Thanks for the flash site thingy Ed. Expect to see Al versions of all the crappy flash games.

he has a point there Paras...Carlee didn't come, and I don't think my house (or rather apartment) deserve a pox just because she had to work.

hold on, that totally doesn't work paras. I went, but seeing as how beck didn't, does that mean that there is still a pox on my house? I don't think I deserve to suffer thanks to his insolence.

Thanks to everyone who came out last night, especially with all the venue changing. I hope, in spite of my bad luck with choosing places to go, it was still fun. Special thanks to Pam and Jess for putting up with me at the end of the night. Unfortunately my streak of not throwing up is over (and I recall a discussion in which I was allowed to blame ngz for that). Fortunately, though, my streak of lacking a hangover remains intact!

Oh, to those who didn't come, a pox on all your houses! Or something like that.

For the bikers out there who missed it the first time, here's your chance.

While I may not be Andy...

There are alternatives to Macromedia MX...
I think the Flash SDK is getting used more, and some open source flash development tools have popped up. The downside is that they are not fully functional for all features of flash editing (and probably the newest versions of actionscript). Here is the one I could find... but I didnt really look into it much more:

http://f4l.sourceforge.net/

Paras could test it out on Linux even... which is pretty nifty because I didnt think there were many open source utilities for this.

Andy what is a good flash program to use?

mad BRODskills

How to use a hand puppet to meet, attract, and date tons of single women...

and

getgirls.com

hi

Want a broken gas pump? This one's for a good cause.

Just saw Electra this evening. That's the one with the "c", the play, the Greek one, the one without the ninjas. It was kind of strange. I found myself thinking, "Wow, this is a lot like Hamlet," before realizing no, *Hamlet* is a lot like *Electra*. Suddenly I pictured Shakespeare pitching his great new brainwave... "I've got this great idea for an Electra kinda thing. Same basic setup, the king is murdered, the murderer takes the throne and marries the queen, Electra's all devastated. Except -- get this -- Electra is a *guy*. He's like a combination of Electra and Orestes [Electra's brother], right? He can do all the carrying on about how great his father was and how terribly he's suffering, like Electra, but he also gets to kill the bad guy, just like Orestes! Bam! And let me tell you the ending. Forget all this stuff about punishing the wicked and rewarding the faithful. Picture this: Everybody Dies. Twice the gore, and we get a bunch of the moral ambiguity stuff that people are into these days. I'm tellin' you man, this Electra-As-A-Guy thing, audiences are gonna eat it up."