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IAs and a Plastic Flamingo Me, Liz and Jess Jorge (and Victor's sidekick) Wireframes as Art A very young second life panelist Wireframes as Art Victor & Don IMG_0432.jpg Eero Saarinen TWA building Guggenheim IMG_0438.jpg Manya &  Jorge Yahoo! Party Harley AMD 50x15 Bar 13 May 2007 - 13.jpg Yahoo! Party Harley Sally IMG_0413.jpg IMG_0443.jpg Michelle and the Wall Bar 13 May 2007 - 05.jpg Post dinner chat Vegas - IAs at dinner Victor & Dan Wireframes as Art Wireframes as Art Norwegian Elvis Me and the Wii

From Twitter

  • arriving late to the twitter party Fri Jan 26 03:23:51 +0000 2007
  • making project runway video mashups on bravotv.com (I swear this is work related) Tue Jan 30 20:13:05 +0000 2007
  • contemplating Siderean Software's new patent for faceted metadata navigation Tue Jan 30 22:37:28 +0000 2007
  • watching the snow Wed Jan 31 04:19:26 +0000 2007
  • controversy of the moment: using tape on your paper airplane - cheating? Wed Jan 31 17:18:46 +0000 2007
  • actively avoiding the office football pool Fri Feb 02 19:24:36 +0000 2007
  • At 10:30 am, already wanting to eat the lunch I packed Tue Feb 06 15:30:41 +0000 2007
  • Home from UX dinner. Too cold to go out! Sun Feb 11 04:52:32 +0000 2007
  • making egyptian lentil soup Mon Feb 12 03:00:22 +0000 2007
  • @bobulate If we never get to see you how else will we know? :) Tue Feb 13 15:30:41 +0000 2007
  • Yay! It's a new day! *Adds more special ingredient to coffee* Wed Feb 14 13:53:03 +0000 2007
  • @bobulate ...and a big comfy stuffed chair. I'm so over the aeron. Wed Feb 14 16:33:09 +0000 2007
  • one hour for delivery or trudge through snow for lunch (we went with delivery) Wed Feb 14 18:18:13 +0000 2007
  • started off the day with my sweater on backwards Fri Feb 16 15:48:40 +0000 2007
  • To sum up, starting out day with sweater on backwards, bad. Ending day with sweater on backwards, excellent! Fri Feb 16 23:02:46 +0000 2007
  • @bobulate, ouch! Sounds like that smarts. Mon Feb 19 23:52:31 +0000 2007
  • wanting to pat jetblue on the head and say 'stop beating yourself up, kid' Thu Feb 22 16:19:34 +0000 2007
  • @ bobulate - Have you tried Gotham Book? Wed Feb 28 06:53:21 +0000 2007
  • Saw Ann Curry @ 30 Rock. Rather short skirt for a news anchor. Wed Feb 28 23:25:47 +0000 2007
  • ack. Web 2.0 logo generator is 404 and i have a logo emergency Wed Mar 07 20:16:42 +0000 2007
  • michael - twitter and dodgeball convergence - the end is neigh Thu Mar 08 20:57:45 +0000 2007
  • @victor. Okay, TMI. You win. Fri Mar 09 00:25:38 +0000 2007
  • @ bobulate Yes it gives them the vapors Fri Mar 16 19:17:53 +0000 2007
  • trying to figure out which phase of the south beach diet includes Starbucks rainbow cookies Wed Mar 21 21:54:45 +0000 2007
  • Just now learning that my PB battery is on the recall list. New battery for me woo hoo! Thu Mar 22 15:14:42 +0000 2007
  • Playing will I make it to the airport on time Fri Mar 23 15:02:30 +0000 2007
  • Loving the 'wireframes as art' poster Sun Mar 25 01:55:58 +0000 2007
  • bye bye las vegas Tue Mar 27 17:36:28 +0000 2007
  • Arriving home ... impressed that Livia can twitter from the shower. Tue Mar 27 23:20:00 +0000 2007
