I ate a bunch of them as a kid. Last week I decided I needed a box – I’m an adult, I can buy what I want. Opening the box I was treated with shiny foil wrappings. Best box of Ding Dongs since childhood. Why the switch back? And when?
The wrappers make the treat. A sealed plasticky wrap looks like a bag surrounding the treat. There is no definition. Foil tightly wrapped around the fat pancake of a treat just give it more character. And tastiness, I swear.
Also, Chocolicious, which seem to be discontinued or at least absent from the Hostess website, were a close second as far as favorites go.
Also also, eat them frozen. So good.
]]>I ate a bunch of them as a kid. Last week I decided I needed a box – I’m an adult, I can buy what I want. Opening the box I was treated with shiny foil wrappings. Best box of Ding Dongs since childhood. Why the switch back? And when?
The wrappers make the treat. A sealed plasticky wrap looks like a bag surrounding the treat. There is no definition. Foil tightly wrapped around the fat pancake of a treat just give it more character. And tastiness, I swear.
Also, Chocolicious, which seem to be discontinued or at least absent from the Hostess website, were a close second as far as favorites go.
Also also, eat them frozen. So good.
]]>Missed call / text / voicemail indicator
My tubby bitch always told me if someone left a message without my even having to touch it. Just a quick glance and if the light was flashing it was clear a voicemail was waiting. My iPhone requires me to pick it up and press a button just to see if someone called or if there are messages waiting.
As nice as my phone is to touch, sometimes I just don’t want to. LED’s are small and potentially bright and awesome, just like a MacBook’s sleep indicator.
Recent call / voicemail notification count
If I just listened to a voicemail, I know I missed the call. Don’t make me select recent calls to acknowledge it. Just do the right thing and remove that count from both.
That’s one I’ve complained about before.
Close the phone app
The general OS paradigm for dealing with apps that were running when you sleep the screen is to jump directly back into that app on awakening. This seems intuitive as the user specifically requested that app open and specifically didn’t close it.
When you receive a phone call while in sleep mode, the phone app is launched. When the call ends, the end call screen is momentarily displayed and then the phone goes back to its sleep state. Subsequently waking up the phone brings you back to the phone app. Not the home screen. Not the previous app you might have originally slepted the phone on. No. The phone app. Because someone called you.
If someone calls me, I didn’t initiate that action. Get me out of it as soon as possible and back to my normal usage. And we ended the call. End. I use my phone for other tasks way more often than for phone calls (and get the impression I’m not alone there) so dropping me back into the phone app is likely not going to be useful.
That weather app icon
Enough about the phone app. The calendar icon shows the current date. Why does the weather icon always show 73 degrees? Show me the current temp of the last location I viewed.
Speaking of, why does the clock app always think it is 10:15? Show the real time. And there is no Interstate 280 anywhere near me, Maps icon.
Help
Am I missing preference settings or shortcuts to work around these?
]]>Missed call / text / voicemail indicator
My tubby bitch always told me if someone left a message without my even having to touch it. Just a quick glance and if the light was flashing it was clear a voicemail was waiting. My iPhone requires me to pick it up and press a button just to see if someone called or if there are messages waiting.
As nice as my phone is to touch, sometimes I just don’t want to. LED’s are small and potentially bright and awesome, just like a MacBook’s sleep indicator.
Recent call / voicemail notification count
If I just listened to a voicemail, I know I missed the call. Don’t make me select recent calls to acknowledge it. Just do the right thing and remove that count from both.
That’s one I’ve complained about before.
Close the phone app
The general OS paradigm for dealing with apps that were running when you sleep the screen is to jump directly back into that app on awakening. This seems intuitive as the user specifically requested that app open and specifically didn’t close it.
When you receive a phone call while in sleep mode, the phone app is launched. When the call ends, the end call screen is momentarily displayed and then the phone goes back to its sleep state. Subsequently waking up the phone brings you back to the phone app. Not the home screen. Not the previous app you might have originally slepted the phone on. No. The phone app. Because someone called you.
