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Sapling wilted
I’m focusing on getting into a good graduate school for a master’s in Interaction Design or Human-Computer Interaction…so I’m killing Design Sapling. Besides a few months of constant activity, I never updated it much. I hate the look of it. I’ve really focused in on where I want to take my career, so instead of just updating the look of the site, I’m going to create a new one: a portfolio site under a new domain name.

“Design Sapling” is all wrong
The word “Design” is a bit too broad and some people only think of graphic design.
“Sapling” seems a bit self-deprecating now. I know what I’m doing in interaction design. Sapling screams neophyte.

Dusty articles
Several articles I started but never finished will probably be released in their unfinished state. Why the hell not?

The glorious future
Design sapling will remain up as I frequently use the server for testing other projects and I host a private website for project management with it.

My new website will showcase examples of interaction design. Maybe case studies and examples of deliverables. There will probably be some visual examples, though that’s not really the point of interaction design. I may include a blog, similar to this one, just to show I’m interested in the field, but nothing too personal. Facebook can handle that (although I hardly ever use Facebook).

Be sure to check out Secondhand Storytime. I’ll be contributing more stories in the near future. If you’ve got a few minutes and a good story, you should contribute too.

To help me learn vocab for the GRE, I’m writing paragraphs using new words from Kaplan’s GRE word list. The new words are linked to their definition at Dictionary.com

The inventor of the world’s best anodyne was cheered by aching people everywhere. To requite the inventor’s generosity in offering the soothing agent to the world, an encomium by the President of the United States honored the inventor. The President’s choice of holding the celebration in a desert was odd. The heat rarefied the moisture, leaving the coastal dwelling inventor feeling dry. He soon returned to his Florida hometown. There, he was greeted with a downright gaudy party. Even though it was meretricious, it was what the inventor was used to. It was, after all, Florida.

To help me learn vocab for the GRE, I’m writing paragraphs using new words from Kaplan’s GRE word list. The new words are linked to their definition at Dictionary.com

Today paragraph:
Because the water was so limpid, Nemo could see for miles as he peregrinated across the ocean. Nemo was unaware that a king crab he came upon had arrogated the title of “ocean master”. Nemo found his officious demeanor silly and soon convinced the crab to abdicate the “throne”. When the crab realized how silly his claim to royalty was, he blushed and became uncharacteristically diffident.

To help me learn vocab for the GRE, I’m writing a paragraph using new words from Kaplan’s GRE word list. The new words are linked to their definition at Dictionary.com

Today paragraph:
The tawdry prestidigitator’s legerdemain was easily revealed through his use of a diaphanous clothe to hide his disappearing lapidary machine in his stone themed show. The magic epicures scoffed throughout the event.

Recently went to the Indianapolis Museum of Art where Modern European Design is featured in a special exhibit (no photography allowed). Works from people like Phillipe Starck, Marcel Wonders, Ron Arad, and Marc Newsman.

This lead me to research some of the art I saw.

Which lead me to this cool bag found on designboom:

…because everytime I turn on the TV, I see an ad for a new “disposable” razor or a flushable mop head.

They say “disposable” as if it’s a feature….but it’s just irresponsible design.

Throwing something away doesn’t make it go away.

With Mac OS X 10.5, the new look of the dock makes it hard to see what programs are open, however you can get a nice high contrast dock if you place it to the sides of the screen instead of at the bottom. But, if you’re like me, you prefer the dock at the bottom of the screen.

To get the look of the side dock at the bottom, open up terminal and type the following:

defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES

then type

killall Dock

If you want the low contrast dock back, repeat the above, replacing YES with NO.