Total Geeker
Ohmigod, I am a GEEK. Not that that’s bad. Or some kind of newsflash. But I get so used to living in the World of Me that most of the time, I’m oblivious to the things that make me a dork.
That is, until I find myself doing something SO FREAKING COOL that it completely blows me out of my microcosm. It’s at that point that I hear my inner Ted say,"Whoa!" loud enough to wake me to the reality of my geek-ness.
Since I started Adobe’s Illustrator 10: Classroom in a Book, Ted’s been screaming his head off. Some of the things that made me go “Duuude”
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I KNEW there had to be a better way to make a triangle…
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You can SET THE NUMBER OF STAR POINTS AND TWIST IT INTO A FLOWER?!! Wicked!
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So THAT’S how you use this @#$-damn scissor/pen/symbol tool.
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Hey wait, this pen tool SUCKS. How the FREAK…?!
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Lemme get this straight. You can MERGE two objects and take them apart later?!
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I DON’T have to jerk around with 5 different files to make a mask?
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Patterns can be applied to paths?! SQUEEEK!!
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Whhhoa…transparency…
And when I say these are things that made me go “Dude!”, I mean that in the middle of my cubicle and the surrounding eBay Quality team, these are actual announcements I’ve made throughout the last two weeks. To no one in particular.
As the Quality team spends most of their time debating the procedural intricacies involved in marking down our representatives (that, and recapping the birthday party they threw this weekend – for THEIR DOG), when I burst out with a random statement such as,
“This thing zooms up to 6400%?! Awesooomme!”
They tend to look at me like a stray cat who just hacked a hairball.
But I don’t care. All I know is, I’m finally starting to understand why Illustrator costs $500. It’s totally bodacious, and I’m seriously addicted.
Party on, dudes!
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