nrm http://nrm.posterous.com Look, it's either this or I corner you at a party and talk at you over a cheese plate posterous.com Mon, 20 Feb 2012 05:40:00 -0800 What the #Windows8 logo should have been http://nrm.posterous.com/what-the-windows8-logo-should-have-been http://nrm.posterous.com/what-the-windows8-logo-should-have-been

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I get it, Microsoft. Windows. Not flags.

But what happened to the colours? Windows 8 is a visually rich OS, with tiles of different sizes and a vibrant palette of colours. So why is its logo just one flat shade? With one quartered trapezoid?

Above, I present my version of the Windows 8 logo, based on the official version.

  • Through the coloured panels I'm looking back at Microsoft's heritage from Win 3.1 to 7.
  • But by splitting up one of the "windowpanes" I'm looking forward at the new Windows 8 "Metro" interface.
  • And by half-assing this in MS Paint I'm attaching this concept to a proud Microsoft tradition of taking a good idea and kinda screwing it up.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/962556/4819265042_36b703c4b4_b.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4aLwPgR5x5ER Nathan R. Maharaj nrm Nathan R. Maharaj Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:16:14 -0800 Fuji sends a treat to X10 early adopters http://nrm.posterous.com/fuji-sends-a-treat-to-x10-early-adopters http://nrm.posterous.com/fuji-sends-a-treat-to-x10-early-adopters
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If you bought the X10, Fuji's new retro-styled point & shoot as soon as it was released, you may be the type of photographer who'd enjoy using something as quaint as a cable shutter release. So Fuji just sent this $8 accessory to those customers.

The only thing they could have done better is sending it earlier, so customers could have used it during the holidays. Then the camera could have been a conversation piece at family gatherings -- no small thing in a market of DSLR v. IPhone.

As a biz school autodidact, I'd love to know what analytics they're basing this on and what they're expecting to happen. But as the husband of one of their customers I'm just impressed at the gesture.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/962556/4819265042_36b703c4b4_b.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4aLwPgR5x5ER Nathan R. Maharaj nrm Nathan R. Maharaj Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:15:00 -0800 Wisława Szymborska: an old Polish lady who made people laugh at our wedding http://nrm.posterous.com/wislawa-szymborska-an-old-polish-lady-who-mad http://nrm.posterous.com/wislawa-szymborska-an-old-polish-lady-who-mad
We had our friend Julian read this poem at our wedding. I think it was after our vows. Or before? I don't remember. (But I do recall that although we sprung it on him at the last minute he delivered like he'd been rehearsing for days.)

We chose "True Love" because we liked it in English and our edition of Selected Poems had the original Polish on the opposite page, just in case any of Allie's relatives from overseas made last-minute plans to join us.

True Love 

True love. Is it normal 
is it serious, is it practical? 
What does the world get from two people 
who exist in a world of their own? 

Placed on the same pedestal for no good reason, 
drawn randomly from millions but convinced 
it had to happen this way - in reward for what? 
For nothing. 
The light descends from nowhere. 
Why on these two and not on others? 
Doesn't this outrage justice? Yes it does. 
Doesn't it disrupt our painstakingly erected principles, 
and cast the moral from the peak? Yes on both accounts. 

Look at the happy couple. 
Couldn't they at least try to hide it, 
fake a little depression for their friends' sake? 
Listen to them laughing - its an insult. 
The language they use - deceptively clear. 
And their little celebrations, rituals, 
the elaborate mutual routines - 
it's obviously a plot behind the human race's back! 

It's hard even to guess how far things might go 
if people start to follow their example. 
What could religion and poetry count on? 
What would be remembered? What renounced? 
Who'd want to stay within bounds? 

True love. Is it really necessary? 
Tact and common sense tell us to pass over it in silence, 
like a scandal in Life's highest circles. 
Perfectly good children are born without its help. 
It couldn't populate the planet in a million years, 
it comes along so rarely. 

Let the people who never find true love 
keep saying that there's no such thing. 

Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/962556/4819265042_36b703c4b4_b.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4aLwPgR5x5ER Nathan R. Maharaj nrm Nathan R. Maharaj Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:16:00 -0800 Talking erotic ebooks http://nrm.posterous.com/talking-erotic-ebooks http://nrm.posterous.com/talking-erotic-ebooks

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  1. There's the person I love more than anything in the world.
  2. And there's the jackass numbskull with no regard for the personal safety of person 1.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/962556/4819265042_36b703c4b4_b.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4aLwPgR5x5ER Nathan R. Maharaj nrm Nathan R. Maharaj Sat, 17 Dec 2011 06:37:00 -0800 #SaveTheBugle http://nrm.posterous.com/savethebugle http://nrm.posterous.com/savethebugle

Jesse, you bring The Bugle into the MaxFun family and I'll instantly up my monthly contribution. 

