Archive for the ‘Just Cool’ Category
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Open Source Trading Card Game
Steve, Collin, and Mark got me interested in something called 4GXG (“For Gamers, By Gamers”), which is a community of people trying to make a trading card game like Magic the Gathering, Star Wars TCG, and the like. From scratch. Open source style. Anyway, I could see them being one of the first projects to take advantage of Visual Flavor when we’re ready on our end.
I’ve already made a logo and a flier for them. If they pick my flier, I’ll get a cool $100, so head on over and vote on their site in their forums here for the one that you think is the most attractive and professional! May the best flier win!
I recommend you go on my Deviant Art site here to see the full-size version of my poster, but here’s a half-size thumbnail anyway.
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Mother’s Day
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So sue me.
Alright, I saw this on Jisuk’s blog (specific post here), and so I decided to make one of myself. If you’re reading this, then I’m tagging you, so you have to make your own little avatar of yourself by going here, post a link to it in the comments of this post, and get others to do it to. Bwahaha.
Oh, and if you make one, then I’ll stick it up here and make a little row of them (and have it link to your site or something if you have one).
. . .James . . . . . .Justin . . . . . . Ryu . . . . . . .Rob
. . .Kendra . . . . . .Zach. . . . . . .Otto. . . . . . Nathan
. . .KateLook at me! Man, I know it’s bad, but I really like drawings of myself, what can I say? (Probably because they always look better than I actually do!)
Update: Look at all of us! Keep them coming, by the way. I’m going to start calling people out. I’m coughing in your direction, #penguins! You guys think you’re safe because I’ve never gotten to shake your hands in person, but oh no, you aren’t excluded from this calling!
Amusing Instant Message Snippit of the Day:
(11:25:15 PM) ***karmasemissary is unadulterated violence at your service. -
Le Design Geek
I’ve got a design that I’d like you all to check out, but first, one of the Sabayon developers I work with brought this to me and said it reminded him of me. I died laughing pretty much. :D
The world of design can be a ruthless one; not only do you spend most of your time pondering and tweaking minute details that most people find insignificant – and most likely won’t even notice – you also get lured into developing anti-social habits like font-spotting and source-code peeping.
Learn to spot the warning signs in time. You know you’re becoming a design geek when:
1. You giggle whenever you use the colors F0CCED, EFF0FF and 44DDDD
2. You’re in the sun and you look around for a Drop Shadow to sit under.
3. You give your relatives a lecture about color spaces and profiles when you email them your vacation photos.
4. Seing someone use Lens Flare or Comic Sans adversely affects your blood-pressure
5. You maintain a grid system for your refrigerator magnets.
6. You organise your CD collection according to the Pantone chart.
7. You sit at work for eight hours straight just looking at your monitor, waiting for a spark of inspiration that doesn’t come.
8. You’re up ’til 5am because you came up with the best idea ever while brushing your teeth.
9. The hottest dream you ever had was “Trace contour… Find Edges… Pinch… Extrude… Smudge Stick… Motion Blur…. Sprayed Strokes…”
10. You know Lorem Ipsum by heart.
11. Your kid knows Lorem Ipsum by heart.
12. The preschool teacher complains your child won’t color inside or outside the lines – only indicate colors on a separate sheet.
13. Activating your entire font collection makes your computer crash – and you’re running OSX.
14. You deliberately butcher your perfectly cross browser compatible site in IE by placing a “Too Cool for IE” banner on it.
15. You prefer a Layer Style of 50% Opacity (or less) on your wife’s Satin.
16. You spend $200 on a font for your personal website because “it’s the only one where the lower-case g is just right…”
17. Looking at a menu make you go “hmmm, ITC Baskerville italic” rather than “mmmm, lunch!”
18. And when you finally order, you go for Layer Based Slices with Grain Texture…
19. You use words about fonts you dislike that other normal people reserve for fascist dictators and serial killers.
20. Apple+Z is the first thing that goes through your mind if you drop and break something.
21. You refer to colleagues as Strict, Transitional, Loose and the Future Unemployed.
22. You refer to your privates as “the Magic Wand”.
23. You actually understand this post and pass it on to your friends.So now for the design I mentioned. I’ve been working on the next theme for Sabayon, and this was one candidate. One of the co-leads of the project just came back after being gone for about a month and gave a belated veto, but the other co-lead and I both still like it, and we’re going to go ahead and release it anyway. I’ll have to get to work making a new theme to be the default though. Anyway, here’s the desktop background from the theme.
Be sure to leave a comment that gives it a rating between one and ten, and if you’ve got time say what you like and dislike about it! I very much like it, and may actually use it to theme the next stage of Bagelwood depending on your honest feedback.
A couple of people are using it as their desktop background already, so if you like it, then just let me know what resolution you need it in or look here to see if your resolution has been uploaded already.
P.S. Since I syndicate my blog through Facebook, Deviant Art, and the Bagelwood Forums, be sure to leave your comment on my actual blog at GeekPerspective.com.
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Just An Update
Found a really interesting site. It’s pictures of art people draw in hotels, like behind mirrors and such. Pretty interesting if you’re into this kind of thing.
In other news, homecoming is coming up. I think it’s on November 14th or 15th, but I’ll bet I’m wrong. Blarg. I demand an autopilot.
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