Yeah, I'm back
Rudy's cover is teh best!
How about "reject functionality"?
I got back @6:00 AM and spent my day sleeping, eating, looking at my precious mess, and going to 3rd Planet. I picked up a copy of Dragon magazine. Why did I do it? Every time I buy an issue, I think it's going to be something it's not, and I'm bummed. Example: this week the cover read "Special Update #1 of 3" and "Warrior Classes: Barbarians Monks etc etc" So I assumed that it would give rules for updating version 3 characters to version 3.5. Heh heh, no. This 3.5 bullshit is bullshit. Fuck buying 3 more books, I'm not gonna do it.
I got an email from Denis yesterday and I thought I'd pass this on:
"From now on monks will be called minks and will be worn around the necks of fellow players. They will confer a +1 to armor class and a +5 reaction while going to the opera."
My room is a shithole.
Fuck.
Saturday, July 26, 2003
28 dayz latar
Just saw it! Late shows fucking suck. Doesnt matter how good a movie is, I dont think anyone should watch a flick that starts after 10. Ughh. Otherwise, thought the movie was pretty cool. Some STUPID FUCKING KID kept talking the WHOLE FUCKING MOVIE sitting right behind me. That fucken sucked- otherwise, eh. HULK SMALSH! Ya, the zombies were fuckin sick- i liked em. Movie was cool, but the 2nd half (SPOILERS!!!! ***********the part in the compound***********) was kinda burnt in my eyes. There was also a ALTERNATE ENDING after the credits- without giving away too much, its pretty much opposite of the regular ending (ie, bad ending.) Ya- wasnt really worth sitting thru the credits for. So, overall, kinda liked it!
elrick- i setup some friends with a blog site, and i was wondering how u got the cool avatars to work- whats thescreat code? thx palz
-poor little hilk, want sleep
Just saw it! Late shows fucking suck. Doesnt matter how good a movie is, I dont think anyone should watch a flick that starts after 10. Ughh. Otherwise, thought the movie was pretty cool. Some STUPID FUCKING KID kept talking the WHOLE FUCKING MOVIE sitting right behind me. That fucken sucked- otherwise, eh. HULK SMALSH! Ya, the zombies were fuckin sick- i liked em. Movie was cool, but the 2nd half (SPOILERS!!!! ***********the part in the compound***********) was kinda burnt in my eyes. There was also a ALTERNATE ENDING after the credits- without giving away too much, its pretty much opposite of the regular ending (ie, bad ending.) Ya- wasnt really worth sitting thru the credits for. So, overall, kinda liked it!
elrick- i setup some friends with a blog site, and i was wondering how u got the cool avatars to work- whats thescreat code? thx palz
-poor little hilk, want sleep
Friday, July 25, 2003
Its No Good
Rad Depeche Mode song from like a few years ago- was going through some gross old cds of mine at my folks house today and ran into this song- its a keeper!
I was testing out that "blog this" thingy earlier, and all it did was make a dumb post under my name that said BLOGGER. omg, how cool. Well, hope good weekends r had by all. Peace in the middle east.
Shmeldoor
Rad Depeche Mode song from like a few years ago- was going through some gross old cds of mine at my folks house today and ran into this song- its a keeper!
I was testing out that "blog this" thingy earlier, and all it did was make a dumb post under my name that said BLOGGER. omg, how cool. Well, hope good weekends r had by all. Peace in the middle east.
Shmeldoor
Thursday, July 24, 2003
Leave it to Enron
I was supposed to call Enron today actually, but instead slept after a tiring night and tiring day of work. But sure enough, the man takes it on his own shoulders to do a shitload of gruntwork before I can even bat an eye. Excellent! I mean, if you have the document all set in order, you can send it to me as a .doc and I can set it up with the template and .pdf, change the pictures and fonts and the like.
Call me at work tomorrow, Enron. I'll be back in Beaver-ly Hills finishing up a wireless install, so I might not get the call cause the reception sucks, but give me ring anyhoo. This time I'll not blow you off for sweet, sweet sleep.
Here's my cover:
I was supposed to call Enron today actually, but instead slept after a tiring night and tiring day of work. But sure enough, the man takes it on his own shoulders to do a shitload of gruntwork before I can even bat an eye. Excellent! I mean, if you have the document all set in order, you can send it to me as a .doc and I can set it up with the template and .pdf, change the pictures and fonts and the like.
Call me at work tomorrow, Enron. I'll be back in Beaver-ly Hills finishing up a wireless install, so I might not get the call cause the reception sucks, but give me ring anyhoo. This time I'll not blow you off for sweet, sweet sleep.
Here's my cover:
... but did the consumption of poop occur?
Ok, this probably sounds really boring, BUT here's a really cool article about Kraftwerk from the Guardian HERE.
Perhaps realising that driving very slowly up and down the streets of Düsseldorf's red light district while staring out of the car window is liable to attract the attentions of the polizei, Dirk suggests we continue our quest on foot.
