Winged Ones

posting..

2008-11-11T23:59:00Z

I am thinking of posting again, its funny when lots of angst happens I don't feel like posting or more exposing that downer side. We will see how this goes.. LOL an update.. and I painted.. nothing LOL

I did have a birthday, for it we went to Mamma Mia (stage version) before it closes. Its a great show.

I did however get because they went on sale the furry chars from runtimeDNA littlefox I believe is the creator, or one of them.

Here is a quick render, it was a prebuilt scene and lights so I can't take any credit, and just a pose.

Larger one here formatted for a widescreen background 1680 x 1050.

Got a contractor coming out tomorrow to look at the damage to the floor in the 4 rooms and see what its going to run, the flooring is a separate group but they will be coming out later.

I am still pondering moving my computer out to the workshop. The biggest thing is the cold..then warming it up. Someone suggested putting a light inside the case on, I wonder if I can do that in a box so that the monitor also gets some 'warmth' as well. Something about the dew point condensation forming.

Okay I play World of Warcraft. If you play and are on the Antonidas server let me know.

Well I guess thats all for now, I could write a ton but I think this is it for now.

First test

2008-10-15T15:39:41Z

I may just have to see about getting a paid account. This remote app seems to work well. shadowwalker. That was a test link

This is a test of cut

Seems to work
bold italics ~~strike~~

No picture test since it uses scrapbook which requires paid or plus account.

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and the Survey says....

2008-09-22T06:26:10Z

Your result for The LONG Scientific Personality Test...

INFJ - the counselor

Your type is best summed up by the word "counselor", which belongs to the larger group of idealists. Only 2% of the population share your type. You are so empathic that you often know what others need before they know themselves. You are a complex person who can deal with complicated issues and people, almost prefer to, as you love problem solving. You can be something of an idealist or perfectionist, and should try to take yourself a little less seriously.
You are a supportive and insightful romantic partner, encouraging your mate to have dreams and work hard to make those dreams come true. Because you are so creative, you have a wealth of ideas to help them toward those goals. You need harmony so much that you are driven to resolve conflict quickly, as long as the terms don't violate your ethics. You feel the most appreciated when your partner admires your creativity, trusts your inspirations, and respects your values. It is also vitally important that your partner be open and emotionally available - in other words, that they be willing to share themselves completely.
Your group summary: idealists (NF)
Your type summary: INFJ

Take The LONG Scientific Personality Test at HelloQuizzy

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a few bits

2008-08-24T18:02:27Z

Since I did the other I am not sure what they are called that I saw from Shaddock Delaforge and a few others I decided to do the other tests on there...

The Blogalyser reveals...

Your blog/web page text has an overall readability index of 14.

This suggests that your writing style is conventional
(to communicate well you should aim for a figure between 10 and 20).Your blog has 22 sentences per entry, which suggests your general message is distinguished by verbosity
(writing for the web should be concise).

CHARACTER MATRIX

male		female
self		world
past		future

Your text shows characteristics which are 57% male and 43% female
(for more information see the Gender Genie).
Looking at pronoun indicators, you write mainly about yourself, then the world in general and finally your social circle. Also, your writing focuses primarily on the present, next the future and lastly the past.
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Find out what your blogging style is like!

I focus about too much past.. or perhaps the writing style and get some more future in there.

on a good note.. or perhaps not so good :)

HowManyOfMe.com

There are
1
or fewer people with my name in the U.S.A.

How many have your name?

Stolen from a few people I read

2008-08-24T17:47:39Z

So, xerxes1, your LiveJournal reveals...

You are... 0% unique and 18% herdlike (partly because you, like everyone else, enjoy painting). When it comes to friends you are normal. In terms of the way you relate to people, you are keen to please. Your writing style (based on a recent public entry) is conventional.

Your overall weirdness is: 28

(The average level of weirdness is: 28.
You are weirder than 63% of other LJers.)

Find out what your weirdness level is!

Apparently I am holding back on my posts... :p I should start writing whats really going through my head. Too many filters I think.

