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Redesign!

Max Elman — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:35:13 +0000

And like magic, maxelman.com looks completely different. I believe this is number 6 or so? Maybe with some digging, and archive.org, I can make a little “history of” page. That would be… embarrassing..

So, new design = good? Let me know in the comments!

oh, wonderful spam

Max Elman — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 03:04:51 +0000

I’ve been looking closely at the spam that Google manages not to block lately. On one hand, I’m disappointed Google missed one out of nine thousand this month, but I’m also a little glad, as this kind of thing shines a bit of happiness onto my internal image of spammers. I mean, this is nearly poetry! I can picture literary snobs in a thousand years or so trying to analyze this kind of thing. This will be normal, and all emails that don’t contain gibberish will be put into a folder by themselves by future-Google.

Wait, who am I kidding. Google probably will append a few smaller companies they acquire onto their name for good measure. Like, Googlesofthoo - Mart.

Anyhow, here’s the message:

From: “Michelle Swain”
To:
Subject: shattuck darwinian cockatoo cockatoo darwinian
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 19:31:56 +0800

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estuary axolotl cockatoo concert wander giblet, giblet
klux destitute interpretation valentine shattuck.
tenderloin darwinian klux

interpretation pepsico giblet? symphonic, eh metabolite.
sunburnt shattuck impinge sunburnt valentine amarillo, dont
neoclassic kurd darwinian classroom cecil.

dagger pepsico antwerp

interpretation cecil sedge? stock, gregg dont.

valentine ham.

Happy Belated Birthday, Alfred

Max Elman — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 09:12:48 +0000

While I might be a tad late on this, it appears the crazy success of The Dark Knight brought some Michael Caine attention to the media. And thus, I realized I missed his 75th birthday. Shame. In honor of one of my favorite actors though, a picture. Just stare at this for a while, and take in the awesomeness. (taken from here)

Photos!

Max Elman — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:35:28 +0000

I’ve put up the first round of photos from Europe in my new web-gallery:
photo.maxelman.com

Have a look!

away message

Max Elman — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:56:05 +0000

Apparently I forgot to let this blog know that I’m cheating on it.. I’ve made a new travel-blog or sorts for my trip to Europe - check it out at europe.maxelman.com! I’ve been updating it daily (hourly, even), and I think it’s pretty exciting. You have to love technology - the iPhone in particular made this all happen.

Graduation!

Max Elman — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 16:10:22 +0000

A quick update that for now, UCSC is behind me. Had my Mom take this picture up by the squiggle:

And also, this new Sigur Ros track from their new album, Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust, somehow sums up the past few days:

maddbadger, maddbadger, maddbadger

Max Elman — Tue, 13 May 2008 06:42:41 +0000

So, I guess this blog has turned into a portfolio of sorts showcasing my work, with the occasional non-me-related think I find awesome. Well, this time I have something that falls into both categories.

Inspired by my housemate, Christopher, doing his rapping thing as usual, my other housemate and I decided that his “name” maddbadger deserved some making fun of. And perhaps some badgering. An idea was born - make the badger badger flash animation into Christopher.

After a few hours of re-learning After Effects, and wishing over and again that I simply had the original .fla file to work with, I created the amazing maddbadger.com - go look, even if you don’t know him.

I guess this (and similar things) is what happens when I have a bit too much free time on my hands. I’m slightly worried what will happen to the interwebs when I graduate next month. Yikes.

KZSC Santa Cruz Rickrolled 3 Counties

Max Elman — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:05:35 +0000

Like today really needed more rickrolling, I got KZSC to play everyone’s favorite song, “Never Gonna Give You Up” to its tri-county audience of the Monterey Bay area. Sadly, the DJ cut the song off after about 40 seconds, but I suppose we can forgive him for that. It’s not like we don’t know how the song goes…

Here’s the shot from the kzsc.org homepage:

And just to relive how wonderful live on-air rickrolling is, here’s a short mp3.

Man, KZSC rocks so much.

iphone wallpaper

Max Elman — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:25:01 +0000

Maybe it’s just me, but I really do hate the clutter of adding wallpapers to an iPhone the traditional way - you have to add photos to iPhoto, make a new album, have things be a mess… Anyone else? No? Just me? Well, fine then.

On the off chance that someone else agrees - that it would be all together simpler to add wallpapers to apple’s “wallpapers” screen, and at the same time removing wallpapers never to be used (The Mona Lisa, anyone?), I thought it might be useful to write my experiences, as I couldn’t find it anywhere else.

Of course, you’ll need an unlocked/jailbroken iPhone for this (I’ve used and recommend ZiPhone) and then you’ll need to turn ssh. SFTP into the phone as root (the IP is under wi-fi settings, the password “alpine”) using Fugu/Transmit/etc and go to: /Library/Wallpaper/

From here, feel free to delete any unwanted wallpapers (and their accompanying thumbnail), as well as add more, keeping the 100, 101, 102… 119 number structure intact. Looks like you can add however many you want. And they’re all in one place!

After typing this all out, I now realize how geeky and anal this really is… Oh well

Note: I got a lot of wallpapers from GelaSkins - check ‘em out.

costco rocks

Max Elman — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 03:33:37 +0000

Spotted these bottles at Costco the other day. Click on the image for a larger look - it’s amuzing.