Wednesday
Dec142005
SuperNoteCard, Samorost2, postcards for my collection
Wednesday, December 14, 2005 at 10:04AM
Peeked out the window this morning and the scene reminded me of a Christmas card, with every branch of every tree laced in snow, the street silent and white. I love winter mornings.
I've mentioned SuperNoteCard from Mindola Software in Inkygirl but I'll plug it here as well: A while back I started using a virtual index card called "Miss Lonelynotes" to help organize ideas for my articles and novel. They've since upgraded the software at least half a dozen times and renamed it SuperNoteCard, and the functionality is now specifically geared towards writers.
SuperNoteCard uses virtual notecards to help writers capture and organize content in fiction (including screenwriting) and nonfiction projects. You can define and track characters, plots, and references in your writing, using "drag and drop" to organize the flow of ideas and information. I'm using it to organize info for my YA novel and have also used it to organize info for magazine articles. You can try it out yourself for free for 30 days, after which you need to buy an activation code (only US$29).
And another link, this one with zero productivity value at all but SO entertaining: Samorost2 (thanks to Jeff for the link). You need to have sound turned on for full appreciation, so it's best not to check this out at work. ;-) The game reminds me a lot of Myst, except with more humour. You can play several levels for free; the full version is US$9.90.
What's YOUR favourite addictive online game, by the way?
Hey, my Blathering about the National Cartoonists Society Christmas party was mentioned in The Daily Cartoonist (newspaper cartoonist industry news blog).
And wow, the response to my crafty Blathering yesterday was such that I already have one Christmas ornament exchange group filled, and a second started. This is for NEXT year's Christmas, by the way (2006!). People in Group One (I'm using LJ ids since I know some don't want real names listed publicly): me, braider, msminir, vixyish, Allison, chirosinger, rms_butterfly, little_cinnamon, missquirt, Beckett. Group Two (so far): Sandro, Lissa, tibicina. If you want to sign up, please add your name to this comment thread. I'll post confirmations and guidelines next year, but basically each person is going to send one homemade ornament to everyone in their Group plus one extra for Interfilk. If you'd like to make/receive extra, you can make special arrangements with members of other groups as well; I plan to exchange with everyone! :-)
And here are some of the postcards I've recently added to my Flickr Postcard Collection...
Sandro sent me a cool optical illusion postcards that shifts images as you tilt it; sorry, but this can't be accurately shown in this scan:
"Hi Deb! How are you? Well I hope good and confused (because you don't know me). My name's Sandro and I come from Liechtenstein (a small state next to Switzerland) and I'm a huge fan of your comic strips! I found them coincidentally by googling the web for 'comic cooking' (needed it for school). From there on I read all of them and I was laughing like an idiot. I really love them. Thru 'Debbie's Blatherings' I found out about your collection of postcards, so I thought I'll send you one! Searched my whole room and this is what I found. It's been designed by my aunt and I hope you like it. Greets, Sandro."
The (somewhat disturbing! :-)) postcard below is from Joshua:
"Hi Debbie! Greetings from Malaysia! I've been following your works/photos for a while, happy to learn that you like to collect postcards as well! Multi-cultural, multi-racial, Mayalsia consists of 3 main races: Malay, Chinese (that's me :-)) and Indian, plus many other minority yet equally important Aborigine groups. Nice to "meet" you again and hope you'll like this one!"
The postcard below is from Michael"beige_alert" Pereckas:
Description on the postcard:
"Greetings from the Milwaukee Art Museum! Named a "New Wonder of the World" by Conde Nast Traveler, this is the first Santiago Calatrava-designed building in the United States. Stroll through the world-class Collection or one of the changing exhibitions.
Rembrandt and His Time: Masterworks from the Albertina, Vienna
October 8, 2005 - January 8th, 2006"
I love snailmail postcards: each is unique, personal, a brief wave of greeting, a miniature still-life. If you send a postcard to my P.O. Box, I'll post it in my collection as well as in my Blatherings: Debbie Ridpath Ohi, 34 Eglinton Ave. W., P.O. Box 189, Toronto, ON Canada M4R 2H6.
