So Meta

I was reading Smithsonian’s 40th anniversary issue when I ran across this article on the future of reading.

Since I was on my iPad, I had to take this screenshot.

Get Zinio for the iPad, zoom in on what interests you, take a screenshot of it , and add it to Evernote.

“In my day, we clipping interesting articles with scissors and put it in a folder—a real physical thing made out of cardboard paper—and into something called a filing cabinet. That ‘desktop’ thing was just a metaphor for real physical stuff we used.”

“That’s crazy talk, grandpa!”

Posted on July 20, 2010 by tychay 6

WordPress Rocks (…err Swings)

WordPress 3.0 (Thelonious) update just went out:

The WordPress.org people have done a great job. There is even a new default blog theme (which if you haven’t gathered I’ve been using for the last half year).

I even broke out a bottle of this to celebrate. Which reminds me, I recommend you update the way you drink the beer: straight, no chaser.

Carpe diem vita brevis.

Posted on June 17, 2010 by tychay 0

What I did?

“Terry Chay what did you do!!!!”
—friend on Facebook

Before I clicked on the link, I thought I was being teased for taking down WordPress.com yesterday. (While I didn’t cause the one Jason Kincaid blogged about, I have taken down 11 million blogs before and I felt awful.)

But no, my friend has forgotten that I no longer work at Tagged.

And now that I no longer work there, let me explain what is going on. Simply put, The New York Attorney General intends to sue Tagged for harboring child pornographers and sexual predators.

Continue reading about social networks, lawsuits, and politics after the jump.

Posted on June 11, 2010 by tychay 0

Cradle bed

Yesterday was the 15th birthday of PHP, which was nice.

But today is my birthday, which is better!

A long, long time ago in a crib far, far away… (a story from Auntie Gia):

Have a very wonderful day today. This is an indeed a special day. I remember when your mother and father brought you home from the hospital after your birth. I was in Pittsburgh helping take care of Ken. Your parents brought out Ken’s old cradle bed. It was small. Before they could put you in it, Two year old Ken stuffed himself in the cradle, lied down, sucked his thumb and would not move. Your mom enjoyed that moment.

Back from the hospital, with my brother
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

I guess they moved us to the bed (I am two weeks old in the photo).

Have a happy My Birthday, everyone!

Posted on June 9, 2010 by tychay 9

Retinal burn

I suppose musings like this are very common among Apple haters. Basically the complaint boils down to:

“325dpi? Bah! Even a 1986-era laser printer does 300dpi and my newspaper does at least 600dpi. Until you get there, the print is smudgy and causes eye-strain.”

The facts in the Apple’s advertising blurb are 100% correct. If you have a beef, don’t take the advertising head-on. The whole thing is essentially a misdirection in all but a few cases.

What a crock of shit.

Continue reading about eye acuity and displays after the jump.

Posted on June 8, 2010 by tychay 11

Indistinguishable from magic

Overheard: “Only Apple can get away with calling something ‘magical’ and not have people call bullshit.”

(Image from Apple’s iPad product site.

Continue reading about Apple magic after the jump.

Posted on June 2, 2010 by tychay 6

Family Photos

Take photos of your family.

My mom, aunt, and uncle in Kyoto Japan 1941. My other aunt (who hadn’t been born yet) sent me this photo today.

Distance is no object—that’s why we have Skype and screenshotting (Cmd-Shift-3 on the Macintosh).

My brother, father, and sister-in-law in Providence 2010.

I’m going to try to use ScanCafe to digitize my parents old photos quickly. I am receiving it as “a thank you gift” during KQED Public Radio’s last pledge drive. The idea is they send you a box, you fill it with photos and slides, and then they give you DVDs with them digitized.

We’ll see how that goes.

Update: Here they are (and some of the ones here).

Posted on June 2, 2010 by tychay 5

Camera bags for women

If there is one thing photographers have in common with women it’s an obsession with bags.

I have a lot of camera bags. I think about bags a lot. I find it’s difficult to find the right camera bag and when I add a laptop to the mix it becomes nearly impossible. But as difficult as it must be, imagine what it’s like to find a photographic bag for women?!

Continue reading about camera bags after the jump.

Posted on May 28, 2010 by tychay 11