Re: FLASH: No more demo FLAs

[Branden Hall]

You are correct in pointing out my error in using the word incitful. This is

not a word,  my apologies to those you have may thought otherwise or were

confused by it.  I was attempting to turn the word incite into an adjective.

I should have said instigating.  Again, my apologies.


Now, to the meat of this matter.  If you wish to hurl insults at me, do so

to my personal email,

bhallfigleaf [dot] com

.  Unless, of course, all you want is

attention and to incite a wasteful use of bandwith by provoking the fine

people of this list. If you have any tips or pointers on my writing style, I

would appriciate it, since you obviously feel you can write better than I.

In fact, I publically challenge you to put your keyboard where your mouth

is... upstage my writings, please! I would love for there to be better

documentation and tutorials out there for the Flash community to learn from.


If you would like to write a book on Flash I suggest you contact New Riders

Press (www.newriders.com)  and pitch an idea to them.  I am sure they will

adore you if write the superior Flash 4 tome, since currently they are

raking in money from the sale of the book I helped write, Flash 4 Magic.

Also, you may want to contact Macromedia and pursue a contract to rewrite

various parts of their documentation. They often have outside firms write

their classroom material.  After I gave small assistance to Chrissy Rey,

another member of Fig Leaf Software, in writing the Generator 2 class, we

were hoping we would also be contracted to write the Advanced Flash 4 class.

This did not occur unforuntately and that class, as it stands, is horrible.

If you could persuade Macromedia to let your rewrite it I personally would

be very grateful.


If you are a writer by trade and a Flash expert, as your emails suggest, you

will find that these projects to be both easy and very profitable.  I would

do more of those kinds of projects myself, but I am simply too busy

developing with and teaching Flash and Generator, not to mention testing new

Macromedia products.


-= Branden J. Hall

-= Multimedia Developer/Instructor

-= Fig Leaf Software


----- Original Message -----

From: William Skyvington <

skykyxar [dot] fr

>

To: <

flasherchinwag [dot] com

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Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2000 7:22 AM

Subject: Re: FLASH: No more demo FLAs



The Flash Brain has honored me by an evocation:


>the best way to deal with such incitful morons


I'm capable of recognizing morons, dear Branden. I detect them, most

often, by the quality and nature of what they say. Talk to me, as it

were, and I'll tell you who you are. But I've interrogated all my

English and French dictionaries re "incitful". To no avail. So I'm

awaiting a kind word from you to tell me what this insult really

means.


Let's be serious. The thing that infuriates me (translated into

mockery in my recent post, which was received as such by an

alarmingly small group of readers) is that Macromedia puts out a

product with lousy documentation, and that low-talented Brandens jump

onto the bandwaggon with free tutorials. (I have never read those of

Branden. Maybe this is a gap in my culture, which I don't specially

intend to repair.) The snake-oil non-professional merchants then get

into action. Branden can't write, as we all agree, but he's Yankee

enough, for example, to know how to attach a registration symbol to

the word Tupperware that plays a part in the wishy-washy prose of his

brain article. This irritates me. His article is hogwash. But Branden

takes himself seriously, even to the point of complaining publicly

about offenders who might have stolen his "code".


Here's what I have to say, seriously,

at a first level

(with no attached sarcasm of any kind whatsoever):


- If audiences of this list are incapable of detecting irony,

   then maybe I should give up.


- In fact, deceived, I GIVE UP. I won't post anything more

   to this list. I intend to unsubscribe...


- Branden, if you think you're a genius and

   you don't want people to steal your fabulous creations (?),

   then simply shut your mouth. Don't publish anything...






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