dandefish

update about swimming counting. i am experimenting with my mind count in different ways than, actually, by numbers. i took a long enough word, pampelishka (dandelion in almost czech) and i just swim the word. the letters. i guess it has something to do with my profession, and i love typography.

• P takes easy four lengths, just make it a bit more squareish;
• A ditto, yes normally one would say three but take e.g. such venus rising
• M ditto,
• P ditto (it starts to be a bit boring),
• E (zzz)
• L now a bit of excitement: it counts only two lengths!
• i but cool out, here comes a fix. with a little trick: the second one is THE DOT,
• S well, who said it has to be straight?
• h better to use minus one, in caps needs a lot of imagination,
• K nice example of fourness of most of the letters in abc,
• A ya ya. okay another example.

then, one can add unlimited numbers of exclamation marks (line & dot). i do two, just in case.

beercan

those antipodes are so funny... the dude who attends the language course with me had his cake day yesterday, means that he has to bring some refreshment for a short break between two hours' lessons. his grandma baked beautiful chocolate cake shaped as a hedgehog with chocolate thorns. and he also brought a five liters cane of staropramen, beer from prague, which in his best knowledge is located in germany. i forgive him, i wouldn't swear i know where other towns than sydney are...

orchard

i've got those apples at home during the years:

• macintosh classic II. the little beige box with 9" binary screen and cute finder 7 icons. i was trying to get an old cubase for it so i could control my drum machine and midi keyboard but no luck. but it was cute thingy.
• power macintosh 8200. yeah that big step. i had it borrowed for more than one year. it had enough ram to work in all adobe apps plus playing mp3 without a skip. cool computer. i had the weird adjustable keyboard with it which i loved for forcing me to type right.
• macintosh quadra 660av. that one i used for a few months in denmark. good for mail and surfing, not much used for anything else.
• ibook (white g3/900). that's my kiwibook i use now to type this post. i got it on aotearoa, travelled with it back to europe, used it heavily every day, commuting to and fro work, opening it on buses and trains, surfing on gprs, playing music from itms... well used machine which gives me minima minimum of problems. it crashed three times in those twenty two months i own it; the first time the very first day i bought it, the second time last summer when doing just too many things at the same time (importing video from dv camera onto one firewire disk, exporting another video from another firewire disk to the internal one, copying data from one disk to another, and then working in photoshop, checking mail, talking via ichat, etc... still i was shocked for an hour when it happened and so i took a picture of the screen) and the last time in terrain i killed the great mac os x "panther" it by inserting an already strange behaving flash card from my boss'es camera (again, a picture... um i can't find it!). it's so good computer that i decided to prolong its life by putting burdens of work onto another one, which has just arrived by tnt:
• powerbook g4 (15" superdrive 1.67). the main reason was that superdrive, the ability of burning dvd's now in 8x speed. the screen looks huge comparing to ibook and even more to colleague's twelve inch. but more comparation in the next post.

thousand

hey have any of my fellow readers got experiences of counting pool lengths? i know that to count up to forty is not such a big deal but i sometimes, usually add a few numbers. i actually am trying to count hundred meters as one (there and back is half of one, so i count a half, one, one and half, two etc) but still i'm sometimes on doubts. any advices? thanks!