Working and living in the Sierra Nevada’s, the weather becomes a quick topic of interest for many reasons. As storms roll through they bring the sweet aftermath of bluebird powder days and the more the better as far as I am concerned. When I first came to Lake Tahoe, I really had no idea what to expect or if there would even be any snow. I am originally from Tennessee and had no real exposure to the weather trends of Northern California. But now I have lived here going on about 9 years now and I have definitely gained some key insights to the weather patterns.

With the little bit of snow we have had laying around all week, I have been itching to get out and do some summits, but I have been quite busy with the day to day lately… so Sunday afternoon Loki and I decided we could use some fresh air and found our selves quickly making [...]

“It’s been a long time. We shouldn’t have left you… without a dope beat to step to.”
G.R.L., Open Frameworks and graffiti legend Tempt1 have teamed-up to bring you the latest weapon of ocular assault: the EyeWriter. Source code, free software, HOW TO guide, videos and eye tags by Tempt1 available at eyewriter.org[...]

Perhaps one of the coolest websites I have run across lately, the Graffiti Archeology website is extremely intriguing… a photographic retrospective / timeline of graffiti tags, murals and stencils all rendered with some fancy flash coding.
Check it out!

Below are some useful AS3 snippets that I use quite frequently. Thought they might come in handy for you too!
1. Get a url when the button is clicked.

import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.net.URLLoader;
import flash.events.*;
// ADD EVENT LISTENER AND FUNCTION TO THE BUTTON
button_name.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, go);
function go(event:MouseEvent):void {
var url:String = “http://www.yourdomain.com”;
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(url);
navigateToURL(request, [...]