Read the New York Times article All this time, I was in the minority and didn’t know it. By the way, my second attempt at soup turned out fairly well. I still need to get a cookbook and try to cook a few things outside of stews. Thanks to Alex, who actually called me up…
Altered what I gave to Ben, and made it work for Flash 5. This isn’t all that exciting, but I felt rather good completing it. I guess it’s more the thought that hit me as I was working on converting the thing from Flash 6 to Flash 5: holy CRAP! I know enough about Flash…
Most of the day today, I was in a holding pattern. Ben got back, and he had a lot on his plate to clear off before he could attend to the Hummer contest site. I played around with a few more elements, but just spent most of the workday creating small flourishes and possible elements….
Chatting around with seventh, Grumpy, TS7 and Matt – my mood improved dramatically. To make things even better, Ben hit me up on IM and asked me if I knew how to pass variables back and forth between php and Flash. I was able to quickly come up with a workable solution, and turned it…
Talking with seventh today, he reminded me how wonderful orisinal.com is. Fun games, fantastic example of strong look-and-feel continuity, excellent branding, and just slick overall. It’s easy to get lost in this site, so only go there if you’ve got time on your hands (it’ll suck you in).
Looking back over yesterday’s entry, I’m thinking again about The Matrix: not the movie, but the mathematical term. A long, long time ago, back when I was a wee little sophomore in high school, I was enrolled in an advanced algebra course. Hell, maybe it was Freshman year… wait, that was geometry. ANYhow, I remember…
During one of the many coffee breaks today, I went down for another refill around 3:30 PM. The stairwell opens right into where Emma works, and I stopped in to see if she wanted anything (since I was going). Took her order for a latte and dropped it off on my way back. Dana was…
Today, I worked on doing some layouts for Q101. Took me a long while, and the entire time… I felt under a goodly amount of pressure. This thing needs to be up by Friday morning, bright and early. Ben’s been out of the office, and doesn’t get back until tomorrow. Usually, I’m not the person…
It’s not even technically the 27th anymore, so I’m behind. Just got done with the freelance work for Ben. Took me a while, but the workaround actually panned out. Tip for all you folks working with dynamic text in Flash: you can mask dynamic text, but only if you embed the fonts. I could go…
So… Q101 is having another big contest/giveaway. Among other prizes (all aimed to evoke a "mobile and wireless" theme), the big daddy prize is a Hummer. Just a little tip for you, in case this scenario arises at your work place. When you go to Google Images and do a search for "hummer," make sure…
I think everyone has this at one time or another: the underside of the eyelid, twitching for a split second, doing a little spasm-dance. Well, my left eye has been doing this on and off for some time now. And not just for a second or two, but for several seconds in a row. This…
www.whatisthematrix.com Big downloads for people with big pipes. Big fun! And while you’re there, check out The Animatrix link. Looks very interesting… several directors exploring the story of The Matrix through anime. And one of the films has a downloadble preview starting February 4th! Check out the trailer too – pretty cool concept. Thanks to…
It’s living vicariously through someone else’s computer games. TS7 bought a copy of Sim City 4, and it turns out you can "create" your own sims to observe. It’s not quite as detailed as The Sims, but apparently – you see a lot. I found out today that he’s named a few of his "people"…
Ahhh. Now I know why I love computers, and why Flash and ActionScript are so damn fun! All the scribbling down on paper, all the head scratching, all the cursing… when your XML data loads effortlessly and creates movie clips on the fly (placing themselves appropriately, based on whether or not they have descriptions)… all…