Adventures in Beau's World

Sports-Car

nobody@vox.com(Beau Smith) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 11:24:25 -0700

Headed to Santa Cruz for mountain biking, surfing and laundry.

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Secondary Orality

nobody@vox.com(Beau Smith) — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:02:35 -0700

Erica Hall of Mule Design gave her presentation on Copy as Interface last Friday at Six Apart. There were some pretty interesting concepts she shared.

The main concept is that words are a very important part of an interface and seriously effect the feelings users experience when using a site.

She pointed out that in an interface "we aren't writing, we are speaking in text". She had an interesting slide noting that before literacy we had an oral tradition, now we are evolving to a "secondary orality" as she put it.

Oral Culture --> Literacy --> Secondary Orality

She offered some guidelines when choosing how to speak in a user interface....

Five ways to get words right:

Be authentic
Be engaging
Be specific
Be appropriate
Be polite

7 things to avoid

Vague
(Too) Clever
Rude
Obvious
Inconsistent
Presumptious
Unnatural

Copy as Interface Slides on Slideshare - A longer review of the presentation

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Bachelor Bean Dip

nobody@vox.com(Beau Smith) — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:55:40 -0700

The recipe, by popular demand:
- 3 cans refried black beans
- 20oz plain Greek yogurt
- 1/2c chipotle in adobo (blended to a paste)
- 1c minced leftover vegan sausage (optional)
- 4 green onions (fine chop)
- 1/2 bunch cilantro (finely minced)

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BBQ sauce

nobody@vox.com(Beau Smith) — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:00:17 -0700

Great Package Design from www.welovejam.com (at Rainbow Grocery, SF)

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Fresh Fridge Finds

nobody@vox.com(Beau Smith) — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:53:10 -0700

Had a lot of tasty odds and ends: asparagus, mushrooms, vegan Italian sausage, romain salad with Cajun tilapia, avocado, tomatoes and fresh lemon juice dressing. Digesting with TiVo'd UFC.

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Yes, I pass cars on my bike

nobody@vox.com(Beau Smith) — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:48:31 -0700

I'm just following the law....

Slower Traffic Keep Right shirt

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Where's the closest escalator?

nobody@vox.com(Beau Smith) — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:20:32 -0700

I gotta try this....

Lady Spins on an Escalator

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Before he lost a lung

nobody@vox.com(Beau Smith) — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:05:51 -0700

Beau before the sweat

http://yann.vox.c...

Yay Typepad!

Surely was "before the sweat"... but it should have been more like "Beau, before he lost a lung" ...I'm still wheezing. But I'd ride up all seven hells again tomorrow. Totally stoked that I'm not sore.

Actually missed hill 5, due to a flat tire. But I fixed it quick enough to climb over hill 6, then climb it a second time with the whole group in order to make up for missing hill 5. Not finishing was not an option.

Hell 3 of 7

I love my bikes.

Thx to Yann for challenging me to ride this with him.

Here's a link to Frank's wrap up on Flickr. With a shoutout. Woot!

And an SFBG article about the rider from fellow rider Kat Renz: The road to hell is paved with potholes

For a pissing contest, see the discussion about which SF hills are the steepest, see this event on Yelp, apparently we missed a couple of SF's steeper hills, I guess there's time for a part two.

Sevenhells

Here's the current top 10 ('cause they could change over time!)

1. Filbert between Leavenworth and Hyde is a 31.5 percent grade.
2. 22nd between Church and Vicksburg, 31.5 percent.
3. Jones between Union and Filbert, 29 percent. On the ride! (Ouch!)
4. Duboce between Buena Vista and Alpine Terrace, 27.9 percent.
5. Jones between Green and Union, 26 percent. On the ride! (That makes two blocks of hell on Jones!)
6. Webster between Vallejo and Broadway, 26 percent.
7. Duboce between Divisadero and Alpine Terrace, 25 percent.
8. Duboce between Castro and Divisadero, 25 percent.
9. Jones between Pine and California, 24.8 percent.
10. Fillmore between Vallejo and Broadway, 24 percent.

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Lunch at Yerba Buena

nobody@vox.com(Beau Smith) — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:11:20 -0700

Cold Little Star pizza FTW! Garth and Ayako hit up the Westfield foodcourt.

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Valencia Orange, Roasted Beet, & Arugula Salad

nobody@vox.com(Beau Smith) — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:05:21 -0700

Tonight's contribution to cooking-at-brads. Orange and Beet salad cribed from Elise's Simply Recipes. Photo doesn't look so good, but this was a very simple and tasty dish. I highly recommend this recipe as a compliment to any rich or gourmet foods... tonight it complimented a surf and turf combo of flank steak and grilled scallops with a burre blanc sauce.

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