Archive for September, 2007
The Day I Almost Wore Real Shoes to Work
Posted by SimianLogic in Uncategorized on 09/28/2007
Today, for the first time since I moved to California, I put on socks. And real shoes. I was even going to wear them to work–for this was to be Bike to Work Day: Part Deux! Why so long between attempts? Well, I needed a couple of days to recover after the last one and then went to Greece for two weeks. Now back in the US of A, it was time to try to bike to work again. I made it about a mile and a half before I noticed that my tires seemed a little flat. Read the rest of this entry »
Nibblets
Posted by SimianLogic in blog on 09/27/2007
To make a long story short, not every game I cook up and prototype turns out to be a winner. Some of them don’t even make it past an early prototype. This idea, though, I really really liked. It just seemed (in my head) that it should be fun. The concept, in a nutshell: Nibblets (link opens pop for more sizey goodness). Read the rest of this entry »
The Stressful Commute
Posted by SimianLogic in Uncategorized on 09/07/2007
Usually, my commute takes me about 15 minutes each way. It’s only 3.6 miles, but there a bunch of red lights and stop signs. Today, it took around 50 minutes each way. A little over triple the usual. Why? Because I didn’t take my car. Read the rest of this entry »
Let the bike experiment begin!
Posted by SimianLogic in Uncategorized on 09/06/2007
Last week, I bought a bike off of craigslist. An old bike. Like, a really old bike. That’s okay, though, it was only $30. I had the guys at a bike shop check it out, and while they suggested around $150 worth of repairs if I wanted the thing to run like new for a couple of years, they said it would be fine as-is for a few months. I’m using the “first-car” principle for my first bike (okay, sure, I had one when I was a kid… but I haven’t ridden one in probably 15 years). Rather than go ahead and pony up a few hundred bucks for a new one (or $800 for an electric one that looks really sweet, I thought I’d get a cheapo bicycle to practice on. That way when I smash it into things or fall under a bus, I’ll only be crying about my wounds and not the money I just wasted on a new bicycle. Read the rest of this entry »
YUI + SWFobject: Play Nice!
Posted by SimianLogic in Uncategorized on 09/05/2007
I found a bevy of links explaining why you had to set an embedded SWF’s wmode property to either “opaque” or “transparent” to get a div placed on top of it to show properly, but yesterday at work I was experiencing another strange error. First, the setup: on one of our pages, we’ve got a pretty prominent SWF taking up the majority of the page (embedded in a div via SWFobject). Below the SWF is some text and a few places for user-entered data. Rather than linking away from the SWF page, my goal yesterday was to AJAXify everything and keep it all one one page. Since we were already using the YUI Rich Text Editor elsewhere, I decided to give their dialog code a shot. It worked just as expected, with one…major…snag. Read the rest of this entry »