  • Wishing that the site map I'm working on was in the form of a hanging mobile instead. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelcharmer/437111491/ Wed Mar 28 16:02:37 +0000 2007
  • @livlab Congratulations! Sun Apr 01 00:15:48 +0000 2007
  • Trying to avoid office cookies that are apparently "the best cookies evar" Tue Apr 03 18:59:13 +0000 2007
  • Crying because the down arrow key on my powerbook isn't functioning. I need my down arrow key. *all work comes to a halt* Wed Apr 04 02:06:49 +0000 2007
  • Ah spring, 100 degrees in my apt. 32 degrees outside Fri Apr 06 16:38:02 +0000 2007
  • Feeling relieved and disappointed as well as slightly guilty Sat Apr 07 01:23:19 +0000 2007
  • Talking with the taxman about poetry. Unsure which box is appropriate for couplets. Pretty sure artistic license is exercised in schedule C. Sun Apr 08 23:00:41 +0000 2007
  • Wishing that my closet were as large as Livia's. Mon Apr 09 03:01:09 +0000 2007
  • listening to adam Mon Apr 09 23:24:03 +0000 2007
  • Using a dial-up connection. Sadly it seems no slower than my regular cable modem. Wed Apr 11 03:22:58 +0000 2007
  • Hating upstairs neighbors. Who has a big party on a Tuesday night? WTF? Wed Apr 11 04:30:54 +0000 2007
  • Watching fancy kitchen tv show. Always seems a bit incongruous considering my kitchen. Sat Apr 14 20:44:23 +0000 2007
  • Waiting on Fresh Direct. Rain, rain, rain. Sun Apr 15 14:01:32 +0000 2007
  • My horoscope: A surge of creativity will hit you today, carry a pen and paper wherever you go. Waiting for it... waiting for it... Mon Apr 16 15:00:24 +0000 2007
  • Feeling horrified Mon Apr 16 20:16:33 +0000 2007
  • Feeling grateful Mon Apr 16 22:42:20 +0000 2007
  • Feeling like lots of peeps are converging on NYC at once. *scoots over to make room* Tue Apr 17 16:48:30 +0000 2007
  • Note to self, get underwater cell phone 2 twitter that i'm underwater Wed Apr 18 01:58:04 +0000 2007
  • Can't get anything done because I can't decide on a GTD application Thu Apr 19 23:55:55 +0000 2007
  • has spent first couple hours in SF dealing w/ broken hotel wireless Mon Apr 23 23:59:00 +0000 2007
  • eating cioppino Tue Apr 24 02:49:34 +0000 2007
  • making things un-bold Tue Apr 24 18:10:06 +0000 2007
  • finding group dynamics fascinating Fri Apr 27 03:54:17 +0000 2007
  • damn, I knew there would be math Fri Apr 27 04:17:36 +0000 2007
  • bye bye SF Sat Apr 28 19:58:34 +0000 2007
  • Led revolt to switch super shuttle driver's music. I was the one with the technical know-how. Sun Apr 29 03:20:55 +0000 2007
  • 26 min call to UK via skype 19 cents. Not bad but prefer free :-) Mon Apr 30 13:50:10 +0000 2007
  • 5 min drum solos can be awesome Tue May 01 01:47:38 +0000 2007
  • Entire office having an "internal meeting" at IMAX showing of spiderman - too funny Fri May 04 13:59:54 +0000 2007
  • Unimpressed with guggenheim's first fridays Sat May 05 02:51:14 +0000 2007
  • Revived by a mocha latte from Grumpy's Tue May 08 21:22:01 +0000 2007
  • Sheesh, what happened to citysearch? Off to nymag.com Wed May 09 03:37:56 +0000 2007
  • Jet blue pilot, 'there are 30 planes ahead of us still on the runway.' Argh. Wed May 09 22:39:33 +0000 2007
  • hmmm someone just used the phrase 'the money shot' in a meeting Thu May 10 17:23:27 +0000 2007
