Photos of Milton trying to prevent me from finishing the Fellowship of the Ring (not very hard, it's pretty boring) and just being cute in general.

Photos from Britain, have finally been downloaded and put in a gallery.

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screw scooters and mini-bikes, i want one of these: Segway Human Transporter, check out the video.

just saw the new Mt. Holyoke website. The mockups I worked on were all better, but yes, they were right in presuming that Palm Strategy + Design cannot follow through. Even less so now that I am no longer there. I just saw Palm's latest site launch, it's pretty weak: Dee/Glasoe.

XiAlliance - round 2 mockups - April, come visit and take some photos! As much as Gillian Anderson's hair and eyes compliment the design colors, I'd rather have a real picture of Michelle. She lives a 2 minute walk away but we still don't get to see her that often somehow.

my cybil's website is up: csolyn.com. now she has to write the copy...

check out this, a fully featured article submission tool: The DivinEditor and i have also been experimenting with custom style sheets: The First Test (click the Text Style buttons in the lower right)

User-Defined Window Targeting w/ JavaScript : evolt.org, Code i've just gotta remember to go back and look at this!

Just got an email from VisiBone. Marketing from someone that's actually nice to hear from. They've got a new HTML Card that I'll have to get. Also found poking around their site this neat color picker thing: VisiBone Webmaster's Color Lab. It lets you build pallettes and see how they work together in the browser.

New Job @ Citysearch

I just accepted a position at Citysearch as a Senior User Interface Engineer starting October 15th!

link: City Guides by Citysearch

i'd forgotten what a pain in the butt it is to access the value of the current selection in a dropdown in netscrap until i did this server switch for Jill. had to look back at wizard's duel.

trying to keep myself occupied leads to a new desk arrangement. Just started reading The Western Guide to Feng Shui, we'll see how that goes.

The Fine Line

i heard Gregory Fenves last night on npr. i was relieved to hear him speak, it bolstered my denial system by giving me technical details to focus on. how do people deal with stuff like this? denial gets you through some of it, concentrating on the actions which must be performed now by leaving the emotional baggage for later. but then innocent little words like ‘baggage’ bring it all flooding in. so then what? you talk to people, anyone you can find. your roommate, your co-workers before you get sent home, people on instant messenger, email, greymatter blogs, and then are left to carry on, sorely wishing your girlfriend wasn’t visiting LA for the week.

For my Div III: Dragon Duel Flowchart

The Mp3 Archiving continues. going through a stack of like 12 broadway musicals...

i feel sorry for those who paid money to go to this madonna concert, it is aweful.

Ninjai: The Little Ninja Wow! I've just seen one and i'm already overwhelmed. this is serious shit, truly amazing.

found a good use for Google's Language Translator: translating German Erotic Mags. you get some rather amusing half-english half-german statements, take a look if you don't mind a little flesh.

.Michelle - new site Cybil and I did for our friend / business partner. it's just a template at the moment. was a fun challenge getting it to selectivly flex both horizontally and vertically. next up is the old webmonkey expanding/collapsing dhtml nav..

..and the archiving begins, Mp3 Archives

Milton caught a field mouse today while on a 6 foot leash (with me attached to the other end). I'm so proud >:-}= He pounced into the tall grass, shuffled about for a while with his paws, and came out with a little squeaking thing in his mouth. He played with it, it got dark, he played with it, it stopped squeaking, he played with it some more, and then he ate it.

A couple of Texas hunters are out in the woods when one of them falls to the ground. He doesn’t seem to be breathing, his eyes are rolled back in his head. The other guy whips out his cell phone and calls 911. He gasps to the operator, “My friend is dead! What can I do?” The operator, in a calm soothing voice says, “Just take it easy. I can help. First, lets make sure he’s dead.” There is a silence, then a shot is heard..... The hunter says, “OK, now what?”

Get Interactive with GIF Animation been running into this javascript bug working on the new norwottuck website, and now I just got home and found this article right on the home page of WebReview with a fix for it.

Lin Weinberg / Seating - my brother's got the first chair on the left. I don't remember where he got it, and I know it's not worth the 4,500 these guys are charging for it, but it's pretty cool nonetheless.

Desktop for Sale

Finally, after 3 months, got Windows 2000 running on my Sony Vaio FX140 laptop. It's a beautiful machine, other than the bad taste that a company like Sony leaves in your mouth. Now that it's running the only stable and compatible operating system it outperforms my desktop, so I'm cleaning up the old boy and getting him ready to sell. He's not too pokey, 500mhz, 128mb ram, the video and sound cards are top notch Voodoo and SoundBlaster, and the monitor is a really sweet AcerView 79g. Actually would continue using it but for my current mobility needs. On a completely different note Wizard's Duel is in it's beta phase. In other words, it basically works, but there are definitely kinks. I'm licensing my online editor to The National Network of Abortion Funds for their members only section blog. What else have I been up to since getting back from New Orleans? Oh, did I mention we went to New Orleans. Well yeah, we did, for the anual National Romance Writers Association conference. And now I'm working on Rakehell again. Since the old site was broken I just re-directed it to the work-in-progress .Net. There's no real home page, and just the articles section is up, but the new template is faster, cleaner, and easier to use. Once I get it all functional again we can think about putting a pretty home page back on it. Ok, back to work for me.

