I’m still here.  But, then, I really only post at my new site:

 

In any case, so you’re not here and totally bored, here’s an entertaining little video (I had nothing to do with its creation, but it makes me laugh to tears!!!).  WARNING:  While there’s nothing really bad about this, the lyrics and closing credits are definitely in the high PG-13 to mild R rating range (for SICK SICK SICK humor). 

Hope you enjoy it.  Leave me a comment if you do.

Hello.  Please consider this blog site to be on hold for a little while.  It’s just too painful to wait for my little P3-650 computer to load the page so I can post (I can read through RSS).  I am hoping MSN figures out how to make this a little less memory/CPU intense.  I’ll start clearing modules here at some point to help improve speed, but I’m not optimistic based on what others have been saying.

 

In the meantime (at least), I have an active blog you can reach at the link below.  Sorry (really sorry — I love this blog and would hate for it to become just an archive) for the inconvenience.  But the control and sleekness of the new site is quite appealing.

 

 

Hope to see you there!  OH!!! And if you visit, and you’re on my blogroll here and not there, TELL ME!!!  I don’t want to miss anyone in transition!

The error at FileLodge is fixed.  The file is up.  It’s huge (sorry… submission quality for class) at 22MB.  Hope you like it enough to endure the download.  You might have to click through a FileLodge ad.  I haven’t figured out their policy on the ads yet (perhaps after "n" downloads, they allow you to go straight to the movie?).

 

 

Still haven’t had a chance to make a real post.  However, I did try to reload the video from the previous post and am still getting the same error message.  I’ve contacted FileLodge, but haven’t heard back yet.  So, here’s a couple of pictures to tide you over until I get the Boston shots uploaded/posted.

 

First, we went to an exhibit at the Orlando Museum of Art called "The Art Of The Motorcycle".  Fantastic exhibit, no photos allowed.  But while we were there, we spotted an Eric Carle exhibit.  He wrote The Very Hungry Caterpillar and The Very Lonely Firefly.  His artistic method is to paint broad strokes on tissue paper, then make collages out of the tissue paper.  It’s very effective when he does it.  The exhibit had a section where you could do your own art.  After failing miserably, I picked up crayons and made my own book cover while the kids experimented more appropriately.

 

 

Now, as a prelude to the Boston vacation pics, here’s the three boys in front of three water fountains, all appropriately sized.  This was taken on my cell phone in the airport on the way there.

 

 

Sorry about the video woes.  Ironically, I never encountered issues with other people’s FileLodge stuff, which is why I chose to put mine there.  What’s most disappointing about this is that it seems like it’s trying to get to an advertising link instead of my video.  But a syntax error?  That should have been painfully obvious!

 

Oh well.  I’ll be back soon.

 

 

Instead, I’ve been in Boston for the past week for SIGGraph 2006 (plus a little added family time)!  A little history:  SIG was the prefix used in the 80′s (and probably earlier) to denote "Special Interest Groups" in the precursors to the internet (BITNET, DARPANET, FidoNet).  "SIGGraph" designates the Special Interest Group for computer graphics — now, primarily animation for entertainment purposes.  CAD (Computer Aided Drafting/Design) was once part of this group, but has since split off to become its own discipline, which makes sense given the more intense, scientific nature of that work (our stuff doesn’t care about the laws of physics, sorry Mr. Scott!)

 

I’ll make a real post once I stop reeling from this massive assault of GREEN which is now my blog.  That post will have pictures and perhaps even video of our trip!  We had a great time, and I have really fallen in love with Boston (but I’m not moving anywhere with winters like that!). 

 

Be back in a day or two.  I have a lot of catching up to do for school.  In the meantime, here’s a video I need to turn in on Monday.  I’m still looking to tune the timings on a couple of scenes and make some of the objects squishy.