Jim Willis

  • Mayor promotes traffic-calming aids

    Mayor promotes traffic-calming aids

    To slow traffic and to protect children who walk to school, Mayor Pasquale Menna wants to increase traffic-calming measures and pedestrian crossings on busy access streets in the borough.

  • MBP Display Funkiness (weird temperature)

    I’ve been working a lot with color profiles and trying to get my photos to look the same in different browsers lately (photos look very different in Firefox vs Safari). This has made me more aware of color profiles and display temperatures than usual so I thought I was just seeing things when I returned to my laptop from getting coffee, flicked my mouse to turn off the screen saver and noticed that my screen looked a bit off. Turns out it was. Somehow during the screensaver the profile changed from Color LCD to Adobe RGB. I only noticed this by opening up the display preferences panel. Upon opening the panel the profile changed (automatically) back to color LCD.

  • Macbook Pro size

    Noticed this morning just how much larger the 15" MPB is than my previous 13" white laptop. My new one barely squeezes into my timbuk2 messenger bag. I’m digging the larger display for photo editing but think the 13" is more practical for day to day work. The 15" is not quite big enough to do two windows side by side (e.g. firefox and textmate for developing) so I still end up tabbing through applications.

  • Children With Attention Deficits Concentrate Bette…[J Atten Disord. 2008] – PubMed Result

    Children With Attention Deficits Concentrate Bette…[J Atten Disord. 2008] – PubMed Result

    Link to Journal article re: Children With Attention Deficits Concentrate Better After Walk in the Park.

  • A ‘Dose of Nature’ for Attention Problems – Well Blog – NYTimes.com

    A ‘Dose of Nature’ for Attention Problems – Well Blog – NYTimes.com

    [duh!!!!] The researchers found that a “dose of nature” worked as well or better than a dose of medication on the child’s ability to concentrate. What’s not clear is how long the nature…

  • Editing photos on new mbp, base model upgraded to 4GB RAM. Very zippy. New trackpad gestures are killer.

  • Count Basie Remodel: Had a chance to walk through the theater this afternoon and take some pictures. The rest of the photos will be posted in some different news articles around the web, but here’s a sample.

  • No Firewire port on the new macbook means no video editing. That’s bit lame. AAPL forcing consumers to buy MBPs to do video?

  • watching apple notebook event on engadget. sad that no matter how good the laptops are, AAPL will fall on jobs’ noticeable weight loss.

  • Happy, encouraged and maybe feeling a little vindicated as a result of Krugman winning Nobel in economics: http://tinyurl.com/4lpbv9

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  • Read: Manufactured Anxiety: How Self-Improvement Became a Self Destruct Sequence
    Who profits from our constant state of dissatisfaction? The answer, of course, is painfully obvious. Every industry that sells a solution to a problem you […]
  • Read: My Friends Aren’t Reading
    the shifts have been in place for awhile. A certain kind of book—say those reviewed in the NYRB—will become like opera, or theater, or ballet, […]
  • Read: Pema Chödrön’s Three Methods for Working with Chaos
    • No more struggle: “Whatever arises, train again and again in seeing it for what it is. The innermost essence of mind is without bias. […]
  • Read: Why Not Bluesky
    The real problem, in my mind, isn’t in the nature of this particular Venture-Capital operation. Because the whole raison-d’etre of Venture Capital is to make […]
  • Read: The Tech Coup
    . The EU invokes a mechanism called the precautionary principle in cases where an innovation, such as GMOs, has not yet been sufficiently researched for […]

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