You've Got Meow! Laura was already up; I woke up, shaved, brushed my teeth, then headed to the kitchen for a little something to eat. As I passed our front door I heard a loud peeping noise, I assumed it was a bird and almost kept walking, but ... it didn't sound like any of the bird noises I usually heard in the morning. I made for the front door. Tuesday, March 29, 2005 Wednesday, March 30, 2005 Bit Planner — Special Projects We noticed some really interesting things, and made a dream manifesto for our ultimate organisation system: It had to be big and visible Looking at a computer monitor or smartphone screen just doesn’t help you see months ahead into the future It had to be tactile We loved the idea of being able to hold a bit of time, and to see and feel the size of time It had to work both online and offline Because we travel a lot and want to be able to see what’s going on wherever we are It had to be flexible Everyone in our studio uses their own method for organising themselves, so our solution needed to work regardless of which smartphone, notebook or pen you used It had to look neat and tidy We loved the idea of structures and grids that can take a mess out of your head and effortlessly force it to be clean and organised it had to be Secure We loved LEGO could be used to make complex information tangible, and after much experimenting we created a calendar on our wall which is made entirely out of LEGO bricks.
A Map of the Cat I’ve been working on a particular project for a long, long time - I’ve mentioned it here occasionally. The project is, at its heart, a translation of a certain multiple-path story from Japanese to English. The first time I went through the story, I relied almost completely on machine translation, and didn’t get much of the nuance the writer put into it – but even then, there was a particular phrase that struck me. The last words of each story path are the same: それは永遠でなく。 My understanding of the language has grown a thousandfold since the first time I read that, but I still dither on how exactly I should put the sentiment into readable English. I don’t know if I understand the words… But every time I read them, I feel them.
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