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I didn’t think I was actually going to get it, but I was selected for a solo exhibit at the Richmond Main Library.
The first month available is in November, 2010, so i’ve got the better part of a year to prepare. You can check out the images I submitted at jimkubicek.com.
In case anyone is interested. The meat of it is a bunch of two-letter aliases for common Git commands. My favorite part, though, is the shortcut to SSH into the iMac. My iMac has an equivalent alias to SSH into my MacBook. Makes it super easy to login and push whatever I was working on back to the server, if I’d forgotten to after switching computers.
Oh, and this isn’t in my profile, but just learned this trick last week and which I had known about it years ago. In OS X, ‘open ./’ opens the current directory in Finder.
echo echo "######################################" echo "# #" echo "# Welcome to Jim's Macbook #" echo "# #" echo "######################################" echo PATH=$PATH:/Users/jkubicek/bin export PATH PS1="\[\e[1;36m\]$PS1\[\e[m\] " export PS1 alias ls='ls -G' alias imac='ssh jimkubicek@imac.local' alias gc='git commit -m' alias ga='git add .' alias gs='git status' alias gl='git log --oneline --graph'
I’ve currently got three pairs of headphones, and fortunately they are all different enough that each one serves a pretty specific purpose.
Just got a pair of Grado S60s for a 2nd generation iPod Shuffle.
Love them. Crystal clear sound, but, like other reviewers have said, almost no sound isolation. Everyone can hear your music and you can hear everyone else. Best for listening at home.
Of course, I probably wouldn’t have gotten them at all if it wasn’t a trade since I’ve also got a pair of Sennheiser 280s.
Much more isolation, but the sound isn’t as full or clear. Also, they are a little tight, so if you’ve got a huge pumpkin-head, you’ll have to stretch these bad-boys out.
Oh, and if you’ve got a new Apple product, you can’t go wrong with these:
Yeah, they let you play/pause on any iPhone and let you adjust the volume on an iPhone 3GS… but did you know you can also play/pause/volume on newer MacBooks and iMacs? Yeah… they are also super isolating and sound pretty darn good. Don’t try to use them for long conversations, though. The isolation makes talking on them kind of weird.
I probably won’t be updating nothing2fancy.com every time I update jimkubicek.com, but I thought I’d make an exception this time.
Check it out!
I’ve got my first real portfolio hosted now, it was my submission to a solo art exhibit at the Richmond Public Library. I find out next weekend if I’ve been selected, so wish me luck. I’m not to worried about it. If I don’t make the cut, I just saved about $500 in printing and mounting… so you know, I’ve got that going for me.
This drove me nuts for a few days. I’ve been trying to set up a test environment on my desktop so that I can work through website iterations without fouling up this site. I walked through all the tutorials out there, but just could not get my Wordpress install to work.
Username, password, hostname were double and triple checked.
It turns out, that when I was installing MySQL on my computer (following the official instructions, which are just fine), I set up a UNIX socket. When I was setting up phpMyAdmin it explicitly asked for the socket… but Wordpress doesn’t, so it had never occurred to me to enter it.
You should enter it.
It’s for my local camera club, btw. Look for a new page some time into the new year.
My little part of the the show was a great success. I think roughly 1/3 of the guests who visited were with me, so good job guys! I know Stephanie had a great time, too.
In other news, I was approached by the library curator. She liked my work and suggested that I submit my portfolio for a solo show. I’ve got a little over 1 month to prepare, so I’m going to get right on that.
I’m showing three images with the Richmond Focus Camera Club tomorrow night (Friday, December 3) at the Richmond Main Library, Gelman Room. First Friday is going on that night, so I figure most of you will be out and about. The reception lasts from 7-9PM. I hope some folks can make it out to say hi to me!
Location:
Richmond Main Library
Gelman Room
101 East Franklin Street
Richmond, VA
Time:
7-9PM
Map:
I’m going to try and blog once a day. We’ll see how it goes.
I’m closely watching Google’s Chrome OS. Whichever computer company who throws all their eggs into that basket will be the ones that come out ahead of all other manufactures (with the exception of Apple, I’d say).
Here’s a demo of the OS:
The key here is that this OS is a differentiator in a pretty homogenous market. Pop Quiz: Who makes the best laptops, Sony, HP or Dell? Trick question, nobody gives a fuck because they all run the same shitty operating system.
To quote Gruber (emphasis mine):
Apple’s ability to produce innovative hardware is inextricably intertwined with its ability to produce innovative software. The iPhone is an even better example than the Mac.
It’s not just that Apple is different among computer makers. It’s that Apple is the only one that even can be different, because it’s the only one that has its own OS. Part of the industry-wide herd mentality is an assumption that no one else can make a computer OS — that anyone can make a computer but only Microsoft can make an OS. It should be embarrassing to companies like Dell and Sony, with deep pockets and strong brand names, that they’re stuck selling computers with the same copy of Windows installed as the no-name brands.
There is the key. As much as folks talk about Apple’s sexy packaging, ask most Mac users and they would almost entirely rather use OS X on a cheap laptop than Windows XP on a fancy laptop. Google OS is offering manufacturers the opportunity to differentiate themselves, stand out from the crowd.
One caveat. Chrome OS is open source, which means that computer manufacturers can (and will) put their own special brand of turd cream on this OS. Just because HP releases a Chrome netbook does not mean that they didn’t foul up the OS so much that it’s borderline unusable.
