Ambigrams is getting some attention

About 2 year back I posted a couple of Ambigrams I made of my own and my, then fiancee, now wifes name. You’ll find them here.

Now they get som google attention again with the release of “Angels and Demons”. Ambigrams are a central part of the plot in that book, and in the film also I presume. The book sucked so hard you won’t believe it, so it shouldn’t be too hard to make the movie better. I acutally enjoyed reading “The daVinci Code”, but “Angels and Demons” was just crap.

Anyway, funny how a movie affects what people googles, and that the stats pick up these things.

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well, Ive been looking at it for a while, trying to get what it’s all about, and I finally decided to give it a go. I’m not sure if it’s my cup of tea, but why not try it out.

So far, so good

So far, everything goes remarkably well in out little family. Jonas is eating well and sleeps throught the night (except for a couple of feedings), so we get a fair amount of rest. While I certainly could have blogged more, I have pulled back on purpose to focus more on family these first weeks, but I miss writing, so I think I will start again. Probably not very frequent, but at least some.

Except for a fair amount of baby shots, there hasn’t been that much photography lately. I have managed to sneak out a couple of nights, but I haven’t found the inspiration to shoot. The mood has been more to sit down pondering.

Anyway, I’m back on the blog.

Finally

He finally decided to join us. Meet Jonas.

Brain autofocus

All this waiting is messing with my head. I haven’t managed to do anything useful this whole holyday. I’ve been playing a lot with my phone though, which I also is writing this post on, but I really whish I could focus a bit more.

I need an autofocus for my brain.

what's up with the blog roll

Still waiting ……..

Anyway, I have had my iphone for a couple of days now, and i really love it. I really enjoy sitting in the couch reading blogs surfing without having to bring the lap top, or sitting in my office. I discovered that I find the time to read more stuff now. If I sit down for a couple of minutes, I can pull out the phone and read a couple of interesting blog posts.

So, I decided to try out a couple of blogs that I haven’t had time to look at before. I started to search through the blogs I usually read to see which ones they are reading, but what happened to the blog rolls? I didn’t notice until now, but quite a few people have abandoned them as it seems. There are probably several reasons for that, but it kind of undermines the dynamics of blogging. How on earth can I find out about which blogs that are the inspiration for the ones I read if they don’t tell me. And how do they expect to be found if there are no links to them.

The cult of done

Paul wrote a post linking to the “The cult of done manifesto” some days back.

I just wanted to comment a bit further on that. The manifesto lists 13 items, and in the spirit of the manifesto itself, it was done in 20 minutes because it had to be done.

Well, not all the items are that good, but there are some that resonates well with me.

Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you’re doing even if you don’t and do it.

The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.

Laugh at perfection. It’s boring and keeps you from being done.

People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.

Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.

Done is the engine of more.

The funny thing, if you read through the comments to the original post, is how differently people interpret it, and react to it.

You got the people embracing it, which are typically the so called “creative” people. People doing arts or working in some sort of media. I have no problems seeing why they embrace it. Then there are the cranks that think it is stupid. I typically see the engineers there. Many of them claim this is just an excuse for lazy people not to work, and they are hard at work fixing the mistakes of these laze bastards. A couple of them claim to work in the aerospace industry, thinking they make a stronger point.

First of all, I don’t know if you’ve heard the old saying; “We could use the absolute best quality, unfortunately the aerospace industry has settled with aerospace quality”. Even aerospace is limited by time, budget, ignorance and incompetence. Like any other industry.

I think the false assumption some peaple make, is that they equal “done” with “not on my desk anymore”. This is in my opinion not true. The last one is not good, while the first one is. for me, being done means I have completed a task at the required quality standard, and if I failed to reach that, to acknowledge the fact and communicate that to those affected by it. It does not mean that I pretend to have completed the task just to ship it of to be someone elses problem. That is, in my opinion, not being done.

I am an engineer who has spend several years in the semiconductor industry, making integrated circuits, and I have spend quite a few years piloting aircrafts and maintaining my own sailplane. I think the ideas presented above is universally applicable to these activities, as to photography or any other artsy stuff.