General Release: Priority/Ignore

Last week I read an article in the Harvard Business Review entitled "Two Lists You Should Look At Every Morning." I decided that the lists made a nice coda to my priorities reminder, Right Now!, so I spent a little time this weekend and hacked it together.

This is probably some of the cleanest code I've ever written: the HAML is inlined directly into Javascript templates by the build process, the CSS is compiled via Recess, and the coffeescript is short, sweet, and to the point. There are a few issues left: the LESS file is a bit of mess because of all the Bootstrap drop-ins; I suspect there might be a bit of repetition in identifying which object is being edited at any given time; the Boostrap LESS doesn't work well on smaller monitors yet; and I gave an Easter Egg I'd like to sneak in eventually.

But it's a fun toy, and it makes a nice replacement for RightNow!

Priority/Ignore

The Silicon Dawn Tarot

Several years ago, I met Egypt Urnash, who was showing off her beautiful new tarot deck. When we met, she was in the process of finalizing an arrangement with a printer, after which the deck would be available for general release.

It's out now and I have to say I'm very disappointed. It's a delightful work. Egypt must have been absolutely mad to think she could execute 99 tarot cards (21 extras thrown in for good measure), but she did, and every one of them is exquisite. There's a Folgio-esque air of playfulness in much of the deck, the dark cards are appropriately forbidding, and scattered throughout the cards are a few that appear pure black, or pure white-- until you hold them at an angle and the depth of ink reveals a startling scene.

The problem with the deck is that each is no bigger than a playing card; you can see the art much more faithfully at the link above, her Flickr site (her website is down, compromised apparently) than you can in these beautifully printed pieces of wonderment.

I wanted to love the Silicon Dawn, but I can't. If (when?) she ever gets them printed on decent sized cardstock-- say, what the Crowley deck comes on-- I'll gladly buy them.