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/962556/4819265042_36b703c4b4_b.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4aLwPgR5x5ER Nathan R. Maharaj nrm Nathan R. Maharaj Sun, 27 Nov 2011 12:03:40 -0800 Food matters (cc @joshnamaharaj) http://nrm.posterous.com/food-matters-cc-joshnamaharaj http://nrm.posterous.com/food-matters-cc-joshnamaharaj Why don't we use this

to do this

?

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/962556/4819265042_36b703c4b4_b.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4aLwPgR5x5ER Nathan R. Maharaj nrm Nathan R. Maharaj Sun, 09 Oct 2011 07:22:53 -0700 Genitrans! http://nrm.posterous.com/genitrans http://nrm.posterous.com/genitrans
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This would be a great name for a business specializing in things that I think might be legal in Thailand.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/962556/4819265042_36b703c4b4_b.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4aLwPgR5x5ER Nathan R. Maharaj nrm Nathan R. Maharaj Sun, 09 Oct 2011 05:10:00 -0700 Apple TV: things I've figured out since I got an awesome new receiver. http://nrm.posterous.com/apple-tv-things-ive-figured-out-since-i-got-a http://nrm.posterous.com/apple-tv-things-ive-figured-out-since-i-got-a

Me and Apple TV, we've been through some times.

There was a time when it seemed to refuse to play purchased content except when it was pushed from my desktop. You could navigate to it, and you could select it, but it would fail to start playback: instead, it advised that the content wasn't authorized for playing on this device, whatever that means. So you couldn't navigate from the couch, and couldn't play music through airtunes while video (ie. Sesame Street) played on the TV.

But since I got an awesome new receiver things have improved. Here's why.

  • My old receiver had a power outlet for low-consumption components. Like Apple TV, for example. Every time you turned off the receiver, it turned off the outlet. My new receiver doesn't have this. Apple TV stays plugged into the wall, where power is continuously available. Since changing to this new configuration we haven't had authorization problems. Apple TV works like it should.
    • To offset power vampirism (minimal in a device with no moving parts) we've retired both the CD player and the VCR.
  • You can't get multi-channel Dolby Digital sound out of Apple TV through the optical outlet. There was a time it used to work, but the last firmware update killed that. You want DD, you need HDMI. And if you've got Netflix, you want DD.

I hope I never give that little black box any more thought than I've given it in the last couple of weeks.

 

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/962556/4819265042_36b703c4b4_b.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4aLwPgR5x5ER Nathan R. Maharaj nrm Nathan R. Maharaj Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:14:40 -0700 Google, it's not too late to save Latitude http://nrm.posterous.com/google-its-not-too-late-to-save-latitude http://nrm.posterous.com/google-its-not-too-late-to-save-latitude

This week Apple announced a feature available in iOS 5 that you won't find on their iPhone site:Find My Friends. 

It's Google's Latitude designed for normal people.

It's pretty clear Apple's making a play for platform lock-in with built-in apps such as FMF and iMessage. It's all functionality you can get elsewhere, but nothing will be as elegant as Apple's integrated versions. 

What's Google to do?

Well, they haven't lost yet, but they sure are trying. People love Gmail. And they love Google Calendar. But they don't love Latitude. But they could. And they could love them all together.

Here, for your benefit, are some ideas I wish I'd committed to writing months ago.

  • Tie Calendar to Latitude by allowing meeting organizers to request Latitude access for 1 hour prior to the appointment and throughout it.
    • Positioning Latitude as a vague expansion of the social web hasn't worked. Position it instead as a tool that bridges maps and scheduling -- the 2 key features that distinguish a smartphone from what we had before we had smartphones. Latitude should be about sharing location when it matters with who it matters to.
    • Request Latitude access by default from meeting invitees. Apple's going to make location sharing mainstream anyway: now is not the time to be shy. Get Latitude installed on every smartphone in every pocket as fast as possible.
      • I trained my mom to book family get-togethers in Google Calendar years ago: I just gave her access to my Latitude location and she loves it. No more calling to ask where we are or if we got home safe. If she could install it on her work-issued nannified BB, she would so she could share her location with my stepdad.
    • Create a dashboard for the meeting organizer to see everybody's ETA. 
      • Green: accepted the meeting and ETA has them on-time.
      • Yellow: accepted the meeting and ETA has them arriving late.
      • Red: ETA has them missing the event entirely, or they've declined.
      • And every invitee's name has a clock next to it: this is when they turn invisible again.
  • Kill Google Talk (yes, it's still hanging on, and you never visit anymore) and replace it with the Messenger component of Google+. Better yet, with GTalk dead, merge Messenger and Hangouts to create a Skype-killing masterpiece of group communication.
    • Enable chatting parties to view one another's locations. 
    • Make it so that I can enable location-sharing-while-chatting with only the Circles I choose. This way I can freely enter a hangout without risk of unintended location exposure.
    • Oddly enough, on Android phones it seems that engaging someone on Google Talk tends to refresh their position on Latitude. So it would seem that someone in Google is already thinking about this. Please push on and be bold.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/962556/4819265042_36b703c4b4_b.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4aLwPgR5x5ER Nathan R. Maharaj nrm Nathan R. Maharaj Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:48:00 -0700 A university education working overtime (cc @UofTMagazine) http://nrm.posterous.com/a-university-education-working-overtume-cc-uo http://nrm.posterous.com/a-university-education-working-overtume-cc-uo

Just hung up after this conversation. The time is 9:30.

