Edward Andrew Robinson » hackergotchi http://www.earobinson.org “Brilliant people simplify things, and mediocre people complicate things.” — Unknown Mon, 04 Oct 2010 02:12:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 New Hackergotchi http://www.earobinson.org/2008/08/18/new-hackergotchi-2/ http://www.earobinson.org/2008/08/18/new-hackergotchi-2/#comments Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:48:16 +0000 Edward Andrew Robinson http://www.earobinson.org/?p=143 With the release of wordpress 2.6.1 I have once again updated my hackergotchi. This will be my third hackergotchi since 2006, and the original image was taken by my mother at our cottage in Pointe au Baril, and yes I am sitting on the barrel that markes the site of the original barrel that the town gets its name from.

New Hackergotchi

]]> http://www.earobinson.org/2008/08/18/new-hackergotchi-2/feed/ 2 New Hackergotchi http://www.earobinson.org/2007/10/22/new-hackergotchi/ http://www.earobinson.org/2007/10/22/new-hackergotchi/#comments Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:32:23 +0000 Edward Andrew Robinson http://www.earobinson.org/?p=57 In light of the fact that I am now bald, today I uploaded a new hackergotchi to the planet ubuntu bzr tree. Uploading the picture was easy, making the picture was a bit harder. This is my first time using GIMP 2.4.0-rc3 and it seems that the selection tools don’t work the same way that they used to. In the old gimp I was able to make a selection the drag that selection around in order to remove it. It would seem that in the new gimp the only way to remove a selection (That I my girlfriend, could figure out) is to cut (<ctrl>+x) that selection. On the other hand the fuzzy select still works great.

TIP: when using fuzzy select you can use the ctrl key to un-select things that you have selected.

All in all I would say the update was a success. I just wish I had had a larger source image, (The large scale version of my new hackergotchi is a bit jagged around the edges, stupid digital camera being broken).

Large Version

From Me

Small Version

From Me

On a side note it would be fun to make a web page linking all the planet ubuntu faces to there websites / launchpad IDs, any thoughts on this? (Update: it could be just like the gnome one unless we all ready have one?)

Also I have three midterms this week, wish me luck.

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