At around midnight, dwitte, bjenkins and I were around campus, and I remembered that I had purchased The Two Towers, but I didn't have a DVD player on campus. Dwitte lived the closest, so we went to grab his, while bjenkins grabbed some beer and popcorn. We met up, and hooked up the DVD player to one of the projection screens in a conference room, found some decent speakers lying around, hooked those up, and watched that for 3 plus whatever hours. By the time I ended up getting to sleep, it was around 4am.
I woke up at 11, went over to campus to pick up the sheet of paper where I had written down heikki's address, drove to pick him up, picked dwitte up, and went to La Fiesta where I had a little going-away bash. Good times as always at La Fiesta. I had a few more margaritas than I probably should have, but it was all good. The food was excellent, and offset the drinks. After that, we all chatted for a while outside, and darin and I made arrangements for carpooling this Sunday to play golf with chofmann. I then drove heikki back home, dropped off dwitte, and entered the building.
I ran quickly through my email, and then went downstairs to see if anyone wanted to play ping-pong. Not to turn down an offer, redfive agreed to play. I got my ass whooped badly. I'll blame it on the margaritas. After that, I went to see the fish, and then got a call from HR on my voicemail that my last check was ready to be picked up. I headed on over there and when I got back, Asa and I headed for the giant chess set.
I ended up playing black, and winning, but Asa would have likely beaten me had he not forgotten about his queen so early in the game. I had a bishop in direct line with his queen, with only a pawn in between, and I moved the pawn. He didn't notice (as I had hoped) and I capitalized. The game wasn't a blowout though. He fought hard, and pounded my offense with a super defense the rest of the way, winning a few pieces back, but I eventually found a way to force mate, and that was that. Oh, and yes, there will be a rematch.
Then, jst came up and started showing off his new 6 megapixel digital camera, and Asa related to us about his recent trip to Alaska. He promised to really upload the pictures he said he was going to earlier. After, jst and I went to play ping-pong, and I pretty much got kicked around again, though not as badly this time. I lost 2 games to 1, but in one of the games I lost, I hit probably the coolest shot I've ever done. One of jst's shots hit net near the edge of the table, hit once on the table and bounced off the table. I hit a high looping shot from close to the ground that was sure to get smashed if it landed on the table... but it hit the edge and I won the point.
Now, I'm tarring up my trees, and some testcases I have in preparation of leaving the building for the last time (again). All in all, a pretty cool day.
Posted by caillon at August 28, 2003 9:40 PMBut limit your animations to whatever is required to communicate the necessary information. Avoid annoying animations that discourage ease of use. Ask yourself, "What do I need to show the user, and what is the cleanest way possible to achieve that?" A good example is the Mail application for Mac OS X. Whenever a new message arrives, the Dock icon changes appearance to indicate a changed state.
Posted by: Silvester at January 25, 2004 1:16 PM