Thanks!
I've mentioned SuperNoteCard from Mindola Software in Inkygirl but I'll plug it here as well: A while back I started using a virtual index card called "Miss Lonelynotes" to help organize ideas for my articles and novel. They've since upgraded the software at least half a dozen times and renamed it SuperNoteCard, and the functionality is now specifically geared towards writers.
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SuperNoteCard uses virtual notecards to help writers capture and organize content in fiction (including screenwriting) and nonfiction projects. You can define and track characters, plots, and references in your writing, using "drag and drop" to organize the flow of ideas and information. I'm using it to organize info for my YA novel and have also used it to organize info for magazine articles. You can try it out yourself for free for 30 days, after which you need to buy an activation code (only US$29).
And another link, this one with zero productivity value at all but SO entertaining: Samorost2 (thanks to Jeff for the link). You need to have sound turned on for full appreciation, so it's best not to check this out at work. ;-) The game reminds me a lot of Myst, except with more humour. You can play several levels for free; the full version is US$9.90.
What's YOUR favourite addictive online game, by the way?
Hey, my Blathering about the National Cartoonists Society Christmas party was mentioned in The Daily Cartoonist (newspaper cartoonist industry news blog).
And wow, the response to my crafty Blathering yesterday was such that I already have one Christmas ornament exchange group filled, and a second started. This is for NEXT year's Christmas, by the way (2006!). People in Group One (I'm using LJ ids since I know some don't want real names listed publicly): me, braider, msminir, vixyish, Allison, chirosinger, rms_butterfly, little_cinnamon, missquirt, Beckett. Group Two (so far): Sandro, Lissa, tibicina. If you want to sign up, please add your name to this comment thread. I'll post confirmations and guidelines next year, but basically each person is going to send one homemade ornament to everyone in their Group plus one extra for Interfilk. If you'd like to make/receive extra, you can make special arrangements with members of other groups as well; I plan to exchange with everyone! :-)
And here are some of the postcards I've recently added to my Flickr Postcard Collection...
Sandro sent me a cool optical illusion postcards that shifts images as you tilt it; sorry, but this can't be accurately shown in this scan:
"Hi Deb! How are you? Well I hope good and confused (because you don't know me). My name's Sandro and I come from Liechtenstein (a small state next to Switzerland) and I'm a huge fan of your comic strips! I found them coincidentally by googling the web for 'comic cooking' (needed it for school). From there on I read all of them and I was laughing like an idiot. I really love them. Thru 'Debbie's Blatherings' I found out about your collection of postcards, so I thought I'll send you one! Searched my whole room and this is what I found. It's been designed by my aunt and I hope you like it. Greets, Sandro."
The (somewhat disturbing! :-)) postcard below is from Joshua:
"Hi Debbie! Greetings from Malaysia! I've been following your works/photos for a while, happy to learn that you like to collect postcards as well! Multi-cultural, multi-racial, Mayalsia consists of 3 main races: Malay, Chinese (that's me :-)) and Indian, plus many other minority yet equally important Aborigine groups. Nice to "meet" you again and hope you'll like this one!"
The postcard below is from Michael"beige_alert" Pereckas:
Description on the postcard:
"Greetings from the Milwaukee Art Museum! Named a "New Wonder of the World" by Conde Nast Traveler, this is the first Santiago Calatrava-designed building in the United States. Stroll through the world-class Collection or one of the changing exhibitions.
Rembrandt and His Time: Masterworks from the Albertina, Vienna
October 8, 2005 - January 8th, 2006"
I love snailmail postcards: each is unique, personal, a brief wave of greeting, a miniature still-life. If you send a postcard to my P.O. Box, I'll post it in my collection as well as in my Blatherings: Debbie Ridpath Ohi, 34 Eglinton Ave. W., P.O. Box 189, Toronto, ON Canada M4R 2H6.
Thanks!
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