Life is like a whirlwind
By Mike DalyJune 4th, 2003
Man, you wouldn't believe how busy I've been recently! I haven't been able to slow down all week, and that's after taking a few days off work. I've been constantly darting between events this past week, which, when combined with Wayne's disinterest in posting stuff means no updates have been here for a while.
I plan to remedy that, with this a little character I made for the game developer's club. I hope to make 3 more interesting ones and post them all.
Don't count on it coming soon though, the whirlwind is still on the horizon, I never know when I'll be swept away for a few days. If any of this sounds really stupid, it's because I didn't get any sleep last night.
I figure I should give a link for some bored person to follow. Let me think ... yes, I have it. Today's selection is something so pathetic, that it leads one to wonder if it's just some sort of sick joke. Anyway, enjoy: 'OUR MISSION STATEMENT: To track, synthesize and expose the secret, social and political corruption of America's powerful, government financed Lesbian Mafia.
It's madness, I know. Hey, if you guys have some interesting links, why don't you post a few of them in the messageboards?
I plan to remedy that, with this a little character I made for the game developer's club. I hope to make 3 more interesting ones and post them all.
Don't count on it coming soon though, the whirlwind is still on the horizon, I never know when I'll be swept away for a few days. If any of this sounds really stupid, it's because I didn't get any sleep last night.
I figure I should give a link for some bored person to follow. Let me think ... yes, I have it. Today's selection is something so pathetic, that it leads one to wonder if it's just some sort of sick joke. Anyway, enjoy: 'OUR MISSION STATEMENT: To track, synthesize and expose the secret, social and political corruption of America's powerful, government financed Lesbian Mafia.
It's madness, I know. Hey, if you guys have some interesting links, why don't you post a few of them in the messageboards?
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The Answer
By Mike DalyJune 8th, 2003
Most of the time, I am bothered by myself when I go a day without accomplishing something tangable. Today in my boredom, I decided to learn about hypnosis. While practicing self-hypnosis, I was very relaxed and began to think about things with a clear mind.
This inspired me to basically spend the day in meditation. Towards then end of my meditation, I decided to write my thoughts down so that I would not forget them, and so I have spend the past 4 hours organizing my thoughts onto paper. The result certainly wouldn't be classified as a rant, but doesn't fit any better into our other categories, and was too long to put in the actual post, so you can find it over in the rants section of our two cents. Without further wordiness, I give you The answer, a short story by me.
Even if I hadn't written it down, I would still consider today one of the most productive of my life.
On a lighter note, a couple days ago, I transfered another character to illustrator. Now you can see the scientist, a mascot character for a video game club I'm working on founding.
Hope you enjoy my story, if you have anything to say, don't hesitate to share your thoughts on the messageboard, I garuntee that Wayne and I will both read them, and probably respond.
*Update!* Reading over my story this morning, I realized that when cutting and pasting my story to the database, I left out a crucial paragraph. The difference if you have already read it is my final question to my subconscious, it is now what it is supposed to be and the story makes a little more sense.
This inspired me to basically spend the day in meditation. Towards then end of my meditation, I decided to write my thoughts down so that I would not forget them, and so I have spend the past 4 hours organizing my thoughts onto paper. The result certainly wouldn't be classified as a rant, but doesn't fit any better into our other categories, and was too long to put in the actual post, so you can find it over in the rants section of our two cents. Without further wordiness, I give you The answer, a short story by me.
Even if I hadn't written it down, I would still consider today one of the most productive of my life.
On a lighter note, a couple days ago, I transfered another character to illustrator. Now you can see the scientist, a mascot character for a video game club I'm working on founding.
Hope you enjoy my story, if you have anything to say, don't hesitate to share your thoughts on the messageboard, I garuntee that Wayne and I will both read them, and probably respond.
*Update!* Reading over my story this morning, I realized that when cutting and pasting my story to the database, I left out a crucial paragraph. The difference if you have already read it is my final question to my subconscious, it is now what it is supposed to be and the story makes a little more sense.
