Hut's Haven Story
Submitted by: Patti Hutinger and son Chuck
Created: April 27, 1996, 4:30 p.m. HST
Aloha!
Once upon a time (you've probably heard this one before), in the long ago
days before digital, a frustrated Hallmark artist wannabe's (Patti otherwise
known as "Mom") life altered course when marriage and children
entered the scene. One of those interruptions, Chuck, ran away and joined
the circus. The other became a skydiver and pilot. Now all three of them
are hooked on multimedia goodies.
Mom raised kids, went to Indiana University summers, became a professor,
got lots of grant money to develop interesting stuff -- first video, then
software, then ArtSpace (an interactive multimedia CD experience for young
children). She couldn't have pulled it off without Scott, the skydiver, and
Chuck, the highwire and flying trapeze artist. Sometimes he even stands
on his hands.
But flying planes amd flying trapeze paled in comparison to cyberspace flight,
when appropriate. They both became Super Duper Special Deluxe Techies. (Aw Mom! guess you have the editorial rights! Please ignore this everyone!)
(for a certain audio phreak, the term "Pet Geek" didn't seem
appropriate. Only if you were at a certain HeadSpace speaker's talk, a good
one by the way, would you understand this reference)
But then, horror of horrors, Chuck and Scott decided Mom needed to upgrade
her skills and get up to speed tickling new applications. Soooooooooo. .
. . .Chuck and Mom hopped a Bonanza out of Macomb, Illinois, then a 747
in Saint Louis. They jetted off to Kaua'i to here where they learned more,
did more, made more Web pages, and played with wild special effects. Oh
thank you Adobe!
Chuck was so happy over all this that he just flipped.
With all this new exciting information, power, and images flying around
in her head, Mom got so tired she just had to sit down.
We're thinking about staying an extra month in Kaua'i just to reflect and
try to grok all this stuff.
But soon we'll get busy with the linear timeline of life. A FAR CRY from
that early misguided Hallmark urge. We intend to live happily ever after.
Mahola! from The Cyber Cafe -
Patti Hutinger (PL-Hutinger@wiu.edu) and Chuck Hutinger (chuting@pasco.k12.fl.us)
special thanks to Kodak for letting us try out their nifty Digital Camera!
I had no idea Kodak's compression routines could reduce a 1.2 Meg graphic
to 133K!