Guy calling from U of T: "Hello, my name is Mohamed. May I please speak to [unrecognizable mispronunciation of what I *think* was my wife's name]?"

Me: "No, I'm afraid she's indisposed."

Mo: "Oh, she's passed away?"

Me: "..."

Mo: "..."

Me: "No, she's not at liberty to take this call."

Mo: "Oh she's busy."

Me: "That's right."

Mo: "Can you say when would be a good time to call to update her on the university's latest news and initiatives?"

Me: "Try before 9:30."

Mo: "Before 9:30?"

Me: "Yeah it's a little late. Goodnight."

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/962556/4819265042_36b703c4b4_b.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4aLwPgR5x5ER Nathan R. Maharaj nrm Nathan R. Maharaj Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:16:00 -0700 Twenty-Five Pieces of Basic Sartorial Knowledge So You Don’t Look Dumb (via @putthison) http://nrm.posterous.com/twenty-five-pieces-of-basic-sartorial-knowled http://nrm.posterous.com/twenty-five-pieces-of-basic-sartorial-knowled

When I’m interviewed about men’s style and Put This On, I’m almost invariably asked “what are the fashion mistakes you see men make every day?” or “what is the most basic style knowledge men often don’t have?”

That’s the kind of stuff I usually leave off this blog. After all: you’re discerning and tasteful! But every time I see some incredibly basic principle violated, I cringe. So: for the benefit of your slovenly coworker our your teenage cousin or your uncle who’s never had a job, I wrote this. Forward it to them. Anonymously, if you must.

Below are twenty-five pieces of vital information that every man over 14 in the Western world should know. Every man. No excuses. Seriously. Seriously.

  1. Unbutton the bottom button of your jacket. It’s not intended to be buttoned.
  2. Same goes for your vest.
  3. Remove the tags on the sleeves of your jacket before you wear it.
  4. Jackets sometimes come with white basting thread on their shoulders or holding closed their vents. Remove this thread before wearing the jacket.
  5. Jacket pockets are intended to be opened. Use a small scissor or seam ripper.
  6. More than three jacket buttons is never appropriate for anything.
  7. On a three-button coat, buttoning the top button is optional, and some lapels are rolled so as to make the top button ornamental. In other words: if buttoning the top button seems wrong, it is.
  8. Brown shoes, brown belt. Black shoes, black belt.
  9. Belt or suspenders. Never belt and suspenders.
  10. Your jacket sleeve should be short enough to show some shirt cuff - about half an inch. 
  11. Your pants should end at your shoes without puddling. A slight or half break means that there is one modest inflection point in the front crease. If your pants break both front and back or if they break on the sides, they’re too long.
  12. Your coat should follow and flatter the lines of your upper body, not pool around them. You should be able to slip a hand in to get to your inside breast pocket, but if the jacket’s closed and you can pound your heart with your fist, it’s too big.
  13. When you buy a suit or sportcoat, it should be altered to fit by a tailor. This will cost between $25 and $100.
  14. Your tie should reach your belt line - it shouldn’t end above your belt or below it.
  15. Your tie knot should have a dimple.
  16. Only wear a tie if you’re also wearing a suit or sportcoat (or, very casually, a sweater). Shirt, tie and no jacket is the wedding uniform of a nine-year-old.
  17. The only men who should wear black suits during the day are priests, undertakers, secret agents, funerals attendees and yokels.
  18. Cell phone holsters are horrible.
  19. So are square-toed shoes.
  20. Never wear visible socks with shorts.
  21. Or any socks with sandals.
  22. If your shirt is tucked in, you should be wearing a belt (or suspenders, if you’re wearing a jacket as well, or your trousers should have side adjusters and no belt loops).
  23. Flip flops are great for the pool and the beach and not great for anything else. (Some say this is a matter of taste. We agree. If you have any taste, you will only wear flip-flops at the beach or pool.)
  24. Long ties are not appropriate with a tuxedo.
  25. Never wear polyester outside of the gym or theme parties.

