September 2011
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August 2011
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Loving Disruptions
When we stop at the donut shop the boy prefers to get a sugar-raised donut and a carton of milk.
At home, at school, everywhere he goes, the boy prefers one thing or another, typically the thing that is the same as the last time, or that one time, or every other time before.
Repetition, familiarity, predictability, sameness, all create a zone of safety for an individual on the spectrum.
They...
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Not sure how I missed this
I might have heard about this 2008 Thai action movie, but missed the, you know, HOOK.
The trailer’s on YouTube. The whole movie’s streaming on Netflix.
I know what I’m watching tonight.
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WatchIn 1988, Christa Dahlstrom—a college sophomore and Minnesota native—rented a VHS camcorder and brought it and two friends (Ted Johnson and Brian Glenn) to the Minnesota State Fair (running now through Labor Day).
Back at school she spent weeks learning the dorm’s linear video editing system, with the help of her film-major boyfriend (i.e. me), and cutting together this...
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My boy is a character in an animated show for...
The boy has been sneaking lemon drops out of my backpack.
I catch him doing it again as we sit at Gate 4, awaiting our flight home.
“Buddy,” I say, “Those lemon drops are for later. We only have three left for the trip.”
“They’re MY lemon drops!” he shouts. “And I can do what I WANT with them!”
It has been a long day, and I do not wish to escalate the situation. Not in a busy airport terminal...
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Years ahead
The first all-company meeting I attended as an employee was in January of 2003, the day after a Macworld keynote that introduced iLife, Safari, Keynote, and the “year of the notebook”.¹
For these meetings many employees would line up early in the morning outside Town Hall for a chance at a seat in the room with Steve—and a chance to step up to the microphone during the Q&A. (Some call-in...
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Assorted donuts
“A dozen assorted, please. Plus one extra.”
The extra will be a sugar-raised for the boy. We are on a schedule this morning, and we are running fifteen minutes behind it.
I half-notice as I corral the boy that the woman is patting the donuts in the case before selecting them, in a manner that seems somewhat less like counting than perhaps testing for degree of staleness. But whatever, I’m in a...
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PEOPLE, PLEASE
The REAL problem with Awdry was his inconsistent rules about his engines’ independence from their drivers.
Also, with the adverbs.
SO MANY ADVERBS.
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ShkyCam 1.1
There’s a new update to ShkyCam in the App Store, with added support for custom shakes.
I’ve tried to make the home screen friendlier, with a new logo and icons in place of the original lozenge buttons.
Tapping “Upload!” no longer interrupts you to ask you to fiddle with image resolution. JPGs and PNGs are now posted at an optimized size by default (555 pixels wide, per MLKSHK’s current site...
kellydeal asked: by evil: "summer breeze" is evil when it's been stuck in your head for an entire week.