Air out short post

2008-08-18T08:12:44Z

Just a quick note as I am tired :) Our air went out and the dryer also went out. Hopefully I will post more soon .. once I re-form myself from the puddle that melted.

San Diego trip

2008-08-08T16:38:48Z

We took a small trip to San Diego, we decided to try a trip without a lot of specific planning. So no Zoo, Seaworld, Animal Park etc. The only thing on the agenda was making sure of some beach time. Purr really needed some time away and Beach seems to recharge her. We tried a few things we did the dual tour of the San Diego Harbor (I figured she would want water, boat all that relaxing), we also walked on the Midway aircraft carrier next door. We got to discover a few things about some likes and dislikes. While the Harbor and area was nice.. it didn't hit the magic button for her. We got some beach time and that did a little but wasn't right either but still better. We did find some beaches in Laguna shores that hit it. We did this on the drive back home. We also managed to get that oh you can't see the sun at all clouded day sunburn! She did more than I because she has that fair/white white skin. We got an average of 32 MPG also on the trip!!!

We used the Iphone for all navigating / maps while down there, it worked like a champ (though I would like to have the model with a real GPS, the pseudo one worked fairly well). It could get us to anywhere we happened to want to go. Some of the Apps I thought we would use didn't come in as handy, however the Ymoble (By ATT a yellow pages App), really worked the best. Want food, type in food, want a specific type of food, just type that in, it can sort by how close, ratings etc. Just tap on the one you want it gives details and click on the address and it bring up a map, another it brings up directions, or click the phone number and just give em a call. We were walking in the gas lamp quarter in downtown San Diego and we wanted to see a movie. I have an App called BoxOffice, it did a current location, and turned out there was a theater just up the street, and we had time to catch a movie. (We saw Mama Mia - more on that later). We decided when we go back down there that we would take in at least one park.

We also when we came back took the Kidlet, well not really a kidlet anymore as she is 18 and out of highschool, to see the new Batman movie in Imax. It was crystal clear, they had the sound really cranked and it was a good movie. I won't go through a review of the movie, which had some excellent acting and really bringing the dark night story dark. I will however say that it will be rare for me to go to an Imax and will focus on getting a home theater setup as spending 45.00 for 3 tickets and not having any treats is a bit much. That pretty was the end of our vacation.

We got our wireless changed to a new tower today. So far the connection is very fast, my first thought on loading some webpages is that this is 'snappy' we haven't had snappy since we have been here.

Deadline for the Fall Festival is fast approaching and I will have to get my butt out and see if I can work on that painting. My brain feels a bit scrambled so I am going to close this for now. I will remember everything else I wanted to say after I post, so I will save that for another time.

just a post...

2008-07-26T03:46:54Z

Long time no post.

A lot is going on, I still haven't gotten a handle on the wants and need todo's list.

I still haven't managed to get through the Video training for Carrara yet. I do want to!

I found out that I would still have time to do a painting for the local annual fair. I did pretty well when I entered in 2002.

I made 2 shirts for Second Life, I have posted them below.

Dragon Shirt * Unicorn Shirt

There is some stress and ups and downs on the personal home front but I will have to flesh that out later. This is just a quick post to say I haven't died or anything.

a 3D Video

2008-07-15T01:28:11Z

no biggie, just a fun little video that I found on YouTube. 3D using a program called mimic to do the lip-syncing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rVyA7fSvjI is the direct link

StoneAge...

2008-07-10T18:18:56Z

I don't know what MS programmers are thinking. In Mail I do a right click spell correction on a word and it changes the font from Arial to Times. LOL Kinda makes that word stand out :D

Paper Crafts

2008-07-07T17:29:43Z

I haven't done any of these yet, nor do I know when I would have time to but I thought it was cool. Now to paint it to my colors!

Paper Crafts :)

There are PDF files for both the item itself and instructions provided on the site. They have all kinds of catagories Animals, CraftTown, Lucky Items (the Pegasus is in there don't ask me why), Buildings of the world, Science, Toys, Origami, Seasons and Holidays, Architecture Museum.

http://cp.c-ij.com/english/3D-papercraft/

STOP The itching!