BLOGGER - Template Contest - Winners I'm 4th up from the bottom on the left. Prizes were drawn randomly, got a book :-)

new client, Donna Blazey. She's from a print background, I'm working with her on a re-design of her portfolio site.

Been reading Thau's Advanced JavaScript Tutorial to brush up on creating objects for Wizard's Duel. Yeah, so I just blogged it so that I didn't have to add it to my Favorites, got a problem with that?

My game Wizard's Duel is starting to take shape. I have several functions sketched out on paper, and the rune reading formula (used to determine the success of an action) can be found on The Game page.

Dibble and I played Mini-Golf last weekend. She got it in the elusive "far hole" on the last hole and got a free game. But the place sucks, so now I have to pay to play again since she got a free game. We'll have to make Josher play if he visits. Which means he has to visit (you listening Josher?).

just changed the page called experience.html to portfolio.html: Porfolio now i'm looking for broken links (though I do have a re-direct set on experienc.html).

The Url Messenger has taken over! It is quickly becoming an extensive online HTML Editor. Might come in handy if I ever forget my laptop (with homesite) at home. I read Adrian Roselli's - How Many Spaces After a Period? article. I'm inclined to agree, anything to make these poorly rendered browser fonts more legible.

been playing with the textbox editing tools on my Url Messenger. will be a nice edition to the content management system i'm re-building for rakehell

glassdog radio
yeah, so it requires high bandwidth and a download, but the music is good.

Photo of Cybil standing in front of a glacier on her Alaskan cruise.

check out my new dhtml subnav that i did for aggt. now there's nothing i can't do.

new "secret" link:
on my home page links to the new dhtml page.

My entry into the BLOGGER Template Contest: Tux Template. If you have a chance and have any experience at all with html take a look at The Code and tell me what you think.

Re-visited the Url Messenger, and added neat html writing features.

I'm learning DHTML, here's a Scrolling Layer Test with my short story Candle. It works on PC ie and netscrap, though not ns6 for some reason. I haven't seen it on a Mac yet, anyone want to test it and email me?.

We forgot to take the camera out until 4:00 on our last day in confederate territory, but here are some Savannah Photos.

Meet Milton, the nicest cat I've ever met.

I'm working on my entry for the blogger template design contest. I'd love feedback on any aspect of it since aesthetics, cross-platform / cross-browser support, simplicity of code, customizability, and variety are all criteria to be judged. Note: click on the bow to see different color variations.

15.2MB Dragon Head QuickTime Movie I'll have to get in to the lab and render a smaller one, but here she is, my final project for modeling and shading, a dragon head.

Textured Dragon Head (33K) movie coming soon...

Dragon's head before texture work:

half of a toothless dragon head, time to mirror it pretty soon. Needs horns and teeth, other than that the geometry is pretty good. Has nice edge loops (geometry following contours of form aids in articulation).

Popup Window Syntax - what geeks do when they are procrastinating - JavaScript

Hi Lee! INSERT PROFOUND INTELLECTUAL THOUGHT HERE TO IMPRESS COMMITTEE CHAIR

been over to the5k.org lately? This year's entries are in and the voting is underway. Here are my favorites: Time - this clock is insanely awesome! 3D Interactive Dolphin - wow, the things you can do with flash 5.. Slam! - poetry and a pitch for webstandards. pgp5k - message encryption, intense. tableGenetics - genetic programming meets html. SoundPad - draw sound ASCII TYPSETTER - make an ascii email signature. calculatta - super slick calculator. Dungeon - this was my favorite game! 5kChess - AI in 5K, unreal

I'm going to plaster the five colleges with this Dragon Duel Survey Poster. Goose says he can do color prints for me, yeah Goose!!

Bilbana ok, so it's not in english and it opens a browser window behind your back, but this is the coolest shockwave game i've ever seen! remember those little electric race tracks you put together as a kid where the cars were held on the track by a little pin? this is it. this is the shit.

Burning Snowman
just dug up these photos from my first year of a snowman i set on fire.

working on the Palm Strategy + Design Relaunch. When that link is broken that will mean it's live at www.strategyanddesign.com.

Finished my Blood Orange Turntable 759K, or for modems (or hampshire's "LAN") here's a 271K version that's a little rougher around the edges.

Finally getting somewhere with this model. Have a surface that I'm reasonably pleased with, now have to go back and model the stem. Wish me luck!

made this nifty Url Messenger which shows that you can pass information from one page to another through the url.

A blood orange. My next lightwave project for Computer Modeling and Shading. The real thing looks a lot bloodier than this picture, as if you had taken an orange and injected it with blood just under the skin. Yummy. The inside is deep purple, almost black and tastes almost like a grapfruit. Yucky.

i developed a new javascript toy from scratch: My Style - Custom Style Sheets with Javascript and Cookies

*meep*, the 'sometimes table' only shows up in a greater than 800px width window. it's backwards compatible because it uses javascript document.write

Thanks so much Jim for the Recommendation! (47K)

so, there's a, ummmm, hidden page linked from my skills/education page. not so politically correct but a fun and useful skill.

Photos from that awesome snowday we had. coming soon (hidden somewhere): cybil's erotica bondage knots

ever play this little memory game? i-nstein, Y2K yes, I'm procrastinating. 1st 3D rendering class starts at 1:00, and I really should get some work done first..