| Prisoners
of the Fold |
The
Paper: The Magazine of Origami USA
Issue 55, Summer 1996 |
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Excerpt:
"You do realize this is a maximum security prison," the
chaplain warned. "Sure,"
I said offhandedly. "Don't
carry any sharp objects and don't wear blue; that color is in season
for inmates this year. And don't wear a necktie." I
chuckled at this odd request. "Why not?" I asked. "You
could get strangled to death that way."
I swallowed
audibly.
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| Convention
Diary |
The
Paper: The Magazine of Origami USA
Fall 1997 |
Excerpt:
Sunday: I slept through ticketing Sunday morning, and missed my
last chance to take a Yoshizawa class. This was probably for the best,
though, as I have a dim recollection of giving him an unsolicited
piggyback ride back to his hotel the night before. |
| Anatomy
of A Convention |
The
Paper: The Magazine of Origami USA
Issue 63, Fall 1998 |
Excerpt:
When we arrive back on site, we spy Jonathan Baxter (NC) lining up
a gang of origamists on the concrete deck in front of hte FIT classroom
building. A few seconds later, a crisply folded dart whizzes by my
head as I become a victim of the first renegade flight of the Annual
Paper Airplane Contest. Another aviator hurls his aircraft, an elaborate
stunt plane which loops impossibly high, catching a breeze before
it taks a nosedive two floors down into a garden patio. Onlookers
rush to the railing to see if there are any casualties. |
| Origami
Model Index |
The
Paper: The Magazine of Origami USA
Issue 63, Fall 1998 |
Excerpt:
Looking for that complex camel model that you noticed in a 1970 BOS booklet? Searching for simple hats to make for your kid's birthday party? In the near future there may be no need to hunt through shelves of books and diagrams for the answers to these questions.
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| The
New Japanese |
The
Paper: The Magazine of Origami USA
Issue 63, Fall 1998 |
Excerpt:
Throughout the course of our interview, I learned that the Japanese contingent assembled before me were the "new wave," a break away from traditional modes and patterns.
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| Brill's
Other Bottles |
The
Paper: The Magazine of Origami USA
Issue 63, Fall 1998 |
Excerpt:
This year, Dave's convention started bady. When he arrived, he found that most of the food disagreed with him. After a horrible incident with chicken wings, he had to switch to a simple diet of kami and water. "Actually," Brill said, "I find paper quite nourishing. However, there is no substitute for British Fish and Chips."
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| Komatsu
- A Lesson In Inches |
The
Paper: The Magazine of Origami USA
Issue 63, Fall 1998 |
Excerpt:
For the next 45 minutes under Komatsu's tutelage, we made our way, inch by inch, pleat by pleat. The model became fairly tricky, with extensive box-pleating into what seemed like hundreds of valley folds. As we groaned at the work, Komatsu looked as us with mock seriousness and said, "Yes. Very, very hard."
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| Updating Multiple DataGrids |
An
article written for the former WROX ASPToday technical web
site, December 2001 |
Excerpt:
Remember when creating an ASP form based on multiple, joined tables was a hassle? The troubles ranged from navigating the perils of client-side form fields, to “tricking” your way through the woes of finding out which row you were modifying. Finally, when you went to update the database, it was a single row at a time. Transactional integrity was a treacherous challenge. Adding new tables to the mix meant an extra couple of days of coding time.
With ASP.NET, you can make many of these multi-table issues easier using DataGrids. These small miracles are one of the most powerful of all server-side controls, providing flexible presentation, ordering and manipulation of information from SQL Server and any other data source you can imagine. When you combine their advantages with the capabilities of the DataSet object, the tough now becomes the trivial. Row-oriented adds, changes and deletes are simple. The database update is now a matter of using a DataSet property, throwing in some XML and XSL, and sending a single batch of data to the database.
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