What I Learned During the Week of January 22-28

(this post was written by Kyle on January 27, 2006, and it concerns & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & )

Last Friday, I introduced a new feature here on Fluid Imagination called Gobbledygook. The Gobbledygook posts are a catch-all for the things I’ve learned over the past week. So, why don’t we get started?
Here’s what I learned this week…

…from moving pictures:

That the tragedy of Malcolm X is not that he was killed, but that he [...]

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What the other applications on my computer think of Microsoft Office when asked by the author during a dinner party at his mother’s house.

(this post was written by Kyle on January 26, 2006, and it concerns & & & & & & & & & & & )

“You’re kidding me, right?” whispered Adium, my instant messenger application, over the ice bucket that my mom put on top of the washing machine in the back hall, where we both stood, me making a vodka and tonic, and him just having a root beer, “Those guys are huge! I’m not going to say anything [...]

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A new beginning

(this post was written by Kyle on January 10, 2006, and it concerns & & & & & & & & & )

There’s going to be an awful lot of talk going around this week about Apple Computers. On Tuesday, the company’s annual Macworld starts off with a Steve Jobs keynote, in which one of the last superstar CEOs is expected to announce the first Apple computer ever to use the Intel processor. No one knows exactly [...]

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Music That Intrigued Me in 2005

(this post was written by Kyle on January 4, 2006, and it concerns & & & & & & & & )

I absolutely love music, but at the same time, I’m pretty lazy and forgetful. Which is why, ever since its debut, I’ve been a massive fan of the iTunes Music Store. Whenever I’m in the mood to hear a song I don’t have, I click on over to the iTMS, drop 99 cents, and start [...]

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My Comic Life

(this post was written by Kyle on December 2, 2005, and it concerns & & & )

I created my first comic today, using Comic Life, an easy-to-use application that, as far as I can tell, only works on the Macintosh. It integrates perfectly with iPhoto, which means the comic book creation process is no more difficult than dragging and dropping.
The application comes with dozens of page templates, giving you frame borders [...]

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A False and Meaningful Explanation of a Real and Historical Fact

(this post was written by Kyle on December 15, 2004, and it concerns & & & & & & & & & & & )

In 1984, a small group of people in Cupertino, California introduced the world to the computer for the rest of us. They told us that it was “a computer so personable it can practically shake hands.” They told us its name was Macintosh, and that it was just as powerful as all those other [...]

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