The I lost my sheep Complaint thread
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Lightwave seems to be struggling, what with C4D, Maya, and now Houdini becoming more "affordable".. even Modo is within reach if I stopped going out for a month (lol)!
Just not sure I really *need* anything else than DS 4.6.. :blank: ... if only DS had particles.. le sigh.
I'm rusted on to LW but would have taken Houdini for a spin if the resolution wasn't limited to HD Video. Don't know of any useful lo budget particle systems around unless you can grab a copy of Carrara on a cover disk or something :)
@Ps1 - for 2D, there's Particle Illusion, which I could grab for I think $400.. but that's a fair amount to spend for just particles. I do have an old copy of VisionLab Studio, a poor mans After Effects, which DOES have a particle system.. but that'd all have to be done in post and getting interaction with the models in the rendering would be a PITA. :blank:
Since this is "just for a hobby" I really don't want to cough up too much, and rendering in HD is fine for me.. if someone actually wants to hire me (gasp!) they can pay for a full copy of Houdini (heh).
We had some proper rain today for an hour or so, can only dream of inches of water - will take more if you want to nudge it our way :)
mucha lluvia
Bleah, drab and drear outside. Boss out sick. Office empty since they moved the CAD people...
..I'm all alone! Maybe I can get some sleep snzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Time for a double shot Americano, I think...! :ahhh:
Sigh.. mermaids on sale. Need one for a Vicky adventure. Bought it.
Sigh. :blank:
Lunch time! :cheese: :cheese:
Two crispy fried chicken thighs and.. FRIED OKRAAAAAA! :cheese: :coolsmile:
Will need an afternoon nap now... :)
Lunch! got a spinach and mozz panini from starbucks
when we buy vegetables at the supermarket, they make sure we can't grown new vegetables from those?
there's no vitamin that can stop arthritis from getting worse?
i don't need the ocarina, but i want it. doesn't make sense. :lol:
Some of the things you can take to help Calcium, Vitamin D3, Omega-3, Vitamin E
...appropriate Monday rant. Hope everything goes OK . Good news about the blood test.
I'd watch those energy drinks (like Red Bull, Rockstar, Monster etc), many have Taurine which with the added caffeine has been found to cause heart trouble. Several teen deaths have been linked to it.
the new tentacle chapter is changing the tone of the book. :bug: he's supposed to be a depressed moody character. tentacle therapy?
i found my runtime with the original medusa skin, makes a kewl kraken hag. :) for a male medusan, thinking of just parenting on a few morphing pythons to his head. tee hee. hisssssss
Some of the things you can take to help Calcium, Vitamin D3, Omega-3, Vitamin E
the eggs i buy has omega-3. i've seen VitE listed in skin lotion.
the 1aday gummie vitamins has VitE and D3. the label says helps support bone health. taking their word for it. can't tell if it really helps.
Congrats on starting the new job! :coolsmile:
Bleah on the circumstances, though... :long:
Best of luck!
...thank you. Fortunately the odd hours are only temporary.
However I discovered the commute is far more "involved" than it should be. If I take the trip planner's "suggested" connections, I have to sit around for nearly 50 minutes before I start. As I mentioned there is literally nothing else out there save for a mini mart gas stop. Going home is just as bad if not worse, for, the "suggested" trip involves not only the 25 min wait, but over a mile walk from the last bus I take to home (after 11:00pm), not something I look forward to after putting in a whole day. Ended up having to "cobble together" my own connections myself to get something to work but it involves three buses each way.
Two of the suggestions from the trip planner that involve a shorter wait after work had me going even further east (about two miles) out of my way, then back west to get home (who programmes these things?).
I'm hoping someone in my session who drives goes in my direction and I can carpool home at least. Even if it's relatively close, it will save time and worry about standing around waiting for buses late at night.
Hopefully once I get my regular schedule, it will sync up with better bus connections.
the eggs i buy has omega-3. i've seen VitE listed in skin lotion.
the 1aday gummie vitamins has VitE and D3. the label says helps support bone health. taking their word for it. can't tell if it really helps.
...can't do eggs, so my only source if fish, which (other than salmon which I also can't eat) is rather expensive out here.
I'm confused. I thought you said this new job was close, within walking distance. Now you're talking about buses again.
Dana
...thank you. Fortunately the odd hours are only temporary.
However I discovered the commute is far more "involved" than it should be. If I take the trip planner's "suggested" connections, I have to sit around for nearly 50 minutes before I start. As I mentioned there is literally nothing else out there save for a mini mart gas stop. Going home is just as bad if not worse, for, the "suggested" trip involves not only the 25 min wait, but over a mile walk from the last bus I take to home (after 11:00pm), not something I look forward to after putting in a whole day. Ended up having to "cobble together" my own connections myself to get something to work but it involves three buses each way.
Two of the suggestions from the trip planner that involve a shorter wait after work had me going even further east (about two miles) out of my way, then back west to get home (who programmes these things?).
I'm hoping someone in my session who drives goes in my direction and I can carpool home at least. Even if it's relatively close, it will save time and worry about standing around waiting for buses late at night.
Hopefully once I get my regular schedule, it will sync up with better bus connections.
