Last week Alex, Sonia and I finally put together our organic garden. We created four simple steps with some 2×12 boards positioned with some stakes. On the top tier we have four tomato plants, then some lettuces, cauliflower, onions and strawberries. Our first strawberry came in a couple of days ago.
At work today I learned that if you are using ExternalInterface in AS3 to make calls to JavaScript inside of a webpage which manipulates the display or style of an HTML element, it will not show up in Webkit-based browsers (Safari, Google Chrome) until you move your mouse off the Flash movie. Because this is a focus problem, you can call JavaScript’s focus() on any page element (e.g., div) to update the style without waiting for the mouse to rolloff the Flash object. Problem solved.
I was listening to this Interview with Doug Rushkoff today and he had a particularly memorable quote that I thought was appropriate for this election year fervor.
We are looking at the wrong scale. Even looking at politics on a national scale–once you’ve done that, you’ve already lost the game. That’s corporatism. That’s how corporatism works–to get you to think on non-human scales rather than ones that are appropriate to actions that you can take. Rather than ones that actually connect you to your neighbors and operate through true human-scale social capital.
I woke up this morning to find five deer eating breakfast in my backyard. I snapped some photos before they caught on to me watching them. They were literally 15 feet away. Because we are at the base of a very covered hill, they come by often to our enclosed backyard. I can’t believe I live in Los Angeles and have deer at my back doorstep.
