Mostly musings on design
So the wife is now published online in the Applied Physics Letters volume 91! I added the design category to the post because several of the figures in the paper were created by yours truly under the direction of the wife. Congratulations Kaylee!
Please note that the article is behind a subscription wall and you must pay to see and/or download the article. I believe you can view the abstract though.
So the wife and I visited Altu’s, a local Ethiopian restaurant in Lansing. We ordered the Vegetarian Feast for 2. This was our first experience with Ethiopian cuisine and we were pleasantly surprised. We both liked the spicy lentils and spicy ground peas. It looks like refried beans, tastes like uh, spicy - but a really good spicy. Not sure how else to describe it. The restaurant also has musicians that come to play from time to time and so we were entertained throughout the evening by the Fabulous Heftones, a duette. Using ukulele and whats called a Heftone string bass (I’ll link to their site so you can see what a Heftone looks like), they sang old 20’s, 30’s, 40’s, and 50’s ditties, ballads, and songs. It was quite the delightful evening.
Altu’s: 5/5 stars. The food is interesting and good, the atmosphere cozy and warm. Perfect if you’re looking for something different to add to your dining options.
The Fabulous Heftones: 5/5 stars. Entertaining, engaging, and come on, who can resist a uke and string base duo who are not afraid to jazz the songs up with freestyle vocals?!!! They are best seen in person where their joy and passion for the music really shines through.
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Funny story from work: So a client had their website redesigned (after my redesign which got royally messed up by how many navigation buttons they wanted stick on) and they chose a different company to do it. The design looks good and does a great job of capturing the problematic navigation that killed my design. But as clients are wont, they decided to flip some colors around and add another button (obviously this client is predisposed to add buttons). The client didn’t want to use the original designer for whatever reason and decided to use us (again). The color switching and adding the new button went really well after we bought the missing font that the original designer had used. Anyway the images were fine and dandy. And this is now where the story gets funny. I’m looking at the HTML and CSS and find that there are a bjillion different stylesheets. Each page in the site has its own 2 stylesheets. Mind boggling crazy it becomes funny. But that’s not the worst of it. I drop in the images into the proper folder(s - don’t get me started on how they organized the file structure) and open up the appropriate style sheets to make some text color changes appropriate to the image color changes I’ve made. To make sure that I edit the correct style I also open up one of the html files - and I spot a <p class=”heading”>. I think, huh, that’s interesting, because generally one uses an <h> tag for headings…And as I look over the HTML code and the CSS I start to laugh as it becomes clear no <h> tags were used throughout the entire page! Although to be honest I didn’t search that hard. There’s nothing wrong with <p class=”heading”> but when it’s being used to replace an <h> tag, it’s not semantic or appropriate! That and the various non-breaking space code that littered the page made me laugh. Someone new to CSS perhaps?