I feel your pain.. there's only one bus that goes past here and it runs every 45 minutes, the one I take from home to/from the bus stop run every hour and ten minutes.. the trip planner here sends me downtown and back out! :bug: Finally used the system map and found my own trip.. geesh.. I guess Tulsa's planner was written by the same guy that did yours! :ahhh:
..just to note, I will not be around much during the weekdays as my schedule precludes hanging out at the hotspot. By the time I will get home they will be closed. The only reason I am on this morning is to figure out my commute. Have to leave in a few, pack up a lunch, and head to the bus stop. So for the next six weeks, most likely I will only be here on weekends and that will be it (unless I hit the Megabucks or Win for Life lotto). Gonna make it hard to enter challenges for GCs as well.
The I'm Employed Again But No Longer Have a Life Online Complaint Thread.
The Why Do Transit Systems Have To Make Commuting Such A Pain Complaint Thread?
See y'all in a few days.
Cheers.
I'm confused. I thought you said this new job was close, within walking distance. Now you're talking about buses again.
Dana
...not walking, however I did mention it could be within biking distance (fairly flat with no major grades to deal with) but I have to scope out the safest route first. Lots of 18 wheelers on the roads out there.
...thank you. Fortunately the odd hours are only temporary.
However I discovered the commute is far more "involved" than it should be. If I take the trip planner's "suggested" connections, I have to sit around for nearly 50 minutes before I start. As I mentioned there is literally nothing else out there save for a mini mart gas stop. Going home is just as bad if not worse, for, the "suggested" trip involves not only the 25 min wait, but over a mile walk from the last bus I take to home (after 11:00pm), not something I look forward to after putting in a whole day. Ended up having to "cobble together" my own connections myself to get something to work but it involves three buses each way.
Two of the suggestions from the trip planner that involve a shorter wait after work had me going even further east (about two miles) out of my way, then back west to get home (who programmes these things?).
I'm hoping someone in my session who drives goes in my direction and I can carpool home at least. Even if it's relatively close, it will save time and worry about standing around waiting for buses late at night.
Hopefully once I get my regular schedule, it will sync up with better bus connections.
I feel your pain.. there's only one bus that goes past here and it runs every 45 minutes, the one I take from home to/from the bus stop run every hour and ten minutes.. the trip planner here sends me downtown and back out! :bug: Finally used the system map and found my own trip.. geesh.. I guess Tulsa's planner was written by the same guy that did yours! :ahhh:
Maybe they're paid off by the cab companies to make the bus route so bad that folks are willing to pay a little more to take the taxi! :lol:
Dana
Thanks guys. :)
It's looking like it probably was an allergic reaction to some energy drinks he liked the flavor of so the remaining ones are going to be given away and not replaced. We're thinking probably not a kidney stone after all because there is no sign of anything else along those lines.
Playing with Blender 2.71 test build.. this one actually makes more sense to me, reminds of of a combo of early 3DS MAX and bits of LWs Modeler. Worth spending some more time with, especially since it's free... :smirk:
Ate too much chicken, uurrpppp... :gulp:
Ok, I won't get all worried if I don't see you around much.. completely understandable.
Good thread name ideas...!
Ok, I won't get all worried if I don't see you around much.. completely understandable.
Good thread name ideas...!
Seconded on all counts.
the eggs i buy has omega-3. i've seen VitE listed in skin lotion.
the 1aday gummie vitamins has VitE and D3. the label says helps support bone health. taking their word for it. can't tell if it really helps.
...can't do eggs, so my only source if fish, which (other than salmon which I also can't eat) is rather expensive out here.
Fish is pretty cheap here. Only exception is Salmon and Haddock for some reason. I bypass all that isnd just go catch my own. I do buy the big bag of frozen tilapia so we have some fish in the house at all times.
I've just haddock with fish! There's no trout about it, it's playing koi with me. I mean, I hate to carp about it, but I feel like it's making a bass of me! Time to head down the pike now, I'm feeling crappie... Wahoo, omg, that's a moray! I AM a bit eel today.
:lol: :blank: :P
...can't do eggs, so my only source if fish, which (other than salmon which I also can't eat) is rather expensive out here.
Fish is pretty cheap here. Only exception is Salmon and Haddock for some reason. I bypass all that isnd just go catch my own. I do buy the big bag of frozen tilapia so we have some fish in the house at all times.
To help keep arthritis at bay make sure you have plenty of vitamin C in your diet, avoid red meat and eat plenty of oily fish. This includes Sardines, tuna, herring, salmon, trout,pilchard and mackerel.
I admit I love nibbling on sardines, but the smell bothers a lot of people, so... only at home. Le sigh. Sardines in mustard, in olive oil, in spicy sauce.. all good. :)
Gotta cut back on chicken... uurrrppp.. 2 Tums down the hatch. :blank:
Now back to figuring out how to create a procedural texture for an object in Blender.. may have to wait until I can get home and watch a YouTube tutorial. It looks a lot like combining the shader bricks in DS! :bug:
*edit* Gonna need the full Mul SubDragon.. he's the only one I can find that (a) looks pretty darn detailed and (b) has shapes that LOOK LIKE A KICK BUTT KNIGHT EATING DEATH MACHINE! :ahhh: Don't giver me no wussified dragons!
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Dana
You'll have to speak up, I'm hard of herring. :)
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