The horse show database project continues apace.
Humility Boy shows off his prototype. "So I have the explanatory text pop up in this box when we roll over the buttons. I was thinking I should get a picture of a horse to display there when there's no text."
"You need to get the Borg Pony," I say.
"Huh?"
"There's this woman that makes art projects out of My Pretty Ponies and she made a Borg one. Here."
Mountain Girl lets me use her laptop to Google on Borg Pony and I show them. Borg Pony gets an "Eew" from MG. Humility Boy takes one look and drifts away to ask someone else for a horse graphic. MG overcomes her distaste and we start exploring the rest of the Pony Gallery. Alarm Clock stands behind us and looks appalled.
"Let's look at Evergreen. And Braizon," MG says, clicking through. "Oooh. Do you think she'd make one with a lighthouse on it?"
"Okaay. I guess you two are going to be at this for awhile, so I'll just—go now," says AC.
"Yeah, okay," we say and look at a few more ponies. I'm partial to the more Goth-like ponies, MG is fascinated by the cloying sweetness of it all. I don't think our professor would mind a few Pretty Ponies in the GUI at all.
228 words | November 5, 2004 09:25 PM | Ivory tower