As some of you may know I’ve been riding the bus into work most days. Today there was a new twist added to my bussin’ experience.

So I needed to get to work earlier today (cuz of some extra webpages that need some o’ dat sweeeet designin’) and I caught an earlier bus. Thing is, this bus is fancy and has Wi-Fi onboard, letting me get online whilst other losers are stuck driving in traffic. In the spirit of the “Nerd Bird” (the frequent Austin to San Jose plane carrying tech nerds back and forth between Silicon Hills and Silicon Valley in the late 90s), I think this mode of transportation needs a catchy, rhymey name too.

However, I’m drawing a blank, so help me out by coming up with some suggestions. Some starter words for ya:
Wagon, Ride, Wheels, Transport, Download, Dork, Tech, Laptop

Hook me up, smarties!

— TF

Congrats to the most recent winners… JohnnyMac, Juan Puto and BudCrud. The trophy case now reflects the the up-to-the-second standings (and has been pared down to show the top ten smartasse now). Check it out.

—TF

Let the arguing begin anew… as far as these ten fifteen Sugary Kids Breakfast Cereals go… which is your favorite?

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Make sure to vote on all the polls.

  As always, there will be pissed off people wanting to know why other cereal weren’t included. There are countless obscure and not-so-obscure cereals out there. These are some of my favorites… classic enough to be known by many… If I missed a newer version of some of these cereals, consider it a part of the family an choose the original.

—TF       

Also… sorry it took three days to fix this. …I had a lot of new sites brought to my attention recently that I felt compelled to go through.  

—TF

ps - special shoutout to djLicious for pointing this out to me.  
pps - make sure you keep your WordPress up to date. Seems to have fixed the glitch.

Leaving one BIG change to get used to… SPACES.

Using spaces requires a complete change in mindset when on your machine. Very daunting and quite the barrier to overcome, but I figured I’d better be a good lil’ Apple boy and give it a shot. Well… I loved it. Really, really loved it. It was like I had 6 (set your own number as you see fit) computers. Again, I loved it.

Until…

While using Photoshop one day (living happily in Space 4), I noticed that I couldn’t select anything. I had the marquee tool (or rectangular selection tool, or whatever) selected and when I went to draw a selection box, the move tool arrow showed up, then switched back into being the marquee, then the move tool, and back and forth and again. Non-stop. This rendered the marquee tool useless… also known as making Photoshop suck.

So naturally, I thought it an anomaly and restarted PS. Same problem came back. So I then threw away my Photoshop .plist file and all was well in the world. I used PS again and again with no problem for a few hours then BANG. Same crap.

All day, everyday I would use PS for a while and when the problem returned, I’d throw away the prefs and restart. Annoying when you’ve got bosses and clients breathing down your neck. They don’t even know what a marquee tool is let alone care that it doesn’t work.

So after much pain and sorrow, it finally dawned on me what was going on. Sometimes when I’d switch between my spaces, the problem would begin. I can’t remember now if it was only when I used my keyboard shortcut to “see all spaces” and then choose Space 4 or if it was using the shortcut keys I set for each of the spaces that caused it (maybe both), but basically… Spaces and Photoshop CS 3 have this bug. Adobe has released some updates and to my knowledge they didn’t address this… Apple too has released various updates since and as far as I know this is still unresolved.

Anyways… moral of the story is, I fell in love with Spaces, but it was a short lived love affair as it finally got to be problematic as it interfered with time spent with my real true love, Photoshop.

Oh well.

— TF