2008-06-28T14:50:07Z

I have apparently eaten something that didn't agree with me.. or an additive I have broken out in hives!! AARGGHH *must not scratch*

My cold is changing, I think its on its last leg.. just to get rid of the cough that pops up. I can taste things again (Hey no comments from the peanut gallery).

I was looking through FurAffinity, trying to catch up on the pictures I hadn't seen yet and came across this wonderful photograph. The title is My Stallion deflowering someone. http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1402467/ Hey now I saw where your mind went. Back up here :)

I hope those going to AC a wonderful, safe and fun trip!

Triggur has a great video he apparently showed at AC its in his LJ here
http://triggur.livejournal.com/359190.html (I need to learn the tags as I did an edit last post and the options pretty much went away now :)

BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAby horses Nope I swear I am none of their fathers :) Recently there was some nice mini horse pictures in the horse photo group. http://community.livejournal.com/horse_photos/893056.html#cutid1

IMAGE and Sun Virtual Box

2008-06-27T01:57:51Z

I don't know if it is because of being in Vista or perhaps Vista64 but even on a fresh XP install VirtualBox crashes on me. Its cool for the little bit that did work. I will try the Linux version a bit later and see if that works.

Image by TeraByte Unlimited for making a full image of your HD worked out well. I was able to backup the disc and restore, also to restore to the virtual drive with a little bit of hoops but nothing major. I also got to try out their BootIt Next Gen. I was able to shrink the partitions and slide them all together to maximize freespace.

Still can't shake this cold and I am really getting tired of it.

Stonemason one of the great scene/building makers in 3d just released a low-poly for more background usage set of city blocks. I have no particular use of it at the moment so will save my pennies but its pretty nice. The interesting thing is he released with it a set of shaders for Carrara, D|S, Vue, Poser. I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't have some others that perhaps he sells elsewhere. Makes me think of a Blade Runner type city.

Updated 3d Sale Notification

2008-06-26T03:07:36Z

Grins if not interested nothing else to read :D
Just was reading about the updated 3D Sale, so I am passing it along.

Currently for those interested there is a number of 3D Starter Bundles 80% off (you can use it with the Free Daz|Studio or various other packages).
Ultimate Millennium Dragon Bundle, Dinosaur Bundle, Millennium Horse Bundle, Millennium Cat Bundle, Aiko 4 Starter Bundle, Victoria 4.2 Complete There are more Sci and others.

The 'Economic Stimulus Sale' is still going on. This includes Carrara 6 Pro, Hexegon 2.5 (with SL Sculpty Support), Bryce 6, Mimic Lite and Pro, Mimic Pro for Lightwave, It is 72% off.

If you become a Platinum Club member you will get another 30% off the price even on the sale price.

just an update

2008-06-25T21:46:48Z

No update for awhile.. I am still trying to kick this lingering cold...

I found a recommended set of tutorials that deals in a whole bunch of topics from photoshop and others. The direct photoshop one is HERE if you get rid of the word photoshop and leave tutorial then you can see all of them.

I am also trying to find something similar to RapidWeaver but for windows. Rapidweaver is a great drag and drop (though you can do more with it) with add-ons. They don't make it for windows and so far I haven't found anything equivalent in free or pay for windows.

I started playing with Suns VirtualBox its a free opensource Virtual-Guest OS software. If you want to try running another OS within your current one without rebooting give it a go.

I got my VTC tutorials for Carrara though I haven't been able to go through them. SOOOOOON :D

I am going to attempt to image my HD partitions, then start a new BIOS mirrored raid set with this new drive, then restore and hope everything works okay :D

Oil, Oil Prices, Gas and Man made global warming.

2008-06-14T02:12:26Z

I added a little note to the end.

Rather than post this into a comment thread of another persons journal account I decided to post it here and link to it. I warn you its quiet long text wise with a number of supporting links. Its not an end all but it does show that its not such a one way position. This is both on Oil, Oil Prices and on Man Made Global warming.

