captured from my desk. these are the most recent 8 Bits for use in Ballot Bots. Still can't parrot Colbert in 8 Bit form very well...
Friday, September 28, 2007
friday
captured from my desk. these are the most recent 8 Bits for use in Ballot Bots. Still can't parrot Colbert in 8 Bit form very well...
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Ballot Bot men
David Lovejoy and I are hammering out the final layout touches to Ballot Bots. Here are 4 choices taken from my desktop that probably look the same to everyone else.
Top Left - the dark blue makes all of the background colors too dark. The white ring adds more contrast, which also makes the colors dark.
Top Right - works pretty well. The brown gives the background more variety, and the dark blue line work holds everything in its proper place. The darker blue in the upper field of the background may still be too dark.
Lower Left - nice and airy. Dropping the dark blue outlines and the border framework makes the background feel more like a space (the depth is more iconically believable). Still, it doesn't hold together as well, and all the 'air' makes the card feel empty.
Lower Right - this is the cleanest presentation, but the least interesting. If all suits are represented by one color, it is very easy to tell the suits apart, but is it easier than distinct multi-color treatments? The figures maintain a lot of the card's pop, but even still, is that extra color variety more exciting?
House is GO!
Our Bid has been accepted. So now we must get an inspection, finalize our financial agreements, and sign another 100 papers. All in all, November 29th is coming up fast and we look forward to it intensely.
While this means Robot Martini ops will be sluggish and/or a mess for a few weeks during moving, the significant increase in space will allow for more testing (and more testers), more social events, and better art production environments.
the details:
Two stories, 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, living room, dining room, den, kitchen with tin ceiling, forced air, 2 car garage, wrapping porch, yard space, off the street/separation, all on 4550 square feet of property.
long week...
Still no word on whether I own a house yet. Spent much of today doing that, writing emails, and working on Ballot Bot card layouts. Also designed this for Emily later in the day...
Monday, September 24, 2007
Obama
Posted to Obama's website, per their claim that they listen to the public
"Your viewpoint on education is admirable, but the reality is the education system is fundamentally broken, and socially backward. Our cultural drive to make all student's "Reach their full potential" has been corrupted to mean "get into college". This is sickening, frankly, as it undermines the inescapable value of labor, service, and support industries, and promotes the view that those who's "potential" is not college related are second or third rate citizens.
When you address education, it is my hope that you consider a drastic and sweeping change to the system over all. One needs only to review the lack of basic knowledge in the american youth to understand that simply holding higher critical standards (based on test scores) is clearly not the answer.
I believe we need to culturally reevaluate the purpose of our education. Is it a vehicle to prepare citizens for "better" jobs, or does it help young citizens determine which jobs they enjoy and are good at and provide them the skills needed to achieve those jobs during their youth?
If it is a stepping stone to better jobs, we must acknowledge that those students who do not climb as hard or as high will hold 'lover value' jobs, and thus be of lover value to society, and should be categorically treated thusly. In this case, we have little to change, as all of our focus must be placed on testing, scoring, and ranking our students and placing the best into the best, most important jobs.
If education is a vehicle for children to learn about the greater world, their place in it, and those skills that they enjoy developing, and the occupations which employ those skills for financial gain, we must rebirth our system entirely. We must abort the focus on grades, as they have no relationship with the student finding a skill to enjoy. We must also expand our base teacher and teacher support system in order to accommodate the wealth of curriculum options needed, and to ensure that each student's voice is heard, and that their interests have an opportunity to be realized."
"Your viewpoint on education is admirable, but the reality is the education system is fundamentally broken, and socially backward. Our cultural drive to make all student's "Reach their full potential" has been corrupted to mean "get into college". This is sickening, frankly, as it undermines the inescapable value of labor, service, and support industries, and promotes the view that those who's "potential" is not college related are second or third rate citizens.
When you address education, it is my hope that you consider a drastic and sweeping change to the system over all. One needs only to review the lack of basic knowledge in the american youth to understand that simply holding higher critical standards (based on test scores) is clearly not the answer.
I believe we need to culturally reevaluate the purpose of our education. Is it a vehicle to prepare citizens for "better" jobs, or does it help young citizens determine which jobs they enjoy and are good at and provide them the skills needed to achieve those jobs during their youth?
If it is a stepping stone to better jobs, we must acknowledge that those students who do not climb as hard or as high will hold 'lover value' jobs, and thus be of lover value to society, and should be categorically treated thusly. In this case, we have little to change, as all of our focus must be placed on testing, scoring, and ranking our students and placing the best into the best, most important jobs.
If education is a vehicle for children to learn about the greater world, their place in it, and those skills that they enjoy developing, and the occupations which employ those skills for financial gain, we must rebirth our system entirely. We must abort the focus on grades, as they have no relationship with the student finding a skill to enjoy. We must also expand our base teacher and teacher support system in order to accommodate the wealth of curriculum options needed, and to ensure that each student's voice is heard, and that their interests have an opportunity to be realized."
Weekend yeep!
Long weekend!
Got to see Greg and Travis on friday night, introduced to Travis' new fat / prego girlfriend Megan, chased a little kid around the front lawn (we had no tocquitos, so there were no wizard duels), saw a nice house on Saturday morning, decided to put a bid on that house, viewed an art show (home made / found object musical instruments. Tony Smith's turtle shell guitars were awesome) at H&H, saw Soul Cannon at the Brass Monkey (EZ, Ryan, Matt, and the other 2 I don't know are always awesome, but more so because they played new stuff that night), poked Todd's boobs, pinched Micha's butt, signed a bid for the house Sunday morning, went to the Raven's game (3 point win, sloppy retards have no shot at winning it this year!), great seats on the 50, right at the front of the shady side of the upper deck -- mucho thanks to Zeke, went to soccer, got laid out like a tool, home, feel like crap, went to bed (finally).
Got to see Greg and Travis on friday night, introduced to Travis' new fat / prego girlfriend Megan, chased a little kid around the front lawn (we had no tocquitos, so there were no wizard duels), saw a nice house on Saturday morning, decided to put a bid on that house, viewed an art show (home made / found object musical instruments. Tony Smith's turtle shell guitars were awesome) at H&H, saw Soul Cannon at the Brass Monkey (EZ, Ryan, Matt, and the other 2 I don't know are always awesome, but more so because they played new stuff that night), poked Todd's boobs, pinched Micha's butt, signed a bid for the house Sunday morning, went to the Raven's game (3 point win, sloppy retards have no shot at winning it this year!), great seats on the 50, right at the front of the shady side of the upper deck -- mucho thanks to Zeke, went to soccer, got laid out like a tool, home, feel like crap, went to bed (finally).
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
27 on 9/27/07
9/27 day is coming up again. we'll see how well it stacks up to previous years, which included such things as Pinyata Robots, Hand made cowboy hats for Dunnys, and an all you can drink Jager party.
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