Taniith’s Relto

I haven’t updated in a while….. yeah. I’ve been busy. In fact, I’m kinda stressed out at the moment. Hopefully I can get this shit done in time for tomorrow and astill get some sleep; then I will feel better. I hate organic modeling (Andrew responds: “*laugh* we’ll make an organic modeler out of you yet”).

I think this quote best describes how I feel right now (yes, it is taken from memory…. what?):

“In the Big Rock Candy Mountain, there’s a hole that’s filled with treats, and the rocks all taste like sugar drops, and the dirt is nice and sweet.
You can eat some as you work the mines to bring me precious jems.
There’s a hobo shed, and some paint made of lead, and you know you’re done a paintin’ when you wake up dead, in the Big Rock Candy Mountain.”

Oh, and for those who haven’t seen the amazingness yet:
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So I woke up around 1 this morning (or 12, or 2… it all kinda blurred together), and after lying in bed for a while, I got up and tried reading this really interesting Bill Bryson book I got as a science award from Beaver in 11th grade. Then I still wasn’t tired so I started playing…. wait for it… Pokemon. Yeah, I said it… its not what it looks like, I swear! Theres a long line of conversation the past few days that lead to that.

Eventually though, I got bored and decided to do something else. So I turned on my computer, and eventually ended up at this site that I’ve been reading the past few months. The guy who writes it has a lot of contacts at Microsoft and uses them to get all the juicy info about Microsoft products and beta tests. However, his reviews aren’t those of a Microsoft junkie, but instead of an informed and interested… well, reviewer. He recently wrapped up a very well written review of Vista (the latest Windows OS), and he gave just as many low scores for vista features as he did high.

I’m currently waiting for him to get past the introduction for this review of the new (and apparently very cool) version of Office. So I stopped by this morning to check for an update and found this. It is about a new Microsoft product called Windows Home Server. To make a long story short, you get a server for a whole home network that does auto-backup for each computer on the network, and is all written in plain english. The server doesn’t even have a keyboard or monitor… you set it up and control it from one of the connected computers. Hell, Microsoft is even giveing free domains for all that fun remote access stuff that you usually pay for with other services. It sounds like a great idea, and I am going to watch this on closely.

Oh, and did I mention the cool feature of hot-swapable hard drives that dont need screws. Or the fact that there are no drive letters? It doesn’t use RAID, but instead every drive (internal, external, *insert term here*ternal) is visible as one big drive with redundant backups always insured to be on two different physical drives…. and if you take thme out and hook them to a standard PC, the drives and data are in standard NTFS format!

Sorry, I wnt a little geek there. But in the end, they are supposed to be great for geeks and non-geeks alike (also pc and mac users alike O_O). So, yeah… this site is really great to get info and insight into all the cool (and not so cool *cough* Zune *cough*) Microsoft technology. I would at least suggest that you read the Vista review, because it really helps to show what you are going to end up with (don’t lie to yourself…. you’ll be using it eventually). Despite all the rumors of it sucking, it really looks like it is going to be a decent OS… just dont go for the 64 bit for a few years still.

Time for that second breakfast (first was around 3 or 4… :( )

-K

Sorry I haven’t updated in a while…. I’ve been busy. However, I thought I would show you all what it is that has been keeping me busy. So here it is…. Big Battle. Sorry, I don’t really feel like making a great title at the moment.

Ok, so here’s the deal. I know it seems a tad rushed at parts, but I couldn’t help it. I had to cap it out at 30 seconds; well, I was told to, but thats another story. Sufficed to say, I had to do some creative cutting and fading to get it to the length it is now, so it no longer looks perfect. Thats the problem with 3D stuff… if you don’t get it right the first time, you have to wait another 2 days while it all re-renders (hopefully) correctly.

I was thinking about making a “director’s cut” of sorts that actually had all the music, sound effects, and length that I wanted, but I just don’t really feel like it. Oh, and remember that this is not at full quality for the purposes of streaming it.

Anyway, I think I am going to go ahead and actually enjoy the lasy day of my vacation… what do you think of that idea?

-K

Oh by the way, here’s a sneak peak at what I hope to be doing for my Block 3 project: “Would you like a Jelly Baby?” *loud crash* “…Would you mind not standing on my chest? My hat is on fire.”