While reading up on Processing, I found myself wondering how bezier curves worked. I’ve seen the tools to draw them in a number of applications, but the whole anchor points, controls points thing never made sense. Wikipedia has an _awesome_ explanation of them though. They animated gifs just caused it to click in my head.
Should you ever be looking for a graphics artist and you find one, only to have them say something like the following
“I have downloaded the files found at the link. The file named Thumbs.db was either corrupt or not understood by my computer. Can you tell me what this file contains? Is it an image or text file?”
Run far away. Very far.
Geez what is with people and their inability to read email!?!
Seriously. There is a potential security issue at work, emails are sent directly to those who need to deal with said issue, and NOTHING is done. So I call them and ask “wtf are you doing about this issue?” and the response I get it “oh you sent email? Oh, I didn’t read it yet.”
Seriously people, what the hell!?
I have an inbox just like everyone else, and I have no unread email…in any folder…I read it all. And I read it at all times of the day. If you send it to me, it gets read and acted on. I can’t stand these people that don’t read their crap. This is your job. Make an effort to do it correctly.
I think I understand now why Joe hates his job. Two words; risk assessment. Writing documents sucks and risk assessments are the pinnacle of boring. I want to play with action figures instead.
So it’s been a tad bit rainy around here in the midwest lately due to the effects of Ike. At my mom’s house the sump pump apparently “broke” and then proceeded to leave 2 or so inches of water on the floor. I went over to help clean up and to look at the pump. It was jimmy-rigged in a rather lame manner, so after lifting the float up and down a couple times I came to the conclusion that whoever had screwed with it last had placed the float incorrectly.
Several cable ties later and the pump was back to normal.
Greg, Dan and I flew off to Gamestop also to pick up a copy of Dead Rising. Greg showed me the gameplay on YouTube and it looked too good to pass up.
So I’m on the hook for a couple big expenses over the next month or so, two of them mandatory, and I’m not looking forward to them. In fact, now that one of them is on my mind, lemme call and make the appointment; hold on… … …ok, done. Anyways, yeah, the other one is either an oil change or a thousand mile checkup for Mr. motorcycle. I put it off and put it off and… hold on… calling them now too while it’s on my mind… … …ok done.
So yeah. I need to get the bike taken care of before winter or else I’ll forget about it again. meh