Torley Lives

I once, in all my obsessions, had the idea of creating this Second Life avatar who was a composite of various UI components… he'd have a big button for a mouth, check boxes for eyes, and menus (as flexi-prims) would provide his cape and/or cowl. I didn't settle on a name, because "UI man" is way too corny, and plus, he wasn't a man.

But there is a certain bare beauty about laying all the menus — via the "====" tear-off strips — side-by-side and watching it all unfold.

I mean, is there not an exemplary calm to that? It's like these words, laiied in columns, resting adjacent to other pillars, sorted by topic. At the same time, some may see a gloomy sadness: TOO MUCH CHOICE is confusion. Which is why, in all your daily efforts, you'll likely not have all windows open on your screen simultaneously. But, as little-known as it may be, remember you can click the "====" at the top of each one and peel it right off, so some of your fave items are right next to ya.

I continue to take screenshots against a stark background of white, autocropped in Photoshop and then uploaded. I originally came onto this road because Benjamin Linden created the basis for an internal UI catalog so we can, among other things, easily see what our interface looks like, and accumulate history as we go along. I'm just helping, and I like to help.

Plus, it gives me a quicker way to lookup "What menu items are where?" instead of having to fire up the viewer and login each and every time. Bless you Flickr for being more lenient towards screenshots, maybe future generations will see this as art.

Panacea through touching your keyboard + mouse, that's what's good for ya.