  • Oh JetBlue how you have let me down this week Fri May 11 03:28:14 +0000 2007
  • hating air conditioning (frrreezing) Fri May 11 21:04:23 +0000 2007
  • It's towel day and I've forgotten mine. Typical. Fri May 25 15:00:01 +0000 2007
  • Everything is a riddle with evan Fri Jun 01 02:51:46 +0000 2007
  • Sapore in W. Village is yummy! http://nymag.com/listings/restaurant/sapore/ Fri Jun 01 04:03:46 +0000 2007
  • @vanderwal Have you tried Mellel? http://www.redlers.com/ Sun Jun 03 23:22:50 +0000 2007
  • Just bought pseudoephedrine product and they didn't make me fill out the usual form. I could be starting a meth lab over here. Sat Jun 09 21:23:57 +0000 2007
  • Trying to remember how to drive Wed Jun 13 22:13:53 +0000 2007
  • Yay, mojito and free wifi. Thu Jun 14 03:02:19 +0000 2007
  • slowly being infected with iPhone fever...must....resist Sat Jun 30 14:32:14 +0000 2007
  • eek! There's a mouse in my apt. I miss my kitty Fri Jul 06 00:43:41 +0000 2007
  • Used rsync (with -E for the resource forks) on my iTunes backup. It was so geekily satisfying. Sun Jul 08 16:34:32 +0000 2007
  • Just walked by many lovely renovated brownstones near 120th and lenox. Mixed feelings about it. Sun Jul 08 19:35:57 +0000 2007
  • @askrom When do we strike? Tue Jul 10 04:56:05 +0000 2007
  • Plugging computer into UPS. Hot days - AC keeps blowing the electricity Fri Jul 13 19:01:20 +0000 2007
  • @kevnull of what ... and where? Thu Jul 26 02:32:14 +0000 2007
  • Listing to @askrom talk about style Thu Jul 26 23:10:49 +0000 2007
  • Trapped on SF-NYC flight temp rerouted to atlantic city for fuel. Longest flight ever. Send food...and restraints for drunk guy on my left. Sat Aug 04 05:19:54 +0000 2007
  • Packing. Got boxes? Tue Aug 07 01:01:10 +0000 2007
  • Discovering that powerbook's ac cord is not indestructible. Sad. OTOH, puff of smoke was dramatic and entertaining. Fri Aug 24 16:12:32 +0000 2007
  • Worrying about powerbook. Don't think I should be able to actually hear it charging. Tue Aug 28 20:02:28 +0000 2007
  • Excited to have found where I packed the silverware. Eating cereal with large wooden spoon not easy. Desperate times... Tue Aug 28 21:50:05 +0000 2007
  • Forgot how nuts things are on game day. Football. Texas. Yipes. Sat Sep 01 22:38:33 +0000 2007
  • The more I read, the less I know :-\ Fri Sep 07 03:10:34 +0000 2007
  • @jasonsantamaria I am so with you there (in that circle of hell) Sat Sep 08 23:56:51 +0000 2007
  • Apparently iced tea in Texas is 99% sugar unless otherwise specified? Mon Sep 10 19:41:00 +0000 2007
  • If it weren't for YouTube et al. I would be completely ignorant about the latest French teen dance craze. God bless the internets Fri Sep 14 23:32:47 +0000 2007
  • wishing I had ACL tix Sat Sep 15 18:57:14 +0000 2007
  • Burnt orange is no one's best color Sat Sep 15 23:03:39 +0000 2007
  • hacking my printer http://www.epiicenter.com/tips/toner.html Sun Sep 23 17:54:43 +0000 2007
  • @livlab and @brownorama I'm awake too! Partay! Wed Sep 26 09:27:32 +0000 2007
  • People actually major in philosophy? How do they keep these isms straight? Good thing I'm not....wait a minute...oh no Fri Sep 28 02:27:35 +0000 2007
  • @threefour nice titles on the video 'powerpoint?!?!' Thu Oct 04 04:26:06 +0000 2007
