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Tool of the Moment

When my mom (and some other folk) sends me e-mail, the only linebreaks are between paragraphs. Which is fine, but it means my primitive homebrew webmail only adds one ">" to quote each paragraph, eachline. This is a javascript quoter/80-column word-wrapper. It wordwraps and sets the text linelength to just a little above whatever number is set in the box. (I made a similar script to help cut and paste large-ish amounts of text into multiple 4K-character memos for the PalmPilot, I'll release that soon.) UPDATE: I just realized that my PalmPilot version isn't needed...I had a gripe with the new desktop app, because it seemed to truncate long text pasted into it, not dividing it into multiple memos like the old one did, but then I realized the new one has the same behavior--you just have to make sure you click on the list of memo titles before pasting (rather than pasting into the memo edit box). And dang, I had such a good name for my PalmPilot tool: the "PalmCram 4000".

linesize:

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DIY Toy of the Moment
Heh, I remember playing around with this Matchstick Rockets site at IDD in '96 or so. Big fun, just try not to get invaded for suspicion of WMD.

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Quote of the Moment

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

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Art Toilet of the Moment
This cellar.org Image of the Day is this London public lavatory lined with one way mirrors so you can see out but others can't see in. (On the message board someone asks what about at night, if there's a light on inside is everything visible?) Still, cool idea, and an artistically interesting idea about privacy and public spaces.

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Ramble of the Moment
In a recent livejournal entry, Mo says "Have sworn to finally get a tattoo this summer. No more pussyfooting! Prolly something smallish on my back." (She actually mentioned to me that she almost hesitated putting it in, because she knew it would provoke comment from me...well here it is...) I just find it very odd that she doesn't know what she wants, just something, probably abstract. I mean, I guess it's not that weird a viewpoint, either she sees a line between people-with-tattoos and people-without-tattoos as a kind of social grouping, and she wants to be on the other side of that line, or maybe she just thinks it looks better and more interesting than nothing (or if it's usually hidden, some kind of peekaboo surprise), or maybe she just finds it a cool concept. But overall, just wanting "a" tattoo seems a little teenie-bopperish to me. (It's mostly a fear of needles that's kept her from one thus far.)

Of course, if I got a tattoo, that would be totally different. Mostly because I know exactly what I'd get: a small Alien Bill, like the one at the top of kisrael.com.

I suspect she finds some solace in the way tattoos don't seem as permanent now as they use to seem. Bill the Splut was right: dermabrasion is the industry of the future--maybe event the present.