What started this was blaming the Republicans for high gas prices. I just wanted to show that its on both sides hands not just one as that tends to get looked over. I have when talking to Rep leaning friends or Dem leaning friends start spouting off how its the other parties fault I just point them to a few interesting tidbits.

Its is a lot of information but I hope you peruse and reply.

This is what I was going to write in the journal comment.
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I hear a lot of blame going around on both sides, well the truth is that both sides are to blame.

I would agree that Bush is not a good president at all (Okay we could do an extensive job on this but I think most agree that not good doesnt' even begin to describe it, only one worse perhaps a tie is Carter).

I do see a lot of finger pointing going on at just the Republicans (they do have their own full measure of blame).

But some facts that seem to be obfuscated in all this. The price of gas has doubled with a Democratic House and Senate in place. April 2006, Nancy Pelosi is about to take over at the helm, says in a released statement "With skyrocketing gas prices, it is clear that the American people can no longer afford the Republican Rubber Stamp Congress." She also made a commitment after that statement "Democrats have a common sense plan to help bring down skyrocketing gas prices by cracking down on price gouging." The average price of gas was about 2.50 a gallon at that time. They also have failed. http://www.house.gov/pelosi/press/releases/April06/Rubberstamp.html

We need to look where this goes back to, when Clinton and gore where in office. Gore wanted to see gas prices rise. (its in his book). A number of things where done to speed this along, including the 'reformulation' of gas in different area's (which has now proven to be more harmful to the environment), continued blockage on refineries and setting aside areas that would be used to look for oil, etc. We have bought a line that is while sounds good is in danger of destroying us. Bill Clinton said "We just have to slow down our economy and cut back our greenhouse emissions because we've got to save the planet for our grandchildren." I am all for saving the planet, recycling but doing it smartly. Look at the mercury filled 'power saving” light bulbs. Yes each one of those contains mercury because they had to have them “NOW” eventually you will pay a fee to dispose of them because when you have 100 million (Wal-mart expects to sell 100 million alone) of these go into landfill that is not just a little mercury that is a lot (a ton of sources but here is a couple ) http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7431198 http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/12107/1/400 there are also problems with eyes from long term exposure, and of course those who are epileptic

The congress and senate started allowing speculation in the oil industry, but despite everyone wanting to bring things back under control they haven't decided to step back in and halt this practice.

Lets look at the chaos that our government has allowed, this has happened with both parties in power of house, senate and presidency. While we the people remain at the mercy of oil companies, OPEC, cartels our government has made it so that our hands are tied, so that we cannot even tap on a temporary basis for energy relief from our own land. Here are a few key areas that are on the energy and oil landscape right now.

We have more shale oil in Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado than oil in the entire middle east combined (800 billion barrels), It has been made illegal to touch this (a Brooklyn born scientist has developed a way to effectively and cleanly convert shale oil into a light crude http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/06/news/economy/birger_shale.fortune/?postversion=2008060617 )
It is not legal to explore in the Pacific, Eastern gulf of Mexico, or Atlantic
We haven't built a refinery in over 25 years and have reduced production in those we have by about half.
Natural gas, there is something like 406 Trillion feet of it enough to heat every home in America for 150 years but can't tap much of it.
We have the largest supply of coal in the world, but its Germany that is planning by 2020 to have 27 new coal fired electrical plants.
Drilling in the Alaska Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (BTW we are talking drilling and touching under 8% of ANWAR) or off the coasts of Florida or California (Note that we ban 85% of the coast for energy production. Take Florida it has HUGE reserves located there. The US is prohibited from drilling within 120 mils of the Florida coast, BUT China through Cuba is drilling 45-90 miles off the Florida coast. So how can they do this , thank Jimmy Carter in 1977 he created for Cuba a “Exclusive Economic Zone” which in effect extended the county's western tip to the north, nearly to Key West Florida. If China and Cuba are in the same water taking our reserves should we be gathering them for ourselves? http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=296435488187160 http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/china_starts_oil_drilling.html http://havanajournal.com/business/entry/cuba_to_drill_for_oil_in_potential_florida_zone/
We have stopped getting any more leases to drill for oil in the Gulf of Mexico but China, Venezuela and Cuba are getting them. http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=297645188487872

To add to all this Iraq has said that Oil production is now at PreWar levels about 2.5 million barrels a day. http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2008-06-07-iraq-oil_N.htm

Both sides in this have their hands dirty. This is what we get by saying I am voting for the lessor of two evils and not standing up early in the process rather then saying I don't have time, or I will just wait to vote in November. The result is that if you choose the lessor of two evils you still get the same result.

