Tag Archives: Tweets

Those Sneaky Aliases

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Kelson

After looking through zillions of bounce messages for patterns, I’ve got to say:

“unknown or illegal alias” is now my official favorite way of saying that an email address doesn’t exist.

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Cacheback

Posted on October 24, 2011 by Kelson

You know you’re a programmer when you misspell “cash” as “cache.”

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Double Bill

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Kelson

It’ll never happen, but there needs to be a double-bill concert with the Goo Goo Dolls and Lady Gaga. More likely: Somewhere there must be a mall food court with a Burger King and a Dairy Queen next to each other.

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Consarn it, tomorrow’s Talk Like a Grizzled Prospector Day, and I’m plumb unprepared!

Posted on January 23, 2011 by Kelson | 1 Comment

Maybe “Sent from my iPhone/Droid/whatever” is worth including…as a spelling disclaimer. (Sent from my G2)

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Kelson | Leave a comment

NyQuil Regret (n): the moment during a sleepless night when you realize you should’ve taken the damn blue green pill.

Posted on November 8, 2010 by Kelson | Leave a comment

Adobe MAX in Tweets

Posted on October 31, 2010 by Kelson

I haven’t quite found the time to write up my experience at the Adobe MAX designer/developer conference, but here’s a digest of my Twitter posts. As usual, photos are on Flickr.

Sunday

Adobe MAX Entryway

  • Watched a nearly-full moon set into the cloud layer behind the LA skyline on my way to Adobe MAX. #
  • Obligatory pic of Adobe MAX entryway. #

Monday

  • Made it to the keynote just as, I kid you not, Martha Stewart took the stage. #
  • Nice demo of dynamically wrapping text around image content (not box), to be contributed to Webkit. #
  • Content aware fill demo on a tablet – “performing witchcraft” on the progress bar label. #
  • Multi device link: iPad as classic color palette mixer for desktop Photoshop. #
  • Blackberry Playbook approach: don’t dumb down the Internet for mobile devices, bring up the performance of the devices. #
  • Green Hornet game demo: same app running on desktop & touch screen phone, auto-detecting input methods. #

    • The Black Beauty

  • The Green Hornet car. I wasn’t expecting overlap between a tech conference and Comic-Con. #
  • Something else Adobe MAX has in common with Comic-Con: Flash fans. #
    Flash Rules

Tuesday

  • When I got here, the line for Starbucks was about 5 people. Now I can’t see the end. #
  • Managed to scarf down a sandwich from Starbucks before the evening session. Interesting mix of tech crowd & Lakers fans. #
  • Ok, I am officially a geek. I ranked 7th in a phone-powered Star Trek trivia contest with several hundred people at a tech conference. #
  • And then tweeted about it. #
  • Adobe MAX sneak peeks’ method of keeping people from going too long: A Klingon with a phaser creeping across the stage. #
  • Very cool demo of auto-converting long video to a tapestry for better scene selection. #
  • Nifty Photoshop demo: post process photo based on a model. “what if this photo had been taken by Ansel Adams?” #
  • Nice! Automatically compensating for camera motion blur! #

Wednesday

  • Gotta love LA traffic. I left for Adobe MAX 40 minutes earlier than yesterday and arrived at the same time – too late for my 8:30 lab. #
  • Funny how you can get nostalgic for your first version of Photoshop. (Sadly, 2.5 is missing.) #
  • MAX is definitely less crowded today. No problems finding a table for lunch, and the cell & wifi networks are a lot less congested. #

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No Earthquake Watch

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Kelson

The heat wave has people freaking out again…

There is no such thing as an “earthquake watch.” Unlike tornadoes and hurricanes, they strike without warning and cannot be predicted (so far). There’s also no such thing as “earthquake weather”…and I say this as a lifelong Californian.

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BRB K THX

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Kelson

Favorite license plate sighting of the day: “BRBKTHX.”

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Iconic Imagery

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Kelson

iTunes 10 has shed the CD imagery in its new icon. And yet a floppy disk is still the universal toolbar image for “save.”

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