Loving this app at the moment. A mustmustmust for productivity junkies.
And in case you’re not familiar with the pomodoro technique:
Ok, ttyl, busy conquering my wunderlist.
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Failure to Launch?
Watch NYT’s video on the state of today’s graduates after the jump. Nothing new, but certainly something to think about. As I see it, this “failure to launch” syndrome exists even in Asian societies where issues concerning debt and financial independence aren’t as pronounced.
What exactly is education prepping kids for then?
Sony’s Sinking Battleship
Some time back, I was on a mission to find this one Sony toy I had as a child. Needless to say, Sony means glorious feelings of childhood geekery to me.
But as Sony’s GeoHot / Fail0verflow fiasco unfolds, I can’t help feeling betrayed… Turns out Ol’ Uncle Sony is not only senile, he’s simply quite a dick.
Trying to master the art of making enemies and alienating friends? Uncle Sony shows us how with exceptional finesse! Let’s observe as GeoHot fends his harasser off with a sling.
Update: GeoHot continues to sink Battleship Sony from South America (23 Mar)>>
March Shitbeat: Femme Flaunting
What do happy humpa-thumping, singing balloon heads flaunting a hot chick sound like? Like Oh Land, a nice cuppa Brooklyn-brewed deliciousness with a nice zing of Danish lilt. Hypnotically mellifluous.
Too delightful? Wondering what happy humpa thumping, singing balloon heads flaunting a hot chick sound like on crack?
Extra shitbit-certified crass candy after the jump…
Chinese Handwriting Input: OSX + Wacom
With Apple being declared an “aspiration brand” in China and iPhone 4 rioting the in Beijing flagship store, you’d think that Apple would be pretty serious about Chinese input. But no. OSX chinese handwriting recognition is still in its’ infancy.
Well, since Snow Leopard, users have been able to input Chinese on Macbooks & Macbook Pros via trackpad. But have a shot at this and you can verify for yourself that this finger-painting business is about as slow and as ergonomic as a seatless unicycle.
This is particularly annoying for people whose command of Chinese, like mine, sucks balls. Dealing with the mysterious language / omnipresent inconvenience is a constant struggle between not knowing how to pronounce a character I’m looking at, and not knowing how to write a character I can say.
Users like me are reliant on both handwriting input (to google characters) and pinyin (to make a sentence without knowing how to write the characters).
Additional complication? As a loyal Wacom fan, I will rather Comic Sans my headstone than purchase those overpriced handwriting recognition softwares that come bundled with rickety digital pens of the ass variety.
哎呀, so how?
In ’88, People Made Their Own Metronomes
I’ve been a super-excited owner of a bliptronome kit for some months now, but finding the time to actually turn that bliptronic 5000 into a monome has been heartbreaking impossible. So it is with monumental excitement that I whip out my soldering iron this Saturday evening.
But first, I need to get into the swing of soldering. So I go to my Dad and see if he’s got some kinda scraps I can practice on.
He rustles in this den for a while and comes back with a look of great satisfaction and hands me this DIY Metronome kit from 1988.
February Shit Beat : Shigeto
I can’t get enough of Shigeto aka. brooklyn producer Zach Saginaw’s new album, Full Circle. It was released on Nov 9, 2010. Haven’t stopped listening to it since. I’ll skip the dancing about the architecture, just give it a listen, links below.
Kaossilator Grid Mod v2
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Thanks to Denny Kay (@fightking) who pointed out something odd about the grid, I dove back into the project to suss things out and realized a whole lot more…
I guess a picture tells it all:
Download the new 25×25 notes Kaossilator grid in TIFF and Illustrator in the original Hello Kitty Kaossilator Grid Mod post.
If you have a go at this new grid, drop me a note, I’m curious about how it goes.
- Pat
Hello Kitty Kaossilator Grid Mod
How is it possible that I am about 3 years late to catch on to the Kaossilator hype, and yet, here is not one good template out there for a grid mod? It’s bizarre, especially when some generous folks out there have already made some video demos of the modding process (linked at page bottom)… Some one’s gotta put a grid out there right now!
[edit : I did find some awesome grids with more extensive googling! Interestingly, each one's totally different. Bottom for links. ]
So I got to work to create a template that anyone can print out and pop into their Kaosillator for a perfectly mapped grid. Skip to the bottom of the page for the template. (Fear not, the template is sans Hello Kitty. I’m not about to impose anything on you.) Why a grid-mod? So that if you like, you can get specific about which keys you’re hitting.