Add to this lunacy the cap and trade system that both Obama and McCain are supporting. It is estimated that it will increase gas prices by another 1.50 a gallon on top of what market has set things at. http://news.yahoo.com/s/realclearpolitics/20080603/cm_rcp/cap_and_trade_trap
Look at what the results of this bill will be http://www.heritage.org/Research/EnergyandEnvironment/wm1930.cfm
http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=66244

US to stop publishing / monitoring foreign investment esp in infrastructure http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=66694 Now foreign investment in 2007 reached 276 billion, what else to do with all the money our government has allowed to go out. We don't even play on the same playing field with China, they impose lots of restrictions but we let them have a complete free hand.

BUT don't you want to stop Global Warming?? what is the one thing that most of the facts have shown isn't happening is from man made carbon related issues. I won't get as detailed posting here but I have attached some links. I am also for conservation, and protecting the environment but being smart about it and not destroying ourselves in the process. (See the CFL bulb above).

Truth is its a power and money grab.

Well lets see first of all http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080606/ap_on_sc/japan_iea_climate_change only 45 Trillion.

We know there are a lot of problems with the conclusions and data in the global warming world.

Over 31,000 scientists have signed a petition against whats going on with Global warming http://www.petitionproject.org/gwdatabase/GWPP/Review_Article.html Qualifications of the signers http://www.petitionproject.org/gwdatabase/GWPP/Qualifications_Of_Signers.html

Reid Bryson founding chairman of the Department of Meteorology at the University of Wisconsin
http://meteo.lcd.lu/globalwarming/Bryson/globalwarming_common_sense_thoughts.html http://newsbusters.org/node/13541
http://global-warming.accuweather.com/2007/05/reid_bryson_speaks_out.html
http://www.wecnmagazine.com/2007issues/may/may07.html#1
http://www.uncommondescent.com/global-warming/father-of-climatology-calls-manmade-global-warming-absurd/

BAD SCIENCE Temperature monitoring systems problems the vast majority of stations failed to meet standards http://www.surfacestations.org/ http://www.surfacestations.org/odd_sites.htm http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58767

US Senate report over 400 Prominate scientists Dispute man made global warming http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.SenateReport

Hudsen Institute 500 Scientists publish evidence refuting current man-made global warming scare http://www.hudson.org/ http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57605

John Coleman Founder of the Weather Channel says Campaign to promote the theory of man made global warming is “The Greatest scam in history” http://icecap.us/index.php/go/about-us do a search on the site for coleman There are some links to what he said and also a 4 video series.

Sun main force in climate change Danish National Space Center http://www.spacecenter.dk/publications/scientific-report-series/Scient_No._3.pdf/view http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57949

World Climate report http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2007/09/25/questioning-20th-century-warmth/ Finding CO2 didn't end the ice age

earth only has 10 years left despite the fact the warmest temperatures where in 1936 not now http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51992

Al Gore went to manila to show how it was sinking because of melting ice caps.. but it was shown that it is sinking because of all the ground water they are pulling out http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48807

Did you know hidden in the treaties on global warming also will 'harmonize' patent laws and strip away a lot of patient protection? http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42521

Scientists who disagree with the UN and gore are likened to flat earth believers, the UN stated that only a handful of scientists disagree, but in truth there are MANY who do not agree http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=45177

Cold facts on global warming Science and Environmental Policy Project Website http://www.sepp.org/ http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=21847

Think tank wants Gores Oscar pulled http://www.nzcpr.com/
http://www.nzcpr.com/guest101.htm They also have a link to a film Global Warming the greatest Scam in history http://www.nzcpr.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=430
or http://video.google.co.uk/videosearch?q=the+great+global+warming+swindle#
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58111

Lets not forget the 'global warming' on Mars and Jupitar going on as well.