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Desperate for content
ByJune 10th, 2003
I admit it. I'm desperate for content. I'm so boring, I know. I'm just not photoshop handy like our friend Willow. I wrote a rant tonight. It's not so much of a whinefest as just my two cents (no pun intended), which is just fine since the page it can be found on is under our two cents.
Anyway, Willow promises some cool stuff for Friday. I'm also going to try to learn the tricks of the 3D trade. Wish me luck.
By the way, I was going to post a movie of the two of us unleashing monkey hate on some apples, but the movies got deleted. Sorry. Hopefully they are backed up somewhere. I'll look harder later.
Anyway, Willow promises some cool stuff for Friday. I'm also going to try to learn the tricks of the 3D trade. Wish me luck.
By the way, I was going to post a movie of the two of us unleashing monkey hate on some apples, but the movies got deleted. Sorry. Hopefully they are backed up somewhere. I'll look harder later.
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A little cultural diversity
By Mike DalyJune 12th, 2003
Wayne and I love to rant about how stupid aspects of our society can be, but now we are proudly able to diversify our pool of complaints to our society AND France. Our senior foreign correspondant in France, Wastrel, has been kind enough to give you all a little insight as to what it is to live in another part of the world.
So, head over to rants and check out La Grève. In other news, I have started project sunburn, in theory I should be working on it for about 20 hours a week, which means for you that I should be producing a boatload of new pictures and screenshots. Keep your eyes out.
And on one last note, don't foget to do something for father's day.
So, head over to rants and check out La Grève. In other news, I have started project sunburn, in theory I should be working on it for about 20 hours a week, which means for you that I should be producing a boatload of new pictures and screenshots. Keep your eyes out.
And on one last note, don't foget to do something for father's day.
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Who loves ya?
By Mike DalyJune 15th, 2003
Well, I just got back from the mountains, and I realized that I promised to update today. Why do I do this? I mean, between Friday and Monday, I mostly sit on my butt or sleep, and I do so far from a computer, so I really can't ever expect to accomplish anything productive. With this in mind, what am I supposed to do for mondays update?
well, after about nine minutes contemplation, I've decided to make an update where I don't give you my content, but rather the content of people who are actually talented. In this case, I've decided to post the direct feed halo 2 demo shown at e3 this year. Unlike the one I posted earlier that had crappy compression, was recorded by a camcorder, and was being driven by a drunk retard, this one is high res, sharp and detailed (driver's retardation still in question).
Halo 2 Real-time demo
However, I understand that that will only get you 9 minutes of ecstacy (well, like 3 hours if you count the download time), so I've decided to also bring to light another thing that I've been meaning to tell you all about. After all of my webcomic reading, I've settled into a new favorite. It's cute, it's easy to read, and most of all, it's updated daily. I present A Modest Destiny, hooray! I love it!
Remember, if you feel like commenting on my bandwith-oblivious post or this excellent webcomic, take it to the messageboard
well, after about nine minutes contemplation, I've decided to make an update where I don't give you my content, but rather the content of people who are actually talented. In this case, I've decided to post the direct feed halo 2 demo shown at e3 this year. Unlike the one I posted earlier that had crappy compression, was recorded by a camcorder, and was being driven by a drunk retard, this one is high res, sharp and detailed (driver's retardation still in question).
Halo 2 Real-time demo
However, I understand that that will only get you 9 minutes of ecstacy (well, like 3 hours if you count the download time), so I've decided to also bring to light another thing that I've been meaning to tell you all about. After all of my webcomic reading, I've settled into a new favorite. It's cute, it's easy to read, and most of all, it's updated daily. I present A Modest Destiny, hooray! I love it!