  • shiver http://tinyurl.com/28wvae Fri Oct 05 22:25:07 +0000 2007
  • trying to find proper footwear for motorcycle class Sat Oct 06 02:01:46 +0000 2007
  • Dear scholars, pls stop prefixing everything with 'cyber.' It is so 1996. Luv ya Tue Oct 09 18:12:57 +0000 2007
  • *muses collectively* Tue Oct 09 21:19:31 +0000 2007
  • going to lie down just for a min...zzzz Thu Oct 11 04:51:53 +0000 2007
  • Is anyone left minding the store at dodgeball? Thu Oct 11 13:48:17 +0000 2007
  • showing twitter to a class. keep it clean twitterati Thu Oct 11 16:59:21 +0000 2007
  • Being eaten alive by mosquitoes. (Or I have chicken pox again -- pretty sure it's the mosquitoes.) Sat Oct 13 00:20:53 +0000 2007
  • best overheard convo: dude I know ur a chemist I understand that facet of ur personality I'm just givin u the heads up bout the intervention Sat Oct 13 02:12:06 +0000 2007
  • Signing up for bellydancing lessons ('cause I have so much free time - ha!) Sat Oct 13 22:57:55 +0000 2007
  • Is there a 12 step program for cereal? 'Family size' box of honey bunches gone in less than a week. I admit I have a problem. Sun Oct 14 02:55:45 +0000 2007
  • lusting after vespas Sun Oct 14 22:45:12 +0000 2007
  • @Zeldman Congrats! Tue Oct 16 22:20:36 +0000 2007
  • losing at scrabble, but should be writing paper, responding to email, reading ... something, I'm sure Tue Oct 16 22:30:36 +0000 2007
  • Reading toc for forthcoming issue of the information society (two memorial issues in a row - sad) Wed Oct 17 06:31:35 +0000 2007
  • reading, writing, no arithmetic at the moment Wed Oct 17 09:53:57 +0000 2007
  • Grammar emergency: 'It is an approach *strongly associated* with its originator...' or 'It is an approach *associated strongly*...' ? Wed Oct 17 16:25:38 +0000 2007
  • What? Twitter isn't a grammar checker? What the heck is it then, anyway? Wed Oct 17 16:43:25 +0000 2007
  • @zeldman Gracias! Wed Oct 17 17:33:56 +0000 2007
  • @askrom Ah, got it. That's why it sounds better that way. Wed Oct 17 17:51:54 +0000 2007
  • New concept: social grammar checking Wed Oct 17 17:52:44 +0000 2007
  • @livlab Ha! I had forgotten about that. :) Wed Oct 17 19:51:32 +0000 2007
  • @livlab what @vanderwal said Wed Oct 17 20:23:58 +0000 2007
  • watching gecko crawl on my window Thu Oct 18 19:51:45 +0000 2007
  • At ASIS&T preview brownbag "What Crossword Puzzles Teach us about Information" Fri Oct 19 17:10:13 +0000 2007
  • ah, wireframes Fri Oct 19 21:01:51 +0000 2007
  • @brownorama every time I try to escape -- they pull me back in Fri Oct 19 21:41:40 +0000 2007
  • Is it against the rules for me to add some sugar to this natural peanut butter? It really needs it. Sat Oct 20 00:35:34 +0000 2007
  • reading an online forum for users of a site I helped design -- even when they bitch about it, it's weirdly thrilling Sat Oct 20 03:55:02 +0000 2007
  • which song on In Rainbows is supposed to be 'the good one'? Sat Oct 20 06:15:48 +0000 2007
  • @buzz yeah? Hmmm ...checking it out Sat Oct 20 06:19:45 +0000 2007
  • looking at the pretty PDF and downloading the raw data for ALA's web design survey http://alistapart.com/articles/2007surveyresults Sat Oct 20 16:15:33 +0000 2007
  • wireframing and inspired Sat Oct 20 17:06:15 +0000 2007
