The Corcoran

Yesterday was a special treat. My friend who works at the Corcoran Gallery of Art (i.e., Museum) in Washington, DC gave us a personal tour around. Being an artist himself and an employee there for such a long time he had such great insight into all of the paintings and painters themselves that made it a real treat. The funny thing about it was that there was a special Andy Warhol exhibit at the museum and that's where we spent the least amount of time. I wasn't terribly impressed with that section of the exhibit.

On another note I've been thinking a lot about how there are certain things about the design of computers (Operating Systems in particular) that make them highly inefficient. One of them is the amount of time digging through the start menu (or other similar item) looking for a program. It's a ridiculous waste of time. However, there are products (many of them are free) that make this much more efficient. For you MS Windows users out there, I would suggest trying launchy, an open-source knock off of Quicksilver for OS X. To use launchy, press alt+space. A little window will up in the upper left corner. Once it's open, start typing the name of the program you are looking for. You don't even have to spell it right. It will start to create a list of possible programs that you might mean. Just select the one you want with your cursor button and hit enter. It sounds complicated but let's say I want to open Mozilla Firefox. I just hit alt+space and type "fire" then hit enter. Much faster than digging around in that horrible start menu. I hope that helps.