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eructation
1. belching or something produced by belching,
2. any violent expulsion
(Word Lover's Dictionary)
diaphanous
transparent, describing a see-through blouse, etc. (from Gr. dia, through + phanein, to show). Also: cellophane; phantasmagoria; epiphany.
(I Always Look Up the Word Egregious)
obstreperous
1: marked by unruly or aggressive noisiness
2: stubbornly resistant to control
(Merriam-Webster Dictionary)
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 Designing with Web Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman
There was a time not that long ago when many drivers thought nothing of tossing empty bottles out the windows of their cars.
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
ON a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York.
The Straw Men by Michael Marshall
Palmerston is not a big town, nor one that can convincingly be said to be at the top of its game.
Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
Later than usual one summer morning in 1984, Zoyd Wheeler drifted awake in sunlight through a creeping fig that hung in the window, with a squadron of blue jays stomping around on the roof.
Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
In 1517, Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, feeling great pity for the Indians who grew worn and lean in the drudging infernos of the Antillean gold mines, proposed to Emperor Charles V that Negroes be brought to the isles of the Caribbean, so that they might grow worn and lean in the drudging infernos of the Antillean gold mines.
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posted Tuesday, May 27, 2003
Graphic Daydreams
I'm somewhat ashamed to admit that the majority of my class lecture hours are spent spilling designs and ideas onto the pads of blue graph paper that, while supplied in bulk on a monthly basis, seem to somehow accumulate ten-pad-fold in my desk every week. If it wasn't obvious by the squareness of this site, my musical preferences or my profession, I'm perpetually drawn to symmetry and balance in layouts, beats and life. Automata fascinate me. Drawing across the grain, sheet after sheet, sky blue lines turn black or navy depending on the pen that day, following lines, filling blocks, snapping life to the grid. A few pages of notes:
- A partial crossword puzzle and an idea for diagramming lines of thought. (JPG, 46Kb)
- Notes on economics and a maze. (JPG, 44Kb)
- Escher-like squares in patterns and a corresponding system for binary representation. (JPG, 41Kb)
 The latter is an idea I've been toying with during a lull at work. The result is this pattern generator that will create a PNG image of a pattern based on a two-character hexadecimal string that is ideal for tiled desktop wallpaper. A rather elementary application of my math and computer science skills, but something that should be fairly easy to understand and fun to play with if you're as drawn to patterned symmetry as I am.
To anyone compelled to (successfully) work the maze (second page of notes), I'll award an undetermined amount of Blogshare dollars in the form of gifted stock.
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