SWF It Good

When when you add features to a class and they aren’t seeming to work, STOP. Your doing something that doesn’t jive w/ you code. You are overwhelmed w/ all the code you already have. You are missing something or your code just doesn’t work w/ what your trying to do.

Solution:

Simple, create a new class. Name it controlVariable (yep, just like in Science class). Try that troublesome code there all by its self. That way if it works in controlVariable then you know you code is correct and just the implimenation in you project is off. I feel this is very helpful when I’m in the trenches. Cause sometimes some code chunks don’t play well w/ others.
Don’t be prideful and recompile a swf for 2hrs just because you think, “I declared that Blue Rectangle, it should be there”. When you didn’t addChild or import or instantiate the Shape Class.
Hope this helps someone.

So I receive my e-mail for the beta test for a Google analytics reporting tool. It is great almost like the original only visually more appealing. See if you can get on the list.

http://www.aboutnico.be/index.php/2007/09/15/google-analytics-air-beta-newsflash/

Happy Flash/Flexing

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Also it’s good fo IPTV, I get Diggnation, The Totally Rad Show, NBC Nightly news, Onion News and some other things that are from TV.
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• BitTorrent
• YouTube and others Video Downloads
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I’m in on Pownce. I have invites if anyone wants one. Leave a comment

If you don’t know what Pownce is here is the definition from the site:

Pownce is a way to send messages, files, links, and events to your friends.
You’ll create a network of the people you know and then you can share stuff with all of them,
just a few of them, or even just one other person really fast.

I heard the new Smashing Pumpkins single for Zeitgeist. It’s nice, I can’t get it out of my head. Catchy, rockin’, w/ a lite punk flavor. I can’t wait to here the new album. And pay $100 for tickets to the concert… maybe.

P.S. I got some flex and as3 stuff going on to share in a few days.

I saw Inside Man tonight. Great movie. Only a few locations but kept me interested. It took me awhile to slow my brain down, due to all of these mindless movies hollywood makes. It was like a stew it took time like the “oldie but goodie” movies.

Denzel is great, watch him, watch any movie where people act well. It is hard to convey that emotion and be in that moment after 15 times of doing it and doing it with no knowledge of how exactly you should feel because you haven’t shot the earlier part of the movie.

I want to do that one day, I want to be a comic but I would like to be an actor and director too. Maybe be the Mos Def of comedy or another Woody Allen.

So about a week ago I made a comment in the call in to Dawn and Drew, they had started group called the “Kool Kids Klub”

KKK (similar gag to the simpsons Krusty Komedy Klassics) I thought it was funny so I left a comment(The Redneck).

One hated it so much they wrote me this:

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So today about an hour ago someone stole my bike.

My wife and I were riding from our apt. to the library and Kroger in the Oak Lawn area of Dallas. We get to the library and I remembered, “Hey you don’t have a chain,” cause I wife accidentally broke it. So my first thought is, ” Take it in the hall way of the library and it will be safer,” then “No just go in, come out.” So I go in and come out and my wife’s bike is there but mine is GONE! So I accept that I didn’t follow my conscience and say well lets go shopping at Kroger, there’s only one problem, I don’t want to have my wife’s bike stolen now at kroger. So she says to watch it while she shops, then says hey look for your bike.

So now I’m going Dragnet, on the prowl for my bike. “There it is,” follow a guy 1/4 mile and descreatly blow past him while noticing it’s not mine. “There’s someone,” Follow them and nothing. A lady waking a bike throught brush, turns out to be a toddler’s bike. “Josh you are over zealous and you will not find your bike, no one is stupid enough to be riding around with your bike.” “But what if.”

So I continued my search. I started going throught the crappy complexs by the Kroger and found one that had all these kids. “You selling bike. You selling bike,” that perked my ears. There is a “underground selling of hot bikes going on in this area.” This is customary. I asked them about it and looked around, nothing. So my wife called and said why don’t I go home and get the car so I agreed because I wasn’t going to find my bike.

