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- October 11, 2004
Mmm, Curry
October 11, 2004Read more
I love curry, especially the mild Japanese-style curry. Curry is possibly my favorite food even over dark chocolate. Mmm. And I do enjoy my dark chocolate.
I decided that it would be a good idea to save some money by cooking at home, by preparing huge simmering pots of curry to be eaten over a few days. The cost per prep is about 10 bucks, making 12 servings. The savings would be staggering!
Of course, the problem is that I love curry, and end up eating most of it before the day is out. I need to make something disgusting like cold cabbage soup with pickled pigs feet and leeks if this is really going to work.
On the plus side, I was able to make a banner for the davidocracy section finally. I’m limited somewhat by needing to have whitespace at the top of the image so it fades nicely into the category selector.
So here are a couple of pictures from the shoot. Yes, I see the smudge on the chopsticks, and it’s driving me nuts; I’m trying not to go back to touch it out ( om mani padme om, etc). I did three different sets with different bowls, shooting about a hundred pics total. Ended up with about 10 to work with. As a bonus, I got to eat each set after I was done shooting it! I’m feeling a little queasy right now.
- October 11, 2004
The Dark Underbelly of PCI
October 11, 2004Read more
This is a somewhat technical article about the device manager in Windows XP and (gasp!) BIOS settings and how they impacted installing an Adaptec Firewire interface. You have been warned!
I had some hardware conflicts installing the card (sleepy yet?) into my (yawn) Athlon 2000+ rig. If you’re still awake…
- October 11, 2004
Return of MovieClip “Duh”
October 11, 2004Read moreI was drifting in and out of sleep, it being 520AM and as such was an appropriate time for such drifting, and I was dreaming of MovieClips and Events. I was thinking how MovieClips were kind of ungainly affairs, and like a lot of old Flash objects were of the dynamic nature…that is, they don’t require explicit declaration of properties, and in the process of referencing a non-existant property you will bring it into being. This is the sort of behavior that makes debugging Flash somewhat trick, causing experienced programmers to roll their eyes at the laxness of the environment. But then it hit me: the technique I outlined earlier to re-establish object-context for a callback method was completely unnecessary…I could just store the object context right in the MovieClip itself! This would eliminate the hashing array and lookup!
- October 10, 2004
Fresh Electronic Delivery
October 10, 2004Read moreMy buddy Jeff over at Scintus has been busy as always, but had time to point me towards Fresh Electronic Delivery. It’s a design-oriented e-newsletter that serves up examples of great online design. It’s similar in scope to portals like linked up and gecko9, but it feels more focused in the editorial sense. I like! Not to mention that the design is clean and lovely.
- October 10, 2004
Random Image
October 10, 2004Read more
Was just browsing my archives, and came across this image I made for my friend Barry’s birthday party. Barry had just moved into his house and was consumed by painting. We thought it might be a good idea that he had something to distract him. Because we’re evil.
This is a good example of some clip art scrounging + shameless use of built-in Photoshop layer effects. This follows some good advice from former CGD mentor Bill Colgrove, who taught me that clip art was not to be despised for its humble ready-to-wear origins, but to be used well.
The wax, unconvincing as it is, is all Photoshop effects, so it was easy to change the shape. The better way to do it would have been to render it in a 3D program that supported subsurface light scattering, but I am several versions behind on my 3DS Max license. Anyway, the result is a slightly cheesy rendering that reminds me of multimedia from the 90s, but Barry is also slightly cheesy :-)