If you see someone violating one of these basic principles, feel free to send them our way. We’ll straighten them out.

via putthison.com

If every man knew 1 through 5, the world would be a noticeably more stylish place.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/962556/4819265042_36b703c4b4_b.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4aLwPgR5x5ER Nathan R. Maharaj nrm Nathan R. Maharaj Tue, 06 Sep 2011 21:37:00 -0700 The first step to enjoying the fiction of J M Coetzee is saying his name right. http://nrm.posterous.com/the-first-step-to-enjoying-the-fiction-of-j-m http://nrm.posterous.com/the-first-step-to-enjoying-the-fiction-of-j-m
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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/962556/4819265042_36b703c4b4_b.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4aLwPgR5x5ER Nathan R. Maharaj nrm Nathan R. Maharaj Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:40:00 -0700 Mad about Blatchford? http://nrm.posterous.com/mad-about-blatchford http://nrm.posterous.com/mad-about-blatchford

Instapaper the column and read it again in a month.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/962556/4819265042_36b703c4b4_b.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4aLwPgR5x5ER Nathan R. Maharaj nrm Nathan R. Maharaj Sat, 20 Aug 2011 15:06:21 -0700 You gotta serve somebody, part 1 in a series of meditations on being an asshole http://nrm.posterous.com/you-gotta-serve-somebody-part-1-in-a-series-o http://nrm.posterous.com/you-gotta-serve-somebody-part-1-in-a-series-o I've been composing this blog post in my head for months. I'm never going to get it right in one go. So here's a start.

First, this is a personal reflection, not a publishing thing. I've moved that action to Google+, so there's going to be more of this kind of thing here and less of the industry stuff.

To kick this off, a remark cartoonist Chris Ware made about having children (via @jkottke):

Yeah, it kind of fixed every mental problem that I had within an hour. So I highly recommend it if anybody out there is thinking of having children, you should really, I mean, it's the only reason we're here, and if you have any doubts in your mind about yourself or where your life is going, it'll be answered easily and almost instantaneously. It's a clich'e to say, but it also immediately sets you aside from yourself and you're no longer the star of your own mind, which is really not a very good state of mind to be in. Unfortunately, in my country it is one that seems to be encouraged until about the age of 60 or something, now. 

Never mind the "only reason we're here" bit. Or at least don't let yourself get mad about it. He's overstated the case and I think the irony isn't lost on him. So let's put Ware's teleological argument aside. 

It's his psychological observations that I'm interested in. For me, having a kid threw into stark relief all the ways in which I'm an asshole. I wasn't fixed right away, but I was aware. Especially of how unaware I am most of the time of how I'm an asshole. Thrown into the presence of a person who's a) completely dependent on me, and b) made of very wet clay that hardens a little every day, this kind of insight feels inevitable. The mirror is always there. I thought I was self-aware, but that was just my old "you can't call me out on my shit if I call some of it out first" criticism-forestalling bullshit. Faced with my own offspring, shit got real.

I don't think you have to have a kid for this kind of epiphany, and I've seen plenty of parents keep on being the stars of their own minds while adding their kids as a supporting cast. But for me and Ware, the kid did it.

Maybe it's a question of crisis. When people go through crises, they tend to get their shit sorted. Or at least the general unmooring of everything that comes with a crisis opens the opportunity to get shit sorted. So if you let having a kid change you, if you're open to that, then having a kid comes as a crisis. And that's why what's been on my mind isn't really about having kids.

More later.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/962556/4819265042_36b703c4b4_b.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4aLwPgR5x5ER Nathan R. Maharaj nrm Nathan R. Maharaj Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:41:00 -0700 When David fell back into his seat after extricating his right arm from the tiger’s mouth he became aware of two tigers at the driver’s window http://nrm.posterous.com/when-david-fell-back-into-his-seat-after-extr http://nrm.posterous.com/when-david-fell-back-into-his-seat-after-extr

COURT FILE NO.:  97-CU-135410

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DAVID BALAC, RANKO BALAC and THE AFRICAN LION SAFARI & GAME FARM LTD.

 

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Douglas Wright and Martin Smith, for The African Lion Safari & Game Farm Ltd.

 

 

COURT FILE NO.: 98-CV-139448

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DAVID BALAC, RANKO BALAC, SLAVKA BALAC and SANDRA BALAC

 

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AFRICAN LION SAFARI & GAME FARM LTD. and LIBERTY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY

 

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HEARD: November 1, 2, 8-10, 12, 15-19,      22-26, 29, 30, December 1-3, 6-8, 13, 14, 2004

 

 

 

 

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Fascinating.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/962556/4819265042_36b703c4b4_b.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4aLwPgR5x5ER Nathan R. Maharaj nrm Nathan R. Maharaj Tue, 12 Jul 2011 18:50:00 -0700 I love this TED Talk: "How I Became 100 Artists" http://nrm.posterous.com/i-love-this-ted-talk-how-i-became-100-artists http://nrm.posterous.com/i-love-this-ted-talk-how-i-became-100-artists

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