Remember, if you feel like commenting on my bandwith-oblivious post or this excellent webcomic, take it to the messageboard
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Wayne's Wednesdays
ByJune 16th, 2003
We've decided to evenly divide the updating, so I've picked up Wednesdays and Willow will keep Mondays and Fridays. He's got lots of stuff he's working on, so he should have plenty of stuff to post on those days. I should be able to come up with something for a good read on hump days, so I hope this move will improve the site. If it doesn't, please fill out the Wayne removal form and state a valid reason.
In other news, I went to the beach this weekend and got on this weird sleeping habit where I go to bed before midnight and get up before 9 AM. I know its hard to fathom, but trust me, you can do it. Unfortunately I still love to sleep and do so in the afternoons, so last night/today I slept for like 14 hours. This isn't good for site improvment, but I'm sure I'll get back in the habit of staying up late, when the best work gets done. I'm going back to the beach this weekend though to get some fishing in, so it might be a while.
For now, read this reivew on Metal Slug and then you can email me asking how you can play it yourself. Discuss its greatness on the message board and speaking of that, thanks a bunch for starting to use it. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. So long friends, see you next week
In other news, I went to the beach this weekend and got on this weird sleeping habit where I go to bed before midnight and get up before 9 AM. I know its hard to fathom, but trust me, you can do it. Unfortunately I still love to sleep and do so in the afternoons, so last night/today I slept for like 14 hours. This isn't good for site improvment, but I'm sure I'll get back in the habit of staying up late, when the best work gets done. I'm going back to the beach this weekend though to get some fishing in, so it might be a while.
For now, read this reivew on Metal Slug and then you can email me asking how you can play it yourself. Discuss its greatness on the message board and speaking of that, thanks a bunch for starting to use it. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. So long friends, see you next week
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Broken Promises
By Mike DalyJune 19th, 2003
You know what? From now on, I should just never say I'm going to do anything. No matter how easy and sure it seems that I'll be able to do something, I should never tell anyone that I can do it. Why? Because of fate.
Fate hates me, you see. It twists the tapestry of my life until a once-clear day of work becomes infinitely muddled and busy. This is the case with today, the day I was so certain I could get a lot of modeling work done, i actually don't get any work done and get all stressed out not doing it.
Anyway, fortune has smiled upon me and given me something to post (other than meaningless whines). Wayne and I were downloading pictures off of my camera and noticed two gems which should not go without publication. If you were wondering what Central Park Ski Willow looks like, let your curiosity be satisfied. Additionally, you can also observe Talking on the phone with a motorcycle helmet with hands down his pants Willow.
Had enough? I thought so. But I will post more just to make sure I can't possibly have anything to post on monday. I converted another piece of music to mp3 format. This one is actually the worst I've done and I wasn't even going to post it. But as the barrels have run dry, I'm going to do it anyway. Check out Opus 27 (great title, huh?).
And just for the record, I do not promise to post any new content by or on monday. I don't know what the post will be about, but I'm not going to say it will be about content I've created.
Fate hates me, you see. It twists the tapestry of my life until a once-clear day of work becomes infinitely muddled and busy. This is the case with today, the day I was so certain I could get a lot of modeling work done, i actually don't get any work done and get all stressed out not doing it.
Anyway, fortune has smiled upon me and given me something to post (other than meaningless whines). Wayne and I were downloading pictures off of my camera and noticed two gems which should not go without publication. If you were wondering what Central Park Ski Willow looks like, let your curiosity be satisfied. Additionally, you can also observe Talking on the phone with a motorcycle helmet with hands down his pants Willow.
Had enough? I thought so. But I will post more just to make sure I can't possibly have anything to post on monday. I converted another piece of music to mp3 format. This one is actually the worst I've done and I wasn't even going to post it. But as the barrels have run dry, I'm going to do it anyway. Check out Opus 27 (great title, huh?).
And just for the record, I do not promise to post any new content by or on monday. I don't know what the post will be about, but I'm not going to say it will be about content I've created.
