Jun 09

Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder

Tag: Computer Stuff, Programming, Technology/Gagetry, Web Dev/Site Promo — Bush Mackel @ 7:05 am

My Mother-In-Law is a nice person, don’t get me wrong. But she has this horrible habit of e-mailing me with stuff I could care less about. You and I typically call this stuff SPAM. She hasn’t started e-mailing me Viagra offers yet, but plenty of chain e-mails, horrible jokes and even worse riddles. To alleviate this problem, I gave her another one of my e-mail addresses that a lot of junk e-mail already goes to so at least I wouldn’t immediately give her e-mails any importance. Well anyway, she sent me one the other day and it started with “I’ve been trying not to send you any junk, but I think that you will like this clock.” And included was this link : http://home.tiscali.nl/annejan/swf/timeline.swf.

Basically it’s a clock made in flash that displays the seconds, minutes, hours, days, months and years…it the most boring way possible. I mean, it basically presents everything my digital watch does, but in an even less attractive way. Why in the world did she think I would like this clock? And it being done in Flash, (with all of the cool things Flash is capable of), just makes this worse.

It was then I remembered about an ACTUALLY cool clock a friend of mine, Marieke did in school. Not only is it beautiful, but is has constellations in it too, and has a cool day to night graphic. SOOOO MUCH BETTER. You can check out a picture below, and check it out in action here.

6 Responses to “Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder”

  1. apex says:
    June 10th, 2007 at 8:37 am

    My own Mother and Grandmother are the same way. They say they wanted my e-mail address to keep in contact with me using technology.

    I don’t understand how sending me chain letters, stupid riddles, and weird flash animations that I delete before even looking at is a way of keeping in contact with me.

  2. Bush Mackel says:
    June 10th, 2007 at 9:01 am

    See? You need to also direct them to a SPAM e-mail address. That, coupled with a little education has significantly reduced the amount of trash I’m sent. *nod* (#):)

  3. listikal says:
    June 10th, 2007 at 10:13 am

    Poor guy…I guess I have that to look forward to.I love how you gave them your “other” e-mail address. I would have loved to have been there to hear what that address was for.

  4. Bush Mackel says:
    June 10th, 2007 at 10:36 am

    Ha, I just said that the e-mail address she was sending stuff to was usually for “business” matters and so I instead directed her to my “personal” e-mail address. *GRIN*

    Hey! I mean, I tried to edumacate her on sending me SPAM, but it didn’t have the 100% effect I was really looking for. Ha ha

  5. Nasru says:
    October 18th, 2007 at 9:22 am

    I have found few blogs having good content. And I think you are doing a very good work buddy. Keep up your work. This post was really a nice piece of your work.

  6. Bush Mackel says:
    October 19th, 2007 at 5:52 am

    @Narsu – Thanks a lot! Your words are much appreciated. (#):)

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