moment. But I'm really hoping to get a chance to play with one or at least play with it's editing software and some sample images soon.
Sent from my iPad
Article: Ubuntu 11.10 'Oneiric Ocelot' now available to download
Barnes & Noble pulls DC Comics from shelves over Kindle kerfuffle, risks Martian Manhunter's wrath
source: Engadget
Interesting. B&N in reaction to DC Comics making 100 Graphic Novels Digitaly exclusive to the Kindle has pulled the physical copies of those books from it's shelves. (Including books like: Dark knight Returns and Watchman". More interesting than that though is this quote from a B&N executive:
"To sell and promote the physical book in our store showrooms and not have the e-book available for sale would undermine our promise to Barnes & Noble customers to make available any book, anywhere, anytime."Notice that he doesn't call the Brick and Mortar locations: "our bookstores" he calls them: "our store showrooms". If that's considered phrasing, that's very interesting. I don't think I've ever thought of a Barnes and Noble as a Showroom, I've always thought of them as bookstores, if B&N is now considering them showrooms instead of bookstores, that is a very interesting paradigm shift indeed.
Hyperdazzler
Cartoon I threw together
Artprize
Went downtown with Jenn, her parents and her brother and wandered around looking at Artprize stuff. Overall a much smaller showing this year than the last couple years.
Lots of people though, by the size of the crowd, you don't have to be a market research type to see that West Michigan needs more attractions and more to do. There were alot of people down there.
Some pictures below.
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