We went on Friday after work. It was hot, it was crowded, we ended up at Arbor Brewing bored out of our minds. But I did get a few photos for Art Fair Bingo. Click the thumb for a larger view. (I swear I had a couple packin’ four kids between them, but apparently my camera didn’t go off; I need to replace that POS).
This is all over the place, but Microsoft announced that Longhorn will be branded “Windows Vista”. *yawn* Can we be done with this idiotic name/version march and go back to meaningful release numbers?
Brandon at Arbor Update posted the Art Fair Bingo cards for this year. Let people watching begin.
Inspired by this post at the Shifted Librarian:
You might get away with not having one or two of these, but you better be supplementing them with other items. It never ceases to amaze me the number of people who can “write” but have zero clue who they are writing for. I saw a comment the other day in reformSTC that every minute spent using the product of a tech writer is a minute not spent completing the task the user needs to accomplish. What a profound statement. It was, in true writer fashion, pounced on and flamed out of conversation.
That’s too bad. Maybe it’s not a true portrayal of the concept, but it’s a hell of a lot closer than the attitude that users are idiots because they didn’t read the entire chapter of Help on composing a widget.
Ah summer in Ann Arbor, when tourists come into the “city”, streets shut down, and artists from around the one-day’s-drive area congeal in the gutters to disgorge their “art” on overly-anticipatory populous. Yes, it’s Art Fair. But not just one Art Fair! Oh no, this is Ann Arbor, where even the artists can’t get along. So there are four fairs going at once (although, attempt to explain that to someone from out of town and you’ll get blank stares).
Of course, the day I need to find it, ArborBlogs is down and I can’t get this year’s Art Fair Bingo. (To tide me over, I may have to recycle last years Bingo cards.) If anyone has this year’s card, post a link in the comments.
Will we go? Yeah, I guess. It’s kind of like Tulip Time in Holland: If you don’t go on vacation during the festival, you’re guaranteed to be sucked in. Plus, I need my annual injection of art-on-a-stick and chances to insult people on Political Alley.
Google has added the Apollo landing sites to Google Maps to commemorate the first manned Moon landing which occured 36 years ago today (That’s July 20, 1969). If you zoom in all the way, you can really see the detail on the surface.
I don’t think I’ve actually posted about my new house.
J– and I have finally settled into our new place in Chelsea. It’s a 1.5 story something or other, 2.5 bedrooms (ok, three, but if you can get a bed in that other room, good on yah), 2 baths, and detached garage. It’s our first place (purchased) and so far, so good. We painted 3 rooms, the kitchen cabinets, and a bathroom in two days. Yeah, barrel of laughs. But, on the plus side, I now have a kick-ass grill, a (small) backyard, and no damn highway within earshot.
Chelsea is a great little town West of Ann Arbor. I only have to spend working hours in AA now, and man, it couldn’t feel better.
Anyone in the AA area looking to work with a purchasing agent, I highly recommend The Home Buyer’s Agent of Ann Arbor. They don’t sell homes, only help you buy. After the experience we had with our first agent (no linking love for that douche), the people at The Home Buyer’s Agent were awesome.
In all, we toured over 50 homes, bid on three, and got one, all in about two and half months. I don’t think I’ll be moving in a year again.
Richard Stallman (RMS in the Open Source world) has called for a boycott of Harry Potter. I can sympathize with his premise (a Canadian court ordered that people who were erroneously sold the book early weren’t to read them), but this is the stupidest idea I can think of as a response. RMS obviously does not have children, and admits he’s not a fan. Wow, what a meaningful gesture he’s made, not buying a book he never had a compelling reason to buy in the first place.
We were at the midnight release here in Chelsea last night. It was madness. There were so many kids who would have stayed up all night if they could. Denying a child a book the only book they want all year out of the parents’ political motivations isn’t the answer. That child doesn’t understand why they can’t have the book. Stallman has good intentions but makes an emotional response to a problem with more angles than just his perspective.
Most are under 30 minutes to make.
Link [via Kottke Remainders]
