November 2007
18 posts
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
I head out to Seattle tonight to celebrate the holidays with the rest of the Blue Flavor crew, and then next week and the week after I’ll be speaking at two events. Here are the details.
iPhone and Mobile Development Summit Web Builder 2.0, Las Vegas, NV December 5th, 2007 from 9AM-6PM
I’ll be presenting an all-day workshop with Brian Fling. We’ll be talking about...
Craigslist has the tendency to make me angry as hell. Not the site itself, but the way people behave with it. For instance: People will offer you a jokingly small amount of money in comparison to the price you’re asking. It’s as if all the people buying on Craigslist think of sellers as being stuck and absolutely having to sell their items for anything—ANYTHING AT ALL. It’s...
WatchMRTV Episode 3
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I’m using Tumblr now. I still love SimpleLog and I will still be working on it, but in the mean time I wanted a system that allowed for an easy way to collect lots of different kinds of data and Tumblr is awesome. The old stuff is still available (and old links should still work, they’ll just forward to the permanent storage location) as “the catacombs,” which is a fitting...
“‘Cause I’m a karate man! Alright? Karate men bruise on the inside!...”
– Eddie Murphy as Billy Ray Valentine in Trading Places
Ricky Jay at IMDB →
A skilled actor who has appeared in most of David Mamet’s films, and a few of P.T. Anderson’s as well. He recently had a three-episode arc in “The Unit,” David Mamet’s excellent black-ops show on CBS. It was by total coincidence that I found out today he is also an extremely talented magician and card thrower. How strange.
I just watched Enemy of the State for the first time since I saw it when it came out in 1998. Wow. It’s amazing what kind of ridiculous crap you can spew about technology and such when no one in the world knows yet how things work. Two choice moments: The government computer guys are watching a “surveillance” video from the lingerie store when Will Smith’s character is...
Shawn Morrison: I'm also noticing now that Oscar's eyes are a bit red... I almost want them to be really red. (joking)
Garrett Murray: ha ha
Shawn Morrison: also the compression is a bit anus, I'll have to look into that
Garrett Murray: ha ha
Garrett Murray: the first haha should have been "heh," because the second one i actually did laugh out loud
Garrett Murray: i lol'd all over the place
Shawn Morrison: like, good to know
Shawn Morrison: weird
Shawn Morrison: I meant to type "nice" and "like" came out
Garrett Murray: ha ha
Shawn Morrison: so I sounded like a "valley girl"
WatchIt’s hard to remain masculine when this plays before each and every game session of Super Mario Galaxy.
“I hadn’t fully formed the thought of quitting yet, but was very aware of this...”
– MorrisonFilm. Last Smoke
I just bought a few shirts from Design By Hümans, which for some reason I had never seen before today. It’s in the same vein as Threadless and such, although I found myself liking more of the designs at DBH. The interesting thing is that after you buy shirts, you’re instantly given a discount code for the next purchase. Even cooler is that it can be used by anyone else as well, which...
xPad, version 1.2.6
I’ve just released a maintenance build of xPad to deal with a few Leopard issues. Please download xPad, version 1.2.6. This release solves all but one visual bug, in which document title labels in the drawer become lighter after changing documents a few times. When I have a while to play with it, I hope to fix that bug as well. In the mean time, it’s completely usable with this...
As with the previous two designs, I’ve made iPhone wallpapers from the background image of this one. You can find two versions in my collection. In the long run I plan to add more photo-based wallpapers, but abstract imagery is so much better for me that I can’t help but add new images like these.
Finding Purpose →
I’m linking to Eric’s thoughts on this because I’m not thrilled with the idea of sending more traffic to the Design View Show since, after reading this, it’s not worth listening to. There’s a difference between having faith and thinking your faith is the ultimate answer and that you’ve got to prove everyone else wrong. Can you imagine if the MRPC had constant...
Men Who Look Like Old Lesbians →
In the vein of the “Hot Chicks with Douchebags” site (and perhaps less funny on a whole), but still awesome. And accurate.