Kernings & Chrome

humansofnewyork: “You don’t need a church to talk to God. Just...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:55:35 -0400

humansofnewyork:

“You don’t need a church to talk to God. Just talk to God when you are walking down the street.”

Ladies and gents, Tony Parker! applause

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 22:22:48 -0400

Ladies and gents, Tony Parker! *applause*

Facebook’s new compose message interface looks more like...

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 12:36:40 -0400

Facebook’s new compose message interface looks more like an email compose interface. I’ve always thought Facebook’s messaging-cum-email idea was brilliant. It’s just another thing they can use to assert their dominance in the world of connecting people and possibly irritating Google a little more.

"If you asked people in 1989 what they needed to make their life better, it was unlikely that they..."

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 10:17:00 -0400

“If you asked people in 1989 what they needed to make their life better, it was unlikely that they would have said that a decentralized network of information nodes that are linked using hypertext.”

- http://farmerandfarmer.org/mastery/builder.html (via cdixon)

"Maybe none of us really understand what we’ve lived through or feel we’ve had enough..."

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 23:31:14 -0400

“Maybe none of us really understand what we’ve lived through or feel we’ve had enough time.”

- Kathy H, Never Let Me Go

I have yet to catch up on WWDC, but just leaving this here in...

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 20:50:32 -0400

I have yet to catch up on WWDC, but just leaving this here in case anyone’s interested to see a glimpse of the new interface. Notice the lack of shiny 3D-ness. I like that the gradients are there, I don’t like that the 3D-ness is gone.

uxrave:

iOS7 first look: Flat yet subtle gradients, translucent layers, parallax, BOKEH!

via The Verge live blog

Things I learned at my first ever MLB game

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 17:38:00 -0400

DISCLAIMER: I don’t know much about baseball. A friend of mine took me along for my first game. Blue Jays VS. Texas Rangers at the Rogers Centre (formerly the Skydome), June 8th 2013.

The baseball pitch is really pretty in an odd, geometric kind of way.
Lower bowl seats are worth the extra money. There is only one jumbotron and the baseball is tiny and white and not very visible from way up there.
The NBA, NHL, and MLB utilize the same crowd-engaging chant cues.
Baseball’s rules are really really complicated to understand without reading up/asking people around you who sorta kinda know when to cheer.
There are technically 9 innings in a game, but if the two teams are tied up at the end of the 9 innings, the game goes on for however long it needs to until one team pulls ahead. In this case, the game went on for 18 innings! But the Jays won, so yay Toronto!
Toronto loves José Bautista. When he comes onto the field to bat, his stance is kinda funny.
Baseball players have weird names. Jurickson Profar, Edwin Encarnacion, JP Arencibia to name a few.
I love sports arenas. As is evident by my post about my first ever NBA game experience, I am totally in love with the Air Canada Centre too.
This is the second sports experience I’ve had where Toronto’s playing against a Texas team! First, the Spurs (who are my favorite team now) and now the Rangers.
My siblings and I used to play baseball as kids, using a pestle as a baseball bat and Time-Life encyclopedias as bases. Needless to say, the spines of those encyclopedias had to be (heavily) taped up. My mom is a hero for putting up with all of it.
If you wanted to throw a big party, you could do it at the Rogers Centre! Wouldn’t that be the greatest?
There are a lot of different scores to keep track of. There’s a “ball” count which is a score against the pitching team, “strike” which is a score against the batting team and “outs”. After 3 outs, the inning is done.
3 strikes and a player is out, any more than 3 “balls” means the batsman gets to walk to the next base. When that happens, another batsman comes up to bat.
A home run is worth 1 point. All that work for 1 measly point.
There is minimal commentary at a baseball game. Sometimes, young fans get to be guest commentators. It’s kinda cute.
Rogers Centre has a lot of gates that are confusing to navigate from the inside.
The Rogers Centre opens up like half way through so half the audience is in the sunlight while the other half is immersed in shadow. It’s asymmetrical.
Baseball cheerleaders wear real clothes!
There are these baseball songs that everybody (except me) knows the words to.
Parking at the Rogers Centre is expensive.
People start filing out after every inning post the 9th ‘cause they don’t know when the game will end.
The food places shut down somewhere around the 13th inning. It must be hard to predict when the game will end, I suppose? It sucks that the concession stands are closed when people are starving though.
If you have baseball tickets, don’t plan anything else after that.
The Bay-Lakeshore area is not the best for food.
Baseball players are slightly older than I expected them to be.
Kids are the best jumbotron baits.
Now that I sorta kinda know the rules, I could get used to watching this ~~as long as it doesn’t interfere with the NBA season~~.