If someone calls me, I didn’t initiate that action. Get me out of it as soon as possible and back to my normal usage. And we ended the call. End. I use my phone for other tasks way more often than for phone calls (and get the impression I’m not alone there) so dropping me back into the phone app is likely not going to be useful.
That weather app icon
Enough about the phone app. The calendar icon shows the current date. Why does the weather icon always show 73 degrees? Show me the current temp of the last location I viewed.
Speaking of, why does the clock app always think it is 10:15? Show the real time. And there is no Interstate 280 anywhere near me, Maps icon.
Help
Am I missing preference settings or shortcuts to work around these?
]]>Most nights, that’s where winter was spent. And other night spots illuminated by street lights. And sometimes an hour away at what was then Rib Mountain. Nights are cold during the winter in Wisconsin. And quiet.
A tour
- Waterworks: The main attraction when the city pushed up the snow just right. I learned a few tricks here. And ran into the fire hydrant a number of times. Rodeos and stacked picnic tables. Waxing required to make it through the flats. Also the location of the infamous pole trick in the Noma sledding days.
- Gazebo: It had a handicap ramp that with a good push off gave just enough speed to sleep cross a couple picnic tables with a run out onto the frozen river. 50-50 the first bench, step up to lipslide on the second table.
- Werner’s: Friendly neighbors shared their epic backyard. Flat landings and lots of walking.
- Junkyard: Somewhat short lived. There was a guard rail that happened to get snow from the lot plowed up next to it. From the top, just enough speed for fun. Ended abruptly with owner showing up driving an end-loader and kicking us out, taking down my license plate and calling the police who later that evening visited my home.
- AmericInn: They cut down a tree and the log happen to sit at the bottom of a small slope for a few weeks. Knobby as hell. Run out into the sidewalk and street, stoplights just 30 feet away. Urban snowboarding in 1997.
- Angel flight: More a dream than any real shredding. Steep, wrecked triple set.
Later
My first year out of high school was pretty limited for night shredding. Significant memory is wrecking hard at Trollhaugen on solid ice.
Later, in Colorado, whenever there was a trace of snow (or blizzard) in Denver we’d find something to do. Or staying in the mountains we’d jump off balconies. Or go to Keystone. But mostly it was daytime only. Sunny.
Then moved about 15 minutes from Granite Peak. Old stomping grounds. Again, many winter nights spent on a chairlift. Until, you know, another abrupt end, this time in fury.
The point?
The other night I went snowboarding under darkness for the first time in about 4 years. It was pleasant. The crowds were small, the roads weren’t backed up and it made me think about all of the above. The neat thing about being at a resort at night is the contrast from the immense open view during the day compared to the very closed in, playground-like state at night. The runs are lit but quickly fade from a texture of pines to complete black.
Panther.
]]>Most nights, that’s where winter was spent. And other night spots illuminated by street lights. And sometimes an hour away at what was then Rib Mountain. Nights are cold during the winter in Wisconsin. And quiet.
A tour
- Waterworks: The main attraction when the city pushed up the snow just right. I learned a few tricks here. And ran into the fire hydrant a number of times. Rodeos and stacked picnic tables. Waxing required to make it through the flats. Also the location of the infamous pole trick in the Noma sledding days.
- Gazebo: It had a handicap ramp that with a good push off gave just enough speed to sleep cross a couple picnic tables with a run out onto the frozen river. 50-50 the first bench, step up to lipslide on the second table.
- Werner’s: Friendly neighbors shared their epic backyard. Flat landings and lots of walking.
- Junkyard: Somewhat short lived. There was a guard rail that happened to get snow from the lot plowed up next to it. From the top, just enough speed for fun. Ended abruptly with owner showing up driving an end-loader and kicking us out, taking down my license plate and calling the police who later that evening visited my home.
- AmericInn: They cut down a tree and the log happen to sit at the bottom of a small slope for a few weeks. Knobby as hell. Run out into the sidewalk and street, stoplights just 30 feet away. Urban snowboarding in 1997.
