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- February 26, 2005
On Forming a User Group
February 26, 2005Read moreA few weeks ago, tired of lacking contact with fellow designers, I formed an “interactive design” group by making a couple of posts to regional mailing list, targeting southern New Hampshire and northern Massachussetts. I’ve never tried to form a group before, so it’s been an interesting experience.
- February 26, 2005
Weekend Update
February 26, 2005Read moreIt’s been a pretty busy week…mostly work, doing ActionScript 2.0 programming. I’ve got a lot to catch up on:
- I still need to write up my visit to Providence last week with me sis, complete with photos.
There’s an update on the 10Games projects… the first game is out at www.ActiveEdge.com on the sidebar. I’m planning on dissecting the architecture of this Flash game in an online article.
The Interactive Media group is having its second meeting up at Manchester. Details to be found on the group wiki.
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p>And there’s all the personal chores, plus errands. And I still have to work for most of the weekend, so I’ll probably not get as much done as I want.
- February 25, 2005
The New New Shanghai Restaurant
February 25, 2005Read moreI’ve heard accounts from three very angry friends that one of our favorite restaurants, New Shanghai in Boston Chinatown, has undergone a change of menu (and apparently ownership). We used to like to go there because it reminded us of the food we’d get in Taiwan; now, it’s generic Cantonese…not a decent Ma Po Tofu to be had!
So it’s time to find a new favorite haunt in Chinatown…King Fung Garden is a good place: cheap, tiny and Zagat rated! I’m fond of East Ocean City too for it comfortable atmosphere and the occasional whole fish. For the Taiwan street restaurant experience, I like the Taiwan Cafe; the fried pork chop lunchbox has a special place in my heart, and the menu items are unsettling in a familiar kind of way. Fine candidates all, but none of these feel as comfy as the Old New Shanghai, though.
My favorite chinese restaurant is actually in Billerica of all places: Sichuan Gourmet. Absolutely fantastic spicy Sze-Chuan food. The place is crowded with Chinese all the time…a good sign!
UPDATE: I stumbled upon this reference to the new owners, who are quite experienced in the biz, so I’ll have to visit and see what they do well. The old New Shanghai was one of only a few places (maybe even the only one) that served up shanghai-style yumminess.
- February 25, 2005
Perception & Your Senses
February 25, 2005Read moreThis is a neat little interactive quiz that tests you on your knowledge of the senses. It also challenges you with little perceptual and cognitive tricks that would have some application in tricky visual design.
If you like that kind of thing, here’s a cognition-related test site, which tests things like reaction time and so forth. It isn’t as slickly produced, though.
- February 24, 2005
Fun with Headers
February 24, 2005Read moreI was getting tired with the pork belly stew image, so I made some new headers that change on page loads randomly. I figured it would help to have the actual name of the blog appear, to replace the increasingly-tired “now with more meat” slogan.
There’s 5 images right now…to see ’em, you’ll have to click reload a bunch of times.
Yeah, I know reloading sucks. I’m thinking that I should look into setting a cookie and allowing the user to click through them. It’ll be a nice way of having a secret gallery on the main page of the site.
UPDATE: Ok, now you can click through them. Yay!
