J. Alexander Cohen | Design and Fantasy

Surprise find in Mom's stuff - weed. A little silver Flight 420 (!) grinder and some dire dust inside. Mine, I presume. Probably liberated from my room during my open-heart surgery. Poor Mom. Stuck with the stems and seeds.

#currentmood

Sitting here wearing a dark robe (caftan? I hardly knew him!) reading an article on Replacing Your Refrigerator Gasket As a Fun Project, I realized that I was gay-aging-in-place.

Post Thanksgiving dinner setup.

If you can't be sure how much usage you can get out of device before you check on it, you don't have a battery-powered device. You have a soap bubble to fret over and baby with the full knowledge that even so...it will still burst someday.

I try to do meaningful work. Meaningful responses help a lot.

In the history of ecommerce, nobody has ever asked to see a search results list by 'Featured' order. Not once. What does that tell you?

I'm not 'platform-agnostic.' I'm a platform non-believer. I do attend on Just One More thing days, of course. I was still brought up right.

The #Omelas omelette requires breaking a few eggs.

The true horror of #latestagecapitalism will be when they abandon alphabetical order for a 'pay what you want to show up first.' And the highest bidder gets the jump the queues at the doctor's office! Vampire squids. Remember.

The difference between experts and the rest: We all feel it when something is 'off.' Only experts pay attention to that feeling.

@tajmccoy.bsky.social did you email me at my Gmail or is that a scammer?

Pretendering: Being too impatient to do a proper rendering, so you zsuszh* it up a bit with some marker strokes and squinting at it until the clipping stops. * If I'm too impatient to do a proper rendering, am I really going to stop to look up that syzygy of a word in the dictionary? How even?

"Watson! Come here, I need you. The steam-powered sex toy has seized again."

Having trans friends is really great and you should try it. 10/10 recommend

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Every mountain is followed by a valley. But another mountain will always follow.

Coming up: Binary Bungalow Lucite Land Metaphor City Any others I'm missing?

The villagers aren't here to burn me at the stake, they want to prescribe me Ritalin.

It's like the song "Xanadu" on endless repeat. #TwinklyMatrix

ME: So I can't put anything else on the scale? ANUBIS: No. Just your heart ME: No money, no good deeds? ANUBIS: No ME: What about steam points? I've got a ton of steam points ANUBIS: The point is to be lighter than the feather ME: I was just hoping to finally do something with the steam points

Silence can be a state of grace. So can kicking ass.

#AThoughtAboutProtesting No slogans. No screaming. No stunting. Step up. Name exactly what you see that's Not Right for you. Quietly. Agreeably. Firmly..and loudly. If the people around you can't defend the system's decisions, there's a big problem. Their silence is a big hint they already know.

#Usability #UI #UX #Demos #Theory #AI pitches feel like timeshares. They abstract away everything that makes us human. None of it appears in their vision. Sex, violence, bias, hate, joy, connection, fulfillment, healing: gone. `Indifferent to suffering; insensitive to joy.` `Network:Movie:1976`

Next time I'll try the blue ones.

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

GIF functionality in Discord, I strike at thee with a limp noodle!

#Government as a structure: Government sucks. AND Government is the best we have. Why? As a voter, my ideal government looks different than yours...or we've got similar views. Compare any two people and you'll never get full consensus. The [Stupid Horsebrained Masses]! Love being one of them.

Why #infinity = ∞ It's a crossed-belt drive. Follow: A twisted rubber band around two axles. Turn one up, the other goes down. Axle = category. 'The lower the job rate, the higher the crime.' #notmybeliefs 'Lower job rate' = turn the job knob (!) down...and the crime knob [!!] goes up. In theory.

Happy Bisexual Visibility Day all! Continuing to do my part by putting as many bi characters into my books lol.

I miss Jef Raskin, and I never met him.

Computing as #stage: Visual affordances like icons? 🖨️ They're #spike-marks. Like the Xs on the stage some actors stand on. "Here there be #affordances."

#LOA = Levels of abstraction. Metahumor in a jugular vein.

There is Work, and there is Play, but they are both Tasks. Thus: 'taskflow' instead of workflow. Don't get me started on 'playflow'...all I hear when I look at the word is 300-baud carrier tone from my TRS-80 Model 100.

Regardless of how much we read, a lot of us seem to love Belle's library. Why? Because the things that matter to her are laid out in front of her with that greased ladder for cherishing them. Beauty and the Information Architect.

Babbage knew how to get the cabbage. @williamgibson.bsky.social and @bruces.bsky.social, thanks! It's been a long while, but I remember the flippers and the wry turn at the end. ... Okay, I admit the thank-you was so I could use the Babbage/cabbage pun I came up with). #worthit

First night spent alone, knowing I'm alone, in 23.5 years. No Mom. No Dad. No Chris. Even Michelle is downstairs in the guest suite. No listening for Mom in the condo and being ready to leap into action at a moment's notice. to smooth her path. The Yahrzeit candle went out tonight. It's time.

#justrealized ***Blathers from #AnimalCrossing = Hari Seldon from the Foundation novels.*** Consider: both appear occasionally to blather on about their interests (insects vs. interstellar politics). It's Urkel and Mr. Smithers/Alien all over again. Every Friday night.

That feeling when you realize you're all #SevenDwarves in one.

#High means higher levels of abstraction, for some.

#sundaythoughts: 1990s theories of #dynamicUI design WERE both right and wrong, as were the critics. That's not mealy-mouthed casuistry, either. Looking at why each side was right and wrong simultaneously explains the flaw in the use of Dynamic UI.

Oh great, I designed an empathy box cf. #PKD and Mercerism). As they said in #BloomCounty: "Did you at least keep the receipt?!"

"All I have to do is..." Folks sure must have said that a lot before slaughters happened.

Logo for #AirshipLogic.

I'm set up right beside Godzilla at the Carolina Theatre in Durham for the Page to Picture festival! Come see some great movies and get some fascinating books from local authors! #indie #books #movies