As I was riding down Wycliff and turned I though this neighborhood is crappy too, what if they came over here. The I thought, “Well I’m hungry why don’t I stop at Jack in the Box.” Then I began to think you already got your bike stolen, why not your wife’s stupid. So I continued down the road and low and behold a man with a black and red bike like mine.

So I roled up to him and said, “where did you get that bike?

“I bought it”

That’s my bike”

“How do you know?”

“Cause man it’s go this and this”

“Ok take it”

(pause I grab the bike)

“I paid $200 for this bike”

“I don’t care this is my bike”

(called 911)

“How do I get my money back”

“I don’t care”

(he’s walking away)

(hang up w/ 911, declined cop)

(comes back)

“I show you, I show you, come with me. I show you where I got it”

“I don’t care”

(call wife then have to go, she gets scared)
“How much money you got. You own me”

“I don’t owe you anything, this is my bike”

“Well who’s bike is that?” (as he trys to get the my bike back)

“My wifes bike”

“Let me have that one”

“I’m not giving you my wifes bike are you crazy”

(call cops again)

“911, can I help you.”

“Someone stole my bike and I found them and now they won’t leave me alone”

(as the man is walking away, then coming back)”What am I suppose to do”

“I DON’T CARE, GET AWAY FROM ME YOU FAGGOT” (strong words)

“YOUR A NIGGER”

“So what”

“Sir do you need the police.”

“Yes”

The thief leaves to go across the street where I see him point to me in front of a bunch of other mexicians.

So at this point, no cop, Josh with two bikes and no weapon. So I start is look for blunt objects and so I see a beer bottle that is pre-broken for me. I grab it and put it right on the floor so when the cops come I don’t get shot.

The cop pulls out of an axillary station they have right across the street like 5min form when I called. I guess it takes time to finish donuts (joke).

He has no room for the bike and then I get a call my wife has walked throught the Barrio and calls me I look down the street and there she is and say a guy has been following slowly in his truck. I don’t know why she just did that but she didn’t want me to get hurt so she came I don’t know.

So we had to walk the bike home because the breaks were coiled and the chain was broke. As I walked through little mexican I was suspious of everyone cause I didn’t know if any was affiliated with this dude. So keep the broke chain so I could bust somebody in the face with it.

Thank God I didn’t have to hurt or kill that guy cause I was ready to it if he tried to attack.

That was an entertaining hour.

Me and another comic (I won’t name name but he a big myspace headshot) were talking about moving I to NYC him to ? We weighted it because of the money issuses, flexible job and cost of living.

But I have imediate family there and I’m married so I need to get moving before she loses hope in me and doesn’t want to move. She is adiment about moving for a change of scenery and a possible comedy outlet for me. I know NYC isn’t the magic cure all for someone to become a working comic or actor but I think it would help.
But I don’t know I’d be going in blind and I lot of things can go wrong, I have a great job here. But nothing could happen here, too. Figuring your way in comedy (even life) is like a choose you own adventure book that was as thick as the bible, all lord of the rings and Narnia.Where will any of us end up.

It was a fun time in the motherland. My wife and I got to visit for 12 days during the Thanks giving holiday. We had to bring along my niece for the plane rides it was scary but out of most kids she was well behaved and carried her own bag. That’s good for a three year-old. She all sung I like to move it, move it song as well as we are family, over and over.

My wife was so excited to go to New York and Central Park, but when we got to central park it was cold, I was in a bad mood and all the areas of tourist intrest were under renovation.

I got to see my uncles, my dad and step mom. I went to my dad’s church. It was interesting. I’m not a big church kind of guy. They had security and guys with guns. I don’t want to get in the middle of a shoot out during communion. I’m not a let’s have church in a tent kind of person, but it was too fancy for my taste.

Man, my wife was originally slow with getting on the train thing. If you don’t know in a city with transportation you are at whim of the conductor or driver. Once he closes the doors you have to wait til the next one comes. That might be a while so you need to run if you swipe your metro card and here a train. But she got better.

I got to go up at The New York Comedy Club it was good.

I ended up getting a sommons for spitting on the subway. That was fun.

Video to come.