Alternative Energies
Also where is the hoopla about anything that grows into oil break through
http://www.tiftongazette.com/local/local_story_075215425.html and a follow up story after being NOT picked up by the wire http://www.tiftongazette.com/opinion/local_story_126213442.html Company home page http://bellbioenergy.com/

Or this an algae that converts CO2 into oil, Now after you read the story remember the article that the US has more coal than anywhere else. http://www.valcent.net/s/Ecotech.asp?ReportID=182039 Also not how much you can create per acre of land.

These last two of course need to be proved, but lets not ignore them.

Food
We used to produce not only enough for us, enough to put into storage for emergencies but also ship all over the world. Crops have been converted to fuel and other things,or also just not grown, large farms big companies (who are the major receivers of farm subsidies not the little guy from a left over after the cival war legislation that still won't go away) The elimination of our reserves started under a Dem President and Rep House and Congress, and Continued till it was all gone under a Rep President and a Dem House and Congress. http://www.tristateobserver.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=10121 I am trying to remember if it was a 5 year supply or a 25 year (I think 5 at least) An Interesting article 9 meals from Anarchy about the british food supply.

I am not even going to comment on the outbreak and tomatoes.

I think I have spent too much time on all of this. I am going to let my brain rest and try to finish getting well.

A Little note, I will not say I am the end all on this information, or is this complete. Its a snapshot of what I have come across. Its easy to blame X person or X party. Until people start to not just listen to what they think they want to hear, or play the 'its fun to blame a certain party or political figure'. Things aren't going to change. People listen to speaches but not actions, it goes beyond the surface the media wants to paint. People not being involved is one of the biggest problem we face. People don't research. Politicians pass the bills. people don't research who pass them, they don't research Who submits bills, who kills Bills. We really have 2 sides of the same coin in the Dems and Reps. They keep us off balance on with heated issues. They make it easy to point fingers and get riled but in truth it keeps the focus on just these two parties, and their leaders. people don't get involved early enough in the process. Add to that by throwing big companies that toss money and weight around, not caring what it does to you and I in the long run.

Art and dreams

2008-05-26T17:56:37Z

I need to get that babbling whiney one off the first post :D

I am helping Shadow with a logo art piece, though I am not happy with how its going so far. I am thinking of going back and re-doing the stars to something that has more punch or something. I will post what its going like in a few days as right now I have a HUGE honey-DO list. The kidlet is graduating this week and we have guests coming in and the house is a disaster after moving the gallery and all the equipment back to the house. That is where the huge Honey-DO list is coming from :D

I have come across a couple of more art tutorials, one given to me by Richard Bartrop on some free anatomy references http://www.fineart.sk/index.php?cat=1 I also came across this one which is not free http://the-structure-of-man.blogspot.com/ This last one looks very nice and I think I will have to spring for it, or maybe for my birthday.

We went and saw Indiana Jones movie and I enjoyed it. No spoilers :) I know have said they didn't like it, but I took it for what it was and had a good time.

http://www.reallifecomics.com/ (its for May 26th since I can't point to the specific comic archive yet) This made me chuckle as I had a friend who if you didn't see the movie first or with them he would do something to give it all away. For Starwars Return of the Jedi he drew a picture of Luke, Leia Darth Vadar laying there and Leia says "Luke our father is dead" and would leave that around for people to view unsuspecting.

I had a dream last night, funny thing is I woke up, (Alarm set wrong) and when I went back to bed it continued but I can't remember it now. I don't usually have 'contining' dreams like that.

the AAMC

2008-05-17T01:32:03Z

Never heard of this group before, but I like at least what I have read so far.

The Association of American Medical Colleges has proposed that drug and medical device companies be banned from giving items such as gifts, travel, ghost-writing services – even food – to doctors, staff members, and students at all of America's 129 medical colleges.

Apparently the big pharms spend billions at this level in fact they spend more there, then they do advertising. And the ad-budgets would make Budweiser weep.