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Things to watch out for
By Mike DalyJune 22nd, 2003
You know, I once thought pokemon to be a video game. Thank god that I found this article which revealed to me that pokemon is actually the work of the devil sent from the land of heathens to corrupt our children with sorcery and mind control.
Whew! That was a close one! I'd better go burn my nintendo.
But seriously folks, be wary of religion. Anywho. As (not) promised, I haven't done anything productive all weekend. That's why I'm posting links instead. However, to make up for my pathetic ineptitude as a website-guy-person is Dueling Monkey's Senior Foreign Correspondant Wastrel. Wastrel returns again to give you some appreciation for the cool that you got in his article Air Conditioning.
I'm hoping to redraw all of the duelingmonkeys sometime soon, so keep an eye out. However, I don't promise to do it. I don't know when I'll do it, if at all. Right now they are on paper but I can't scan them and illustrator them right now, especially saying as illustrator no longer works on my computer. That aside, I also have to be up at 6:30 tommorrow. Man, why do I do this?
Right, I'm getting to bed.
Whew! That was a close one! I'd better go burn my nintendo.
But seriously folks, be wary of religion. Anywho. As (not) promised, I haven't done anything productive all weekend. That's why I'm posting links instead. However, to make up for my pathetic ineptitude as a website-guy-person is Dueling Monkey's Senior Foreign Correspondant Wastrel. Wastrel returns again to give you some appreciation for the cool that you got in his article Air Conditioning.
I'm hoping to redraw all of the duelingmonkeys sometime soon, so keep an eye out. However, I don't promise to do it. I don't know when I'll do it, if at all. Right now they are on paper but I can't scan them and illustrator them right now, especially saying as illustrator no longer works on my computer. That aside, I also have to be up at 6:30 tommorrow. Man, why do I do this?
Right, I'm getting to bed.
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A new movie!
ByJune 24th, 2003
********** UPDATE! **********
Some people were not able to view the apples video posted below. This is probably because they didn't have the Divx® 5 codec. This is a free download and is only 3.1 Mb. The compression that Divx offers allows us to host more video to more people, and cuts your download time dramatically. For example, I compressed the apples video from 47 Mb without audio to 3.8 Mb with audio. I think its safe to say that whenever possible, we will be using the Divx 5.0.5 codec and probably Windows® Media Player®
We have provided a link in the downloads section of "cool stuff" for Divx. Please email us if you have any problems. Thanks!
I hope every Wednesday update can be as good as today's. First off, I was looking for some techincal support while creating the movie mentioned below and stumbled upon this website that has some midly funny instructions. It appears that this company's English is just a little better than my Taiwanese.
Now for the good stuff...
A while back, Willow and I had some apples not fit to eat and decided to deal with them in an unorthodox manner. Please excuse any acts of stupidity, as I somehow was deemed the star in this Oscar® nominee. I hope you have Windows Media Player. If not, you must get it now, or get to a computer that has it.
Ok maybe not now, but soon. Anyway, Willow has some new 3D models coming for Friday. I have seen them myself; I promise they will make it up instead of what happened last Friday.
Until then, go to the next occupied cubicle and hug your co-worker. It's hump day.
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Coming through for Willow
ByJune 26th, 2003
This slacker stayed up all night doing work and then left town without posting it. Well I can't follow suit and let down on my promise to make sure the content was up, so I'm posting some of what he did and I'll explain.
So Willow's got this cool job where he does 3D modeling all day (in theory) and gets paid decent money for it (decent being the same amount as me except a lot less physical work). He's also trying to start this Game Devolopers Club at school so he and some others can work on a big project or something. I'm doing the webpage for the site. It's a work in progress. Willow will tell you that starting a student organization is no walk in the park. I concur.
Anyway, on with the content. I spent a good hour trying to find this stuff on Willow's computer(s) and then figuring out how to start up UT2003 and take a snapshot. I know of four models he's recently done: a watch tower, a beach umbrella, a palm tree, and an enourmous bottle of sunblock.
