Wizard-tastic

So, although I was somewhat tired on Wednesday, I was still capable of getting some work done.

Unlike, it would seem, Iced who has informed me that he was busy "making whistles from pen lids".

Now, however, that my tiredness has been dispatched I can be happy knowing that I'm working hard on all the things which are probably relevant to the task at hand.
This may or may not include: Fixing networks, repairing computers and drinking bucket loads of coffee.
I guess if I keep this up I'll probably suffer what shall henceforth be called a 'Wednesday' or major tireds for those less accustomed to replacing scientific words.

Anyway as the blog post's title states, I have in fact been looking at a lot of wizards.

I'll let you decide what that means.
Actually now that I think about it that's not a good idea but, hey what's the worst you can come up with.

Spare computer, brain cells all in use.

After around 45 minutes of cleaning and assembling I had finally cleaned and re-assembled the pieces of an older computer that had been lurking in my house.
I wont bore you with specifics but, it took over 62GB worth of music and has still not used more than 10 percent of it's total space.
so now I'm armed with the next side task.
Getting a team suite installed and working on said machine. So not only am I modelling, I'm also sorting this out, and if I do say so myself, I'm having an excellent time.

On a different note, I'm also testing other modelling programs and trying out different texture methods, hopefully I can find something that suites the teams needs soon as I'm getting quite close to finishing some of the models I have.

Lastly, I've just stripped Ice of all of the post in this year belonging to him...

Of plug sockets and feet

Some people have clumsy hands, I have clumsy feet. I have spent the last half an hour or so getting down some ideas in our wiki about instrument based weaponry, which I'm fairly sure I have mentioned here before in passing - don't ask - then, somehow, I managed to kick the plug socket under my desk. BAM! Everything gone.

Oh well, I'll have a sulk for a bit then just redo it all.

It appears that we are currently still having trouble breaking the two posts a week milestone, I blame my cohorts, who spend way too much of their time diligently working on content and no where near enough time on forcing their unenlightened opinions on anyone and everyone willing to read them. Slackers.

I don't like to brag - which, as we all know is a synonym for: I do like to brag - but I recently figured out that 70% of the posts made on this blog in 2008 were by me. Conversely they only make up 20% of the relevant posts made on this blog last year.

Jessie is a friend

Have a status update, you've earned it

Happy yesterday everyone, especially you Rob, I hope you had a good birthday.

I don't actually know anyone named Rob, and certainly not one who had a birthday yesterday, but I would like to hope that maybe, just maybe, someone out there named Rob read that and is now very worried. Also I wanted an excuse to say happy yesterday once more, I enjoy doing that now.

So, as of today, holiday time has concluded, everyone is over their respective debilitating ills and work is once again in progress*. We can now hopefully return to a schedule where more than two posts are made a week as well, that would be nice.

There is a new post on the Left 4 Dead blog, detailing more of Valve's art decisions, it's interesting reading for anyone remotely interested in game design or Valve.

*OK, so Balai's Internet connection is still hit and miss, but you can't have everything, can you?

don't write yourself off yet

The day before this one

Once again, I find myself in a position wherein I must wish you all a happy yesterday, I'm starting to wonder whether we should make this a tradition.

I occasionally wonder whether Sony remembers which console is it's own, their latest declaration does nothing to dissipate my doubts. On the off chance someone from Sony is reading this: the answer, guys is the Play Station 3, not the the Wii, as much as you may wish the inverse was true.
Sony constantly proves that it does not know it's own strengths and weaknesses, first off, claiming that anything related to Bios updates could only be possible on the PS3 is complete twaddle, you are aware that the Xbox 360 is made by Microsoft guys? This is basically their thing, they do kind of make operating systems.
But really, adding 3D is quite gimmicky, and, let us all face it, something that no actual people want, or would ever ask for. When you look at it that way it sounds an awful lot like Home, doesn't it? And roughly 90% of the Wii's Software library. (Burned, yo!)
Sony, you make hardware, that is an irrefutable fact, no one can ever take that away from you, so please, please, put away Home, no one cares about that, and get back to doing what you guys do best: making scary and complicated gadgets that are intrinsically cool. And make satisfying bleeping noises.

Also, Balai is currently alive, although he has just prevented me from filling the entire front page of the blog with posts solely by me, this means this state may not last. I'll update on the matter as it develops.

He can never get enough