This is their website. http://www.aamc.org/ the first article is a PDF on their task force recommendations. This is the direct link to the PDF http://www.aamc.org/research/coi/industryfunding.pdf

Well there is a lot of disturbing things in this practice, but one of the most is the free ghost writing. So a pharm wants a postive Dr. endorsement professional paper. They write it and just have the Dr. sign it. What I have read in other places, usually just signed without reading or really caring.

Set of Tutorial links...

2008-05-10T03:42:30Z

A couple of Tutorial links, first up is CGTutorials.com it has Photoshop as well as a number of other programs like Bryce and others.
Here is the Photoshop link at CGTutorials.

There is a list (where I got the CGTutorial link from) http://artzone.daz3d.com/index.php?azmode=ix&section=forum&op=view&friendly=g_101&query_details=read,1,11 I hope that it will let you read it without being a member otherwise I will put together the list separately.

I did come down with the crud but been hitting it pretty aggressively and hopefully it won't be too bad.

Health and Daz puts a bundle on sale...

2008-05-06T05:39:53Z

I am got back from the doctor, I may have caught purr's Bug so am going to be taking it easy for a bit to help make sure this doesn't stick around. She is on nearly a month now. I am NOT going to get Pneumonia!

**Daz Sale notice**

Just a heads up if anyone was looking to get the DAZ3d Software, they are doing a stimulus sale. What you get is (add copy from the Daz Member forum for posting here)

*** BUNDLE LINK ***
What if you could get all this for $199?*

Carrara 6.1 Pro with Non-linear animation, Dynamic Hair, and Displacement Modeling tools.
Hexagon 2.5, now with the DAZ Studio 3D Bridge, Sculpted Primities, Freehand Modeling brushes, and much more!
Bryce 6.1, the award-winning 3D modeling and animation package allowing you to make more realistic 3D environments.
Mimic Lite, that has made animating speech so enjoyable and easy.
Mimic Pro, providing an advanced environment for easily creating and editing facial animation sequences.
Mimic Pro for LightWave, for those who love to use Lightwave and Mimic, but are tired of not being able to use them together.

Well, if you're a Platinum Club member, you can! (requires joining even if for just one month to do the sale, but you get some other benefits as well if you keep it going). Platinum Club Monthly Membership (note that price is the price to join, read below if you want to make it ongoing its less and includes a 5.00 voucher ) Platinum Club Annual Membership (the renewal is less)

IT'S THE DAZ 3D SOFTWARE ECONOMIC STIMULUS BUNDLE
You save more than a $1000 that you could spend on something else, and still get the software!

Normally this software would cost about $1,300, but it is priced for this promotion in a bundle at $999, the price everyone else gets it for. But you get it for $199! If you have most of the packages already, you will have the chance to get them on sale ala carte at various times throughout the month, but you won't get a better overall deal than with this bundle! And, even if you have one or two of these packages, this price is so aggressive that you might still save money buying the bundle.

They are also doing some sales on individual software packages throughout the month, but no details on the when and such.

Free Comic book Day and FURRY 3d Models

2008-04-29T03:36:11Z

Found this, http://www.freecomicbookday.com/ its on May 3rd, 2008.

Add ons for the Melody and Micah (which are addons for A3/Hiro), These are at Runtime DNA This is the URL for the creator of these morpths
http://www.runtimedna.com/mod/bcs/index.php?vendor=Capsces These are the morphs but not the textures. See lower for the textures.

There are adjustable parts on the models, Here is a thread on Daz if you go toward the end of the thread there are a number of images. http://forum.daz3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=83373

Here is the Lynx texture

Rabit and Mice, though I didn't put the detailed faces up.

100 Photoshop tutorials

2008-04-25T23:10:32Z

One of the newsletters I subscribe to has put together 100 Photoshop tutorials dealing with a variety of subjects not so much the technical aspect tutorials but how to create effects / art and other things.

http://www.3dtotal.com/ps100/pstut100.html is the link

ramblings

2008-04-22T05:49:46Z

Sorry I have been away. Wife (Purr) has been sick and so I have been trying to manage everything. (I know poor purr when she gets well she will have to 'undo' my helping *grins*).