  • hating electric stovetops Sat Oct 20 20:17:14 +0000 2007
  • @buzz I was just on dopplr and noticed that you're #1 for "who spends most time visiting" for both austin and NYC Sun Oct 21 02:57:35 +0000 2007
  • Latin motto for the day (because every day needs one) Pisces mortui solum cum flumine natant Sun Oct 21 15:31:57 +0000 2007
  • zoo outside my window is starting to distract me from my work Sun Oct 21 17:02:14 +0000 2007
  • @vanderwal so, who is tagging? I suspect we have met the taggers and they are us Sun Oct 21 18:52:32 +0000 2007
  • @zeldman :-( sympathies. Feel better! Sun Oct 21 22:35:09 +0000 2007
  • waking up to a rather dark and rainy monday Mon Oct 22 12:04:35 +0000 2007
  • Soaked from rain, 3 hours in air-conditioned room and then 20 mins waiting for bus. Cold and cranky. Mon Oct 22 17:49:25 +0000 2007
  • is there a name for fear of a a fly that's buzzing around landing in your coffee & your taking a drink before noticing? If there is I got it Wed Oct 24 17:18:22 +0000 2007
  • @livlab Sympathies! There's no ungrateful like an ungrateful, sick, wet, fresh from the vet, cat. Wed Oct 24 21:56:26 +0000 2007
  • @ Aaron Marcus guest lecture: Cross-Cultural User Experience Design Fri Oct 26 18:04:17 +0000 2007
  • 45 minute mark: Hofstede (cross cultural design lecture bingo) Fri Oct 26 18:51:50 +0000 2007
  • not enjoying "the cult of the amateur" Sat Oct 27 23:40:04 +0000 2007
  • iTunes store needs wishlist feature so I can remember what I want when I have the pennies for it Sun Oct 28 00:09:06 +0000 2007
  • Ever feel like you stop looking at the interwebs for a few hours and they go all wacky on you? Exhibit A http://ma.gnolia.com/jafeviscot Tue Oct 30 04:49:31 +0000 2007
  • Exhibit B http://tinyurl.com/yvo5yb Tue Oct 30 04:49:44 +0000 2007
  • Looking at a non-downloadable presentation on slideshare. Would be nice if reading transcript were better integrated with viewing the slides Tue Oct 30 19:56:40 +0000 2007
  • getting ready to watch the nyc video 2.0 meetup presentations http://tinyurl.com/24pcuw Tue Oct 30 22:47:34 +0000 2007
  • PSA: Joost is up now on the stream from the nyc meetup http://tinyurl.com/24pcuw Tue Oct 30 23:40:36 +0000 2007
  • Thx to twitter, with the BBC headlines and CA peeps to yell quake when there is one, I don't need to watch the news anymore Wed Oct 31 03:33:17 +0000 2007
  • wondering how many times i can play the same song before neighbors beat down my door demanding i move on Fri Nov 02 03:36:53 +0000 2007
  • @zeldman brightside: in the background you hear your wife and daughter laughing and playing :-) Sat Nov 03 00:07:49 +0000 2007
  • #ambientintimacy Why does news about communicating via the interwebs always have to involve suicide? http://ma.gnolia.com/haxethuc Sat Nov 03 18:04:56 +0000 2007
  • Just sold my first item via ebay ... and ... just spent the money on ebay. sigh Sat Nov 03 18:42:23 +0000 2007
  • @edwardvielmetti Nap over Keen was the better choice Sat Nov 03 19:26:23 +0000 2007
  • Just created my first pivot table report. Oh so proud. Sat Nov 03 22:58:12 +0000 2007
  • @ericscheid path=academic librarianship -> front end coder/designer -> information achitect Mon Nov 05 00:55:44 +0000 2007
