Hello? Anyone home?
Sorry for the lack of posts lately. We’ve had a bit of a family crisis. Hopefully everything will resolve itself, and I’ll be back to sharing my thoughts with you soon. Thanks for your patience.
Miscellaneous
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Feb 10
Sorry for the lack of posts lately. We’ve had a bit of a family crisis. Hopefully everything will resolve itself, and I’ll be back to sharing my thoughts with you soon. Thanks for your patience.
Feb 10
Did This Blog Die?
Sorry for the lack of posts lately. We’ve had a bit of a family crisis. Hopefully everything will resolve itself, and I’ll be back to sharing my thoughts with you soon. Thanks for your patience.
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Jan 10
Jan 10
All-In-One-Computing
The 1981 Osborne. Check out that screen real estate. Yes, I used one.
The 2010 iMac. And, yes, I use one of these, too.
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Dec 09
Dec 09
Monza
Monza
Today’s 15-minute sketch was inspired by the early 70s Chevy Monza parked on Rugby Avenue near Cortelyou Road.
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Dec 09
Dec 09
What You’re Thinking
Image 1
Today’s 15-minute sketch took 7 minutes. On certain monitors, scrolling produces a static effect on the screen, which is an artifact of the GIF.
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Dec 09
Dec 09
Helpful Bots
Ford Sync robot vs. Apple Automator robot.
Is it just me, or does the Ford Sync robot look like a cousin of the Apple Automator robot? Or maybe robots are just in the zeitgeist…
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Dec 09
Dec 09
To Droid or Not?
Choice is good.
The iPhone is awesome, but apparently the Droid can make reliable phone calls. How long will this go on before people who need a phone finally give up on the iPhone and make the switch? Not long, judging by my friends, a few of whom have already jumped ship.
AT&T, time to wake up and get your network working. And asking us to report on outages just ain’t the solution.
Apple, you better consider a similar switch: it may be time to abandon AT&T for Verizon. What’s that? You have a contract you can’t get out of? That’s a shame.
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Nov 09
Nov 09
My Stats
Who did what now?
For the nerds among us, here are some visitor stats for the past month for my sites (www.mmcwatters.com, and www.mmcwatters.com/blog/)
Browsers
- Firefox: 44.18%
- Safari: 29.22%
- Internet Explorer: 16.86%
- Mozilla compatible: 4.51%
- Chrome: 3.80%
- Opera: 1.19%
- Opera Mini: 0.24%
Operating Systems
- Macintosh: 47.98%
- Windows: 45.61%
- iPhone: 5.23%
- Linux: 0.48%
- iPod: 0.48%
- Not Set: 0.24%
Screen Resolutions
- 1920 x 1200: 19.24%
- 1280 x 800: 19.00%
- 1440 x 900: 14.96%
- 1680 x 1050: 10.45%
- 1024 x 768: 9.98%
- 1280 x 1024: 7.36%
- 320 x 396: 5.70%
- 1600 x 1200: 2.14%
- 1152 x 864: 1.90%
- 1600 x 1000: 1.90%
- 2560 x 1600: 1.43%
- 1280 x 768: 0.95%
- 800 x 600: 0.95%
- 2048 x 1152: 0.71%
- 1152 x 720: 0.48%
- 1920 x 1080: 0.48%
- 2560 x 1440: 0.48%
- Rest: +/- 2.00%
Top Five Posts
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Oct 09
Oct 09
The Animated Space Station
Legos for rocket scientists.
Here is a lovely little animated build of the Space Station, courtesy of USA Today.
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Oct 09
Oct 09
Spamtaneous Prose
Kerouac: inspiring a new generation of writers.
I’m getting deluged by spam these days, and it comes in all varieties.
One style I’m particularly fond of seems to find its inspiration in the work of the beat poets. Below is a a little taste:
“San Francisco has a share of a rep of being a radical new zealand urban area, and as such, things like smoking don’t communicate with over real cordially with a section of the populace. So when a San Francisco free shipping Viagra Coni administrator spotted someone smoking a cigar on patent quiddity, spectacularly, he perceive the roof. On no occasion perception that the ’someone’ was Michael Jordan and the manifest belongings was Harding Garden Golf Direction, the host of the Presidents Cup – heads ought to flow in, babe in arms!”
I particularly like the part about having a “cigar on patent quiddity.” Dig it, my man.
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Sep 09
Sep 09
Birds on the Wires
Birds on the Wires from Jarbas Agnelli on Vimeo.
I remember over 20 years ago one of my art school professors telling me the computer would never be able to make art (I had just received a grant for helping to set up a graphics lab). What he neglected to realize is that art is a product of the mind, not of the tools we use.
I am continually amazed at what people are able to think up, create, and share with the world. Ten or 15 years ago, this level of creative communication was impossible to imagine, let alone to implement, and none of it would be possible without computers (and, of course, the Internet).
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Jul 09
Jul 09
$250 for a Website?
This is NOT my site. 
I’m probably going to regret sending any traffic to this site, but apparently there is another McWatters involved in the business of building websites…and his sites start at $250.
Yip!