- Angel flight: More a dream than any real shredding. Steep, wrecked triple set.
Later
My first year out of high school was pretty limited for night shredding. Significant memory is wrecking hard at Trollhaugen on solid ice.
Later, in Colorado, whenever there was a trace of snow (or blizzard) in Denver we’d find something to do. Or staying in the mountains we’d jump off balconies. Or go to Keystone. But mostly it was daytime only. Sunny.
Then moved about 15 minutes from Granite Peak. Old stomping grounds. Again, many winter nights spent on a chairlift. Until, you know, another abrupt end, this time in fury.
The point?
The other night I went snowboarding under darkness for the first time in about 4 years. It was pleasant. The crowds were small, the roads weren’t backed up and it made me think about all of the above. The neat thing about being at a resort at night is the contrast from the immense open view during the day compared to the very closed in, playground-like state at night. The runs are lit but quickly fade from a texture of pines to complete black.
Panther.
]]>Airwalks were to the coolest to me at that time. My NTS were followed by gold NTS 2, then tan Racers (they had a pair of white racing stripes on the bottom of the sole – genius!) and finally brown and black Ones. I had a pair of Airwalk Advantage snowboard boots in there somewhere too. About that time Airwalk lost its direction, their founder left and they were bought out. Airwalks were no longer the coolest. Instead, Reef Brazil and Duffs followed by éS and Emerica and settling on black Vans. But man, that jumpman logo! So much better than the other jumpman.
A few years later at university in Denver, Colorado, snowboarding would reunite me with Airwalk. While under the Tare 7 umbrella, Airwalk had headquarters in nearby Golden focused on snowboarding and sponsored our snowboard club. I got some socks and stickers and posters. Jump man stickers! Before I even finished school though they were pretty much finished again and destined to Payless stores.
Thanks for the Airwalk Prototypes link waiting for me in my IM window tonight. I’m old, my knee hurts and I did some ollies and kickflips on my patio the other day.
]]>Airwalks were to the coolest to me at that time. My NTS were followed by gold NTS 2, then tan Racers (they had a pair of white racing stripes on the bottom of the sole – genius!) and finally brown and black Ones. I had a pair of Airwalk Advantage snowboard boots in there somewhere too. About that time Airwalk lost its direction, their founder left and they were bought out. Airwalks were no longer the coolest. Instead, Reef Brazil and Duffs followed by éS and Emerica and settling on black Vans. But man, that jumpman logo! So much better than the other jumpman.
A few years later at university in Denver, Colorado, snowboarding would reunite me with Airwalk. While under the Tare 7 umbrella, Airwalk had headquarters in nearby Golden focused on snowboarding and sponsored our snowboard club. I got some socks and stickers and posters. Jump man stickers! Before I even finished school though they were pretty much finished again and destined to Payless stores.
Thanks for the Airwalk Prototypes link waiting for me in my IM window tonight. I’m old, my knee hurts and I did some ollies and kickflips on my patio the other day.
]]>Chrome
Chrome only shows the Google logo in the top bar of the window when it is not maximized. First thought maybe something to do with how windows are handled in different modes but given how much Chrome departs from the Windows UI already, seems no reason it couldn’t have been maintained.
Error
IIS worker processes crash regularly. You get a huge warning with lots of detail as it tries to restart.
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Chrome
Chrome only shows the Google logo in the top bar of the window when it is not maximized. First thought maybe something to do with how windows are handled in different modes but given how much Chrome departs from the Windows UI already, seems no reason it couldn’t have been maintained.
Error
IIS worker processes crash regularly. You get a huge warning with lots of detail as it tries to restart.
]]>Process
We have over 2 days of recordings of us playing music in a basement. Most of it is being loud hippies and just jamming. A significant chunk is attempting to replay and create actual songs. This is the result of playing for a few hours what works out to probably every other week for about a year. The other year was spent working out real recordings and sounds and mixes and so on. Can you tell this isn’t exactly a high priority project?
