My favorite guitarist is now Danielle Haim.
Damn she is good. What tone and precision she gets from her instrument.
And what a beautiful guitar she has, too. It’s a Gibson SG, which was also played by one of the Gospel progenitors of rock ‘n roll, Rosetta Tharpe.
This is my leisure reading at the moment. It’s a good break from routing protocols. Some major parts I only understand about 50% of. That’s ok. I don’t plan on actually being a biomedical engineer. And I’ve never taken any course or read any lower-level textbook on this.
I just like to know things.
The parts on kinematical gait analysis are the most interesting so far, though I only understand about 20% of the math in that particular section. If I had any ability at all at math I would’ve been truly intellectually formidable. But, alas, and such.
For some lighter reading, I also read the Southern Reach trilogy recently. It’s worth reading, but it didn’t go far enough or deep enough with what it was attempting to do.
“The biologist” is a great character, though. Both of them.
You’ll see what I mean if you read it.
Computer geeks like to claim that they use icons in the interfaces these days instead of words because “icons are universal.”
The problem is that icons are not universal. Very much not. When I’ve done intensive tech support in the past most users had no idea what 99% of icons meant, while they could almost always pick out key words like “Print” and “Save.”
The real problem is laziness and management attempting to save money by avoiding translation of an interface into many languages.
Icons are only universal among the 1-2% of very tech-savvy users out there.
For others, they are almost all indecipherable and probably always will be.
This “icons are universal” claptrap is one of the biggest myths in UX, and a persistent one at that, because it allows executives to skimp on good design.