Monday, November 05, 2007

FFBB00 - SPOILER ALERT - DO NOT READ IF YOU VALUE YOUR SOUL!

My NaNoWriMo progress... NOT. Two of my adversaries are stuck in
12,000 B.C. Being fought over by Neanderthals (or whatever cousins
passed for human at that stage of their development).... trudging
through mud.

You know this is going to be a long trip from then to now,
especially at 200 words per day.

I am so antisocial. Obviously banned from most any group. I hear a
different drum beat and suddenly I'm gone.

FFBB00.... ok here's the spoiler....

FFBB00 is the hex code for the color AMBER. I bet you didn't know
that. Now your life is ruined, huh?

Why is FFBB00 important? Because in the early 1970's that was the
color of the nicest (my opinion) monitors, & I used one to build a
word processor.

It was really fun to sit in the dark watching that amber glow; it
was friendly.

So of course I have spent the last two days automating a process to
turn my old iBook into a full screen amber text editor. Anything but
actually write something, just like 1974.

Not like this is a sudden idea... I have spent a lot of time over the
last couple years finding FFBB00, and then saving it in a variety of
ways so I can find it again when I need to... like last Saturday
morning. This time it only took me five minutes to find. Another
quality Not-Writing experience.

Ok... so back to trying to get those adversaries from 12,000 B.C. up
to somewhere close to current day.

Happy Day.

Jeff

http://nocomputers.blogspot.com

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