Spirits on a Plane
Last year, I was leaving Oklahoma City and heading to Europe on one of the worst travel experiences ever in all my years of flying after such an emotional time. This year the tradition continues; after a long delay in take off thanks to NYC weather, I finally arrived in Oklahoma City 20 min ahead of time but then had to sit on a cramped plane for an hour and a half while they got some security issue resolved on the plane sitting at our gate.
Apparently, A lady told the plane staff just after it was fully boarded that spirits were taking over the plane.
Goodbyes
Time is relative and the last few weeks have been like years.
Three different groups of friends have made their leave of New York this week and time was made to say goodbye to each of them. It's always sad to see a friend leave but happy knowing they are doing what they need to do.
Work and life has been a bit overwhelming lately and I am just feeling a bit run down and disconnected. I'm leaving tomorrow for Oklahoma and so is my sister. July 1st will be One year since dad passed away. All these little anniversaries lately (father's day, day of death, uncle died 9 days later, both their birthdays the next week) are just constant reflections that you choose to ignore or try to absorb but either way, there they are not to be ignored completely. On top of that, Mom has had the last of her Chemotherapy treatments but you can tell it's just taken it's toll on her. Hell, I have a hard time keeping a positive attitude alone without having to keep the attitude up while you get injected with radioactive treatments every month that makes you feel constantly sick and weak. I admire her. Talk to me after a week with a cold sore and see where my tolerance level is.
I have too much affect in dealing with people lately. Tomorrow I get to see my son, and a hug from the kid does wonders for my soul.
Father's Day Prelude
I got a clay mug with no clear finish on it in the mail today with every color of the rainbow painted on it. on the front of it was hand painted "World's Greatest Dad" At the bottom of the box was a card that said on the back "The cup doesn't lie".
Nathan's ticket is booked and my kiddo is coming to NYC next month! I can't wait to show him around the city.
Infamy Still Sells Books
I'm not going to link to her book, I am not even going to tell you the title of her book. I am just going to say that tonight she was on Jay Lenno and proudly cited Dan Quayle for the line "I wear their contempt as a badge of honor". This from the same guy who said "Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement."
She's not an idiot, she's smart in that by making you get mad at her, she remains relevant. Please pretend she's just not there.
Sound Repellant
A Welsh Security company developed a high pitched sound tone that only kids and very few adults can hear. The idea was to repel unwanted kids from loitering but instead kids have started using the sound as a ringtone for their mobile phones to not get in trouble during class. Can you hear it? (I couldn't because I am old.)
I opened the file in a media editor to see if it was a hoax, but there is a visable sound wave in the file.
update: I heard it tonight after working out, weird.
photocasting
If you are on a mac and have the latest version of iPhoto '06, this is a neat feature in sharing photos. I thought I would update a photocast every so often including some of my better works as well as some outakes. However you like to read RSS feeds, you can see it here: http://photocast.mac.com/absolutwade/iPhoto/absolut-weekly-photocast/index.rss
interpretation
So, if you are standing around making casual conversation with some guy you just met and at one point he leans over and says "Are you looking for something?" in a weird and awkward way, what do you suppose it means?
Sex or drugs?
Satan Day, World Ending..
Well, here it is. 06.06.06. There is bound to plenty of weird crap today so if you see it on the news, help me archive how satan has ruled this last day on earth.
Anger, Denial, Acceptance (a more than average geek speak post)
Back in 1995 I was getting interested in this fad called the internet and for something like $30 a month I bought an earthlink dial up account and they gave me a website with a whole 5mb I could upload to. It was the beginnings of absolutwade.com. After playing with Adobe Pagemill for a few hours, I found GoLive Cyberstudio and liked it instantly. It was awesome, you didn't have to learn all that Hypertext doodiggity, instead you could use a layout grid that let you place the objects where ever you wanted on a web page and upload it right up. Sure the code it wrote was mind boggling crap and never looked the same in any two browsers, but it was the arguably the first time a designer had the ability to layout a website much like they would a print layout.
Adobe later purchased the fledgeling little company and gave the software package it's stardom as a respectable product. It also cleaned up it's code writing and I had to quickly learn HTML and other fun languages really quick or the developers where I worked were going to tattoo the tags on my forehead.
GoLive continued to grow up and be a useful tool for developers and designers alike but was still always the red headed bastard step child to the professional web media building masses. I was a long time user so I had some pride that I knew all the little tricks and tools of the software.
MacNN: Adobe to Phase out Freehand and GoLive to keep Illustrator and Dreamweaver.
Okay, fine, I made the change from Freehand to Illustrator years ago and I have to admit. Dreamweaver is a cleaner product and I regularly like to use BBEDIT too. Still, I think it should be noted that GoLive was an important part of the process in the early development of the web. It was a bridging gap for many designers to bring them over to the world of internet design. It was a good idea for it's time and sad to see it go.
Farewell GoLive CyberStudio aka Adobe GoLive.
