Random thoughts to start the week

[edg]

Boring stuff. If you want to be entertained, check out this short-short snippet, which you may have missed the first time around.

• There's a guy across the street who's wearing pants either covered with or made entirely of yellow, pink, green, and blue Post-It™ notes.



• I feel very strongly that animated images - icons, link graphics, whatever - should have a graphical link between the first and last frames. It could be true looping, cross-fades or FTBs, or just an interstitial text panel between the end of the animation and the beginning - but there should be something.
  
  This is perhaps due to the fact that I played video games so much when I was younger. When a sprite didn't loop properly, it just looked really bad - like the artist just didn't care about the work.



• I should think about seeing if I can find an artist to illustrate all of these comic-book and comic-strip ideas that I have.



• I've noticed a certain pattern of quasi-defeatism in my attitude toward returning to college next year - when people say "so you're going back, huh?" my response tends to be not "yeah!" but "yeah, if I can afford it". On the one hand, just assuming I'll have the funds bespeaks confidence I'd like to have; on the other hand, saying "well, if I can afford it" reminds me that currently I don't have $55,000 on hand to give to Earlham, and that I need to find a way to fix that, instead of just assuming that everything will work out.
  
  I don't know which is a better approach.



• The public library, which is cater-corner from the Borders café, has a pair of electronic displays - one on each side facing this intersection - that occasionally display a trivia question, which seems to change once or twice a week. For whatever reason, I keep looking up at them when they're displaying the answer to the question, and almost never when they're displaying the question itself.

Comments

[telerib.livejournal.com]

I don't know which is a better approach.

"Yeah, as soon as I get my finanical aid situation straightened out."

-- states the finances are still an issue and reminds you that they must be handled, but also makes you the actor in taking control of that handling. Also assumes a positive stance - "I will get things straightened out," not "If I get things straightened out."

Is Earlham seriously $55K a *year*? Damn, but prices have gone UP since I was an undergrad.

[edg.livejournal.com]

*nods* That seems like a good way to do it.

Earlham was about $25k a year when I was a student; I think it's reasonable to assume that prices have gone up at least $2500 since then. But I'm going for two years...