I don’t check my stats often, so I don’t really know who comes here, how, or why. Today, I decided to check my search engines references and found out that in February, someone tried to access a page specifically on my site (why else put “site:www.aprilgem.com” in the search request, right?) that had the words “Budweiser”, “Christmas”, and “mugs”. Lordy, lordy. We’re very particular, aren’t we? The page is from an old log I’ve archived but never linked to from…
I watched Shrek yesterday, and one of the main characters is a donkey, opening the movie up for a lot of “ass” jokes. The jokes were hilarious, and they reminded me of a time I hadn’t thought about in ages… …I was 11 years old, and dictionaries didn’t have “bad” words like “fuck” and “shit” between their covers, as though by leaving the words out, the words didn’t really exist. Being the kid that I was, I looked in the…
Delivery services are a pain in the butt. I get my snail mail at a post office box, and when I checked it yesterday, I had a nice stack of mail. Two pieces were notices of some kind, one of which I immediately recognized as a request to pick up certified mail at the window. Curious, I stood in line for the window, not knowing what to expect. To pass the time, I looked over the other notice. It was…
So I’ve been neglecting my usual hobbies — my web site, my Fugue and Jaunt projects, this log, and my various forum and gallery posts or comments — not without good reason, of course; I’ve just discovered contests. I’m fairly new at 3D art. I’ve been working with Poser 3 since November 2000 and Bryce 3D since March of 2001. If it weren’t for 3D World magazine, I wouldn’t even have those programs for my 3D doodling. My personal software…