Exciting things

[0olong]

• I'm making a giant puppet for Beltane this year. I've been wanting to get into making puppets for ages, and this is a great opportunity to do it. It's also a relatively low-time-commitment way to stay involved with Beltane.
• I've got a new housemate, the girlfriend of one of my existing housemates, with a van. Indirectly this has made it possible to

Comments

[ruggrat]

Ponyo is adorable.

[0olong]

Yes! Very glad I got to it.

So far the only Ghibli I haven't really liked was Howl's Moving Castle... and even that I mostly enjoyed while watching.

[heyokish]

yay pinhole (though gaffer tape is NOT light tight. Three layers, minimum, to make it so.

[0olong]

Thanks for the tip. If I'm very lucky the metal will have been sufficiently flush against the other metal that what I have will have worked; if not I'll have wasted a film and a bit of time, and I'll do better next time.

[momentsmusicaux]

jQuery is brilliant. It's built into Drupal, so I do a fair bit of work with it. Try the jQueryUI site too -- there are some very cool widgets there. And quite a few great plugins written in jQ for fancy effects.

Giant puppet sounds fun!

[0olong]

Oh, nice! I hadn't seen the jQueryUI site, looks like lots of fun is to be had there. I'll look out for how jQuery's being used when I do more experimenting with Drupal.

The giant puppet should indeed be fun!