http://scriptshifter.com/maya . Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:29:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en People often suggest. More crucial to an initiative than the content of the suggestion, is the spirit in which it's raised. A suggestion could, for instance, mean: I think this is a good idea and I'm resolved to take measures to realise it I think it's a good idea and I'd like ... http://scriptshifter.com/maya/?p=78 Under market pressure to invite obsolescence, designers and manufacturers optimise things to sparkle in their infancy but allow them to tatter with age. But things are bound to age. So designs that fail to anticipate wear and the passage of time are irresponsible. SUV, you don’t gleam by a mountainside underneath cherub-shaped ... http://scriptshifter.com/maya/?p=72 Error messages are baffling if you take them literally. Take this one that’s always lurking in the corner of browser windows: "Object expected on line 1." Though you’d never know this from the message, no ordinary object e.g. fishing rod, tea bag nor any change to line 1 will fix this ... http://scriptshifter.com/maya/?p=60 A street canvasser got me the other day. Street canvassers are committed to expose darkness in the souls of passers-by. They yell out all sorts of difficult questions that insinuate roughly the same thing: Write your credit card number on my clipboard or I'll carve “I don’t want to help ... http://scriptshifter.com/maya/?p=66 The new self-checkout machines are all the rage at my neighbourhood Tesco. As in any sensible initiative to replace people with computers, Tesco tripled its human staff load for the occasion. Extra personnel scurry about to iron out kinks and liaise between customer and machine. Kinks occur because the people at ... http://scriptshifter.com/maya/?p=55 For you good souls that are burning with contemplation and craving action - a thought experiment to blast you out of 2006 analysis paralysis and make you dance like wild monkeys this year: Think of a donkey who stands at an equal distance from two identical stacks of hay. Imagine that like ... http://scriptshifter.com/maya/?p=54 The most demented thing about technology is that its functionality is sometimes in your imagination. The commercial specs for an iPod are all about storage capacity and accessories. In one of the most inspired uses of the iPod I've heard of, it defends a fellow in a street attack. The user's ... http://scriptshifter.com/maya/?p=16 I've been drinking (an unnatural amount of?) this tea. The box says: "Succumb to this salubrious communion of Rose and Chamomile as it slowly seduces the inner you and irresistibly warms up your heart. For tea lovers everywhere, let the love flow!" Ingredients Chamomile, Lime flower, Elderflowers, Marigold petals, Licorice, Red roses, ... http://scriptshifter.com/maya/?p=40 Photos and hard labour courtesy of Miss Mannella, scarf, warmth and total grooviness by Logan, much-needed vodka courtesy of Laila, equipment courtesy of Lindsay, flight and wishes courtesy of Birgit and Christian, fine chocolate by Tanmay, tiramisu mastery by Dr. Pica, special thanks to John for jogging over against all ... http://scriptshifter.com/maya/?p=37 I'm preoccupied with location. There's a quality of *being here* that just doesn't creep into virtual representations or maps of physical space. In order to be meaningful, maps or other virtual representations need to be annotated by people capable of expressing a rich contextual appreciation of a space.In all this, ... http://scriptshifter.com/maya/?p=49