Yesterday, this:

this is my desktop background right now.

i made this by accident and now i can’t stop thinking about a sierra adventure game about katie west. (katie quest?) i don’t know what the gameplay would be like but probably something like maintaining a saucy 8bit tumblr, making friends with warren ellis, and being sent on adventure missions across time and space to collect magic cats and ingredients for The Best Cup of Coffee Evar.

i miss the epic scope, baroque humor, and lores abstraction of those games.

Today this:

Double-Fine Raising Funds for New Adventure Game

Coincidence?

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Fwooosh..

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The Trouble With Automation

February 6, 2012

I use FogBugz for my job. I use Omnifocus for my sanity.

A long time ago I set up the included mail rule that comes with Omnifocus to route messages containing certain key phrases directly from mail into the task manager. Unfortunately it looks like every so often, Apple updates Mail.app; breaking the plugin that Omnifocus uses to route messages via the services menu.

Because the system had acted so reliably for so long; I didn’t notice when all of the sudden messages started disappearing from Mail. This had the potential to get me in to a lot of hot water so I went on a week long search for the cause.

As it turns out, the version of the mail rule that I was using from Omnifocus actually deletes the message from Mail.app during the routing. Unfortunately for me, the second half of the script that pushes the message in to Focus wasn’t happening because Mail had been upgraded in just such a way.

Deleting the mail rule manually seems to have corrected the issue, messages now remain in my inbox. Unfortunately for Omnifocus; I’m having to rethink my dependency on the tool.

staff:

Introducing: Highlighted Posts

Every now and then, a post comes along that’s meant for big things. It could be pulling the wraps off your new project, promoting your next show, raising awareness for a cause, or just sharing a truly incredible photo.

Today you’ll have a new option to Highlight those extra-important posts. For one dollar, your post will stand out in the Dashboard with a customizable sticker to make sure your followers take notice!

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Jack Scoresby: Watermarks

I seriously wish that photographers would watermark all their photos all the time.

Even if it were just better use of tagging on image files. Tumblr does a decent job of preserving tags in files; as do most sites that don’t use imagemagick or the like with default settings to convert images into various sizes.

I’m using Aperture to manage all the images from Deviant/Tumblr hoping that one day I’ll have hundreds of hours where I can just sit and draw from those resources for paintings and illustrations.

I’m betting that thousands of images isn’t that rare a thing. Although Mr. Scoresby could in fact be talking about paper photographs; no idea.

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