Wol Euler was guardian and commenter for this session.
I sat alone for half an hour listening to birdsong and tweaking the Autologging scripts, until Fael logged in. We talked about commerce and geekery.
Fael Illyar: Hi Wol :)
Wol Euler: hello fael
Fael Illyar: crashed in a tp... that's been a while :)
Wol Euler: heh, I wondered what happened
Fael Illyar: I joined DSN as desiger now.
Wol Euler: cool.
Fael Illyar: stayed up way to late to get everything ready that it'd go out this morning :)
Wol Euler: :)
Wol Euler: ah, but it'll be worth it when the hordes start hammering at your doors.
Wol Euler: brb, more coffee
Fael Illyar: yes, hopefully it is hordes :)
Fael Illyar: 370 packages of the gift got sent out this morning :)
Wol Euler: were those individual requests?
Fael Illyar: do you know how DSN works?
Wol Euler: nope :)
Fael Illyar: well, basically, there are designers (283 for the moment) and subscribers (9248 for the moment)
Fael Illyar: I'm now included in both counts :P
Wol Euler: :)
Fael Illyar: designers set up dropboxes with a free gift in them and set it up to send on a certain channel. There are 9 channels.
Fael Illyar: subscribers join what channels they want and receive at most one gift per channel every morning
Wol Euler: interesting.
Fael Illyar: no doubles
Fael Illyar: so, basically, I subscribed :)
Fael Illyar: the starter kit for designer cost me 390L
Wol Euler: oh, I expected that to be far higher.
Fael Illyar: Yes, I was O.O at it being so cheap
Wol Euler: do you get the list of 370 names? (I expect not)
Fael Illyar: I do, I can even put my own script in the dropbox to get link messages with keys of those getting sent the gifts
Wol Euler: so you could watch for them and greet them specially as they entered your store...
Fael Illyar: the package also comes with a scanner object that they apparently use to get statistics on how many have entered your store.
Fael Illyar: but this is wider advertising than I've easily reached with any other method :)
Wol Euler nods
Fael Illyar: brilliant idea all in all :)
Wol Euler: mmhmm
Wol Euler: now just wait for the visitors to overrun you.
Fael Illyar: Yeah :P
--BELL--
Fael Illyar: I put out the pink hairflower as a gift in accessories channel :)
Wol Euler grins
Fael Illyar: they also wanted a picture to show for if they happen to blog my gift. I made this
Wol Euler: good, nice colour matching :)
Fael Illyar: all the same color, really :P
Wol Euler: that#s what I meant :)
Fael Illyar: except hair, black :)
Fael Illyar: the aspect in that is 4:3 but I sized it as they suggested :P
Wol Euler: if you should remake it, that is a change I'd recommend. Fix the layer with your body, it is stretched horizontally
Fael Illyar: it will show 320x240 on their blog (the notecard said to blame lindens)
Wol Euler: but that's not obvious at first glance
Fael Illyar: layer?
Wol Euler: well, I'm assuming you made it in Photoshop :)
Fael Illyar: gimp
Wol Euler: force of habit
Fael Illyar: + inkscape
Wol Euler: but gimp has layering?
Wol Euler: you didn't put the text and image and soft corner framing all on the same set of pixels?
Fael Illyar: oh right, the streching, is intentional
Wol Euler: ok
Fael Illyar: it'll end up scaled to 320x240
Wol Euler: aaaaah, gotcha.
Wol Euler: ok ;)
Wol Euler: one day SL will grow up and be able to handle non-square images
Fael Illyar: it got a hazy horizontal thing from somewhere I'm not sure of but I thought it looks nice so I left it.
Wol Euler: mmhmm, a good effect.
Fael Illyar: perhaps something with inkscape and gimp's lanczos resizing filter combined do
Fael Illyar: I can't see it in the not resized image
Wol Euler: oh, how odd.
Fael Illyar: oh, propably also since it was scaled to different aspect ratio
Wol Euler: brb
Fael Illyar: yes... cubic scaling algorithm doesn't do it
Wol Euler: hmmmmm
Wol Euler: sounds like a bug, IMHO
Fael Illyar: well, the lanczos filter works hard to keep details and to not blur the image...
Fael Illyar: for aspect ratio keeping scales, it's quite good.
Fael Illyar: the image looks as sharp as before scaling
Fael Illyar: got to remember this quirk though :)
Wol Euler: mmhmm
Fael Illyar: I'll set up another dropbox with my pink tattoo today I think. Just, the texture needs fixing.
Wol Euler: can you join as many channels as you want? (as designer)
Fael Illyar: all 9 if you wish
Wol Euler: $$$?
Fael Illyar: but there are rules on what you can put in them.
Fael Illyar: so far only the starter kit cost
--BELL--
Fael Illyar: oh, I might write a notecard with the link message protocol for changing colors and give you the script and notecard :)
Fael Illyar: then we can have recording status shown with color :)
Wol Euler: ah
Wol Euler: I had had a different idea, actually: make the flower purly decorative, with a long slow colour change
Wol Euler: like from pink to royal blue in 40 minutes
Wol Euler: (next colour chosen randomly)
Fael Illyar: well, that'd work
Fael Illyar: although I do like the idea of color showing what it's doing :P
Wol Euler nods.
Wol Euler: but if people ignore the word "recording", they might also not remember what the colour means.
Fael Illyar: not saying remove the word :)
Wol Euler: nor I, I'm talking about distraction and inattention and human nature ;)
Fael Illyar: Well, the primary reason I wanted it to change color according to mode is that it'd be something people can wonder about and then perhaps "get it" one day :P
Wol Euler: ah
Fael Illyar: and then go "oh my god, that's neat!" ... or not :)
Wol Euler: fair enough :)
Fael Illyar: plus, for someone who knows the colors, it's obvious without even focusing your eyes if the recording is still on
Wol Euler smiles
Wol Euler: btw, http://wondermark.com/549/
Fael Illyar: Haha, yes :)
Wol Euler: not that I have ever done anything like that, oh no.
Fael Illyar: only applies in optimizing for just yourself :P
Wol Euler: right.
Wol Euler: but I do hate having to backtrack.
Fael Illyar smiles.
Fael Illyar: and also, if the problem he was solving is solvable, it won't be just one time thing :P
Wol Euler: heheheheh
Wol Euler: long-term optimization
Fael Illyar: yep :)
Fael Illyar: for something you'll do hundreds of times, it's worth it :)
Wol Euler laughs
Wol Euler: speaking of things one does hundreds of times, I shall have to leave for work :-/
Fael Illyar: Ah, ok, have fun :)
Wol Euler: not likely, but WTH.
Fael Illyar: who cares, have fun anyway ;)
Wol Euler: nice to see you, Fael. I hope that the subscribers turn up in droves.
Wol Euler: bfn
Fael Illyar: see you later :)
Fael Illyar: me too, thank you :)
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