Keith Irwin Plenty of tropes, not much Zen.Tumblr (3.0; @zentrope)http://blog.zentrope.com/<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyixgaxVUL1qa5045o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://urhajos.tumblr.com/post/16650998241/moby-dick-by-rachael-shankman" class="tumblr_blog">urhajos</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>‘<strong>Moby Dick</strong>’ by <a href="http://rachaelshankman.com/home.html"><em><span>Rachael Shankman</span></em></a></p></blockquote> <p>I love the proportion.</p>http://blog.zentrope.com/post/16652733494http://blog.zentrope.com/post/16652733494Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:41:30 -0800art<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxrbvgZmA41qa5045o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://urhajos.tumblr.com/post/15792968272/aaron-jasinski" class="tumblr_blog">urhajos</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><a href="http://jasinski.deviantart.com/"><em><span>Aaron Jasinski</span></em></a></p></blockquote> <p>Look at that right hand.</p>http://blog.zentrope.com/post/15795319806http://blog.zentrope.com/post/15795319806Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:12:00 -0800art<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxg28xigi41qzhh05o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>McMenamins never changes.</p>http://blog.zentrope.com/post/15465224865http://blog.zentrope.com/post/15465224865Sat, 07 Jan 2012 12:00:00 -0800photo<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxd5r3u8xg1qzhh05o1_r1_400.png"/><br/><br/>http://blog.zentrope.com/post/15388471546http://blog.zentrope.com/post/15388471546Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:23:00 -0800photo“One of the challenges here is that the target audience has a severe case of Stockholm Syndrome - they’re so used to the pathological ecosystem they’ve learned to live with that they can’t imagine why anything else would be needed.”<br/><br/> - <em><p><a href="http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/deca">By Anton van Straaten at Mon, 2012-01-02 09:14</a></p> <p>Pretty much my experience in the technology field in a nutshell.</p></em>http://blog.zentrope.com/post/15252034594http://blog.zentrope.com/post/15252034594Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:03:00 -0800software<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwqhfqDXRv1qzhh05o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Working at home on the Friday before Christmas.</p>http://blog.zentrope.com/post/14745741987http://blog.zentrope.com/post/14745741987Sat, 24 Dec 2011 16:31:02 -0800photo<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvvxjjy1kG1qa5045o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://urhajos.tumblr.com/post/13923779194/shangri-la-by-hengki-koentjoro" class="tumblr_blog">urhajos</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>Shangri La (by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/21290636@N06/6475414649/">Hengki Koentjoro</a>)</p></blockquote> <p>Layers.</p>http://blog.zentrope.com/post/13925086651http://blog.zentrope.com/post/13925086651Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:55:32 -0800art<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv8nlaDNA31qzhh05o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>The pink house next door to the purple house.</p>http://blog.zentrope.com/post/13317838135http://blog.zentrope.com/post/13317838135Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:54:00 -0800photo<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv8niimeWr1qzhh05o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>The purple house on Williams near the Waypost Cafe.</p>http://blog.zentrope.com/post/13317759839http://blog.zentrope.com/post/13317759839Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:54:00 -0800photo<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv8jnxfwnj1qzhh05o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Spent most of the day catching up on personal email. So enjoyable! I should start scheduling this sort of thing. It’s more important than work, isn’t it?</p>http://blog.zentrope.com/post/13313936429http://blog.zentrope.com/post/13313936429Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:28:00 -0800ephemera<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv1nd26pFG1qjukd8o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://just-breezy.tumblr.com/post/13144588388/one-house-one-island-and-some-sheep-by" class="tumblr_blog">just-breezy</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>‘ONE HOUSE ONE ISLAND AND SOME SHEEP’ (by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mundilfari_gjk/6378809473/">Mundilfari*</a>)</p> <p>Who lives there?!</p></blockquote> <p>This can’t possibly be real….</p>http://blog.zentrope.com/post/13150990457http://blog.zentrope.com/post/13150990457Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:38:31 -0800iceland<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv1om9rpZk1qm66epo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://howevermadly.tumblr.com/post/13145668932/sigur-ros-love" class="tumblr_blog">howevermadly</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>Sigur Ros love…</p></blockquote> <p>I just read on Wikipedia that there’s a new album in Spring 2012. Just in time to block out the electioneering!</p>http://blog.zentrope.com/post/13150950919http://blog.zentrope.com/post/13150950919Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:36:30 -0800sigur ros<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luz07hrZmA1qzhh05o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Dinner at the bar.</p>http://blog.zentrope.com/post/13068018006http://blog.zentrope.com/post/13068018006Sun, 20 Nov 2011 10:21:58 -0800<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luwafmZnft1qzhh05o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Next door, in the nicer part of town.</p>http://blog.zentrope.com/post/13002421560http://blog.zentrope.com/post/13002421560Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:38:00 -0800photo<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lus3z1RbYK1qzhh05o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Crow contemplates a Beaverton strip mall.</p>http://blog.zentrope.com/post/12902626242http://blog.zentrope.com/post/12902626242Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:28:00 -0800photo<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luhh68GTRh1qzhh05o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Irvington neighborhood.</p>http://blog.zentrope.com/post/12633178144http://blog.zentrope.com/post/12633178144Thu, 10 Nov 2011 22:39:00 -0800photo<p>I really don’t like the new google themes on their various apps because they take up too much room. With Reader and Groups, the content I actually want to see consists of about 25% of the screen in the lower, right-hand part of my browser.</p> <p>Reader is a giant list of articles. Let me see the giant list. I don’t need to see controls and search widgets surrounded my massive amounts of white space and all that stuff. Maybe sometimes, but almost never. At least with reader, you can get rid of the side bar.</p> <p>Groups is even worse. Can’t get rid of the side bar. Can’t change the font size (which matters to me depending on if I’m reading via laptop or big-ass screen, or fresh in the morning, or burnt-out at night, or need to keep the text small so I can follow instructions in some other app, or large so I can browse comfortably from a distance while sipping coffee).</p> <p>Argh!</p> <p>My plans are this:</p> <ul><li>Get rid of gmail (done, replaced with hosted IMAP).</li> <li>Use a desktop/ios feed reader (done, using Reeder).</li> <li>Advocate that my feed reader stops syncing with google (planned, Reeder dev agrees).</li> <li>Get the groups mail I like emailed to me, at least for the low-flow groups (ongoing).</li> </ul><p>I guess I’ll just have to suffer reading Google Groups for high volume lists until someone makes a desktop client for it, or Google tunes its theme.</p> <p>If there’s one thing Microsoft and Google should learn from Apple, it’s that they should minimize the self-promoting chrome around their applications and let people focus on the actual content.</p> <hr><p><em>Update: You can hit the “f” key in both Groups and Reader to remove a lot of the chrome. I can quibble on how discoverable that option is, but at least it’s there!</em></p>http://blog.zentrope.com/post/12174287125http://blog.zentrope.com/post/12174287125Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:05:00 -0700googlecomplaint<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltsbl8Ode41qzhh05o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Dismal Beaverton Burger Joint</p>http://blog.zentrope.com/post/12035909206http://blog.zentrope.com/post/12035909206Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:39:00 -0700photo<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltnuarikpo1qzhh05o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>What remains in this new e-book world. (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a>)</p>http://blog.zentrope.com/post/11942022051http://blog.zentrope.com/post/11942022051Tue, 25 Oct 2011 23:35:14 -0700<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltfkjusQlW1qzhh05o1_400.png"/><br/><br/><p>Exactly.</p>http://blog.zentrope.com/post/11740517694http://blog.zentrope.com/post/11740517694Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:23:54 -0700iesoftwarebrowsersdeath