1. Thanks so much to John Beck for the Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia DVD. This is one of my absolute favorite Peckinpah flicks, and if you haven’t yet seen it you’re really missing out.*
2. My wife is readying the site for migration over to our new host. Don’t know if we’ll be moving this weekend or next, but either way, posting here is likely to be sporadic for the next couple of days.
3. Could the diaper I took off my son this morning talk, it likely would have said, “Uh, you’re not feeding your kid cocktail onions, are you?”
4. Bought a new graphics tablet that I don’t yet know how to use, so I’ll probably spend some time this weekend getting to know the thing. If anybody uses one and wants to drop some tips into the comments, I’d be receptive and appreciative. It’s a Wacom Intuos3.
5. Anybody use Macromedia Flash for Mac?
Woo. I got an Wacom Intuos3 6×8 tablet for Christmas. I’ve wanted one for freaking ever.
I may have to hit YOU up for tips, though.
Regretably, I”ve been sick as a collie since then, and it’s still in the box, as is the Imac G5 I got to go with it.
First rule of Intuos tablet club is…..?
Having actually had coctail onions last night, I smell your pain great one.
My kid actually did pluck a cocktail onion out of the trash yesterday and try to eat it. He wasn’t pleased with the flavor.
Sarah—got the 6×8, too. Now I can’t wait to start doing stuff with it. Should integrate nicely with the Mac (plus, it has a 5 button wireless battery-free mouse that goes along with it).
If my son’s diaper this morning could have talked, it would have called in a hazmat team. I should have rolled over and let my wife change it…
Jeff writes:
I know somebody who is pretty proficient with it. You want his email? He once ran his talk at a conference entirely in Flash.
4- Okay, what do you want to know?
5- At work, daily.
Migraintion mi-’gran-shen n (2005): a condition caused by moving to a new host marked by headache sometimes with nausea and swearing.
Godspeed.
Tablets take a bit of work to get used to. My best advice: don’t think of them as a mouse. They’re not. I’d also make sure that you have the sensitivity on the nib set fairly low or they tend to register a click at the slightest pressure. For Photoshop they’re absolutely excellent, but they’re no substitute for a mouse.
I’ve used Flash on the Mac for a bit, but I’m not expert on it by any means. My best advice would be to do what I did and go buy some kind guidebook—the more pictures the better.
You’ll figure this out pretty quick, but the Wacom mouse is odd. The mouse, like the pen, is oriented (up,down,left,right) according to the tablet. So you could have your mouse at any angle, but it will still move the cursor relative to the tablet itself.
I know a few guys who end up disconnecting their regular mouse entirely to just use the pen only.