yikes

i'm starting to grok that Max is more about playing and less about reading. a sudden family emergency placed me on a train to long island last night, so i had to try to do the tutorials (or rather, preview the tutorials) by reading along in the Jitter documentation w/o the benefit of Max in front of me. i *kinda* got what's going on, but that old saw about "birds don't know a thing about ornithology" is looking REALLY true right now. I need more DOING and less DESCRIBING.

Also, i need to WRITE MY VIDEO MIXER.

Also, i need to STOP SHOUTING IN CAPS.

But first, i need to re-do those tutorials. IN FRONT OF A COMPUTER RUNNING MAX.

Crap, i'm shouting again.