Lets see... artwork worked on.. ummm.. none.. nothing new there...

Projects worked on.. umm none..

I got sent a link to a funny animation, so I found the artist link http://alanbecker.deviantart.com/art/Animator-vs-Animation-34244097

Seems there is a whole string of these :) Fun http://search.deviantart.com/?section=browse&qh=boost%3Apopular+age_sigma%3A24h+age_scale%3A5&q=animator+vs+animation

I want to get the carrara video training from vtc.com you can either purchase the one training on DVD sent to you, or you can watch live. My connection bites during the day so that leaves doing it at night or figuring out how to store it :) I have tried the standards like downloadhelper and orbit. It plays it streaming and doesn't store it in a cache file. Its 30.00 a month for any that you want to watch, or 99.00 for the DVD.

I am thinking of getting a render farm machine, some nice deals on ebay. I am having problems seeing if you can upgrade from Vista 32 to Vista 64 Licensing wise, still trying to track that down. Ever link I go to seems to cover if you want to upgrade in place as opposed to getting a new license.

Anothing posting.. GASP!

2008-04-12T00:44:34Z

Whats with that, nothing for several weeks and now a second posting.

I wanted to share something that was just released.

There is an artist, Stonemason who makes exquisitely detailed models, usually environments. From Sci-Fi to Ruins to Modern they are very detailed and usually outstanding. He has a nice tutorial on CGSociety and CGArena on texturing and also on creating buildings.

Here is his latest release called Streets Of The Mediterranean it can be found a Daz, I have put the Daz link at the name. I will attempt to post a link to the image to show here under the cut. They have a lot more images of course on that other page. He also knows his lighting as you can see.

His two tutorials that I know of are Hard Surface Texture Painting and Making an Urban Environment (Though I hope to try something like this in Carrara, its capable, this is written for 3DSMax its all applicable.

Just stuff

2008-04-12T00:19:18Z

Its been a while since I have posted, My life is so exciting as you can tell. More just a lot of internal thought and I haven't gotten comfortable putting all that in here.

I can't believe I never watched The Abyss before. I happen to catch it on Sci-Fi well over 3 days since I had it on the PVR, but I enjoyed it.

We are still working to figure out what is going on with our daughter, the Md's here basically said nothing showed up on the tests, so we are taking her to the Dr that is doing really well for both Purr and Myself down in Arizona.

And now I draw a blank. I have been doing so much just day to day taking care of things right now, Purr is under the weather that just its all mundane. I am still reading on 3d stuff and Art and want to get going on both the art and a project for artists that want reproductions done. I picked up ImageFX, I should have gotten this magazine awhile ago. If you haven't seen it, I would give it a look, they have workshops, and examples from physical painted art to digital.

I have so many idea's going through my head, I have started a small notebook with things that would be fun to do and render. Things like taking a photo of a friend who likes Battlestar Galactica and having him pose then rendering and placing a viper with him leaning against it to full scenes/art projects. But got to walk first :D and so one of these days I will finish the chapter in my book and the video lesson I payed for.

I started reading a book by Dan Millman He wrote The Peaceful warrior (which I have not read but saw the movie) the book is "The life you were born to live", Its something that jumped out at me and has had me doing some thinking, in a good way. I am letting it percolate and then will go and re-read.

I also need to beef up my knowledge of electronics/electricity as I have a couple of things I want to do there, one building a more powerful zapper, though I may enlist a friends help who helped another of his friend build a large one, chair sized. It follows Clark and Riffs work, that kills bacterial and Viral infections/organisms in the body.

So I am sitting here thinking how do I ask if anyone knows of any modeled (free :D) full horse bits? if not I may have to make that a project. It was part of a larger discussion of this Centaur that was re-released. Since we don't have our horses any longer I will have to ask a neighbor to take reference pictures *chuckles* Orr maybe not.. I am picturing that discussion.

I am more rambling then making sense so it might be better to ignore this post and when I am less tired I will try to make one that.. well makes some sense.