July 8, 2004
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The GIMP Conference leftovers
Like every self-respecting group of geeks, when the GIMP developers got together during GUADEC, we printed some t-shirts to commemmorate the occasion.
We sold some while almost covered the cost of printing them, and now we have a few left (6 in all, 4 Mediums and 2 Smalls). It’s not a coincidence that only the unpopular sizes are left – I knew that printing 4 Smalls was too many, but anyway…
Now – the question is what should we do with them? We can give them away, but the cost of sending a t-shirt by international post is more than the cost of printing the t-shirts. We could sell them, but they’d be expensive. Alternatively, we could just keep them until the next time there’s a presentation or something and give them away…
Any ideas? Answers on a postcard (or an e-mail) to me.
July 6, 2004
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Following on the recent trend, there are my GUADEC paper and slides. I presented a paper (which went kind of meuh, due to lack of preparation mostly) on the basics of writing a GIMP plug-in. I happened to be talking at the same time as Owen Taylor was presenting the future of rendering in GNOME, which helps explain the small attendance at my talk 🙂
July 5, 2004
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Woohoo! Advogato’s back!
So anyway, I am in the middle of decorating (so far I’ve stripped wallpaper, plastered holes in the wall, sanded, re-plastered the holes after sanding to get them smooth, re-sanded). All that’s left is a bit of sanding in one room, and some more “finishing” plastering in a few places that have had the finish a bit cracked. We should be good to go for undercoat by the 12th (I’m taking a week off to decorate).
The interesting thing that I’ve noticed while looking for paint is the names that companies give paint colours. And it got me thinking about the guy who probably does nothing but that all day. Someone hands him a swatch with a light blue, and he goes through some process like this:
“Hmmm, looks kind of marine. Maybe we could call it something-spray or sea-something? Nope not green enough. We need something more subtle, but unverifiable… Something like a seashell, but what type? cockle shell should be pinker, oyster shell needs to be greyer… How about a generic “something shell”? deepwater shell? Nice – but the colour would be darker. I know – “secret shell”.”
And there we have it. “Secret shell” is a pale blue.
“Hidden garden” is a dark yellow/light orange with hints of green.
“Rickshaw” is a deep red.
And so on.
I don’t envy that guy but I’d like to try his job for a day.
