brainstorms

Monday March 28, 2005

deteriorata from the past

[just found a version of deteriorata from late nineties. that reference to solaris could only be for the memorable 4.0 version. it must have seemed funny at the time...]

Go mousing amid the webpages and news, and remember what comfort there may be in owning a homepage. Avoid aix or any version of windows unless you are in need of sleep. Garbage collect. Speak glowingly of geeks faster than yourself and heed well their advice even though they be zombies. Know what to boot and when. Consider that two wrongs don't make a right but that three in c++ do. Wherever possible put people on hold. Be comforted that in the face of all aridity and disillusionment and despite the changing fortune of time there is always a big fortune in the information superhighway. Remember Solaris. Strive at all times to hack, break, obfuscate and rm. Know yourself: if you need help, call Eliza. Exercise caution in your daily e-mail, especially with those newbies nearest to you. That lemon on netcom.com, for instance. Be assured that walking through the ocean of most programmers' perl code would scarely get your toes numb. Fall not in love therefore; it will stick to your keyboard. Gracefully surrender the things of youth, plan9, clean air, dolphins & berkeley; and let not the sands of time get in your diet coke. Hire people with hiking boots. For a good time, visit www.slashdot.org, click here. Take heart amid the deepening gloom that your screen is finally getting enough color; and reflect that whatever collection of bugs may be your lot, it could only be worse in Microsoft. You are a throwaway code of the Universe; you have no right to be here, and whether you can hear it or not the Universe is recompiling behind your back. Therefore make peace with your God whatever you conceive It to be: Richard Stallman, Miss Piggy or Vint Cerf. With all its hopes, dreams, ipv6 promises and telecommuting, the world continues to deteriorate. Unplug!

notes on logo books

after a reasonably fresh and successful first volume, logolounge 2 is a big yawn [audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure. -- edward r. tufte] and a disappointment. what is with the intel, fedex, dell, microsoft, disney, coca cola, 20th century fox, shell, john deere logos? designing member name dropping? [if i just wanted an arbitrary pile of tired classics, i would get carter's big book of logos.] note to the editor: do away with the now-annoying "logo search" chapter header. it was cute in the first volume, two years ago.

actually, in a limited-budget situation, one could give up on the logolounge volumes altogether, and choose los logos and dos logos instead. sure, not nearly as stylish and colorful, but classic clothbound, edgy and international. more oxygen, less pomp.

[note to self: avoid reviewing books not near the keyboard. going over los/dos logos again, i will restate: they are brilliant. a working graphics/logo designer will get much more out of these two, even though lounge books include some very fine logo designs. save your money.]

exercitato artem parat.