Last time I saw Dr. Squakers, maybe a month ago, he was flying at my head beak and talons out - shrieking. He was having parrot angst. But this time, he was all feathers: I learned the trick of holding him belly up. Morgana showed us the way to make him feel vulnerable and thus more docile. Whenever he righted himself he would rush to my shoulder and clean his feet incessantly. He would try to bite any finger that came close and got mine feeling like it was squeezed by a pair of pliers. Overall - much nicer this time - I guess he was behaving for Morgana’s birthday. The gnocchi Matt made were delicious too - in ragu. Squakers said “good-bye” a lot when we went.
I mean, the other month he ODed on Calcium and got all dizzy. Who else do you know thats on the front line of food additive experimentation? Thats right, no one. Here he is suckin down ginseng through a straw: 
Now he can even smoke turkeys!
Royah takes charge of the turkey
Doing the waterfalls bike trip a few weeks ago we saw this interesting sculpture. I think its the same artist that did all the metal figurines at that metro stop in Manhattan: 
Yogesh and Sophia came down for another TNO. The big face is Cameron.
KPL, Matt, John 
Once this extension is installed on the system and dragged into the fla file in Adobe Flash IDE, it gives you JSON parsability. BUT if you then want to get rid of the this functionality, deleting the extension from the fla doesn’t clean it out. I can tell because of the swf size - it goes up by 20kb when I add JSON extension, and doesn’t go down again even when I delete it. This is a bug! Now if I actually reported it instead of just bitching about it… ok fine I’ll report it now…. ok just did it. Bug for didn’t give me a tracking url at all - they should really trac their bugs.I want to slim my swf down again, so I switch to XML. I am using this handy xml parsing (AS 2.0) library that converts the xml into multi-dimensional arrays. Its a simple file include in the
code:
include "xmlBuilder.singular_names.as"
Then use it:
var media_metadata=new Object();
media_metadata.addXML=addXML;
media_metadata.addXML(full_path);
media_metadata.loadXML();
media_metadata.xmlOBJ.onLoad = function(success:Boolean) {
//If not success, call woopsy_daizy function
if (!success) { woopsy_daizy("no success");
return;
}
media_metadata.buildXMLObjects();
if (media_metadata.error[0]) {
woopsy_daizy("error");
return;
}
//do your other onload stuff accessing your data
if (media_metadata.profiles[0].original[0].ready[0].xmltext == "false") {
resolve_status(2);
return;
}
Aite, so the
original file I got at my old job at USA Network written by that famous creative agency I cant remember the name of right now. They added an ’s’ to every array name for pluralization. I didn’t like it so I took out the pluralization stuff in this
version.