  • Possibly finally winning at scabulous (if this bit of bragging doesn't jinx me) Tue Nov 06 00:13:09 +0000 2007
  • Feeling good about my scrabulous score until I looked at the global stats. Oxyphenbutazone? Are you kidding me? Tue Nov 06 15:35:14 +0000 2007
  • feeling strangely idealistic Tue Nov 06 17:11:11 +0000 2007
  • In austin the bus driver says 'bless you' when a passenger sneezes. Adorable! Tue Nov 06 21:11:39 +0000 2007
  • @buzz sounds hipper than pork barrels Fri Nov 09 02:22:31 +0000 2007
  • Downloading free Bitter:Sweet tracks from Last.fm http://www.last.fm/music/Bitter%3ASweet/ Sun Nov 11 01:12:03 +0000 2007
  • Searching a database where even *I* am unsure what checking "explode" for keywords is going to get me. Just shouldn't be inflicted on users. Sun Nov 11 21:09:05 +0000 2007
  • Giving up on work. Watching tense squirrel gang rumble going on outside my window instead. Sun Nov 11 21:33:02 +0000 2007
  • Having one of those days where bad UI's and form filling out processes seem to get to me more than they usually do. Breath in...breath out.. Mon Nov 12 00:30:18 +0000 2007
  • Drinking perrier on the bus 'cause that's how I roll. Mon Nov 12 22:40:49 +0000 2007
  • omg, it's lunchtime in sydney and dinnertime in montreal, that means it time ... for me to back off the twitter Wed Nov 14 01:45:31 +0000 2007
  • the kind of day where I need my 4pm coffee break at 1pm Wed Nov 14 19:08:24 +0000 2007
  • realizing tortilla chips for both breakfast and lunch might have been a poor choice Wed Nov 14 19:12:48 +0000 2007
  • Watching Leigh play WoW Thu Nov 15 18:02:15 +0000 2007
  • Realizing that it's almost december and john houseman hasn't given me a dime and told me to call my mother...yet. Thx Snowden Fri Nov 16 21:39:16 +0000 2007
  • having one of those moments where I notice that everyone around me seems to be engaged in something weird so I start to wonder if it's me Mon Nov 19 17:01:59 +0000 2007
  • wondering if I complain about twitter not updating my facebook status if it will start updating my facebook status Mon Nov 19 17:07:27 +0000 2007
  • @ericscheid Last I knew both required a subscription to access e.g. http://www.loc.gov/cds/classweb/ Tue Nov 20 05:44:17 +0000 2007
  • @ericsheid ah, broad subjects are easier. I vote you make them up to see if anyone is paying attention though ;-) Tue Nov 20 05:56:08 +0000 2007
  • For LCC you gotta have some letters to start off with. E.g. ceramics is TT Tue Nov 20 06:11:35 +0000 2007
  • oh sure, now facebook decides to update my status from twitter Tue Nov 20 06:19:52 +0000 2007
  • Whoo hoo! 10K tracks played on last.fm. (Looser definition for what qualifies as a personal achievement these days) Wed Nov 21 20:59:58 +0000 2007
  • operationalizing Tue Dec 04 12:15:21 +0000 2007
  • @zeldman I always assume she stays. Might say more about me than the song though. Mon Dec 17 22:50:18 +0000 2007
  • @buzz Long taxi line at NYC airport = best people watching ever! Thu Dec 27 23:12:46 +0000 2007

Notes from Fieldnotes

Newfangled Book Thing
Small World Twitter Moment
Plan B
UCD & Agile Development
ALA's Web Design Survey
Warrentless Domestic Surveillance
Studies of Design and Use
The Philosophical Equivalent of Jazz
NYC media permalancers
Gansta but no Ghazals
Sliders: Tears or Bullets