The San Antonio Spurs won the first game of the series in the NBA championships just moments ago....

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 23:40:32 -0400

The San Antonio Spurs won the first game of the series in the NBA championships just moments ago. Alhamdulillah.

If everyone could please send good vibes/thoughts/prayers for...

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 21:40:39 -0400

If everyone could please send good vibes/thoughts/prayers for the San Antonio Spurs to take this year’s NBA championships, that would be awesome. It may or may not be Timmy’s last year and he deserves another ring. He’s not about the show, it’s all about the team and the game and we could use more of that in the NBA.

If you’re interested in design, mobile usability, or User...

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 13:40:42 -0400

If you’re interested in design, mobile usability, or User Experience design in general, I highly recommend watching this talk by the one and only Luke Wroblewski.

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the..."

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 12:10:24 -0400

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"When you’re obsessed with something that’s Haraam, it colonizes you. Are you going to..."

Tue, 28 May 2013 12:40:25 -0400

“When you’re obsessed with something that’s Haraam, it colonizes you. Are you going to liberate yourself?”

- Tariq Ramadan, Reviving the Islamic Spirit 2011

"Sure. You go to college, you meet a boy, you drop out, you get married, struggle for a year in New..."

Mon, 27 May 2013 00:03:34 -0400

“Sure. You go to college, you meet a boy, you drop out, you get married, struggle for a year in New York while he learns to tie a tie, and then move to the country and just start the whole disaster over.”

- Sandy

Yes, that’s a wave in stunning detail. What was that you...

Sun, 26 May 2013 23:36:22 -0400

Yes, that’s a wave in stunning detail. What was that you said about the universe coming into being by accident? I couldn’t hear it over all this intricate design surrounding me.

We can yell and scream about equal rights and opportunities for women, but until and unless we...

Sun, 26 May 2013 00:21:52 -0400

We can yell and scream about equal rights and opportunities for women, but until and unless we realize that women play a big part in making things the way they are today, we’re not getting anywhere.

Sad to report The Fault in Our Stars did not live up to the...

Sat, 25 May 2013 22:53:43 -0400

Sad to report The Fault in Our Stars did not live up to the hype.

bookbackmountain:

The Fault in Our Stars generated a lot of buzz when it came out and I’m not quite sure why.

It’s a YA novel, so if you’re not into Young Adult Lit, don’t go near it. The story is narrated by 16-year old cancer patient Hazel Grace who meets and falls in love with a former cancer patient, 17-year old Augustus Waters.

Yes, it reads exactly how you’d think. A teen romance + cancer patients. I say this not to be insensitive, because I’m sure it speaks volumes to certain audiences, but because I was expecting more from Green. I really respect him as an author and an educator and so, when I heard about this book of his I had yet to read that the world could not stop talking about, I was foolish enough to buy into it.

One thing I can say for the book, however, is that it’s a fast read. It took me a little less than 3 hours on a bus to Montreal and I definitely appreciated the company.

Pages: 313

Time to read: ~3 hours

Rating: 3/5

Dr. Tariq Ramadan at Northrop Frye Hall for the Contemporary...

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:49:00 -0400

Dr. Tariq Ramadan at Northrop Frye Hall for the Contemporary Applied Ethics lecture on March 13th, 2013.

My notes from his lecture can be found here.

Photo credit: Ali Saeed

This is where all my money goes. Books and cheese.

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:51:16 -0400

This is where all my money goes. Books and cheese.

A glimpse into my mom’s library at home in Jeddah. I...

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:44:38 -0400

A glimpse into my mom’s library at home in Jeddah. I remember making a database for her books. Can’t remember the exact number, but there were several thousands of them. I owe my love of books (and a bajillion other things) to her.

A great responsive grid site. inspiremyweb: Works Medical •...

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:15:52 -0400

A great responsive grid site.

inspiremyweb:

Works Medical • http://www.worksmedical.com/site/