I feel the POWER!!!!
Oh man! It is very late Tuesday night (or rather Wednesday morning) and I am enjoying having electricity. The recent hurricane knocked it out from two weeks ago Thursday until Sunday of this week. I'll be honest, it was difficult, but my wife and I managed to make it through using our supply of poptarts and canned pineapple. Also, I found that candles are a great source of entertainment when you have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ELSE TO DO!!! But seriously, if it wasn't for the mild entertainment of fire I think I would have gone nuts. I went through matchbooks like I go through ice cream. And for those of you who don't know how I go through ice cream, I go through ice cream like I go through m&m's. And for those of you who don't know how I go through m&m's, I go through m&m's like I go through reese's peanut butter cups. Yeah, that outta do it.
Lately I've been having this really weird urge..... to learn! Its kinda freaky, but its definitely happening to me. However, I think I'm going about it all wrong. See, I have this desire to learn, but never to learn what I am supposed to be learning at that time. For instance, lets say I have a computer program to work on for one of my classes. Instead of doing that, I have a bad tendency to work on some other computer program that I'm just doing for fun to see if I can. The same will go with math homework. Rather than doing my homework, I put it off trying to figure out some other problem I thought of (usually with very little success). The problem with this, aside from making me have to really put a lot of last-minute time into the projects I'm supposed to be doing, is that the things I do because I want to don't actually help me in my quest for learning as much as the things which my school is requiring. So I'm kind of working against myself. I also am getting this weird urge to learn everything at once. At present I am reading a book on Alexandar the Great, trying to learn to draw at a level above that of the average monkey, trying to think of funny webcomic ideas, trying to come up with a tune/lyrics to a song that doesn't totaly suck, creating a program which analyzes a poker hand and tells you which cards you should statistically keep, working very hard to create a function which, when you tried to find its root using the Newtonian method of rootfinding, would never converge to the root no matter how close your starting point was to the actual root (this is actually an impossible task- I'm just doing it to help me understand why its impossible), trying to think of more quirks for my rapper alias Soapy Fresh, considering asking Krentz if I can borrow his book on learning java in a weekend, creating a little variation on a tune using fruity loops, and considering looking into reading tech reports or something (which Krentz tells me is useful) to understand more about the physical components of a computer. The problem with all this is that I'm never really concentrating on one thing for very long- so I haven't had hardly any success with any of these, with the possible exception of the book on Alexandar the great and the video poker program. And I've got all these other things I want to start learning- like flash, and java. And something about making webpages, which I have absolutely no experience with but I hear is not too difficult. Never before in my life have I had such a ridiculous desire to learn stuff, and never in my life have I had less time to spend trying to accomplish this. Its weird- I'm not sure where it came from but I guess its good.
If anyone, anyone at all, can give me ANY advice on drawing things (especially humans) it will be much appreciated. I'm absolutely horrible at it, and even though I am trying to practice and see how other (real) artists actually draw their characters I don't seem to be making any progress at all.
I'm tired now. Quote? Um...
Chris: "Hey, guess what I'm thinking. Its not kitty."
Meg: "Um.... I don't know... spoon?"
Chris: "Nope- it was kitty!!! Ha ha ha ha ha!!!!
later....
Chris: "Hey Meg, guess what I'm thinking. And this time its definitely not kitty!
Meg: "Oh, I don't know... kitty?"
Chris: "GET OUTTA MY HEAD!!!"
its funnier if you actually hear it....
Lately I've been having this really weird urge..... to learn! Its kinda freaky, but its definitely happening to me. However, I think I'm going about it all wrong. See, I have this desire to learn, but never to learn what I am supposed to be learning at that time. For instance, lets say I have a computer program to work on for one of my classes. Instead of doing that, I have a bad tendency to work on some other computer program that I'm just doing for fun to see if I can. The same will go with math homework. Rather than doing my homework, I put it off trying to figure out some other problem I thought of (usually with very little success). The problem with this, aside from making me have to really put a lot of last-minute time into the projects I'm supposed to be doing, is that the things I do because I want to don't actually help me in my quest for learning as much as the things which my school is requiring. So I'm kind of working against myself. I also am getting this weird urge to learn everything at once. At present I am reading a book on Alexandar the Great, trying to learn to draw at a level above that of the average monkey, trying to think of funny webcomic ideas, trying to come up with a tune/lyrics to a song that doesn't totaly suck, creating a program which analyzes a poker hand and tells you which cards you should statistically keep, working very hard to create a function which, when you tried to find its root using the Newtonian method of rootfinding, would never converge to the root no matter how close your starting point was to the actual root (this is actually an impossible task- I'm just doing it to help me understand why its impossible), trying to think of more quirks for my rapper alias Soapy Fresh, considering asking Krentz if I can borrow his book on learning java in a weekend, creating a little variation on a tune using fruity loops, and considering looking into reading tech reports or something (which Krentz tells me is useful) to understand more about the physical components of a computer. The problem with all this is that I'm never really concentrating on one thing for very long- so I haven't had hardly any success with any of these, with the possible exception of the book on Alexandar the great and the video poker program. And I've got all these other things I want to start learning- like flash, and java. And something about making webpages, which I have absolutely no experience with but I hear is not too difficult. Never before in my life have I had such a ridiculous desire to learn stuff, and never in my life have I had less time to spend trying to accomplish this. Its weird- I'm not sure where it came from but I guess its good.
If anyone, anyone at all, can give me ANY advice on drawing things (especially humans) it will be much appreciated. I'm absolutely horrible at it, and even though I am trying to practice and see how other (real) artists actually draw their characters I don't seem to be making any progress at all.
I'm tired now. Quote? Um...
Chris: "Hey, guess what I'm thinking. Its not kitty."
Meg: "Um.... I don't know... spoon?"
Chris: "Nope- it was kitty!!! Ha ha ha ha ha!!!!
later....
Chris: "Hey Meg, guess what I'm thinking. And this time its definitely not kitty!
Meg: "Oh, I don't know... kitty?"
Chris: "GET OUTTA MY HEAD!!!"
its funnier if you actually hear it....