Its really funny. I guess Kraftwerk is really really impossible to ever meet or interview, but this guy gives it a try- funny schtuffin.
Here's another cover (photoshop is fun and eyyy, eatin poop is probably pretty gross. ugkh!)
Ok, this probably sounds really boring, BUT here's a really cool article about Kraftwerk from the Guardian HERE.
Perhaps realising that driving very slowly up and down the streets of Düsseldorf's red light district while staring out of the car window is liable to attract the attentions of the polizei, Dirk suggests we continue our quest on foot.
Its really funny. I guess Kraftwerk is really really impossible to ever meet or interview, but this guy gives it a try- funny schtuffin.
Here's another cover (photoshop is fun and eyyy, eatin poop is probably pretty gross. ugkh!)
Lay down the Law
I am starting to do the grunt work. I have all the pages combined into one massive uber document. Document size depends on a great deal of variables, but @ typical 8 1/2 x 11 form, the document is somewhere in the range of 200 to 250 pages. Of course fonts spacing and all that will vary the size. I am cooking on a algorithm to reverse all the text right now. I think PERL may be the way to go. We will have to see. Lemme get back to you on that later.
"Your workin' late tonight"
"I can't I have therapy!"
I am starting to do the grunt work. I have all the pages combined into one massive uber document. Document size depends on a great deal of variables, but @ typical 8 1/2 x 11 form, the document is somewhere in the range of 200 to 250 pages. Of course fonts spacing and all that will vary the size. I am cooking on a algorithm to reverse all the text right now. I think PERL may be the way to go. We will have to see. Lemme get back to you on that later.
"Your workin' late tonight"
"I can't I have therapy!"
i like drinking pee, nananananananana, na na na
(Sung to Iron Man)
A book! My goodness. If we can keep the cost about or below $20, I will buy one. We can use supar-saver shipping so that the shipping will be a flat cost of $5.
I like the "greastest" title the best. I don't care what the layout looks like. I think the avatars should be there but I don't care what they look like. I think our current avatars are the best ones and Eric's is the greastest of all.
I think the cover should be just one image, maybe a simple one. It doesn't have to even have us in it. Maybe cartoon drawings or something? If there are too many pictures it'll look a little too much like a yearbook page, I think.
I'm willing to put in some time with editing and so forth, text-related slave labor is my speciality.
I don't know where Myke is either.
So far this week I've lazed on the beach at Waikiki, snorkeled amongst foot-length tropical fish at Hanauma Bay, gone on a hike that took me through a pine forest and up above magnificent green ridges, and I don't even remember what else. Monday I will be testing DVDs and worrying about my hours again. Hooray!
PS Most of my arm hair has turned blonde.
(Sung to Iron Man)
A book! My goodness. If we can keep the cost about or below $20, I will buy one. We can use supar-saver shipping so that the shipping will be a flat cost of $5.
I like the "greastest" title the best. I don't care what the layout looks like. I think the avatars should be there but I don't care what they look like. I think our current avatars are the best ones and Eric's is the greastest of all.
I think the cover should be just one image, maybe a simple one. It doesn't have to even have us in it. Maybe cartoon drawings or something? If there are too many pictures it'll look a little too much like a yearbook page, I think.
I'm willing to put in some time with editing and so forth, text-related slave labor is my speciality.
I don't know where Myke is either.
So far this week I've lazed on the beach at Waikiki, snorkeled amongst foot-length tropical fish at Hanauma Bay, gone on a hike that took me through a pine forest and up above magnificent green ridges, and I don't even remember what else. Monday I will be testing DVDs and worrying about my hours again. Hooray!
PS Most of my arm hair has turned blonde.
Eject Functionality: Where is Motorbyke?
What are we going to do with the Reviews section? Are we dumping that portion of the Action Team posts? Elrich, are you just directly taking the files from the Website by going into each archieved week, or are you access it on the server and getting @ the HTML file directly? Give me an answer and I will take a look at the Sctuffen tonight.
"Print it all in reverse, that make it go in the right order"
What are we going to do with the Reviews section? Are we dumping that portion of the Action Team posts? Elrich, are you just directly taking the files from the Website by going into each archieved week, or are you access it on the server and getting @ the HTML file directly? Give me an answer and I will take a look at the Sctuffen tonight.
"Print it all in reverse, that make it go in the right order"
mockup cover
i did a quick mockup of what the cover could look like. think itd be cool to use the old photos (plus the cover can be full-color, so we should take advantage.)
http://cafebeats.com/images/cover1.jpg
or click HERE
i did a quick mockup of what the cover could look like. think itd be cool to use the old photos (plus the cover can be full-color, so we should take advantage.)
http://cafebeats.com/images/cover1.jpg
or click HERE
Eject Functionality
Actually, I think this is a far superior title so far. It's funny, and it can mean a lot of things with regard to the Action Team. I don't know what it is, but I think we need to figure that out. Also, the perfect binding is not available just yet, and no one has set a firm date as to when it will be, so that might throw a bit of a wrench in our monkey. I don't want a spiral bound book. Update:
- Output to .PDF correctly, figured out the margins, etc.
