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[bluegargantua]

Hey,

• Today I saw a pretty large turtle crossing the on-ramp to Rte. 2. It was a bit bigger than our cat. I have a fondness for turtles. They start with the letter T.


• If you have my EstateWorks email address, I don't work there no more and you should get a new email address from me. deadwinter, tisana I'm looking in your general direction specifically because that's where your email went.


• Last night I stole a cargo plane to fly to some other country where I stole an old Russian cargo plane so I could sneak into Russia for some secret mission. Mostly I just groused about how awful Russia was. On the way out (via comercial airline flight and not stolen air-conveyances), I ran into Sammy Davis Jr. and warned him about how crappy Russia was. He agreed but a gig was a gig. Classy guy, that Sammy, classy guy.


• My mom is flying out to Seattle (again, via commercial flight) to visit my sister and pick up my nephew to take him back to NE for the summer. She's travelling without my dad. But she's not going alone. She's going with my Aunt Jeanene. Pretty much a fate worse than death.


• My mom will also be travelling in the company of an as-yet undetermined quantity of frozen meat. This is the latest episode in my mom's constant (and constantly failed) attempts to ship food to places that...uh...have food. My bet is that whatever system she rigs up for carrying the meat will fail and she'll have to explain why her luggage is leaking blood to grim-faced security guards. If this happens, Aunt J. will probably have a brain aneurism right then and there.


• Finally, my first job here at work is on a Flash project. I haven't done very much Flash and I haven't done it in awhile. No one else around here has a huge amount of experience with it either. The docs are pretty much non-existent and the action script debugger...well, there isn't a debugger. If people know of some really solid places to get examples or if they know a lot about why scrollbars don't actually change when you change their properties, drop me a line. (OK, I've got a ton of questions besides scrollbars and most of them are more important, but scrollbars are visible and show progress, whereas namespace event handler extensions are invisible and show nothing.)
  

later
Tom

Comments

[desiringsubject.livejournal.com]

Your brain is a strange and wondrous place...

[imvfd.livejournal.com]

OK, so I haven't done much with Flash and ActionScript. However, the O'Reilly book on ActionScript is quite good from what my Flash buddy at my old work told me. He had no experience programming anything other than a VCR before yet he managed to put together some rather amazing functiontionality. I'd imagine that the book will have references to debuggers. Of course, some debugging can be done in Firefox as ActionScript is JavaScript with some added stuff for Flash. So one can at least do some basic function testing there with the build in JS debugger. Also, I'll see if I can track down this old Flash buddy of mine.

[imvfd.livejournal.com]

Stupid question: does this app really truly need Flash? It's amazing what can be done with JS right now. One need only look at some of the fun apps that Google labs has come up with, online spreadsheet, word processor, chat, etc. Certainly would make debugging easier... well, except for some of the cross-platform issues. Oh, nevermind, I'm just a sucker for JS.

[(Anonymous)]

Actually yes. The reasons are slightly arcane, so I'll explain whenever I see you next.

later
Tom

[sweetmmeblue.livejournal.com]

Sounds like your trip to Russia was faster than mine to FL. You must have stollen cargo planed equiped with Concord type engines.

[ladypantherrr.livejournal.com]

I have your bluegargantua addy... but just in case it didn't come through, will you and yours be able to make it to our party next month? Just checking ;-) *hugs*