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Mold

Anna-Maria is going to make a mold of my face using plaster this Saturday. If you’ve seen the special features on the Fight Club DVD then you’ll know what I’m talking about because it’s the same process that Brad Pitt went through for his makeup in that movie. Anna said that when it was all over I could keep the mold. Anyway I better get back to work.

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School Wrap Up

I’m done all my regular classes and just have finals and review classes now. I am really far behind in my multimedia projects and having said that, I’m going to get to work.

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Blogging Saves Lives

Accordian Guy has an interesting post about how blogging saved him from “psycho new chick”. Blogging can save you too.

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Anna-Maria Update

Here is an update on Anna. She doesn’t like me writing too much about her, but I don’t think she’ll mind if I write a quick update. She has been busy with all her rehearsing and school work and just showed me the enlarged fish hook that she has been carving. It is a 200x replication of a fly fishing hook that, so far, looks pretty good. It still needed the feathers and line attached, but it looks like a pretty nice hook.

Tonight while I slave away on my homework here at the University, Anna is at home watching White Oleander with Zee. Hopefully I am done sometime before it’s too late to go visit her tonight, but at the speed this other machine is rendering, it looks like I might be here all night. The project I am working on is a portfolio of all my projects and therefore it’s going to take aproximately 1000 years to process the whole thing. I guess I could be studying for my music final in the meantime. Ok — that’s it for the update on Anna-Maria.

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Computer Update

My computer is broken – seriously. I spent all afternoon working on it. I’m now giving it a rest and working on homework that is due tomorrow. I’m working on homework at the University that I could be working on at home except that my computer is so messed up right now! I’m going to back up My Documents and install Windows 2000 over itself. If that doesn’t work I’ll convert it into a boat anchor. That better work, it just better.

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Computer Problems

Mom and Dad came to visit because their computer wouldn’t boot and they just wanted to visit I guess. But when I went to make a boot disk on my windows 95 machine it wouldn’t boot either. Then my Win 2000 machine started acting up and I lost my internet connection and it won’t let me open any programs. I can’t even login to my Linksys router. I don’t know what’s wrong with my computer but its really ticking me off. I now have 3 broken computers at my house to fix. Mom and Dad left theirs so they probably won’t be reading or commenting on the blog for the next week or so.

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Motion Capture Update

The motion capture workshop was this afternoon. It wasn’t nearly as exciting as I had hoped but it was very interesting all the same. Will (aka Anonymous) dressed up in black tights and then attached little balls with reflective tape on them all over the suit. There were about 8 or 9 cameras all around the room and sure enough the computer was able to track his motion. The data was then cleaned up and exported to 3D Studio Max where a bi-ped that someone else created was attached to the data and recreated the motions on the 3D plane.

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Steve Mann – Cyborg

I convinced Anna-Maria to come see the Steve Mann web-casted guest speaker. There is a really good reason why nobody web-casts their speeches; I found out that reason last night. The video screen was like playing Test Drive III on a 286. At least Test Drive III was in colour.

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Blue and Gold 2003 Photo

Arghhh

Here is a photograph of me from the Awards Banquet tonight. I think the girls may have had a bit much to drink… actually wait, those faces are pretty much normal.

In case you are wondering, yes I had a really good time at the party. I wish Anna-Maria had come too.

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Blue and Gold Banquet

I went to an awards banquet tonight for being a part of the University Swim team. I never won any awards myself, but I had a good time eating the food and cheering for those that won. I think Anna-Maria was a little sad that she never got to come with me. It was really a last minute decision for me to go and so I feel bad that she never got to come along; instead she made the Vegetable Curry without me. Women are definitely from Venus.

Update: I can’t believe I never took Anna-Maria to the Blue and Gold. What the hell was I thinking? Re-reading the archives sometimes makes me feel like I was such an idiot back then.