So one of my presents this year was a license for MilkShape, a lightweight low-polygon 3D modeling/animation program that I've been looking forward to working with for some time now. The few of you that have delved (or thought about delving) into this sort of thing may know about the open-source alternative...which I wrestled with a few years back ( Read more... )

So am I completely off my rocker in thinking it's a DUMB IDEA to put an ad for GTA4 on the side of a public bus?

Today is International Coffee Day. Once again, I will be observing in usual fashion (having just finished cup #3) rather than invading the nearest retailer seller with an army of goats ( Read more... )

Do any of you out in LJ land have need of a brand new 1TB hard drive with SAS interface? NewEgg wants to charge me a restocking fee AND make me pay for return shipping; I'd rather that extra money went towards giving a friend a discount.

Dear gaming nerds ( Read more... )

Which, for those not of the ovine persuasion, means I'm done with my yearly murdering of a small forest for no real purpose professional review portfolio. Given the content of my (f-locked) friends page, perhaps I'll start a traditional where I celebrate by posting a non-professional annual review here ( Read more... )

More or less. And this is what my brain does when asked1 a silly question at times like this:

"I'm pretty certain (the P-value must be <.0001) that I can't actually put 'chronic ball-stank' on an exam. Literally, as in rubbing my balls on the exam paper, or even writing a question about ball-stank. The moral of the story is that a strong ( Read more... )

...which is as good an excuse as any to *POKE* the crowd regarding holiday shenanigans. As usual, feel free to pass this along to any non-LJ folks, though impatient_cat tends to have that covered pretty well by email. Yes, we still live in the dark ages and are organizing an event without using Facebook. Oh noes!

So the short version is that phoemeister (now a cyborg!) ( Read more... )

When the impatient_cat's away, I spend a lot of my work time with my laptop in front of the TV and scraping the bottom of the Netflix's barrel of horror and post-apocalypse. Sadly there aren't too many of the latter that I haven't seen, unless you count the innumerable number of "ZOMG, the world is infected with a virus/drug/experiment/alien containment gone ( Read more... )

I've generally been keeping to my personal rule of "It usually does more harm than good to discuss politics with friends" this election season, but this one's too good to pass up. It's not really about politics per se, but more about the general idiocy of the people who have long made me too embarrassed to self-identify as a liberal (the crowd that ( Read more... )