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The first crop of Jeremy Keith's HTML5 For Web Designers from A Book Apart has arrived! Copies are shipping out on Friday. It looks and feels lovely.
Billedet bag kapitlet "Bodegabarsel - om at finde lykken på Munkekroen": www.flickr.com/photos/angermann/3525660658/in/photostream/
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Dummy bookblock, Case and Slipcover in bindery.
The Arion Press, SF, CA
In this shot you can see some of what I've been doing to add (subtle, I hope) variety to the outer hull.
These two segments of the outer hull--one quarter of the ringworld--are essentially finished.
The other six are mostly finished, and just await the arrival of another 600 cheese slopes and me scraping up some misc parts that I know damn well I have around here somewhere.
Still stuck at home sick, but taking crappy pictures doesn't exactly require a lot of brainpower.
Since I have one quarter of the ring very nearly done (tho I'll probably go back and work on the landmasses a bit), I thought I'd set it up for another candy shot.
Still stuck at home sick, but taking crappy pictures doesn't exactly require a lot of brainpower.
These landmasses are actually work from last week, I just haven't been able to photograph them yet.
Please pardon the excessive badness of this photo in particular. It's the only way I could get the previous work and the new work in one shot.
Still stuck at home sick, but taking crappy pictures doesn't exactly require a lot of brainpower.
These landmasses are actually work from last week, I just haven't been able to photograph them yet.
Composite. Shouldn't be hard to tell where they stitch together.
What I have up til this point--sorry about the usual crappiness of the WIP pictures. There are still parts from my most recent BL order left to add, but I will definitely need to order 2x8 bley plates if I can't find an alternative I like. I have another BL order coming any day with 17 of the AT-TE dishes--it was amazing, the one store that had them for 60 cents each had exactly 17 of them. :)
About to commence more work this evening, enlisting the help of the kidlet.
Stepping back for a sense of scale. You can see Lego magnets and my zombie apoc sigfig in the top left corner of the whiteboard.
Edge of the hull. Finishing this will require 1x2 and 2x2 bley hinge tops--somewhere in the neighborhood of 600 of each.
I'm particularly happy at how thin I managed to get the whole ring. My original prototype was at least 50% thicker and unnecessarily complicated.
Still not completely sold on the effect of the trans pieces. You'll understand what I'm going for if you look at the reference picture, but I think I may try insetting them by one plate. Or replacing the trans light blue with regular trans blue.
The biggest engineering challenge was the inner ring. Simple geometry dictates it will have a smaller circumference than the outer hull, thus the studs will not line up or the ring will not flex enough.
My solution, which seems to work pretty well, is to disconnect the outer ring from the inner entirely. The inner ring "floats" free in the 2L wide channel in the center of the outer ring. When assembled, tension should keep the inner ring in place.
This is one of the eight "proof of concept" segments I built. The plates on the outer hull are from the first draft, when I was going to smoothly tile the back with curved slopes.
Outer hull. Obviously incomplete. Still contemplating further texturing on this, but I kinda like it how it is.
Took a bunch of pix but can't offload my camera at the moment. So here's a crappy iPhone photo with the obligatory "candy shot" of the ring arching into the "sky". This is the POC ring segment and one of the structure-only segments; together they are one-quarter of the ring.
And yes, the land features in the part that's tiled so far are somewhat plain. They're temporary and as I start putting in BL orders to tile the rest of the inner ring I'll be posting "continent studies", so to speak, for comment.
The 1969 Greater London Development Plan Report of Studies. 2.5kg of musty-smelling infographic-laden London planning statistics and stuff. Sadly, missing the pretty nifty dust jacket design, but I can live with that (especially as this copy was a quarter of the price of the first one I stumbled across online).
A double page spread from the 1969 Greater London Development Plan Report of Studies, featuring Underground usage figures in 1967 as a line diagram (width translating to number of users).
Attracting the twentysomething worker (via A whole generation viewed with equal parts admiration and contempt)
"... I had a conversation with the CFO of a big company in New York,” says Tamara Erickson, co-author of the 2006 book “Workforce Crisis,” “and he said, ‘I can’t find anyone to hire who’s willing to work 60 hours a week ..."
Those working at the top level in large corporations must be scratching their heads wondering why they just can't get workers like they used to get. People who will put in the hours for a chance to move up a level, aiming for the corner office. So they must get confused when the next generation won't play by corporate rules. What they don't know (or want to know) is the leading edge of new companies are adapting. Becoming decentralised, focused on shorter term projects in smaller teams. Calling expertise when they need it.
This isn't new. Toffler came to these conclusions in Future Shock looking at American industries in the 60's. [0]
It isn't that the younger generations don't want to work. They are, but like Mammals to the Corporate dinosaurs, they are doing it in smaller more "fluid network of smaller independent units".
Choosing the Hi-Res instead of the monolithic. [1]
Reference
[0] Alvin Toffler, "Future Shock, Bantam Books, 1970, ISBN 0-553-27737-5"
[Accessed Wednesday 22nd July, 2009]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Toffler#Books
[1] Paul Graham, "The High-Res Society, 2008DEC",
[Accessed Wednesday 22nd July, 2009]
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