No thanks. I want to study English here with you and all the members of the English Department.
I often draw pictures with the painting software found in the "accessory menu" of the start menu.
How about you, Ruedi? I know that you draw some pictures and show them on your web site. I think you draw a picture like this by hand, not with the mouse (not with painting/drawing software). Then, do you draw pictures with painting/drawing software?
Well, yes: I used to draw a lot, mostly ink on paper. I somehow got out of the habit, though, and now I only draw occasional pictures such as this, which I did while giving an exam in the Language Laboratory back in February (don't tell anyone, OK?), and which some people in Canada and the U.S. installed as their work desktop.
Drawing with the mouse I find almost impossible, except when I make the computer draw the lines itself in a vector graphics program such as Illustrator. I usually draw on paper, scan the pictures and then work from there.
For the most part I use Photoshop, a really nice but horribly expensive piece of software. Sometimes I use the The GIMP, which you can download for free because it's open source (before you download it, make sure you've got at least 128 MB of RAM on your system, otherwise it's going to be painfully slow). While open source produces great software (you retrieved this very page from an Apache server on Linux; both Apache and Linux are open source and therefore completely free) and while I love the open source idea, it'll be a long time before open source graphics applications catch up with the commercial software. Sad.
I also have a Wacom tablet, which makes drawing on the computer a piece of cake. I illustrated Buckethead's Pug Tales with it, using the the tablet in a conventional ink-on-paper sort of way. Some time ago, however, it stopped working, and I have yet to find out if the hardware is broken or if there's a software problem.
If you want to improve your graphics skills, I suggest you first learn about anti-aliasing.
Hi. Your picture is so nice! Domo-kun is so cute!
I am very happy to see your painting.
>I often draw pictures with the painting software found in the "accessory menu" of the start menu.
I also drew a picture of Tokyo Disney Land on the accesory menu in the computer lesson when I was in junior high school. If I had the picture, I would like to put it on this page. But I'm sorry to have lost it.
Anyway, I was moved by your picture. Thank you.
Domo-kun is pretty! I haven't seen him yet on TV.
To my surprise, I fouond that my sister has a Domo-kun mascot. As soon as I turn the screw attached to the mascot, Domo-kun begins to walk. It is funny.
Hi, Hiroko-chan. I would like to see your sister's mascot. How did she get it?
I heard that Domo-kun goods are sold in the NHK office, from my students in cram school who went there on their school trip. Did your sister buy it from there?
Movable Type, the content management system used here on Tawawa.org, is developed by the husband/wife team of Benjamin Trott and Mena G. Trott in San Francisco, California. Venture capitalist and weblog author Joichi Ito presented Mena with a stuffed Domo-kun doll: see the picture. Kawaii!
Hi, Masami.
My sister told me to get the mascot in the NHK office. She bought it two years ago, she said. If you want to see the mascot of Domo-kun, I'll show you tomorrow!
Thank you, Ruedi-sensei. A stuffed Domo-kun is so kawaii!
Also Hiroko-chan, thank you for asking your sister about how she got a Domo-kun mascot. If you and your sister don't mind, please show me it. I hope to see him some day:-)
Rudolf Ammann :: April 22, 2003 06:50 PM
Alright, Daijirou: you noticed that the "alt" attribute shows up as a little "tool tip" (i.e. a little text label) when you touch the image with the mouse pointer, so you went back and edited it? This is a quirky behaviour which Microsoft decided to build into Internet Explorer. The correct way to call for a tool tip is to include a "title" attribute in the image tag, like this:
title="sugoi!"
You can place this right after the alt attribute, and it will produce a tool tip in all good graphical browsers, including Mozilla. When you post entries, you can also put the title attribute in your link tags, which is pretty nifty (it's not allowed in the comments, though).
That's a happy-looking graphic, by the way. Maybe we should send you to art school?