Installed the Lion upgrade on my iMac this morning, though not without difficulty ... the download crashed the App Store application! My initial thoughts are mixed. Safari seems much improved, and the left/right swipe action there is brilliant. I'm already used to the "reversed" scrolling, but I re-enabled the always-visible scroll bar ... it makes no sense at all to have that disappear on a desktop device. Launchpad is useless for anyone with more than a handful of apps, and since I don't use Spaces I don't really like the new look of Mission Control. Mail seems more solid, though I went back to the classic UI there. There's a lot of serious ugliness in the UI, especially for a design-conscious company like Apple. The Finder and Mail went way too far towards the monochrome look ... the font choices, spacing, and graphic layout all suck. On the other hand, Apple went too far in the other direction in the Address Book and iCal, sacrificing usability and
Mark - did you read the book? What are your thoughts?
ReplyDeleteI honestly think it's a great book, but need to give you a disclaimer: I'm the author of four of the essays in the volume. :)
ReplyDeleteFor someone who really wants a more intimate knowledge of the park than what the standard tourist guidebooks offer, this volume and the centennial anthology ("A View Inside Glacier National Park: 100 Years, 100 Stories") are both wonderful reads.
Well, I'm definitely interested. It's not available on Amazon right now - will it be in the future? Have you read Seasonal Disorder by Pat Hagan? He has some great stories as well..
ReplyDeleteI know that the Glacier Park Foundation is working to expand distribution before this summer's visitor season, but I'm not sure of all the details. For now, I think it's just available on Hulu, and some Glacier-area bookstores.
ReplyDeleteI used to know Pat, and his book is great! All kinds of fun to read. Some of the ones in this volume are a little more historical ... the reminiscences range throughout the years of the 20th Century.
Ha ha, I hope the statute of limitations has run out on some of those stories, Mark. Or did you only include the tamer ones?!
ReplyDeleteHa! There are a number of stories in that book that would have never seen the light of day without a Statute of Limitations. As far as I know, none of them involved your lovely wife, though ...
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