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Adobe Illustrator Tutorial Links

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:45:00 -0800

I’m in the process of learning Adobe Illustrator. Having learned Photoshop rather well by going through hundreds of tutorials at Good-Tutorials (although I still haven’t harvested it’s full potential), I’ve been looking for Illustrator tutorial sit

es. Good-Tutorials is one of them, but there have got to be more.

I found most of these on my own, but a few were shown to me on #illustrator in Quakenet. So far, this is the list I’ve come up with:

Want to add to the list? Fontact me!

Last Statement - Henry Porter

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:13:49 -0800

Last Statement - Henry Porter: These are the last words of Henry Porter before being executed. Extremely powerful words.

Project FindMusic

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:26:07 -0800

Project FindMusic:

Project FindMusic is a really really really cool way to find popular music. It’s simple a custom Google search with a sugar coating, and I use it all the time!

In adittion to some new features, Project FindMusic has been redesigned, now looking better than ever.

Top 10 IT Disasters of All Time

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:17:36 -0800

Top 10 IT Disasters of All Time:

Who would have thought that such a trivial coder’s mistake could blow up rocket ship?

3. The explosion of the Ariane 5 (1996)
In 1996, Europe’s newest and unmanned satellite-launching rocket, the Ariane 5, was intentionally blown up just seconds after taking off on its maiden flight from Kourou, French Guiana. The European Space Agency estimated that total development of Ariane 5 cost more than $8bn (£4bn). On board Ariane 5 was a $500m (£240m) set of four scientific satellites created to study how the Earth’s magnetic field interacts with Solar Winds.

According to a piece in the New York Times Magazine, the self-destruction was triggered by software trying to stuff “a 64-bit number into a 16-bit space”.
“This shutdown occurred 36.7 seconds after launch, when the guidance system’s own computer tried to convert one piece of data — the sideways velocity of the rocket — from a 64-bit format to a 16-bit format. The number was too big, and an overflow error resulted. When the guidance system shut down, it passed control to an identical, redundant unit, which was there to provide backup in case of just such a failure. But the second unit had failed in the identical manner a few milliseconds before. And why not? It was running the same software,” the article stated.

This might be Ellie.

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:37:21 -0700

This might be Ellie.

"Out of all the questions left unanswered in my head after spending my first day in Armenia, the most..."

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:36:21 -0700

“Out of all the questions left unanswered in my head after spending my first day in Armenia, the most perplexing was: “Who is this ‘Ellie’?””

How the RIAA screws people.

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 01:14:08 -0700

How the RIAA screws people.: “The RIAA sues “John Doe” in state court. They can’t sue in the state court of the person who is paying for Internet access (and therefore, the IP address), because at this point they aren’t even sure in what state that IP address might be. Instead they sue John Doe in the state where the Internet Service Provider’s main offices are located. In most cases, this isn’t the state where the IP address (or John Doe) lives.”

Skreemr

Sun, 02 Sep 2007 17:03:36 -0700

Skreemr: Scan the web for mp3s with Skreemr!

"Everyone now says I have a fake butt or butt implant. I’m Armenian; you should see all the women in..."

Sun, 26 Aug 2007 00:39:40 -0700

““Everyone now says I have a fake butt or butt implant. I’m Armenian; you should see all the women in my family. The women have bigger breasts and bigger butts. That’s how I was born. I can’t help it. I’m not gonna fight it. I definitely need to work out more and tone up, but I’m proud of my body… [although] I’m not against [plastic surgery].””

- Kim Kardashian

a new york street

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 03:09:31 -0700

a new york street

Love your enemies...

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 11:36:51 -0700

A few lines I wrote in a Facebook discussion thread from the Մենք քիչ ենք, սակայն մեզ հայ են ասում… group. Blog filler.

I don’t know what you guys think but I find aggression against Turkey unjustified for any crime they committed against humanity (whether genocide or not). The genocide is part of our history and shall never be forgotten. The attempts of the Turkish government to dispel any Armenian pride or sense of Armenian heritage within us, especially among the Armenians in Turkey, are truly tragic as well.
But when we proudly shout that we were “the first Christian nation,” how can we still hold hatred in our hearts? How different are you from your enemy if you cannot learn to give up hatred? I cringe every time I hear that fellow Armenians have performed acts of aggression against Turks (e.g. killing Turkish diplomats). I am not advocating that we forget our past, or undermine the Genocide of 1915, but that we not seek revenge or retaliation toward Turks. Let them be “barbarous by nature,”but as a race which is prizes their heritage so highly, shouldn’t we remember our Christian roots? Wasn’t Christianity the soul of our nation when oh so many nations fought to convert us to Islam or other religions? We have all been told the story of “Katch Vartan” who protected our faith through a war we lost (though ideally, we should not have fought the war and ignored Persian threats of war or conversion….that’s not the point really). So what values do we uphold? Christian values of love and peace, or those which fuel the unbearably cruel actions of our enemies such like revenge (AKA retributive justice). Forgiving is a sacrificial act — it is not naive — but that is what is asked of a Christian nation. Will vengeful actions really bring about the peace we seek? Will they really bring honor to our massacred ancestors? If that is so, then we are no different than the Turks: our neighbors, our so-called enemies.
Armenian pride shouldn’t be characterized through hatred toward a group of people, but rather the Christian values which have defined us in years past as Armenians. To retaliate against Turks is the single most un-Armenian action you can ask for.

Goodbye, school!

Sat, 19 May 2007 14:38:36 -0700

Goodbye, school!

America at War

Tue, 15 May 2007 00:09:36 -0700

America at War: Just because he’s British doesn’t mean he’s wrong. Enjoy the redneck *stick-it-to-the-commies* comments at YouTube.

One morning at Bellarmine…

Sun, 13 May 2007 22:41:02 -0700

One morning at Bellarmine…

Get Happy

Sun, 13 May 2007 22:37:32 -0700

Get Happy

Real Word Problems From My Physics Book - PH17 (via...

Fri, 11 May 2007 17:26:43 -0700

Real Word Problems From My Physics Book - PH17 (via ArtieTSMITW)

I love the strange scenarios some physics textbooks come up with. It makes me feel better before the final tomorrow. Anything to make the textbook the stupid one.

"For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you..."

Thu, 10 May 2007 01:17:18 -0700

“For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me, naked and you clothed me, ill and you cared for me, in prison and you visited me…Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me”

- Matthew 25:35-36, 40

Nike Sweatshops (via jaezuz) I wish they’d run more of...

Thu, 10 May 2007 01:04:25 -0700

Nike Sweatshops (via jaezuz)

I wish they’d run more of these on TV. Ah! But we can dream?

idling (via ari_nazarian)

Wed, 09 May 2007 01:03:01 -0700

idling (via ari_nazarian)

Flickr Pool: De-Motivators

Tue, 08 May 2007 23:39:45 -0700

Flickr Pool: De-Motivators: This pool has some hilarious pictures like this one. I think I will post my own….watch out!