My friend and colleague Martin Berger, professor of History of Art and Visual Culture, is speaking on March 15th, in the theater I manage at UCSC. Hear this amazing speaker on an important and thought provoking talk about white and black media. If you come early I would be happy to show you around the Digital Arts Research Center.
is a one-off selling system. It’s the twitter of shopping carts…. so not a shopping cart. You provide a digital asset (upload or link) and then set up a cost. Then you get a short URL which will allow someone to pay by Credit Card and get your content. Very simple, very cool.
Share and sell source code for an app with just a link.
Selling stuff has always been a pain. No longer! Get back to creating. We make selling stuff as easy as sharing a link,
Stargazing Sarah Screams.
Acrylic on canvas. 10”x8”
Burn Day on Alba Road!
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Finally a good Contacts App for OSX Lion! -
This application is really good. And it bases it’s data on the OS X Address Book datastore. I am in geek-love with this thing!.
Excited about seeing Mark Crilley’s new book, Mastering Manga!
9 birds processed!
I have some photos up at Caffe Pergolesi in #SantaCruz - opens tonight.
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Mountain lion sightings have increased in Santa Cruz. Here are some suggestions from California Fish and Game… DO NOT HIKE ALONE. Make plenty of noise to reduce your chances of surprising a lion. Go in groups, with adults supervising children. A sturdy walking stick is a good idea: you can use it to ward off a lion.
KEEP CHILDREN CLOSE TO YOU. Observations of captured lions reveal that the animals seem especially drawn to children. Keep children within your sight at all times.
IF YOU SEE A MOUNTAIN LION, STOP! Do not run from a lion. Back away from it slowly, but only if you can do so safely. Running may stimulate a lion’s instinct to chase and attack. Face the lion and stand upright. Make eye contact. If you have small children with you, pick them up so they won’t panic and run. Although it may seem awkward, pick them up without bending over or turning away from the lion.
DO NOT BEND OR CROUCH OVER; DO ALL YOU CAN TO APPEAR LARGER. A person squatting or bending over looks a lot like a four-legged prey animal. Raise your arms. Open your jacket, if you’re wearing one. Throw stones, branches, or whatever you can grab without crouching down or turning your back. Wave your arms slowly and speak firmly in a large voice.
DO NOT APPROACH A LION, especially one that is feeding or with kittens. Most mountain lions will try to avoid confrontation. Give them a way to escape.
FIGHT BACK IF ATTACKED. Try to stay on your feet if a lion attacks you. Lions have been driven off by prey that fights back. Some hikers have fought back successfully with sticks, caps, jackets, garden tools, and their bare hands. Since lions usually try to bite the head or neck, try to remain standing and face the attacking animal.
Jesse Brown's podcast is fantastic!
Al Luckow just gave me a beta pass for Bitcasa and it really is quite elegant. You add folders from your computer and those folder’s get sent to Bitcasa servers, and then the folder and all the data is erased from your hard drive, and the folder is then a network mounted file server point is put where your folder was. Congrats - you have just moved your data to the cloud.
Pros: Amazing! Really simple, very fast, no bugs (in OS X.Lion).
Cons: No network - no data! Well, that is not exactly true. If you have accessed the files recently they are still accessible when you have no network. Also, if you use the Bitcasa app to “disconnect” the folder, or use the Finder’s eject next to that mounted folder, your orignal folder shows back up. However, this is not a copy of the Bitcasa files, simply the folder as it was before “moving” it to Bitcasa.
So, you are moving your files off of your computer and into the cloud. Make sure to keep a backup someplace!
Kirsten Brant and Ted Warburton’s next telematic production planning meeting.