steve cooley presents

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I have a small show called “through the prism of San Jose” in the windows of Works/San Jose while it is preparing for an upcoming members show. Check it out!

Check out higher res photos and more of my artwork on flickr.

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This place hasn’t quite become the “Cupertino Square” they’ve rebranded it as, but its not hard to see that they’re working on it. Over half of this huge mall has atrophied to emptiness. It makes me wonder how its gotten along all this time. Befor the megaplex movie theatre went in, it was easy to call this place The Mall That Time Forgot because of its _heavy_ 1980’s design aesthetic. I don’t know how they are going to handle all the brass bar railing and colorful tile all over the place. Hopefully with a total do-over. I’m hanging out with Max at lunchtime. someday this mall may be cool.

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Yummy…?

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As of version 0011 of the IDE, you can now allegedly program arduino boards like the modern device bare bones board via the ICSP pins. This is way cool. Now you can supposedly forego the FTDI cable and just get a programmer box like LadyAda’s USBTinyISP, AND get the benefit of being able to program other AVR chips and circuits if you get beyond the Arduino. I haven’t tried this out yet, but it’s exciting news! Here’s the link to the instructions for setup. And here is the forum topic where I got the confirmation. Technorati Tags: arduino, ladyada, moderndevice, USBTinyISP

map() - similar to the processing.org function

analogReference()

interrupts() and noInterrupts()

degrees() and radians() (do not exist yet)

Support for uploading sketch using a programmer

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• They’re constantly trying to tell you how great their service is. That’s an instant warning sign that it’s not.
• >3x industry rate for domain registrations
• They charge you for basic services that the industry otherwise gives away for free.
• You must talk to a human to get an “auth code” to move your domain.
• 12+ minutes on-hold time to talk to a human.
• I just got faked out where the phone rang and then went back to on-hold music. bastards!
• Annoying as hell automated sales pitches while on hold. “need a website? talk to our rep about blah blah blah”
• Smooth Jazz version of “that’s the way love goes” is the only song they play on hold. Over and over. 12+ minutes. That’s reason enough, in my opinion. Never attack your customers with an ear worm.
• “Don’t leave!” sales tactics after being on hold. Recently I went through this process and got suckered into taking a cheaper rate and staying at register.com. Now that I have to renew other domains I’m seeing the errors of my ways.

Bye bye register.com!

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Ok that’s just weird for California.

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> Twitter, what can I say? You’re a curiosity. I thought you were more
> than you are. Maybe I can still use you. Lots of other sites are all
> up in you now, so maybe I centralize my content authoring here and
> just send notifications to you and then you can go republish all my
> headlines out there in the world of social networks. Or at least the
> ones that won’t let me publish my feedburner feed directly. Maybe
> you’re just a destination for notifications of new posts. Twitter, I
> want you to be more, but maybe you’re just not that interesting. I
> don’t know what I was thinking. Fractioning my content across
> multiple social networks doesn’t do me any favors so… Time to take
> a step back.

After I self referentially declared that complaining about Twitter is the new “under construction” animated GIF file, I’m making a firm commitment to putting that twitter energy right back where it belongs: on my own site and without the 128 character limit. I discovered a great wordpress plugin that augments the post-by-email functionality to accept a photo attachment, thereby opening up a pretty good iPhone workflow. I tried the iphone “post photo to web gallery” feature and wasn’t 100% impressed, and I even tried the flickr photo by email and still feel like its not what I want either.

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odometer on the Element having an acid flashback

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Jono holding Max on my first fathers day. Jono’s shirt says “club sandwiches, not seals”. Max’s overalls say “always smile… At a crocodile”.

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Check out my new Creative Commons licensed font titled “pew! pew! pew!” at fontstruct.

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I’m watching NASA TV tonight since STS124 launched yesterday. the Space Shuttle Discovery and International Space Station crews are doing stuff that would be completely mundane back on earth… then it hit me:

Jobs are only interesting to watch relative to the number of people who get do them.