Cat Burton

Recently, when taking a break from my usual nerd habits, I’ve been re-watching old seasons of Dawson’s Creek (I know, it’s tragic). Tonight, I saw the season 4 finale and couldn’t help but chuckle at this conversation between Dawson and his Dad. I should probably point out that this episode first aired in May 2001…

[Scene: The Computer Store. Mitch and Dawson are looking at the laptop computers on display.]

Mitch: This baby does it all, Dawson. 850 megahertz, P3 processor, 128 megabytes of ram, 32-gig hard drive, DVD, 56k modem. What more could you want?

Dawson: I don’t know. A Mac, maybe?

Mitch: What?

Dawson: It’s become obvious to me that in life you’re either a Mac person or a pc person, and the choice defines you. Let me put it to you this way: Beatles or Elvis?

Mitch: Beatles.

Dawson: See? Exactly. This is no different.

Mitch: Dawson, I’ve done all the research. The T21 is by far the best buy, and that’s what we’re getting.

Dawson: Yeah, well, in that case, I’d just prefer you didn’t get me a laptop.

In the end though - Mitch surprised Dawson with a shiney new Mac. Good choice, I say!

EDIT: Here’s links to the two they were debating: T21 and PowerBook G4.

(Script snippet from twiztv.com).

Yesterday, Grant Skinner (creator of the awesome GTween library) came up with a competition for all those AS3 developers out there. The aim? Make something funky in 140 characters or less using the “gimme” code provided on: http://gskinner.com/playpen/tweetcoding.html

Within a few hours, there were some amazing tweets submitted, some of which just blow my mind. All submissions can be found here. One of my current favourites is this one of a tree, which is just brilliant!

Needless to say, I couldn’t resist the challenge, so have created Painted Rain, which is _supposed_ to look like drops of paint falling into water and blending together. Was really tough to do in 140 characters! Here’s the link to the swf, and the code:

h=r();l=600;o[i++]={a:h*l,b:r()*l,c:h*30,d:h*1e7};g.clear();for each(e in o){g.beginFill(e.d,20/e.c);g.drawCircle(e.a,e.b,e.c++)}i>150?i=0:i

You can keep up to date on the contest by searching for #tweetcoding on Twitter!