November 2010
5 posts
How do you feel about the interrogative tone?
I recently read a review of a book called The Interrogative Tone? The gimmick with this book is that every sentence is a question? Would you like to read an excerpt from the book? Are your emotions pure? Are your nerves adjustable? How do you stand in relation to the potato? Should it still be Constantinople? Does a nameless horse make you more nervous or less nervous than a named horse? In your...
Nov 29th
How to fix Boot Camp on Mac OS X if you just get a...
So you’ve got a Mac and you’re hoping to install Windows on it, using Boot Camp. You use the Boot Camp Assistant to create a disk partition to install Windows on. Then you pop your Windows CD in the disk drive, and tell your Mac to go ahead, boot up using the CD, and install Windows. Except it doesn’t work. You just get a black screen, with a blinking white cursor. And no...
Nov 25th
You work it out.
This: Then this: In short, California is invading Scotland. I say we let ‘em have it.
Nov 19th
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A year of faces
Every time I login to my computer, it takes a photo of me through the webcam. It’s been doing this for about a year. These are the results. If you’d like to do something similar, I’ve explained how to do it below. AVERAGE FACE This is the average of all the photos from the past year. TIMELAPSE FACE ; That’s all the faces from the past year or so. Sadly I...
Nov 17th
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A better letterhead
I saw that Style Deficit posted Charles Atlas’ letterhead: And commented: More people’s letterheads should feature shots of them in pants. I fail to see how a letterhead could not be improved in this way. I decided to put this to the test. Pretty pimpin’, but maybe a little retro. Let’s bring it bang up to date: Brilliant - the perfect way to make my cover letters...
Nov 5th
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