Read My Mind!

The Book is Done!

..or at least it's out of my hands for a bit. Himanshu and I sent in the final draft Sunday night, and now, the folks over in Technical Illustration are scratching their heads over our pathetic sketches. The typesetting team is wondering how in the world we so completely misunderstood the template and styles requirements, and the copy editors are sobbing into their seventh espressos while marking through yet another, painfully obvious grammatical error. All I can say is that I am truly thankful that these people are there to make me look competent.

And now for a glimpse into the creative process. This is an example of one of the many things which made collaborating with Himanshu such a smart move. At some point, late into the night, we needed a diagram for how the components of an RFID system work together. I came up with the diagram above. Himanshu was wise enough to point out that this looked more like and ancient Egyptian mural than a diagram for RFID middleware. I agreed once he pointed this out, so we barely missed eternal infamy as "that eyeball book."