Meeting Andrew Kepple

UPDATE: Andrew Kepple’s website is now at http://tmst.twu.net/sluggy/

I made my way out to Wellington Airport this evening to meet one Andrew Kepple, also known as TmsT, one of the more well known animutationeers. He’s known best for the “Jesus H. Christ vs Colin Mochrie” Animutation series (‘French Erotic Film’ and the rest of the series).

So yeah, I waited at Gate 13 for him holding my sign:

C. MOCHRIE
A. KEPPLE
N. CICIEREGA

which he liked 🙂 We exchanged gifts (yay! I got rare TmsT vids!) talked for a moment or two, took some photos and parted ways. It was quick and succinct, but you can blame Air New Zealand for demanding check-in times. He said will be posting on his site tonight, so be sure to watch it for more hilarity 🙂

I hope to see more of this elusive guy around meatspace in the future… as Strong Bad would say “Man — so cool!” but without the creepy-combover.

Update: Oh, so after meeting TmsT, I took a walk and took some more pictures. My faves are on my Flickr.

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Why being a righty rules.

If you’ve got more than one tab open in Firefox, and you’re closing the entire window: You move the mouse over the icon in the top left corner of the screen and double click it. Firefox says “Lotsa tabs… really close window?”, so then you move your thumb over to press the Enter key on the numpad. Window Closed. When this technique is perfected, you don’t even see the dialog box 😀

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Mr Scruff Returns!

I was in Cybernomad tonight saying Hi to my good friend Benji. He was talking to customers, so I’m browsing the many handouts they have on the desk. I pick up the October schedule for Sandwiches and lo, Mr Scruff is coming to Wellington sometime during November! w00t W0000T!

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XSLT is Sexy

XSLT is cool. Thanks to Matthew Cruickshank for giving me the courage to take the triple-salchow into XSLT. It’s really quite simple when you get the tools set up.

I’m learning it so I can produce and consume RSS for project at my job. It’s quite fun.

Also, check out Making RSS Pretty for some good examples on how to allow browsers like IE6.0 and Mozilla to make your feeds look more human-consumable.

Now to learn how to use the DOM to construct XML in PHP… I think I’ll steer clear of DTDs for just a while longer… they’re still scary 🙂

Oh, and by the way, Ctrl-W is the worst key combo ever for a Dvorak typist… That’s what happened last night, and what happened just now… Gah!

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We the Media

I just wrote a huge post about how cool We The Media is, seeing as I had just finished it, and for some reason Firefox closed without warning, and I lost it all. It was a good post too. I alliterated about Quality Blogs, Signal-to-Noise ratios in the blogosphere, how we trust others to tell us about news, how relatively low-usefulness live journals have replaced animated-gif-laden ‘personal home pages’, how RSS works, FeedDemon, and how RSS is being utilised by cool services like Flickr and Del.icio.us to revolutionise how we digest new content. But it’s all gone. I’m sad now. Go read We The Media for free online, or buy it from Amazon. Then go get FeedDemon and digest yourself some quality news feeds like BoingBoing, Wired News, Gizmodo, Slashdot, and to the lesser extent Webfroot, and the thousands of feeds made available by great writers about interesting subjects.

If you have any questions about any of what I wrote about and lost, please ask me and I’ll gladly alliterate about anything I mentioned 🙂

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