Ha ha ha ha.

People have asked me how I can be a Christian and an evolutionist. All I can say is, I can still have faith in God and a believe in a scientific theory based on a large number of empirical evidence.

No comments. Sad. :*(

Too much to do, as always. My problem? I procrastinate. Like, for instance, in order for me to not do anything during my two weeks off, I got in a car accident and traumatized myself.

Oh, btw, if you guys want to give me a bit of extra cash, click on the Google ad above. I've even been clicking on it cuz I mentioned the Wacom tablets and it keeps giving me ads for them. Sigh. I want one sooooo bad. There are some decent prices on eBay for an Intuos2 9x12. I just don't know if I can justify paying for one. On one hand, it's for my artwork, on the other hand, I don't know if the artwork I do necessitates a tablet. Hmmm....

Okay, please feel free to leave comments. ;-)

I've come to the conclusion that I will leave Starbucks after this semester. Actually, I've been at Starbucks a little longer than I wanted to (it's been 2 years and 3 days), and I am itchin' to get out. Perhaps it's because I've been in a really difficult store for the past year, but I don't really have many fond memories of Starbucks. Well, more like, I don't have fond memories of working retail. As much as we have really cool regulars, there are just those few a--holes that really ruin your mood. I mean, it's hard to do your best and to try to please the customers if they don't appreciate you and just complain all the time. I'm so tired of people thinking that my job is to make them happy. My job is to get their friggin' coffee. And it's friggin' coffee, not your first-born child.

As much as I enjoyed animal drawing this summer, I shouldn't have taken that class. For one thing, I wasn't crazy about the costumed drawing portion of the class. No, strike that, I wasn't crazy about the homework portion of the class. I shoulda talked to her about perhaps auditing the animal drawing only or something. Sigh.

Anyway, because of that class, my inherent summer laziness, and my crazy work schedule (not to mention the Vegas trip and SIGGRAPH), I didn't get a chance to do any of the work done for our animation club film. Sigh. Siiiiiiiigh.

I'm really sleep-deprived.

And to top it off, the Starbucks just 23 blocks east of us gets twice the tips that we do. I so need to get out of that store. I so need to get out of retail.

Sigh.

Poor Pip.

Quick response:

I don't know who you are, Superlefty, but the SIGGRAPH conference was held at the LA Convention Center. The dome theaters were really small, with about 20-some people per show, and the actual "theater" was an inflatable tent dome.

Next year, unfortunately, SIGGRAPH will be held in Boston, so I'm not sure I will go. We'll see.

Personality Type

Sorta true.

The problem with dome theaters is that when you're lying down on the floor and you've been up since 4:30 am for three days in a row, you are going to fall asleep no matter how hard you try. And it's extra embarassing when you wake up and realize the show's over and all the other people have left.

So... comments from this year's SIGGRAPH convention... not as much schwag, not as much must-be-present-to-win drawings, no art contests, and the most annoying of all, no access to the galleries or the animation theater, which means that I'm just left to wander around looking at booths and playing around in the hands-on guerilla studio. Not that I'm complaining. Well, yes I am. Anyway, I'm glad at least for the access to the guerilla studio, even if I'm not really doing anything, just cuz it means that I can post a blog entry while waiting for my motion capture appointment, though the best part really is the ability to play with the oh-so-expensive hardware that I just dream of owning. My personal favorite? The new Wacom Cintiq tablet, the one where you draw directly on the screen. It only retails for about $2500. I should be able to find that under the couch cushions.

I've taken the bus here for all three days, though today might be the first time I actually take the bus back. That's the thing about having to work in the morning. I was all, "oh I can't carpool with my housemates so I'll just have to meet up with them later but I'll take the bus so I don't have to pay for expensive parking" but when you only have a limited access, even the most die-hards seem to not want to come the last day. So I arrived at the convention center, called Dave, and I asked him where he was, and his response is "still in Santa Monica." And it looks like he's not going to show. There just hasn't been enough of a draw to go through the trouble, I guess.

Back to the dome theaters, I've seen three shows (been fully awake through one of them) and it's pretty darn neat. It really does feel like you're surrounded and there's a 3D show playing throughout the ceiling.

Okay, the motion capture session beckons.