Wow, that was a confusing bunch of links to type in this little text box. And it was a lot of work for our boy Willow. Good work. Everyone tell him how his excellence radiates through the fiber optics that is the internet.
I also added a new rant today after reading an article from CNN. It is entitled, Stupid Drivers.
Now have at all those links and then gossip in the message boards
So Willow's got this cool job where he does 3D modeling all day (in theory) and gets paid decent money for it (decent being the same amount as me except a lot less physical work). He's also trying to start this Game Devolopers Club at school so he and some others can work on a big project or something. I'm doing the webpage for the site. It's a work in progress. Willow will tell you that starting a student organization is no walk in the park. I concur.
Anyway, on with the content. I spent a good hour trying to find this stuff on Willow's computer(s) and then figuring out how to start up UT2003 and take a snapshot. I know of four models he's recently done: a watch tower, a beach umbrella, a palm tree, and an enourmous bottle of sunblock.
Wow, that was a confusing bunch of links to type in this little text box. And it was a lot of work for our boy Willow. Good work. Everyone tell him how his excellence radiates through the fiber optics that is the internet.
I also added a new rant today after reading an article from CNN. It is entitled, Stupid Drivers.
Now have at all those links and then gossip in the message boards
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"Organization" is misleading
By Mike DalyJune 28th, 2003
As Wayne mentioned friday, I am trying to start up a student organization - the Game Developer's Club. As simple as starting a club sounds, it is a very painful process. But, now that I have experience with it, I can give you guys a short little guide to starting student organizations! There are two main ways to go about it:
1) The Lazy Way (recommended)
Anyway, in case anyone is wondering what I was doing this weekend, I spend 23 hours in a car driving halfway across the country and back. Obviously, I didn't get any work done during this time, but that's where other people come in. As usual, I wll post the work of other people, but this time, it will partially contain some of my work. Following is a movie that my partner Kevin made to demonstrate milestone #1 for project Sunburn, hope you like it.
Project Sunburn Milestone #1
As usual, you can take your critisism out on the messageboard. Good night.
1) The Lazy Way (recommended)
- Don't start a student organization.
- Get an information packet from the SORC describing the process
- Find students interesting in helping get things started and hold an interest meeting (note: this step will fail)
- Get a faculty sponsor
- Get a permanent phone number, e-mail address, and campus mailing address for your organization
- Fill out the new student organization application
- Create an organization constitution outlining all group policies, puposes and bylaws
- Schedule a meeting with a student legal services advisor for assistance with IRS and tax information
- Get someone to help plan and create an organization webpage; get someone else to set up a server to host it
- Call the IRS and request form SS-4, an application for Employer ID Number
- Make a list of local banks and ask them if they have a minimum starting amount and minimum account balance for a non-interest bearing community checking account (note: This step involved communicating with idiots)
- Ask for your advisor's social security number and fax number so that you can complete form SS-4.
- Hunt down four friends and write their names and social security numbers on the New Student Organization application and turn it in
- Go to the NC State Government's webpage and download an information packet on non-profit organizations
- Apply to be a non-profit organization
- Start sending mail to local companies requesting funding
- Make a detailed budget plan for the initial events and send that as well as an application for funds for student senate
- Use your Employer ID number to start a community checking account
- Use initial funds to make fliers and posters
- Attend welcome back pack events and publicize
- Hold an initial official meeting where you beg nerds to join committees and help you plan events
Anyway, in case anyone is wondering what I was doing this weekend, I spend 23 hours in a car driving halfway across the country and back. Obviously, I didn't get any work done during this time, but that's where other people come in. As usual, I wll post the work of other people, but this time, it will partially contain some of my work. Following is a movie that my partner Kevin made to demonstrate milestone #1 for project Sunburn, hope you like it.
Project Sunburn Milestone #1
As usual, you can take your critisism out on the messageboard. Good night.
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