Austin Web Designer - Adam Freetly

current tune converge - you fail me
it's been a year since i met the girl. we commemorated the occasion with tattoos of the month and date. getting tattoos related to an SO is usually bad news for the relationship, murphy's law and everything, so we decided to go with something non-exclusive. so that should things go wrong, we can always claim that feb. 19th was our parole date or something else tough-sounding.
i put up pictures on SG, but i won't post them here, since it's kind of bloody. it didn't hurt as much as getting snipped, but it's the same sort of not-quite-tangible pain that makes me go all lightheaded for no reason whatsoever.
our anniversary has been pretty cool, although we're not going all out. we'll save that for the one in august. we went for lunch/dinner at cousin's, a mediterranean restaurant around the corner, where we sat "ottoman style" (on cushions). afterwards, we went up to deluxe tattoo where we got tattooed by ben wahhhh, which doesn't sound like his real name. then we walked back and went to the same bar we went to a year ago. there was much cuddling there, cos i'm pretty much the happiest thing ever with her, all the time. and there was no one in the bar to object.
in other news, i've got a new job that's awesome as hell. my desk is apparently near an electrical riser, so there's quite a magnetic field, which does nasty things to crt's. so i'm forced to use a 20" studio display with my power mac. like a pig in shit, i tell ya.
for anybody who doesn't know, i went to peoria for training on monday and tuesday (since the girl and i don't celebrate valentine's day, although i think she regretted that decision later). training because p/h standardized on archicad which i have no experience in, unlike autocad, in which i have 8 years. basic rundown of the program: uses a crap ass 2d engine, not unlike illustrator, so every time you pan or zoom, it has to regenerate (rasterize). UI is very similar to form-z which makes key usage and learning the progrm very simple for me. snapping is very different from autocad. basically, it's always on. so if you're close to an endpoint, you always snap there, nothing you can do about it. ortho commands are like photoshop, hold shift to constrain. point goes to archicad on this one, it's a lot more intuitive than toggling with f8. there are also nifty shortcuts like resting on a point and hitting option-x or option-y to constrain to the x or y of that point. keyboard entry is more mac-like, where you hit x to enter the x relative coordinate toolbox, after which you can type what you like, backspace, edit, whatever. it's very strange relative to autocad, but it does use standard UI elements, which would make it less daunting to a casual user. This is all based on archicad 7, though. Archicad 9 uses opengl which should be faster. we're switching to that sometime next month.