Montly archives
Extended holiday
Did I say two shakes of a lamb's tail?
So yeah. Hi! I'm still in one piece, nothing bad happened, and my cat is fatter and fluffier than ever [PROOF]. Just needed a bit of a break and some time to get back in to the swing of this thing called the internetz. Although to be honest I'm not feeling all that guilty considering the blogosphere hasn't heard much from the likes of Ironic Teachings or Steve -Shootin'- Prakope in forevs. Seriously guys. WTF?
There was also a brief hiatus from my photoblog for a spell last month, but that has been recently redesigned and is back 'n at 'em too. In fact, if my warm ass can get off this holiday-vacationing chair I'm going to brave the cold and snow to do some shooting around Eat Street this afternoon. Anyone been in a Vietnamese restaurant lately? *shakes head* Sometimes you just gotta see it to believe it... and thank your lucky stars you can't read the signs & labels imho. Frankly, it's freagin' cold so I may not get much more than Spyhouse and Jasmine Deli. We'll see.
A few of you found me over on vita.mn where I've been spending *far* too much of my time contributing to things like 'Best New Albums of 2006' and 'tries too hard'. Additionally, those of you who did find me should be shocked and astounded at the restraint I've shown for all things pink. Why... if there were an award for pink - why yes. It would be mine.
Back to the important stuff tho. Today is a holiday and I intend to do some holiday things. Like... take a long bath and pet my cat. We'll chat again soon.
Apple colorspace wonkiness
When I started this job I became *that* designer who worked exclusively on macs. Not by choice, mind you, but that's what they had. It's not like I was going to complain - I have a smokin' hot G5 sitting under my desk with a couple of grumpy old monitors to match (or rather, that don't in any way, shape, or form match the coolness of brushed metal). But more important than adjusting to a couple of old monitors with ghetto refresh rates, I quickly had to get used to all the wonkiness that goes with leaving the land of the PC.
The biggest hair-puller? Yeah. That would be colorspace management.
The week I tried to figure out how to get my monitors to ...
A) match each other
B) match PCs
C) match photoshop colors
and D) match in every browser
... was the week no one wanted to have lunch with me cuz they thought I was having PMS symptoms of the decade. I would create a graphic in photoshop, save it, open it in a browser, and all the colors would change. And just when I thought I had it figured out all the colors would match except for reds. Yeah, reds. I was hmm, how shall we say? Annoyyyyyyyyed.
The funny thing about the whole problem is that none of the other designers had a clue. I got a whole bunch of, "Uhhhh, I don't know how mine is set up. I think someone else did it. Or something. It usually matches pretty close."
Let's just say that I'm anal retentive. I mean, did you know I brush my cat ever day - sometimes twice a day - to combat the hairballs I *STILL* find all over the house? I needed some answers and a long-toothed comb wasn't the one I was looking for.
I somehow pieced it all together, although trying to find any single article on the subject still mystifies even the goole-savviest designer. It's a lotta work yo! So here's my simple, sophie, 3-step solution.
- System preferences > Displays > Color
- Set your system color to 'sRGB IEC61966-2.1' (and do so for every monitor
- In photoshop, Photoshop > Color Settings...
- Set RGB to 'sRGB IEC61966-2.1'
Seriously? So easy. Easiest ever. I'll allow you all to thank with alcoholic libations later.
PS ... One more thing. Under color management policies I like to set RGB to 'convert to working RGB' as well as CHECK all the missing and mismatched profile checkboxes.
PPS ... Okay fine. I'm documenting this for the next time my computer gets wiped out and I have to figure out how I did that thing I did again. Sue me.
Behold! the toys with wings
[link] New favorite thing. I want to make one for every person in the office.
In another world
You'll never believe where I'm blogging from right now.
Winona. Minnesota.
Yeah, you'll get a fuller update at a later hour. And perhaps it'll be sooner than later considering it hadn't even *occurred* to me to check the weather forecast before traveling (insert picture of at least an inch of snow already on the ground with more falling down by the very second). But I'll be up and at 'em momentarily, if for nothing else than to see if I can find a Wii somewhere in rural Minnesota.
For sale by Reigning World Champion
A couple of weeks ago there was the mixup of the century at home which could have led to the loss of a life. But then I came to my sensese and you won't hear me complaining, not even a micropeep, since a Brand New!, Pink! Nintendo DS Lite is probably sitting in front of my door waiting for me to get home even as I type this very sentence. Pink gaming system!?! It's a wonder all the blood hasn't rushed away from my head and I'm still conscious.
Sadly, this means my current Nintendo DS Lite is in need of a good home. She's like new and even comes with the never-used, I didn't even open the package!, game called Animal Crossing. It might be the cutest game ever and take it from me - men cannot stop themselves from all the cute. I happen to know firsthand of many boyfriends, who shall each and every one of them remain very nameless, who love this game so much they call it Animal Crack. It's silly, but it's fun. The cuteness compels you.
A beautiful Nintendo DS Lite, a never-used Animal Crossing, and some seriously good juju all for a bangin' $100.
Do I have any takers? First come first serve, but if some of you are willing to fight it out in a tub of jello I'll *definitely* allow that.
Ah yes, the joys of the internet are many and splendid
Many of you have been receiving 'messages' in one varied form or another from someone on flickr. Trust me, if you've gotten any of them you know who you are.
First, this person is not me (as many of you were led to believe).
Second, I do not know this person, have never met this person, and have no idea why they're leaving comments and sending you messages. It's as much of a mystery to me as it is to you.
Third, I've been asked if it's okay for you to block them, report them, and delete their comments. To all these things I say a mighty, 'YES!' This sort of thing has happened in the past, perhaps by the same person, and flickr has *always* been very prompt and swift with their actions in banning/blocking users who are clearly violating the terms of service.
*sigh*
Thank you to everyone who has contacted me. Hopefully everything will be sorted out in no time at all.
The war on stupidity germs
If by any chance you were one of those people who read that article about putting your sponges in the microwave so as to kill all the germs on it... here's a point of advice: You might want to try nuking it for one minute rather than six.
Unless of course you want to start a fire in your microwave too.
You know, hypothetically speaking.