I recently enjoyed a wonderful apple pie á la mode at Junior’s in New York City in Times Square. Boy, I can still taste it.
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Open Letters to Adobe and Illustrator UsersI have to share, while I’m on a roll, an open letter from the very talented Von Glitschka. He’s asking all Illustrator users who have features they would like to see added or changed in Illustrator to do something about it and tell Adobe. The more a feature is requested, the better chance you’ll see it in a future version! See the letter here! Iconfactory has a few things to say about Illustrator as well here. Do you agree with any of them? Tell Adobe!Let’s start a revolution and love Illustrator again!
I’m having issues with my site and Firefox. Please be patient while I work it out. Thanks!
7:08:31 AM PM - I keep having these dreams that I went back to my old job, and my old house that I lived in when I was 12. Why do I keep having these?
9:58:38 AM - Just figured out how to wrangle the text boxes in Illustrator. Switching from Freehand to Illustrator has been very painful.
2:54:52 PM - It’s so hard to hear Camille screaming and throwing a fit upstairs and stay detached so that I can work. Poor Jen.
4:15:22 PM - The kids just got home from school and are watching Arthur on PBS while Jen is at a PTA meeting. Aurthur’s a great babysitter until I’m done working.
4:25:55 PM - Arthur’s not doing so great. Camille is at my heals begging me to stop working.
Needless to say, I’m a fan of Twitter, and I add “tweets” all the time. For those of you not familiar with Twitter, I suggest you go HERE to find out what it’s all about, and you’d never really understand it until you try it.
But in a nutshell, its global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing? You have a 140 character limit, making sure you don’t write an epistle, rather just a quick note.
While writing several “tweets”, or Twitter entries, the other day, I thought, “Hey, I’m practically writing in a journal for all to see!” (Yeah, I’m a bit dense, but I figured that out all on my own). “What if some journaling software had a widget where I could add small, time-stamped entries to my journal without actually opening up the program, adding an entry, adding a time stamp, but do all that as quickly as I can with Twitter through Twitterrific?” I asked myself (I work alone).
My question didn’t go unanswered! But I had to ask around first. I went to Journler’s site and asked the community there. I was quickly answered by “NovaScotian”, an AppleScript genius. He said that no such widget existed, but until then I could use a quick AppleScript he wrote for Journler. He didn’t have it already, he created it then and there, and tweaked it to my wishes!
So, now all I have to do is click on the AppleScript icon in the menu bar, select Journler, and a little window pops up for me to write my “tweet”, hit enter, and it does all the dirty work for me! All my “tweets” are entered into a daily journal, with a time stamp just like the entries at the beginning of this blog entry.
I would never write the details shown above if I waited to write a normal journal entry. I would have forgotten, or just thought they were too trivial to write, yet now I have a vivid record of what life’s really like around the Bruner household. No worrying about grammar, no trying to schedule in journal time. Just write as it happens, and I have the best journal I’ve ever had.
If you’re interested in doing the same thing, go purchase Journler, and look at this forum topic to get the code and instructions.
Not terribly long ago I found a new love. She’s hard at first, but with warm hands and a firm touch, she loosens up and becomes more pliable. Her fleshy tones are a bit unnerving, just begging for a little primer before her true colors shout out.
Super Sculpey, I can’t keep my hands off you. You form so easily and even in the face of ice cold sculpting tools, you bend to my every whim. You never complain about me putting you in your place, and never, ever, do you revert to your original form.
Through the refiner’s fire you emerge as tough and determined as ever to please. Your final act in life is to become what you were destined to become: Art.
Super Sculpey, may you never become brittle in the face of adversity, and may your true form show forever.
Walt Disney said that Disneyland would never be finished. It was his playground, where he imagined, created anything he wanted, and experimented.
Since my budget is not near ol’ Uncle Walt’s, my playground is my website. Looking drab? Add some illustrations. A new technology called blogging? Gotta have that! What’s that? Flash isn’t search engine friendly? So much for all that learning. It doesn’t work well with Internet Explorer? Curse Microsoft!
So goes the changes around here, and I’m having a lot of fun with it… with a few headaches too.
Welcome to my playground.