January 27, 2006 – 09:41 pm
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 [...]
By Kyle
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Posted in Gobbledygook
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Also tagged derrida, enlightenment, Friends, gamecube, games, george_lakoff, Gobbledygook, god, heidegger, levinas, life, living, Macintosh, media, osx
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January 26, 2006 – 03:49 am
“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 [...]
By Kyle
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Posted in Deep Imagination
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Also tagged creative_writing, fiction, firefox, internet_explorer, iphoto, itunes, microsoft-office, office, quicktime, relationships, safari
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January 10, 2006 – 12:41 am
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 [...]
January 4, 2006 – 05:34 pm
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 [...]
December 2, 2005 – 01:59 pm
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 [...]
December 15, 2004 – 03:52 pm
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 [...]
By Kyle
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Posted in Apple
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Also tagged coding, creative_writing, Economics, equal_rights, evolution, gui, interfaces, linguistics, metaphor, operating_system, postmodernism
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