Running 4
Today was unexpectedly good. John and I took a run, and it ended up being around four miles. Thing is, we took an easy pace and kept up conversation the whole time, which made it really enjoyable. Sometimes I adopt the “speed is everything” running philosophy and tear around the paths as fast as my body will allow. Running like this has its time and place (in fact, it has become a bit of a tradition for me to take a good hard run when women are confusing me), but on this past rainy Thursday, it was simply time to talk and jog. Given the chance to do the same, I would highly recommend you take advantage of it.
Furthermore, I enlarged an old photo of Shayla and Matt using a trick that I believe is quite useful (and simple). Take a point and shoot 4x6 and understand that the cropping on it is abysmal (such is the nature of disposable camera photography). Find the negative for said photograph with great subject matter but poor margins and use it to get a 5x7 print made. Then, trim the photo back down to 4x6 and admire the wonderful change: it is no longer 80% background and 20% subject; but a good 50-50 (which is quite an improvement). There you have it, a simple, yet surprisingly under-utilized method which yields better presentation of point and shoot pictures.
In other news, I am certainly considering adding a running “media” list of links: that is, essays, articles, music, art, and movies that recently moved me. It would be a list of links, frequently updated, that represent my current website trips worthy of note. These links would most likely be coupled with a more static list of sites I frequently visit (which has grown to a rather large number). This link of frequent visits would be useful both for you and for me (as I sometimes forget to visit some). The preliminary list reads something like this:
Real Life Friends
www.rinsefirst.com
www.jrcorps.com/john
www.tumbledry.org/matt
www.shatteredcube.com
Main Bunch
www.simplebits.com
www.whatdoiknow.org
www.zeldman.com
www.typographi.ca
www.yellowlane.com
www.kottke.org
www.stopdesign.com
www.mezzoblue.com
www.hchamp.com
www.fray.com
www.ftrain.com
www.airbag.ca
www.veen.com/jeff/
www.7nights.com/asterisk/
www.diveintomark.org
www.cameronmoll.com
www.webstandardsawards.com
www.1976design.com/blog/
www.designbyfire.com
www.waferbaby.com
www.binarybonsai.com
www.hchamp.com
www.powazek.com
Also Considering
a.wholelottanothing.org
www.glassdog.com
www.superfluousbanter.org
www.altonbrown.com
www.glish.com
www.pbs.org/cringely/
www.meyerweb.com
www.daringfireball.net
www.andybudd.com
www.fray.com
Holy crap. I had forgotten there were that many. I took a look at my current system, and I believe I can add these all to the existing links sections, and then load ‘em up in an abbreviated version on the front page: thank you mySQL.
I do hope I got everyone in there; it does read a bit like a “who’s-who” in the design community, but as Mr. Storey would say “I link what I like, not what I owe.” Two particular recommendations I would suggest, in terms of writing, would be ftrain and 1976design … both excellent in their own ways. As for design, stopdesign’s recent redesign is nothing short of phenomenal - closest to perfection in CSS design that I have seen.
Well, I certainly have waxed techincal for a bit there - which makes categorizing these posts difficult sometimes, but I decided to leave this one long and stretched out rather than splitting things up into a post about links (cat: websiteChanges) and a post about me (cat: life). To return to life, I must recommend the song Moses by Coldplay (again) and the trailer for the movie The Incredibles.