- Enron: I think it would be great if you took a few weeks and reversed the entries and stick them in a Word doc, then send em my way for final layouts with the proper headers, footers, etc. That would be a HUGE help.
Rockin.
Actually, I think this is a far superior title so far. It's funny, and it can mean a lot of things with regard to the Action Team. I don't know what it is, but I think we need to figure that out. Also, the perfect binding is not available just yet, and no one has set a firm date as to when it will be, so that might throw a bit of a wrench in our monkey. I don't want a spiral bound book. Update:
- Output to .PDF correctly, figured out the margins, etc.
- Enron: I think it would be great if you took a few weeks and reversed the entries and stick them in a Word doc, then send em my way for final layouts with the proper headers, footers, etc. That would be a HUGE help.
Rockin.
Wednesday, July 23, 2003
theactionteam.org: The Greastest Chronicles, Vol. I
Dropped the text size to 8pts which saved us 4 pages, so we are down to 9 pages, so close to shaving 1/3. This seems like a lot of work, but hopefully once I do it once, it will just get easier each time. The thing is the images NEED to have a border, which the HTML does for them on the web page, but now we need to create new images with borders and then cut and replace the old ones throughout the document. Also need to make the dpi on the images better than 72... will look crappy once printed. Change avatars anyonw? I know I want a new one for the book.
So, we need to discuss what to do with this thing. Here are my ideas for theactionteam.org: The Greastest Chronicles, Vol. I:
- We need a title, my working title is stated above, also ideas: Be Like Punt, Eject Functionality...
- I figure the "chapters" will be broken down into months.
- An introduction presenting the material and our (my) reason for wanting to do it. (posterity, something to do, a nice art piece, historical artifact, etc.), thank you's, inspirations, etc.
- No spell checks, just the raw material, only editing for content of address', phone numbers, etc.
- Appendices: Jon's stories, Action Team Bio's (real/fake), photos w/ captions (real/fake), list of links, selections from "the action team reviews" blog, etc.
Thats all I can think of right now.
Dropped the text size to 8pts which saved us 4 pages, so we are down to 9 pages, so close to shaving 1/3. This seems like a lot of work, but hopefully once I do it once, it will just get easier each time. The thing is the images NEED to have a border, which the HTML does for them on the web page, but now we need to create new images with borders and then cut and replace the old ones throughout the document. Also need to make the dpi on the images better than 72... will look crappy once printed. Change avatars anyonw? I know I want a new one for the book.
So, we need to discuss what to do with this thing. Here are my ideas for theactionteam.org: The Greastest Chronicles, Vol. I:
- We need a title, my working title is stated above, also ideas: Be Like Punt, Eject Functionality...
- I figure the "chapters" will be broken down into months.
- An introduction presenting the material and our (my) reason for wanting to do it. (posterity, something to do, a nice art piece, historical artifact, etc.), thank you's, inspirations, etc.
- No spell checks, just the raw material, only editing for content of address', phone numbers, etc.
- Appendices: Jon's stories, Action Team Bio's (real/fake), photos w/ captions (real/fake), list of links, selections from "the action team reviews" blog, etc.
Thats all I can think of right now.
The Data
The data is infact HTML, so it sounds hecka/hella hard to parse that, but I say have at it! And as far as editing, I agree, no editing, but perhaps layout editing, etc. Actually, as an art book, an 8.5 x 11 would be cool with the amount of text we have, we could mix text and images to make soemthing cool... BUT, the inside of these books are only B&W so nothing too cool I guess... bummer...
ALSO
I just did the first week using the 7.5 x 9.25 and tried to keep the layout the same as the way it reads on the webpage, and it took 13 pages! And those were some pretty crappy small-ass posts, this being the case, and every week being 13 pages we are looking at a our book costing roughly $30 bucks. I'm okay with this seeing as we are not going to sell these to anyone else, we don't need to keep costs down. So, how important is keeping the integrity of the webpage layout? if we say to hell with that, we can probably shave 1/3 of the cost off. These are SUPER rough numbers but are probably close.
The data is infact HTML, so it sounds hecka/hella hard to parse that, but I say have at it! And as far as editing, I agree, no editing, but perhaps layout editing, etc. Actually, as an art book, an 8.5 x 11 would be cool with the amount of text we have, we could mix text and images to make soemthing cool... BUT, the inside of these books are only B&W so nothing too cool I guess... bummer...
ALSO
I just did the first week using the 7.5 x 9.25 and tried to keep the layout the same as the way it reads on the webpage, and it took 13 pages! And those were some pretty crappy small-ass posts, this being the case, and every week being 13 pages we are looking at a our book costing roughly $30 bucks. I'm okay with this seeing as we are not going to sell these to anyone else, we don't need to keep costs down. So, how important is keeping the integrity of the webpage layout? if we say to hell with that, we can probably shave 1/3 of the cost off. These are SUPER rough numbers but are probably close.
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