The litter in littérateur. Ricky Opaterny on Books, Music, Art, and Sports

8/28/2009

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-28

Filed under: General — Ricky @ 8:18 pm

8/21/2009

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-21

Filed under: General — Ricky @ 8:18 pm
  • Just gave my board presentation using Air Mouse on iPhone as a PowerPoint remote. Wish it didn't drain my battery so fast! #
  • Saw a whale on my way to the meeting yesterday. #
  • Sandwich showdown: Mike & Patty's vs. Darwin's. #
  • RT @norton_fiction: RT @elliottholt "Don't trust anyone who doesn't own books." #
  • Was at Darwin's and sold a woman on "Camus, a Romance" from @groveatlantic after she asked what I was reading. Didn't even have the jacket. #
  • Boo to @museumofscience for not admitting AAM members but stealing the AAM's code of ethics–this merits a letter. #
  • Lots of drivers at the airport with signs that say "Connect." Wonder what that means. 😉 @joshto #

8/14/2009

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-14

Filed under: General — Ricky @ 8:18 pm
  • Multi-page online articles inflate pageview numbers at the expense of user experience. @NYTimes, etc., allow us to default to single-page! #
  • "People who say that all this content wants to be free aren’t paying talented people to create it." http://bit.ly/2GAKdP #
  • Are there any good tech blogs that aren't rabidly pro-technology, if that makes sense? #
  • I don't have a problem with this: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/fashion/09blogfree.html #
  • Obama's reading list: Joseph O'Neill, Dave Eggers and Jeff Sachs http://bit.ly/kui68 (via @melvillehouse) #
  • Ginevra King's–the inspiration for Daisy–Chicago home was for sale. Who bought it? http://bit.ly/lTuMk #
  • "…the loss of identification so profound as to be constitutive of one's self…." http://bit.ly/2wjiOi #
  • Edmund Wilson responds to requests: http://www.henryfarrell.net/scialabba/wilson.jpg #
  • ePub? Yuck! http://bit.ly/2Bj49U Can someone explain to me why we can't get books in PDF with embedded fonts? #
  • Lots of new sections just appeared in my NYTimes iPhone app, including "Pro Basketball" and "Start-Ups." What is up with that? #
  • The cover for Commencement looks so much like the one for Demonology. #

8/11/2009

Author websites

Filed under: Books,Technology — Tags: , , , , — Ricky @ 2:01 pm

I’ve visited countless author websites over the years, but, perhaps, none that I enjoyed more than Rudolph Delson’s. His Frequently Asked Question page alone is worth a click. Why he is no longer linking to it from his homepage, I’m not sure.

8/10/2009

The price of a logo

Filed under: General,Technology — Tags: , , , , — Ricky @ 1:44 pm

I had a few logos made for projects over the past four years. Fortunately, I’ve been able to work with friends on many of them. However, I continue to encounter the misconceptions that logos should be cheap, say a couple hundred bucks, or involve a lot of constant feedback from the client to the designer on all possible designs. Here’s why neither is true.

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8/9/2009

Learning Adobe Illustrator

Filed under: General,Technology — Tags: , — Ricky @ 9:08 am

I like to learn how to use software by finding things online that I want to make and then figuring out how to make them. Currently I’m learning Adobe Illustrator with the help of Smashing’s  50 Excellent Adobe Illustrator Video Tutorials.

8/7/2009

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-07

Filed under: General — Ricky @ 8:18 pm

8/5/2009

Listen to new Radiohead song, “Harry Patch (In Memory of)”

Filed under: General,Music — Tags: , , , , , , , — Ricky @ 5:27 pm

Radiohead has a new song, “Harry Patch (In Memory of),” which Thom Yorke wrote after seeing an interview with Patch, who was the longest living World War I veteran. You can buy the song or listen to the song on the BBC’s site here. (more…)

Artists’ Moleskines

Filed under: Books,General — Ricky @ 11:42 am

Check out a bunch of artists’ Moleskine journals that are part of the Detour exhibits on this Flickr Photostream.

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