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Then palm to face (like I did).

package{
	import flash.text.TextField;
	import flash.events.MouseEvent;
	public class Tag extends TextField{
		private var alpha_locked:Boolean;
		public function Tag():void{
			this.alpha_locked = false;
			this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, mouse_over);
			this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, mouse_out);
		}
		private function mouse_over(e:MouseEvent):void{
			this.alpha = 1;
			this.alpha_locked = true;
		}
		private function mouse_out(e:MouseEvent):void{
			this.alpha_locked = false;
		}
		override public function set alpha(a:Number):void{
			if(!alpha_locked) super.alpha = a;
		}
	}
}

The magic happens with the super.alpha, super which refers to the parent class that Tag inherits from. It checks the alpha_locked variable and if things are ok it sets it, otherwise it’s ignored. Then the alpha locked variable is controlled by the MouseOver and MouseOut events.

	function rotate(item:DisplayObject, angle:Number, point:Point) {
		var matrix:Matrix = item.transform.matrix.clone();
		matrix.translate(-point.x, -point.y);
		matrix.rotate (angle*(Math.PI/180));
		matrix.translate(point.x, point.y);
		item.transform.matrix = matrix;
	}

Simple enough to use just pass the function the moveclip you want to rotate the angle just like you would with the rotation attribute and the point from the index point that you want to rotate your clip.

	rotate(thing, 90, new Point(50, 50));

So after roughly two days of fleshing out an isometric view type thing I’ve got this.

Click on the flash app then use the arrow keys to move the little dude around. I’m still very far from a game but this is a great start.

If you use them in that way, on the other hand, you can use them to live beyond your means, you didn’t need that 52inch LCD 1080p 120hz TV but you sure as hell wanted it. I sure as hell wanted that LCD TV.

As a newly graduated college student I found how far my money really does go. It’s not that far. Especially when you have a credit card payment to pay, of course I could of just paid the minimums, but use the debt calculator and you can see how much of a bad idea that really is. Moral of the story if you can pay more than the minimums do it, even if it’s 5 bucks more do it. It makes a huge difference in the long run. Remember you’re borrowing money so they have to get a pay off for letting you borrow it, that’s where the interest comes in. Take for example if you have the average interest rate or 12.99% APR and you have a 10k balance, you are going to pay 108.25 in interest. That sucks.

I finally got mine paid off it was a huge relief of course now I have to pay off the student loans. That’s another story all together, I took out way more than I should of, I’ll pay for it. For the next 10 years.

In the mean time heres a quick calculator for your credit card debt it’s still beta so if you start playing with the numbers too much you can have it go into an infinite loop, which is no fun if that happens force quit/end task your browser and start again. I’ll work on the calculator more as I go along, as well has a nifty calculator for student loans and home mortgages since I’m hoping that I can build up my savings and get a house in the next few years.

Note: I’m not an accountant I made this tools for myself, it’s not going to be spot on but it should be pretty damn close.

So a few days later off we went to Tibet. It was a fun trip on the way there we had two layovers so I got to see some parts of Main Land China.

Tibet was beautiful the air smelled fresh all the time, you could get a coke and some M&Ms but there was not a McDonald’s in sight. Where else can you get an 80 degree temperature swing from day to night. It was beautiful but at 10,000+ feet above sea level breathing becomes a problem. Simple task such as walking up two stairs, not two flights but two stairs while carrying some luggage, was a like running a marathon, at the least it was the first night we got there. Eventually things got slightly easier. I did resist the urge to rent an oxygen tank, because they were available, but I didn’t want to hang on to that crutch the whole time I was there, plus what kind of jack ass would I look like walking around with that thing in tow.

The food was wonderful pretty much all meat there was yak. I really enjoyed yak and I figured, outside of coming back to Tibet I probably wouldn’t get that many chances to try yak, so I lived it up. Too bad I’m allergic to yak. Stomach pains constant feeling I’m going to vomit, and all my muscle were sore. For most normal people they might catch on after eating something that does this to them maybe after 2 or 3 times. Not me took me 5 miserable days of just toughing it out.

We saw a bunch of palaces met a bunch of cool people, had lots of rice tea. It was over all a wonderful experience, despite the constant feeling I’m suffocating and the yak meat making me want to vomit, I would do it all over again in a heart beat.

Heres some random pictures from around Lhasa, not that many I’ll post more, but I at least want to say something about each picture rather than just a mass post of all that I have.