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Flaming Weenie Characture
I’ve been tinkering with some charactures for Flaming Weenie to use for a video game I’m working on. I’m pretty impressed with this one. He looks fun and has inferred personality. He was first sketched on paper then scanned and drawn in Flash.
Summer Vacation Starts
Had a great visit with my Dad and Pamo out at their place in Port Angeles. I played a bit of World of Warcraft and had a great dinner. Thanks Pamo!! The kids last day of school was yesterday and that means that today was the kick-off of the Fellowship of the Thing project me [...]
The Fellowship
How many of you software developers out there have a laundry list of projects you want to work on but haven’t or have left them mostly unfinished? I mean the pet projects that are simply either small personal projects that you simply find appealing or even grand projects that will change the world. Answer truthfully [...]
Back from Europe
We got back from Europe last night and I’m exhausted. I took the day off to help recover from jet lag. I made some notes while I was there so I could put it into the blog so I will get that in shortly with a link to the pictures as well.
The Spa Treatment for Kelly
Kelly got the spa treatment for her 13th birthday which included a facial, massage, hair highlights and eyebrows done. She looks great! I took this shot when she came home to show her off.
Flash Illustration
Man there are a lot of books on the market on how to program in Macromedia Flash but nothing on how to draw and illustrate with it. I’ve seen some tutorials on the web but they are so basic and really don’t help me much. I do have a little artistic talent and really don’t [...]
Tip a Cop night out
We ate over at Claim Jumper tonight and we found that the Redmond Police Department were doing a fund raising event at the restaurant called “Tip a Cop” in which they trade in their ticket books in exchange for aprons and work by assisting the wait staff in an effort to raise money and awareness [...]
Resurecting the Wheels
Shifing Gears 2004 Giant TCR Composite 2 Before moving to Seattle in Jan. 1998, I was really into mountain biking in the desert of Arizona. After moving to the Seattle area, I mountain biked a few times but pretty much gave it up short of riding to work occasionally. I sold my mountain bike around [...]
Flash Components Mystery
Looking for Inpiration Many of you that know me on a day-to-day basis have seen or heard me talking about Macromedia Flash the last several months. I’ve been writing code since I was 12 which is about 25 years now –shuddering at the thought–. I have done just about everything: C, C++, BASIC/VB, .NET stuff, [...]
