Archive for May, 2010

Zebraaaaa

This has prob­a­bly been done before, but I don’t care.

Encyclopaedia Britannica on Zebra:

any of three species of strik­ingly black-and-white-striped mam­mals of the horse fam­ily Equidae (genus Equus): Burchell’s, or plains, zebra (E. burchel­lii), which is found in rich grass­lands over much of east­ern and south­ern Africa; Grevy’s zebra (E. grevyi), which lives in arid, sparsely wooded areas in Kenya and a few small areas in Ethiopia; and the moun­tain zebra (E. zebra), which inhab­its dry upland plains in Namibia and a few scat­tered areas in west­ern South Africa.

Typographical Zebra

My typo­graph­i­cal study of a zebra

 

 

readme.txt

Wikipedia on “README”:

A readme (or read me) file con­tains infor­ma­tion about other files in a direc­tory or archive and is very com­monly dis­trib­uted with com­puter soft­ware. Such a file is usu­ally a text file­called README.TXTREADME.1STREAD.ME, or sim­ply README, although some Microsoft Windows soft­ware may occa­sion­ally include a README.WRIREADME.RTF, orREADME.DOC. The name is cho­sen so that users unaware of the exis­tence of this type of files would be drawn to read it. It is tra­di­tion­ally writ­ten in upper case so that on case-preserving envi­ron­ments using an ASCIIbetical order­ing, the name will appear near the begin­ning of a direc­tory list­ing (since upper-case let­ters sort before lower-case let­ters in ASCIIbetical ordering).

This is my pic­ture of README.txt:

readme.txt

This is readme.txt

 

Got the photo from this month’s Computer Arts free CD, I always like to do some­thing with the free stock pho­tos they put on there!

DIY laptop stand using old monitor stand

I recently wall-mounted my mon­i­tor. As I removed the assem­bly for the stand, I thought “this tilt­ing mech­a­nism could come in handy for some­thing”, so I put it to one side and for­got about it until today! As a designer, 2 screens often come in handy for me, but I’ve never both­ered to invest in a lap­top stand. Both my work­mates use one, and I’ve always thought they look kind of use­ful, but something’s always stopped me from actu­ally pay­ing money for one.

Before

Before.…

 

After

…after!

 

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What Eve said to Adam…

The other day my house was vis­ited by 2 Jehovah’s wit­nesses. They showed me a leaflet with an image on the front page of a dev­as­tated city (after a nat­ural dis­as­ter or ter­ror­ist attack) with a woman and child injured and weep­ing. Across the page in bold type was the ques­tion “HAS GOD LEFT US?”. They then asked me if this was a ques­tion I’d thought about, and I said “As an athe­ist, no!” They were quite nice peo­ple, and we had a lit­tle laugh before part­ing com­pany and they left their leaflet with me.

I am an athe­ist, but attended church when I was younger and am acquainted with much of the bible , and after the Jehovah’s wit­nesses left I started to think about the fun­da­men­tals of the Christian faith and had a chuckle when I remem­bered about an idea I had for a sketch a while ago about Adam and Eve.

Don't be ridiculous, Adam!

Adam & Eve: The untold story.

 

Another Panorama– Ischgl, Austria

I went ski­ing a few weeks ago to Ischgl, Austria. Got stranded due to the vol­canic ash cloud but that’s another story. I was at this café at the top of a moun­tain and thought I’d take a panorama, and here it is:

Panorama of Ischgl, Austria

Panorama of Ischgl, Austria

 

This is taken from 4 pho­tos, on a Panasonic Lumix of some descrip­tion, not sure what model, it’s my dad’s. I would have taken my DSLR, but I deemed it too risky in case I fell on it!

All in all, I had a great time in Ischgl, I’d defi­nately rec­om­mend it for skiers/snowboarders of all skill lev­els, there’s some­thing there for every­one. Apré-ski atmos­phere is very lively there too!

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