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Those Sneaky Aliases

Kelson — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:09:40 +0000

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.

Cacheback

Kelson — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 19:55:47 +0000

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

Double Bill

Kelson — Sat, 28 May 2011 03:30:34 +0000

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 … Continue reading →

Talk Like a Grizzled Prospector Day

Kelson — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 02:54:14 +0000

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

Sent From My…

Kelson — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 01:45:12 +0000

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

NyQuil Regret

Kelson — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:01:10 +0000

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

Adobe MAX in Tweets

Kelson — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 04:59:22 +0000

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

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 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. #

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. #

No Earthquake Watch

Kelson — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 19:10:47 +0000

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 … Continue reading →

BRB K THX

Kelson — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:00:29 +0000

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

Iconic Imagery

Kelson — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:46:08 +0000

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