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Derome Brenner Trunk Show in SF, Dec 14-16
It’s extremely hard to find frames that work on my face so probably safe to bring my amex with me there. My DB Jacky 2’s are great value despite the fairly high price coz I’ve worn them every single day since I got them.
spectacles for humans: DEROME BRENNER TRUNK SHOW:
December 14th, 15th and 16th.
A legion of beautiful handmade frames, an incredible portfolio of accessories…. See it all and spend time with the designers themselves during first ever
DeromeBrenner Trunk Show.Only at Spectacles for Humans.
Booq bags now sport Terralinq (like Tumi’s Tracer)
daily photo: view from my hotel at night
SFist: Touched by an Angela: La Rondine at SF Opera.
SFist: Touched by an Angela: La Rondine at SF Opera.:
Angela Gheorghiu, the diva, made her SF Opera debut on Wednesday evening, in Puccini’s La Rondine.
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Now, Angela has some redeeming qualities: one could excuse her for her behavior; being diva in the truest operatic sense of the word, that’s her job after all. Plus, she brings excitement to a performance well before a single note is sung, which is good in the accounting department. It does not hurt that she can display major cleavage very convincingly. And: she can sing.
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Angela’s musical performance as Magda was a bright point in the La Rondine production. She’s as stunning on stage as she appears on the promo material, wearing in the first Act an ankle-long evening dress slit all the way up to her thigh. Her voice is warm, silky, it evoked a caramel swirl to us, or a heavy velvet drape: a voice with texture and depth. Her acting, on the other hand, was built on a single premise: look at me. If she walks, she comes off as Naomi Campbell ona catwalk. If she takes off her shoes, she plays a coy little girl. Maybe her attention grabbing behavior off-stage predisposes us to see her forced acting as a ploy for attention, so go check for yourself. Fortunately, it does not deter from the enjoyment of her singing.
LOL at cleavage display convincingly. Gonna try to catch this when I get back to SF.
Carnegie Mellon’s new mascot
OnMyList Redesign
Over the last month, we worked very hard to design and implement a lot of new features and improvements for OnMyList and we?ve been so anxious to let the world know about it. Well, we finally did it! If you go to the site now, you should see a brand new user interface. It has a lot of cool new features. Here are some of them:
* Improved profile ? The new profile page now makes it easy for you to see lists you created, lists you made as favorites, lists you rated, people you subscribe to, and people who subscribe to you. You can also sort lists by new to old, old to new, or view count. The Latest Updates tab shows a newsfeed of your OnMyList activities, described next.
* Newsfeeds ? You can now spy on any list or anyone very easily because you will get notified when you make a list, comment on a list, someone else comment on your list or on a list that you commented on, subscribe to someone or someone subscribe to you, someone made your list a favorite, …etc. We hope this will help our members to stay on top of lists that you are interested and facilitate interactions between members.
* profile ? When you go to your profile page, you will find a link at the bottom of the right sidebar to add new profile question and answer to show off your personalities. We?ve also made the editing more obvious with the Edit buttons (We feel the in place editors were too subtle).
* ticker news ? There is a Overheard box on the homepage that shows selected lists that we?ve picked that are interesting. Pretty cool, huh?
* invite friends ? Want to let your friends know you are an OnMyList superstar? Want to show off your lists and what your favorites are? Have a list of images and videos that you want to impress someone? We?ve made it easy for you. Look around at the top of the site.
* crop profile picture ? We know you?ve been wanting to show your whole face in the profile picture. Now you have it.
* facebook app ? We have a facebook application for some time. You can show off your lists to your friends whenever you create or update your lists. You can make a list of favorite gifts for my birthday and have it show up in facebook, and hopefully get a few presents. Isn?t that cool?
* widget ? Just like the facebook app. And what?s more: You can choose to display your latest/favorites/highest rated lists. It just gets better! Get your widget to show off in your own blog or website by clicking My Widgets in your profile page now.
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attachment_fu and s3 woes, or how I spent most of Friday
If you’re doing some googling coz with_image isn’t giving you shit, or create_or_update_thumbnail isn’t updating your thumbnails in attachment_fu with Amazon S3 backend, then you might’ve found the right post!
attachment_fu and s3 woes, or how I spent most of Friday
If you don’t know what I’m talking about, sorry, I’ll post something more interesting tomorrow.
btw thanks Ray for keeping me sane over Skype when I was debugging this.
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Foamee | How-to
Foamee is a free service that helps track who you owe beers to (and vice versa) using the popular messaging service, Twitter.
daily photo
Worked from Sherry’s apartment most of today, had my camera and the new flash with me so took a couple shots today. Pretty pleased with the 580EXII so far. With it mounted on camera, it’s only interesting in bounce mode or with custom zoom for a spotlight effect. I will experiment with it off camera one of these days, I have a shoot coming up next weekend so I might try it then.