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dragonlady7The lovely Dave has finally updated his website.
What has he put on his website?
His Web Toys.
Yes. For any of you who may have forgotten, amidst all my whining about how he never does anything around the house and we're so broke, Dave is actually a hardcore computer geek, and indeed has four years' experience as a software engineer, and Knows His Shit. Also, he likes to screw around with computers, which is where you get the cool stuff.
My favorite part, personally, is the banner on the page. That kind of ugliness doesn't happen casually. No... that took him all afternoon. That's a complicated javascript. Run your mouse over it a couple times. It's kind of addictive.
For Kat, who thought the Homestar Runner cartoon randomizer might be cool? Here it is.
Any who like Renaissance madrigals may want to see possibly the world's only PowerPoint-generated madrigal music video, Chi Chilichi. Oh yes. Animation, music, and... gritty Italian realism. (Done the hard way, of course. This is Dave, people. Nothing easy is good. Things are better because they're more complicated, see? The result being, it's the best damn PowerPoint you're ever going to see.)
Any of you with Mac OS X can play with the DT-1000, but for the rest of you there's not much point, as it requires OS X in order to run. Dave cobbled that one together for a class and didn't have time for cross-platform crap.
And those of you who have ever lived in, been through, or heard of North Jersey may appreciate this one:
The Bergen County Suburb Name Generator.
At the top of the page there's a list of suburb names. If there's a link beside it that says "taken", it's real. I'm not shitting you. Click the links.
[As a politically-incorrect but truthful aside, a friend of the family who teaches public school in the South Bronx stole the code behind this page and replaced the name elements with random syllables, and made a random name generator that comes up with the actual names of his actual students on a disturbingly frequent basis. He wonders whether his students' parents had access to such a thing.]
My boy is a spaz, but he's a smart one.
What has he put on his website?
His Web Toys.
Yes. For any of you who may have forgotten, amidst all my whining about how he never does anything around the house and we're so broke, Dave is actually a hardcore computer geek, and indeed has four years' experience as a software engineer, and Knows His Shit. Also, he likes to screw around with computers, which is where you get the cool stuff.
My favorite part, personally, is the banner on the page. That kind of ugliness doesn't happen casually. No... that took him all afternoon. That's a complicated javascript. Run your mouse over it a couple times. It's kind of addictive.
For Kat, who thought the Homestar Runner cartoon randomizer might be cool? Here it is.
Any who like Renaissance madrigals may want to see possibly the world's only PowerPoint-generated madrigal music video, Chi Chilichi. Oh yes. Animation, music, and... gritty Italian realism. (Done the hard way, of course. This is Dave, people. Nothing easy is good. Things are better because they're more complicated, see? The result being, it's the best damn PowerPoint you're ever going to see.)
Any of you with Mac OS X can play with the DT-1000, but for the rest of you there's not much point, as it requires OS X in order to run. Dave cobbled that one together for a class and didn't have time for cross-platform crap.
And those of you who have ever lived in, been through, or heard of North Jersey may appreciate this one:
The Bergen County Suburb Name Generator.
At the top of the page there's a list of suburb names. If there's a link beside it that says "taken", it's real. I'm not shitting you. Click the links.
"Woodcliff Lake" was one of our most successful names. This, despite the fact that the three most striking features of the future Woodcliff Lake are not a cliff, lake, or even small forest, but rather a "flagship" A&P grocery store; a strip mall with a pizzeria, a Chinese food buffet, and two "New York-Style" delis; and a newer strip mall with a Panera Bread, an Apple Store, and a Pottery Barn.
[As a politically-incorrect but truthful aside, a friend of the family who teaches public school in the South Bronx stole the code behind this page and replaced the name elements with random syllables, and made a random name generator that comes up with the actual names of his actual students on a disturbingly frequent basis. He wonders whether his students' parents had access to such a thing.]
My boy is a spaz, but he's a smart one.
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