When you “jam” for a few hours you accumulate a lot of material. Perhaps mostly crap but hopefully a few gems as well. Finding them is hard and listening to all that can come close to being unbearable. But we picked our favorites, tossed stuff we once thought were favorites and probably missed a few good bits.
Liars
Now there is a website with the songs. There are 50 CDs printed. One of the goals of doing this was to have people hear it when it was completed. How do you promote something for a band that isn’t really a band? Whenever anything comes up about playing an instrument and someone asks if I’m in a band I say “a pseudo-band”. I get puzzled looks. We aren’t aiming to be a band. We don’t intend to play any shows. We play together at most once a week. We just want to record. It’s not just jamming in a basement but it is certainly a far cry from doing the band thing for real.
So given that, there seems to be a bit of a line of what is appropriate self-promotion of this beast. Sure, I’d love to tell everyone to go listen to it. But don’t get the impression you might see these songs played live any time soon. Or any related band-ish things to come from it.
Next
We’re back to just playing not quite once a week rather than tracking a record not quite once a week. This time it’s a different process. Rather than spend the entire session playing new stuff, it’s hoped to come up with a starting point and create a song from it in that single day. No going home and listening to 3 hours of jams. Instead, go home and listen to the single 5 minute track. All recorded live.
Left behind
If we had finished this in a more timely fashion I wouldn’t feel bad about creating a site that was intended to be viewed with Flash enabled. Rough week for Flash. However, SoundManager 2 coupled with javascript and a canvas tag make for some fun learning and a neat audio player visualization. Unfortunately, given current implementations of the audio tag spec, this couldn’t have been created without Flash. The audio tag has no waveform or spectrum data. Yet. Maybe the next record? I almost rewrote the player to fallback to the audio tag if Flash wasn’t available. However, given the pain of MP3 vs OGG format support in current implementations, I opted to leave the direct links to the content.
And that’s all
Enjoy.
]]>Process
We have over 2 days of recordings of us playing music in a basement. Most of it is being loud hippies and just jamming. A significant chunk is attempting to replay and create actual songs. This is the result of playing for a few hours what works out to probably every other week for about a year. The other year was spent working out real recordings and sounds and mixes and so on. Can you tell this isn’t exactly a high priority project?
When you “jam” for a few hours you accumulate a lot of material. Perhaps mostly crap but hopefully a few gems as well. Finding them is hard and listening to all that can come close to being unbearable. But we picked our favorites, tossed stuff we once thought were favorites and probably missed a few good bits.
Liars
Now there is a website with the songs. There are 50 CDs printed. One of the goals of doing this was to have people hear it when it was completed. How do you promote something for a band that isn’t really a band? Whenever anything comes up about playing an instrument and someone asks if I’m in a band I say “a pseudo-band”. I get puzzled looks. We aren’t aiming to be a band. We don’t intend to play any shows. We play together at most once a week. We just want to record. It’s not just jamming in a basement but it is certainly a far cry from doing the band thing for real.
So given that, there seems to be a bit of a line of what is appropriate self-promotion of this beast. Sure, I’d love to tell everyone to go listen to it. But don’t get the impression you might see these songs played live any time soon. Or any related band-ish things to come from it.
Next
We’re back to just playing not quite once a week rather than tracking a record not quite once a week. This time it’s a different process. Rather than spend the entire session playing new stuff, it’s hoped to come up with a starting point and create a song from it in that single day. No going home and listening to 3 hours of jams. Instead, go home and listen to the single 5 minute track. All recorded live.
Left behind
If we had finished this in a more timely fashion I wouldn’t feel bad about creating a site that was intended to be viewed with Flash enabled. Rough week for Flash. However, SoundManager 2 coupled with javascript and a canvas tag make for some fun learning and a neat audio player visualization. Unfortunately, given current implementations of the audio tag spec, this couldn’t have been created without Flash. The audio tag has no waveform or spectrum data. Yet. Maybe the next record? I almost rewrote the player to fallback to the audio tag if Flash wasn’t available. However, given the pain of MP3 vs OGG format support in current implementations, I opted to leave the direct links to the content.
And that’s all
Enjoy.
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