idiotis.ms

Cleverness makes me giddy. When you can't innovate - imitate! idiotis.ms Cleverness or me-too fanboy wanna be like the cool kids chaff? In any case it is deliberate and useful to at least one person.

Posted by jeremy 16/02/2006 at 17h26


stratum apogee

Say you were to start compiling data meaning to form qualify-able value measurements. During this effort you may surmise certain characteristics of _ambitious laziness_. One time when these dudes in suits and shiny smiles tried to get me to carry rocks for their amway pyramid one of them used this play on words in his argument to convince me to get everyone I know to buy cleaning products and this awful chocolate-oat-wallpaper-paste snack food. There were other products, but that really doesn't pertain to this story. His oratory kicker was the revelation that riches where apples on the trees of our orchard of friends. We could be _rich_ I tell you _*rich*_ if we would sell some soap, get some people to buy some soap and then convince them to sell some soap and before you would know it you'd have a suds army you could admire from atop your big 'ol pile of money. That my friends is the ambitiously lazy story. Now the actual post: When rapidly developing an application you might, say, rapidly mock up an interface in photoshop to gain the confidence in transmutability of your concept to actual reality and approval from the client of your direction before code is written. Usually these mock-ups include screens of forms and other pretty things. Being how I be I've created a psd of generic form elements as they would look in a few major browsers with the default styling. I made a html file with the form mark up, opened it in a few different browsers, captured the screen, and compiled all of them into photoshop file, chopped, diced and pureed. TaDa! Screenshots are awesome! Generic reusable form elements for rapid screen mock-up/pre-prototyping Just the basics. Nothing fancy. These will be useful as a quick and dirty source of stock generic form elements. By no means is it a comprehensive compilation of all the available styles and/or elements and their multitude of configurations. Garrett has some sweet documents for streamlining/standardizing other aspects of a project life cycle.

Posted by jeremy 10/02/2006 at 08h53


preemptive strike

I've launched the queerly hostile http://work.inkdeep.com in an effort to invoke a sense of urgency within myself. I'm not lacking for contract work at the moment, but all of the movers and shakers say you have to sell sell sell! So here's to inverse desperation and levity! May the lucrative offers topple my levee. Hark! I cast my eyes upon yonder legal tender! Let us sail to the land of consuming!

Posted by jeremy 27/01/2006 at 00h40


someone to be shot

Don’t break the law in Dallas or any other city in the metroplex. After 3 officer shootings in 2 weeks cops are going to have itchy trigger fingers and any sudden hand movements may get you plugged full of lead. I’m waiting for the story to break of a 14 year old kid getting shot 40+ times because he reached for his wallet. Happy Holidays from the Murderplex!

Posted by jeremy 05/12/2005 at 11h34