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…
Food. Our conversations revolve around it, though we sometimes veer severely off course with the mere quirk of words. He recently served fish sticks of the Van de Kamp variety when he reminisced about serving them to a young girl; she loved them so much she asked him to prepare “fish dicks” again the next day. Little girls — we say they’re nice and made up of spice, but who knew their minds could dream up of such things? It’s…
Today is my birthday; I’m 28 years old, and counting. We celebrated it yesterday with lunch at my favorite Japanese seafood buffet, and afterwards we fed the ducks at the wildlife/wetlands preserve. Children were running all over the place, squawking at the pigeons and seagulls, and playing scarecrow to all the geese — which meant that I had to throw the bread as though I were a baseball pitcher, just to get it in range of the somewhat spooked and…
They’ve just made the rankings visible again over at Renderosity — meaning that I can now see how each individual scored me on my images. It’s quite an eye-opener. I’m not sure if I’m relieved or anxious about the situation, but I’ve definitely been educated. One of my images received about twelve 10’s before kaptenkattis gave it a 6 — a 6, and all he said was “nice”. No constructive criticism. No explanation for the low score (which, by the…