Color Scheme Tool

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This is a very cool tool for coming up with (matching) color schemes. Very useful if you're color-scheme challenged, as I am.

Does that make me crazy?

I was listening to Kidd Kraddick in the Morning coming back from taking my son to the sitter today... they had a segment called "Does that make me crazy" where they had people call in and tell what their habits were and then everyone would vote as to whether or not that made them crazy.

One lady had to keep cabinet doors closed... all of them... even ones that weren't hers. Next, there was a lady who bleached her feet before taking a bath. Like, spray on the bleach and clean 'em off nice before the bath. Then, the lady who cleaned her bathroom rug on Monday and wouldn't walk on it until "late Wednesday night" -- she said she always waited 2 days before using it. She said she "did the same thing with the trash" whatever that means. Wacky. Then there was the girl who had a thing about hot air balloons - she said she would have to pull over and find another way to work if she saw one. Said that a person standing in a basket, floating in the air just made her skin crawl. She said that it was really disturbing.

While I didn't listen long enough to see who "won" -- something is certainly really disturbing :-)

Daylight Savings...

It's this weekend! Saturday, October 29th, don't forget to set your clocks back an hour (you know, Fall Back and all that?)

Click here or here for more helpful public service announcements from our friends over at The Office.

Exploding Paint...

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This is just too cool. It's an advertisement for Sony Bravia LCD screens.

What do you get when you mix old, abandoned buildings, a tremendous amount of paint, and a whole bunch of explosives?

Yep, it's as cool as it sounds like it should be. :)

Midnight snack or midnight terror?

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I found an old swing song in one of my Napster playlists called "Celery Stalks at Midnight" -- I thought that was pretty funny... apparently it's spawned a book and some other stuff. Click on the title above for the lyrics to the silly song...

(btw... apparently, it's the latter)

Unstructued Playtime = Good

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Not suprisingly, a new study has come out that says kids just don't have enough generic free play time. I think too many kids learn to let the TV do the thinking and imagining for them... and that's sad. I used to sit for hours and hours and play with my Star Wars figures, coming up with a thousand different scenarios and situations... I think kids really need that, or something like it, whether it's blocks or cars or plastic animals/dinosaurs... as usual, click on the title bar to go to the link to the sutdy on CNN's website.

Videogame Ads, circa 1982

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Ah, sweet memories! Those original ads were pretty wacky. Lord knows (as does my mom) I've still got a bunch of old computer magazines... I should scan some of those in myself. There were some pretty wacky ads back then for computer related stuff. Showing off screenshots wasn't necessarily really the big thing to do, so they often had all these wacky airbrushed pictures that had absolutely less than nothing to do with the game itself. Fun stuff :)

Until I get around to scanning in all those old ads, you'll have to settle for this set of them, I guess.

The many animators of the Flintstones...

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I found this quite interesting -- other people may not. But apparently they had a number of different people who animated Fred & co. at different points, and each one drew and animated the characters in their own style. Normally, this is discouraged (at best) I think it added some character to it, though I never noticed at the time.

(as usual, click on the title for the link... and this is probably the last time I'll mention that)

50 Common Interview Q&A's

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I thought some of you might find this interesting. If you've been on a number of interviews, you've probably heard most of these, if not, this makes for some pretty good reading. It lists common questions and some thoughts to consider/ways to answer for them. (click on the title for the link)

Poseidon Case Study

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This is the "case study" on how the water rushing down a hallway was done in the recent movie, Poseidon. It's got a lot of step by step videos showing some of the process they went through. I find this sort of thing fascinating, especially since this is the software I'm starting to learn/use.

If you have any interest, you can click here for the link.