Yet another ‘Show-Your-Desktop’ Meme

May 2nd, 2008
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That’s ok. I like these. Here’s my desktop. WARNING: It’s large. I run my desktop at 1600×1200.

Alternate Photoshop logos and other nonsense

October 9th, 2007
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Apparently the Photoshop family of products now has a new logo, separate from the Adobe brand. As you can see, the new logo doesn’t exactly fit in with Adobe’s current scheme of icons or identities. No one is sure why they went with a speech bubble with a hole in it (other than it’s supposed to mimic a P, but you don’t really get that at first glance). It’s sort of nonsensical. Well, leave it to me to come up with some new suggestions for Adobe.

Those of us familiar with Photoshop know that there are a myriad of menus. And we also know that with each new version of Photoshop (and all the other sub-versions of Photoshop) it’s inevitable that either something gets added to the menus or the menus get changed. Why not use this as a positive selling point? See what’s on the menu!

As much as I love Photoshop (I’ve been using it since version 2.5), it always seems like a cat and mouse game between Adobe and its users. Times that I have worked in a corporate environments with IT departments, it seems we never really upgrade to the latest version until maybe a month or two before a new version comes out. I’m sure this is pretty standard with a lot of applications, as IT departments want to be sure there are no surprises, are notoriously understaffed, and in general don’t like to upgrade software. So why not turn it into a game? There are countless users still on the CS2 version, so why not rub it in? Tag. You’re it!

Now that we’ve covered sensible (if not unplausible) replacements for the new Photoshop logo, why not explore nonsense? We love nonsense. Yes. Yes we do. We also like pie. Yes. Yes we do. More pie, please!

Photoshop adds flair and accents to photos and other projects. ¡Olé!

UPDATE:
It was brought to my attention that the new Photoshop logo and tagline are suspiciously like the Bravo cable network’s own logo and tagline. See for yourself. Perhaps Adobe should have had the legal department give it a second look before approving it.

Gems from Overheard Chicago

July 15th, 2007
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At some point while living in any city you overhear some great snippets of conversation. Here in Chicago, there is a website where you can submit the great ones you overhear. Here are just a few gems from their site:

Guy: (on phone) “You know, Chicago is WAY under-prepared for a zombie attack.”
— #36 Broadway Bus

Girl #1: “Menomonee? How do you pronouce that? Me no money street?”
Girl #2: “Oh my god, it is me no money street! That is so funny quick take a picture.”
Random Guy: “It is Me-nom-o-nee Street, not me no money!”
— Menomonee Street, Lincoln Park

Girl: (on cell) “And who does he think he is? We go on one date and he thinks I’m just going to throw it all out there, like I owe him something? Exactly. No one gets in my pants until AT LEAST date number two. And don’t even think it’s going to be fun.”
— Purple line platform, Howard

Girl: “You want dessert?”
Guy #1: “I do.”
Guy #2: “I don’t.”
Girl: “Why not? They have some good stuff.”
Guy #2: “Why not? Because I don’t want to gain the weight, that’s why.”
Guy #1: “Whatever. We’ll share some cake or something.”
Guy #2: “No. You two don’t understand. You can eat cake, cookies, ice cream, and pie and lose 3 pounds today. I’ll look at a glass of water and need to go up a pant size.”
— Bennigan’s on Michigan Ave.

Chicago Police Officer: (on Loudspeaker) “We would like to remind everyone that bottles and alchoholic beverages are not allowed in the park for tonight’s 4th of July festivities. (pause) Actually they are never allowed for that matter.”
— Lincoln Park

I want to work here

June 16th, 2007
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Bleep

March 17th, 2007
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I discovered bleep, and I love it. The above song (requires Flash to play, plays for 30 seconds, hit play again to continue previewing entire song) is a cover of New Order’s Blue Monday. It’s quite a different take on the song. It’s an acoustic melody with spoken word of the lyrics of the song. As far as covers go, this is pretty awesome. Check out the song and bleep, too.

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