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originally uploaded by Brian Sawyer.
Just started using Flickr to post photos and host the images for this site. I’m looking to completely get rid of Earthlink (where my current photos are stored and the host for all non-Blogger pages in this site) soon, so some images and many pages may disappear without further warning.
Looks like O’Reilly’s Hacks series is bringing people together in more personal ways that I’d ever expected. I recently worked on PayPal Hacks, but I passed the book off before Dave Neilsen worked this bit into the acknowledgments:
I’d like to thank … Erika, my inspiration, who makes me smile every day. Erika, I feel so lucky to have found you. With you, every day is beautiful and new. Nothing would make me happier than to spend the rest of my life with you…Erika Anderson, will you marry me?
The Olive Press turns one year old today … just learning to walk!
Here’s an interesting article I hope to eventually find time to read (via Tim):
Evidence from the last 20 years of work in cognitive psychology indicates that we use the letters within a word to recognize a word. Many typographers and other text enthusiasts I’ve met insist that words are recognized by the outline made around the word shape. Some have used the term bouma as a synonym for word shape, though I was unfamiliar with the term. The term bouma appears in Paul Saenger’s 1997 book Space Between Words: The Origins of Silent Reading. There I learned to my chagrin that we recognize words from their word shape and that “Modern psychologists call this image the ‘Bouma shape.’” … The goal of this paper is to review the history of why psychologists moved from a word shape model of word recognition to a letter recognition model, and to help others to come to the same conclusion.
Ed’s rave mentions of Cloud Atlas put it on my “Eventually” list early on, but its recent position on the Man Booker longlist just pushed it up the queue to “Currently.”
I expect to follow the advice suggested in Michael Chabon’s cover blurb (“I’m grateful to have lived, for a while, in all its many worlds, which are all one world, which is, in turn, enchanted by Mitchell’s spell-caster prose, our own”) and take a good, long time with it.
I’ll let you know when I’m back.
UPDATE
I’m just over halfway through, and the book just made the Booker shortlist, an honor I can now concur it richly deserves. If you haven’t read it yet, bump it to the top of your list. Thanks again to Ed for his fine biased reporting of the book and its many accolades.
ClaudBLOG 11:42 am on September 2, 2004 Permalink |
I must commend you on your book choices…You’ve inspired me, who knew?