Yet some would thrive on budget cuts and scares; They are solutions to the problems faced. See how it works for constant VMware Which offers lower costs with each replaced Big, bulky box of hardware, fixed in place. The VMware solution breaks them down In manageable pieces. In the space Where single-server platforms once would frown, Now sings a... - http://grazing.emilsit.net/post...
Potter Puppet Pals in “The Mysterious Ticking Noise” (via NeilCicierega) — a whole world you may wish you did not know existed - http://grazing.emilsit.net/post...
A Sketch A Day Sketchbook - Download, print, and fold free miniature sketchbooks from one sheet of 8.5 x 11 inch paper. - http://www.peninkwatercolorske...
Don't obsess about notebooks or pens. Grab something, print this out and sketch for a week.
- Emil Sit
[…] he told a story about one of his “prize” Grant Study men, a doctor and well-loved husband. “On his 70th birthday,” Vaillant said, “when he retired from the faculty of medicine, his wife got hold of his patient list and secretly wrote to many of his longest-running patients, ‘Would you write a letter of appreciation?’ And back came 100... - http://grazing.emilsit.net/post...
While nominally focused on the drawing of buildings with pen, the examples of techniques shown in this essay would probably be quite applicable for any drawing.
- Emil Sit
Sunni Brown's great write up of how to listen and take (visual) notes. "Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are almost indistinguishable." Read it.
- Emil Sit
Jon: “Heather, there isn’t that much to do. It’s going to be fine.”
This reminds me of the book I want to write about remodeling. It would go, “Nothing will be fine. Now go re-read that first sentence. The end.” - http://grazing.emilsit.net/post...
Little animals and buildings and colored people.
- Emil Sit
The American Dream should require hard work, but it should not require 80-hour workweeks and parents who never see their kids from across the dinner table. The American Dream should entail a first-rate education for every child, but not an education that leaves no extra time for the actual enjoyment of childhood. The American Dream should... - http://grazing.emilsit.net/post...
An hour-long video (hosted by Adobe) on how to sketch. Seems similar to some of the shorter videos on davegray.info but probably worth watching.
- Emil Sit
Break the creativity myths that you're invested in. And tips! 3. Create a personal visual library. 4. Create a personal metaphor library. 8. Start a visual thinking school: schedule it, be holistic, set _objectives_. Toolkit: vert/horiz lines, circles, spirals, wavy lines, jagged lines, star, diamond, ...
- Emil Sit
1983 - Bjarne Stroustrup bolts everything he’s ever heard of onto C to create C . The resulting language is so complex that programs must be sent to the future to be compiled by the Skynet artificial intelligence. Build times suffer. Skynet’s motives for performing the service remain unclear but spokespeople from the future say “there is nothing... - http://grazing.emilsit.net/post...
Danny Gregory draws and journals; his website is an entry point into a large community he created (by accident, I assume) around his first journal/book Everyday Matters.
- Emil Sit
'These pages are a record of the in-class discussions for the graduate class "Advanced Functional Programming" given at Harvard University in the Fall of 2006.' - seem largely Haskell focused, but maybe the cool part is the reading list and exercises.
- Emil Sit