When your eyes feel pain...

I feel, from lack of sleep and days spent in front of a computer screen working on this poster, like my eyes want to kill me. I'm an insomniac so I don't sleep too long anyway, but I know the difference between tired and sleepy. I'm not sleepy. I'm not tired either. I'm more in the realm of dull ache. My eyes for example, feel like they just need to be shut for a while, not sleep, just closed. I will now procede to type with my eyes closed... the other day I finally finaly got a router and began to cut the wood blanks for my little project. I think if I can just get if cut more carefully, the blanks will turn out very nice. I'll be doing routing practice tonight and hopefully get my blanks cut, routed and then I can work them (hand plane) for the rest of the week. My dad's going to the KOPPA conference on Thursday, so we should have as much done as we can. I'll keep it up to date later.


I feel my eyes are open for the first time

Monday Morning I'm waking up, can't even focus on my coffee cup...

So bloody tired! It's my last week of work and my hands and brain are tired of working on this freaking poster. I need to have it very close to done today so that I can take it to the print shop and they can give me a nice, clean poster from my powerpoint slide! I've been playing a little more Doom3 in my spare time at home, but I will change gears soon as tonight and likely all this week my free time will be devoted to my sword project as there is much wood working to get done, and not much time before I go back to school (T-minus 11 days and counting...). Otherwise, this stuff takes a while and typing gets real old real fast, but it's looking good and it'll really be worth it. I did the capitalist thing this weekend and went shopping for dress clothes, including a lime green tie! I did however stick it to Uncle Sam by 1) Paying no taxes 2) Saving a crap load on clearance and sale stuff (I'm wearing a new shirt and pair of jeans that only cost me $10.00 and it feels real good). So I'm set with the dressy-dapper stuff.


Bond, James Bond

free is good...hell, it's fan-bleedin-tastic

So I got to go to the Faculty Club for lunch today for free with the ppl at work courtesy of the grad school here at UTSouthwestern. Then they thought, you know what? We like you so freakin much we're gonna throw a grad-student/ SURF student going away party with all the pizza we can buy and all the drinks your bladder can hold. So, free food (and I do mean the herb-grilled salmon with grilled vegatables, garlic potatoes, ceasar salad, and raspberry chocolate cake, soft serve ice cream, chocoate pie, and cream puffs for desert all of which was buffet-all-you-can-eat-style-beeeeaaacchhhh) is good. Free food twice is better, especially when it's a friday and you're stuck in a lab. Later I'm going to go see Zatoichi: The blind swordsman which is a freaking awesome beat takeshi flick about, you guessed it, a blind swordsman. So, my day, without the work and the experiment failure and the poster session coming up quick rocks for these reasons:

• Free Lunch
• Free Dinner
• Badassss Samurai movie

I hope you have as good a day as I do, without your experiments failing, of course.

Samurai Jack

That damned artsy-fartsy crap

Yeah, so I've been in a really artistic mood this past week. I've hammered out more ideas into my sketchbook in the past two weeks than I did all last year. That saddens me coz' I haven't been keeping up with it, but gladdens me bacause I still have some ideas in that side of my brain. I've mostly been sketching ppl, but more recently I've gotten some good concept ideas whilst at the coffee shop, so I guess I should keep it up, it'll be worth it in the long run. I need more time for my outlets, moreso because I have had no real summer vacation to speak of.

Such a pretty picture...

I'm going to sing the doom song!

So I got Doom3 yesterday and may I say that while the concept is old, the graphics breathe new life into the genre. I grew up on first-person-shooter (FPS) games starting with the first beta version of Wolfenstein (before it was Wolfenstein 3d and id only knew how to make sprites increase and decrease in size relative to a point on a 2d map). I knew three things then and there:

• I disliked the Nazi party, who can really like anyone who's party leader is 1/2 giant robot with arm-mounted chain guns?
• I knew I was a gamer for life, the depth of the world I was drawn into may have been 2d but the affect was dimension-less
• I knew I would be playing FPS games till they pried the mouse from my cold, dead clicking finger

Doom3 doesn't do anything stupendous other than look and sound fucking creepy, but the nostalgia is still there, like inviting an old friend whom you haven't seen in years out for coffee, only to find they're more attractive and successful than you'd ever have hoped they'd be and you're happy for them. I played it as it was meant to be played, like the original: lights off, sound on, and frequent trips to the little boys room. Yeah, so you should play it and be freaked out by it. Doom used to be the game you invited others over to witness in all its glory back in the heyday, it's almost like worth it to invited them back over to see how far it's come. Once Half-life 2 hits shelves, however, gaming will never be the same. 3 FPS games have the propensity to turn normal ppl into gamers : Half-life 2, Doom 3, and FarCry. I suggest you start playing.

I wish I were Doc Doom