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I am a writer, developer, futurist, and one-half of the Knotty Geeks podcast.
Interests: Astronomy, newLISP, Science Fiction.
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| Jeremy Reimer | Posted on: Thu May 12 10:57:17 2011 | |
 Joined: Fri Nov 19 10:21:20 2010 | I haven’t seen any posts for a while, and I’ve been really bad about updating my blog. Work has been pretty busy, as I am putting my newfound newLISP programming talents to use, creating a prototype for a new product. Don’t tell anyone, but I want to make this prototype so awesome that it will actually be a new product at one point. My wife has been pretty busy herself lately, working at a government office downtown and taking computer programming courses at BCIT. We’re becoming quite the geek pair, the two of us.  I’ve also been watching a ridiculous amount of professional Starcraft. There is a new North American league called the NASL that is on five nights a week, plus the GSL from Korea and various other small tournaments. How about you guys? | |
| OscarWilde | Posted on: Thu May 12 17:58:29 2011 | |
 Joined: Wed Jan 5 12:25:56 2011 | Doing good here. Am a bit upset Celtics and Lakers lost. Was hoping to see them in the finals. I’m hoping LeBron doesn’t win a ring this year, or I may have to swear of the NBA for the rest of my life. Also I’ve been doing a lot of Blender 3D design which is fun. Still learning how to use the app and I’m getting to a point I can do some fairly good basic design of household objects. There is a lot of patience required to do more intricate detailed design work. I know people who want point and click and use basic models which to modify to get a close approximation of what they want. However, I’m going the other way, putting in my blood sweat and tears to design from scratch every model in my project. Don’t know if I can inline images here, but here it is: First image is for a snowman competition on Blender Cookie. Everything here from scratch, based on the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip where Calvin makes a snowman who contemplates the evolution of the snow man. I originally started to do the Calvin animation, but I was getting frustrated with some aspects of modeling the face and with the deadline nearing, I had to make do without Calvin. The moon is a UV Mapped image of a moon on a plane. I originally did have a spherical moon with the UV image wrapped around it, but unless I was gonna do some mad animation, I went with simple to lower render times.  The next image is a concept design for a bar I often design for, it’s the bar logo (which is a diamond) and two glasses of cocktails in the background. I used LuxRender, a physically based ray training program. The image is a little dark and low in res, but the full sized one looks much better.  The next image is a blender fluid test, this time a wine bottle pouring red wine into glass. I rendered a frame in the middle of the fluid animation:  I have the fully rendered animation too, but it’s pretty large and I don’t know if it’s worth updating to my dropbox. Besides if anyone is interested in the power of Blenders fluid animation, they can just youtube for it. Pretty damn impressive for open source software. | |
| Jeremy Reimer | Posted on: Thu May 12 21:35:30 2011 | |
Joined: Fri Nov 19 10:21:20 2010 | Neat stuff OW! I have to get back into 3D stuff in time to render my next novel’s cover.. of course I have to finish writing it as well! | |
| AllYorBaseRBelong2Us | Posted on: Sat May 14 14:55:37 2011 | |
 Joined: Sun Dec 5 06:23:12 2010 | Been working a lot and so forth. Say, any reason there is a huge empty margin to the left of the screen? I have to take up the entire screen just to see a thread in IE8. Anyway, Will try to post-whore more....
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| Mord | Posted on: Sun May 15 20:31:33 2011 | |
 Joined: Sun Apr 17 11:36:33 2011 | Working a lot but slowing down a tad for the summer so I can get the boat out and spend some time on the lake. trying to get some renovations done on the house. Also rugby season is here again and with me still playing, two of our kids joining the program, and both myself and my wife coaching in the junior program there’s very little time left during the week anymore. Also I’m in Toronto right now just for two days for some business stuff. The flight wasnt as bad as I thought. (blame the lack of grammar and punctuation on my iPad) | |
| Jeremy Reimer | Posted on: Sun May 15 21:41:46 2011 | |
Joined: Fri Nov 19 10:21:20 2010 |
Usually there is a margin both to the left and the right, but OW’s awesome images stretched it out a bit (I may, at some point, put in auto-resizing of images, but it’s a low priority at the moment) Oh, and don’t use IE8.
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| OscarWilde | Posted on: Tue May 17 04:36:49 2011 | |
Joined: Wed Jan 5 12:25:56 2011 | Okay I re-sized the image to fit within 800px length. Hope that works better with in terms of balance between image size and thread layout. | |
| Ajar | Posted on: Sat May 28 13:37:04 2011 | |
 Joined: Tue Dec 14 17:53:33 2010 | I’ve been spending most of my weekends elsewhere. Went to NYC earlier this year, a couple of trips to MSP to visit my girlfriend, several drives down to Cincy to hang with friends... it’s been good, if busy. New boss at work, but that seems to be going okay so far. My successes last year earned me a lot of credibility and have made my job quite a bit easier this year because my area of the process runs a lot more smoothly. Drum lessons continue apace. This month has been jazz drumming, which is really fun. I was actually happy to see both the Lakers and Celtics lose. Those two teams have way too many championships and finals appearances between them. I’d rather see the finals between two teams that rarely or never get there, which is true of both Miami and Dallas. Things are going great with the girlfriend. Only problem is that it’s still long distance. It’s tough to find a job in a different country, even in this case where I don’t need visa sponsorship or even relocation assistance. | |
| jay | Posted on: Fri Jun 3 10:51:48 2011 | |
 Joined: Fri Apr 1 04:46:01 2011 | Well I am doing well. I have actually been spending a lot of time on my poetry over the last year and a half. I recently published the first 250 poems in hardcover format: http://www.lulu.com/product/hardcover/portly-poet-volume-1/15717792 All of the poetry was originally published on my blog, "Portly Poet" and can be viewed for free however. Sometime this weekend I expect the Amazon Kindle version will become available. Thats pretty much it for me. Other than that its pretty much SSDD. 
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| fondue | Posted on: Thu Jun 9 11:36:20 2011 | |
 Joined: Thu Jun 9 11:35:01 2011 | Playing lots and lots and lots of Minecraft ... | |
| AllYorBaseRBelong2Us | Posted on: Tue Jun 28 02:26:23 2011 | |
Joined: Sun Dec 5 06:23:12 2010 | I’m playing Port Royal II, fixing up the house, and musical instruments (for fun and profit!)
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