Snore. I’m at Kinko’s right now, downloading a whole buttload of huge files onto their HD for temporary use. Why? Because I needed a Mac. No one I’m friends with has a Mac. No organization has a Mac to spare. But having to pay $12 an hour for Mac usage is not much for a 30+ hour $40\/hour project I’m working on.<\/p>\n
People around Marin County know of my skill in computers – I can make MIDIs, make websites, make animations, and diagnose computers in general. So I’m in the middle of a project for this one old artist guy – I’m making a Shockwave Flash<\/a> animation for him. He uses a Mac, and I worked at his house. All was going fine until the trial period for Flash 5 expired… and I had nowhere to complete the project. I’d do it at my house (I have a “registered” version there), but I’ve got a PC, and, surprisingly, there’s major incompatability between Flash PC and Mac development files. So I’m doing it here. My downloads are almost complete.<\/p>\n What I’m doing is a simple line-drawing animation – but without very complex coding, the only way I can animate a line being drawn is to go frame by frame and draw it. And at 6500 frames, this job is damn tedious. Sigh. Well, I’d better get to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Snore. I’m at Kinko’s right now, downloading a whole buttload of huge files onto their HD for temporary use. Why? Because I needed a Mac. No one I’m friends with has a Mac. No organization has a Mac to spare. But having to pay $12 an hour for Mac usage is not much for a… Continue reading Untitled<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}