Well, I might be exposing my weakness as a designer by not immediately recognizing the ollowing font:

which is a title graphic for the intro flash to the Herrick Goldman Lighting Design website whose font I was asked to identify. It is used on the "inherited flash" intro for which I had no source .fla.

I took a screenshot with the free version of Gadwin Printscreen and saved it as a png, headed over to What the Font, stepped through the short wizard and was amazed at how simple the process and accurate the result was right off the bat. I included in my screenshot of the What the Font results screen (below) the text at the bottom with two suggested paths to get expert human help in the event that the right font was not automatically identified.

This week's TIME Magazine issue had an article "Man Makes Life" that had a line within that caught my attention:

...nobody doubts that it is our DNA that determines what we are ... [in the same way that] digital etchings on a CD determine the music you hear.

This struck a chord with what I read in the cover article in a recent past issue of SEED Magazine ("The Future of Science .. is Art?"). This article suggested that abstract ideas represented in concrete artwork (music, sculpture, drawings..) are more easily studied than the theoretical concepts and math themselves.

In our community, we have a relatively new geek/designer meet-up called Refresh BCS.  The organizers of the same put on a Barcamp
 this past weekend, but I didn't attend.  Here's why...

 (more to come... stubbed for my friend Google in the meantime ;) )

In an interesting use of Internet 2, Philadelphia Orchestra broadcastst live via Internet 2 to select remote sites.  Fortunately for me, I was invited to watch/listen at KAMU's studio at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas this afternoon. The studio did a fine job setting up the experimental show, but being the brother of an audiophile and maker of high quality recording equipment, I have to admit a hair of snooty disappointment in that there wasn't surround sound and a completely closed chamber immersion-style venue... But hey, it was a first run, and it was pretty darn cool for what did happen! 

I was browsing my flickr photostream and came across an old favorite image I had uploaded long ago:

It's a collage I call Out of Differences showing the elements of fish and bird representing their inability to coexist, overturned to demonstrate a strong "this ain't right" effect and a solitary individual leaving a crowd through that difference into an unknown. Hmm.. an expansion on this collage could be to simply extend the whitespace of the path before this departing individual...

Microsoft Office 2007 has turned me, a knowledgable and agile geek, into an end user. I used to be able to at least fumble around until I found some features, but now I'm utterly lost and am very dissatisfied with Office 2007.

There are a couple phrases you should be familiar with to understand and get along better with your geeky friends.

So, some time ago my sister sent me a nice gorillapod-- it's a small, flexible-leg camera tripod that grips onto almost any surface. As time and interest permits, I've tried mounting the video camera onto my violin in various ways and captured some YouTube worthy media. Below is how it is done!

I attached the gorillapod to the camera and mounted the camera to the far end of my violin by wrapping its tripod legs around the scroll. Because this camera doesn't have a convenient flip-out view-finder, I just faced a mirror and adjusted the camera's angle such that my fingerboard was the focus and my face was not.

I stumbled across a great article describing web site color schemes used in a couple industries (real estate and health care).

Each article lists down the page a link to a major website within the given category and two color blocks representing the palette/layout of each unique page in the site referenced:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/category/color/