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There must be a triangular gamut of application design, with power, ease of use, and stability at the three corners. I am now working with an app which is crammed way into the "power" corner, while at home I have a similiar thing I made for myself which features ease-of-use as its primary strength. (As an example of maximum stability, how about a lump of dirt. It's not really powerful, and it's got a pretty opaque interface, but it's definately tops at acting predictably.) Invariably, the specification calls for all THREE of these things to be at a maximum, but it's only possible to increase them all at once by having a bigger triangle in the first place. What is the triangle made of? Oh right - time and money. Welcome back to work, me! It was a pretty good day! I got all set up, met some co-workers, signed some papers that say I'm not allowed to talk about work, and then I... oh wait. Uh, I ceased to exist for 8 hours. Yeah. After I started existing again, I went to UW to meet William Gibson, who was reading from the book he just finished!
That was a pretty great monday. I'm sort of winding down here - I gotta get home earlier if I want to do homesy things like wash clothes or cook stuff for myself. It's not every day that the author of Neuromancer is in town, though. I'm glad I got the chance to see him. AND, preventing me from seeming like a freeloading fanboy, Helen equipped me with a copy of Gibson's new book immediately prior to meeting him, as a first day of work gift! I'm buying her... a pizza. Er.. in the shape of a heart. Yeah! 2nd anniversary of dating is the pizza anniversary. (seriously glad I got a job before it really did have to be the pizza anniversary). Anyway, if this is how the sheep year is going to be, I'm all for it.
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