I started using Safari 4.0 yesterday, and I like what I see so far. The new Javascript interpreter is fast. The controls for Google Maps are so quick they’re frightening. Just try using your scroll wheel (or two-finger gesture on the trackpad of your new non-removable-battery MacBook Pro) to zoom in. If there’s a faster […]
Author Archives: Dane
The One In Which Dane Discusses AT&T Service Plans for Five Hundred Words, Much To Everyone’s Dismay
June 8, 2009 – 10:36 pm
Well shucks. I was just about ready to toss my first-generation iPhone down a well, until I dug a bit further into how much this new service plan was going to cost me. All I can say is, ouch. Right now I’ve got 450 anytime minutes and 5,000 night-and-weekend minutes for $39.99 a month. In […]
Urban Excursion
June 7, 2009 – 10:50 pm
You can tell a lot about a neighborhood in San Francisco based on how frequently they need to clean the streets. While biking around Sea Cliff today in a super-ritzy part of town I noticed that they have scheduled street cleanings twice a month. My street? Three times a week. I went for another bike […]
Too stoked to stoke the stoke.
June 6, 2009 – 10:47 pm
I had a fairly mellow day today, taking in the sights and sounds of my own neighborhood. I explored 24th Street and browsed the murals of Balmy Street, which celebrate the Hispanic heritage of this fine area in a lovely visual format. What’s incredible, too, is the Google Street View of Balmy Street. It’s not […]
Sublety and Nuance in Physical Interaction
June 5, 2009 – 11:10 pm
I had a great conversation during tea time at Adaptive Path this evening with Jesse James Garrett, about the role of subtlety and nuance in physical interaction design. Central to the conversation was Microsoft’s Project Natal, an upcoming system for the Xbox 360 that lets you use your full body to control games. While large […]
I’ll bet you can’t guess how this one ends.
June 5, 2009 – 11:02 pm
The new bike is fast. It shaved five minutes off my three-mile commute this morning. Chris, John and I, in celebration of surviving our first week as interns, took the Muni from SoMa through Chinatown to Italytown to grab some tasty slices of pizza. We ate them in a park while an old woman lurked […]
Spry. Or Perhaps The Faun.
June 4, 2009 – 9:39 pm
Today I bid farewell to the Frankenbike, as my friend put the finishing touches on a more proper bike that he’s been building for me to use for my mighty summer. I talked to Kate, and she said the going price for a used bike in Walla Walla was about thirty bucks. I paid a […]
Won’t you be my neighbor?
June 3, 2009 – 11:32 pm
I’m proud to say that this all went down less than six blocks from my flat. Talk about busted.
Tactile
June 3, 2009 – 11:10 pm
This morning I learned that I might need to start dosing myself with caffeine before starting my daily bicycle commute. While traveling in a pack of bike commuters I realized I was pretty zoned out, which isn’t exactly the safest thing when biking in traffic. Things can turn gnarly in an instant, and it’s imperative […]
