Mini-vacation photos
Saturday, 17 Nov 2007
My friend Lydia visited while I had a few days of vacation.
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Archive for November, 2007
Notes on Web Analytics Data
Thursday, 15 Nov 2007
1. Why did my website get posted in a Japanese chat website devoted to anime and hentai? I had 7 hits in one hour from Japan. WTF? I know two people in Japan. Are they secretly addicted to animated porn and spreading their love of my website to fellow hentai-fans?
I got a nice surprise when clicking the referring link to find a chat room, Japanese characters with sporadic English, and an animated cheerleader sticking anal beads in and out of her engorged and also animated anus. To top it off, the anal beads were also color-changing, in varying combinations of bright, flashing, seizure-inducing colors. I wish I was making this up.
On a side note, that was some rather impressive Flash animation work for an ad banner directing you to purchase animated porn.
2. Who is visiting my website from Iceland? I don’t know anyone in Iceland. Two questions: Are you hot? Do you look like Bjork?
3. I feel somewhat creepy knowing what each visitor has clicked on, how long they spent on each page, etc. I think the FaceBook principle applies here: it’s not creepy to find out information if it’s readily available.
No, wait, I was still thoroughly creeped out when I showed up at a party and some girl who I hadn’t met before told me that we had mutual FaceBook friends.
Everything to do with distance.
Thursday, 15 Nov 2007
The point of this is to manipulate your visual perspective. You can read the big text from far away (completely zoomed out), cannot read it at 33% of the size, and then can read the small text only when completely zoomed in.
More Akzidenz-Grotesk
Thursday, 1 Nov 2007
This sign was “creatively acquired” from a friend’s apartment building and has made the journey out West with me. Akzidenz-Grotesk (read: German for grotesque accident) was ironically–and unintentionally so–used for years on virtually all transportation signs in the Western world (the French had to be different and developed their own typeface for road signs, but I’ll rant about that a later date). I think the fire extinguisher sign is a little more fitting use for the typeface.
Akzidenz-Grotesk on my Thermometer
Thursday, 1 Nov 2007
Doesn’t the title sound like the lyrics to a Kraftwerk song?
To explain: I discovered that my apartment building, built in the 70s, has the Akzidenz-Grotesk typeface featured on thermometers and switch-boxes.
Remix of Tiga's "Shoes"
Remix of Daft Punk's "Around The World"
"Final Level" - Original composition