cognitive blocks for lunch...
Today I had lunch Matt Lewis aka MattL from flickr. Matt teaches an assortment of classes at Ohio State University's Advanced Computing Center for the Arts Design aka ACCAD.
ACCAD in my mind has always been seen as the cool factory of OSU. I mean the OSU campus is massive right? Nothing really stands out as amazing over there to me except for ACCAD. They have thier own space and their own killer cool experimental gear.
Matt's diving into everything from computer graphics to wearable devices to emerging technology. Very cool combo of stuff if you ask me. We met thru flickr and have been meeting up for lunch now and then to dive into each others backgrounds, interests and more.
So back to lunch. I have to say Matt's got a better grip on the delicious tag'culture that I do presently. I need to take another look at really "deliciousl'fying" my life.
--- Let's see what's next?
A few ramblin links from the web here, not sure how I got to all of these, I was following something and now I've lost it.. lol but anyways:
mousemiles, soundcube, mathmos (they have a new one!), lately i've been plaqued with, green design (gotta happen)
I discovered the Near Near Future today. I love this blog. I especially like the top banner, the tags grouping. I'd like something like that for floozy. I think MT just incorportated tags into the software.. must find a way to bridge that gap and get it past any cognitive blocks I may have :P
Last night I cleaned out one file folder holder stacks of crap cabinets. Man I got too much information and all of it is all over the place. Wiki, I thought to myself I need a Wiki. That started me on search for knowledge management tools like jotspot, basecamp, onfolio, wikipad, snipsnap, and more. In fact along with general knowledge management, I need to fix my approach to bookmarks. I was thinking about this last night actually. Bookmarks in general are a messed up on browsers. They really fullfill the need the user wants, least in my view. Its a halfass way of making a mark. I'd like to have full access to UI's sometimes. Take out menu's that dont make sense or never get used or have the app evole to my settings, if I never used "Go, x, y or z" after 30 days or something, the app hides that menu from sight. I can always hit some "activate all button" that would bring it all back but my everyday use of the app, it'd know. It'd know what I always do or want to do or learned how to boot strap my way thru.