We went out to my roommates car in the morning and found that about half a foot of snow had piled up overnight. In his car, as his sunroof was open. Luckily, it was very cold, so nothing melted and it was easy to remove the snow. I thought in the end, it was pretty funny.
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This is a quick video I made for the BYU chapter of Engineers Without Borders. They did some work on clean water and solar heating down in Peru last year. This year they are returning to see which projects worked and which didn’t. I made this with Animoto. If you haven’t seen it yet, check it out at Animoto.com
This is the first creative project I have undertaken with photoshop. Most of the time when I used photoshop it was to make a flyer, or something. This is based on this tutorial by abduzeedo. I kind of took it my own way. I really didn’t know what i am doing yet. If practice makes perfect, I have some hours to put in.
CS 4 came in the mail today. I liked the packaging. Especially the orange to black inner sleeve. (Third picture) Completely unnecessary, but it makes you feel better about dropping thousands of dollars on software. The installation didn’t go so well. The first CD finished and ejected but a notice came up saying invalid serial number. Which was weird because they checked that before i started installing. So I had to force quit the installer and start over. Not nice. But all is good. Time to make something sweet.
I love ice cream. Yesterday I was experimenting with creating my own ice cream flavor online. I found a “Flavor Generator” on Ben & Jerry’s. I had fun picking some sweet ingredients and swirls etc. (Raspberry, Blueberry Cake Batter anyone?) But when I got to the end… that was it. The end. There was no way to send my creation, save my creation, or actually order the ice cream. Maybe I was a little optimistic but I thought I could actually order my flavor.
Turns out you can order custom flavors from http://www.ecreamery.com/ The process is pretty easy. It is actually the same 4 steps as Ben & Jerry’s. It is very expensive however. My 2 flavor, 2 mix in creation would have cost about $110 for a gallon. At the end you can save your flavor, buy it, or send it to a friend.
I guess I expected more from Ben & Jerry’s. I can imagine sharing my creation on facebook, contests picking the best flavor and selling it for a limited time. Or at least the option of emailing your mom your flavor or something.
But that is the funny thing. A couple years ago, a static Flavor Generator would have been cool. But the web has progressed to a point where if something isn’t sharable, mixable and mash-able, we get disappointed.
