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First Pebble watchface

Posted by docsmooth on 2014/04/04

 

Laughingman on Pebble

Pebble watchface screenshots

I took a bunch of work from dwrose’s Rosewrite series of watchfaces, and created one of the Laughingman from Ghost in the Shell. It’s got some rough edges, and the resources are too large for it to be really smooth and useable, but it’s a first step.

 

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Romy-ism

Posted by docsmooth on 2014/01/26

“If a pretend baby had a real mouth and sat at the table and ate real food, then a fairy turned it into a real baby? Then we’d have a lot of people in the house!”

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Creating Solution Presentations that work.

Posted by docsmooth on 2013/09/06

From an IRC Conversation today:
<user1> if only I had a way to make boss[-2] hear "no, that's stupid"
<user1> oh wait, he thought he was the boss
<me> powerpoint presentation - propose 3 solutions: 1) your pipe
dream, 2) the thing you want, 3) his idea.
<user1> why bother with 1 and 2 ?
<me> you have 5 slides: 1) the problem. 2) the 3 solutions, 3-5: each
solution's pro/cons laid out
<me> by limiting yourself to this terrible format, you have to choose
very specific pro/con items for each
<me> so you can weight the solutions to drive his decision
<me> i use it all the time.
<me> makes them think that they're making a choice, rather than you
forcing it on them
<me> give them the chance to raise questions. their assumption is
that you want #1, but you don't, you want #2
<me> esp. when you lay out the prices, and 1 is 2x 2, and 2 is 2x 3, 2
becomes pretty obvious pretty quickly
<user1> probably I do honestly _want_ #1, I just don't think it's the
best tradeoff.
<user1> I want the fully loaded version, but midrange is almost always a
better deal.
<me> like I said - #1 is your pipe dream
<me> you can't have 1 so high that you wouldn't want to, or couldn't,
implement it
<me> but you don't want it so low that #2 is actualy not a good option
you need to give them something to say "no" to
<me> a sacrificial lamb, so to speak

Sometime in the future I’ll actuall write this up nicely, but at least it’s captured.

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LaPhroaig Quarter Cask

Posted by docsmooth on 2013/06/21

This scotch has no need for rocks,
It slips down my throat like it’s glossed,
The flavor, complex,
Not like all the rest,
It’s balanced, smooth and feels blessed.

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Nova Scotia Glenbreton 12 year

Posted by docsmooth on 2013/06/19

Soft on the tongue and the nose,
It’s mouthfeel like petals of rose,
The flavor lacks peat,
But still is complete,
Down my throat this drink, it flows.

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Bowmore 12

Posted by docsmooth on 2013/06/17

Soft on the tongue it’s like first kisses,
The flavors become strong taste forces,
Oak and smoke are weak,
as is the taste, peat.
This Scotch still does come out delicious.

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Logs for pidgin-sipe team

Posted by docsmooth on 2013/03/28

Logs for the pidgin-sipe team from a windows and linux system

pidgin-sipe

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Which NHL team do I cheer for?

Posted by docsmooth on 2013/02/26

Living in Chicago, a lot of people assume I’m a Blackhawsk fan. They’re right, but for the wrong reasons. I moved to Chicago from Minnesota in 2001, so people think I’m a Wild fan. They’re (mostly) wrong, for the same reasons (I have been known to be a guilty-feeling Wild fan). They then guess I’m a Stars fan. Oh, no.

So, who and why? I was talking with a customer about baseball 2 years ago, and found out that other people have complex systems for their sports allegiances, just like I do. So here’s mine – it’s an order-based heirarchy through which you’ll know which team I’ll root for (or which game I’ll watch, even):

  1. Original 6 teams first. Except fuck Detroit
  2. Older teams before newer teams. Except Detroit.
  3. Northern teams before Southern teams. Except Detroit.
  4. I’ll never root for a team from California.

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Language Limerick

Posted by docsmooth on 2013/02/15

It may be moot to argue about,
Changes in English that spread like a root,
But loud i do shout,
I yell and I pout,
The point I do say isn’t “mute”!

(Read it in your best Canadian.)

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For @inthefade

Posted by docsmooth on 2012/12/05

because uploads need a post.

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