Pre-Dawn Pre-Dawn

What a magnificent and descriptive time. I imagine cool fresh air, cold ears and nose, lungs refreshed with every breath.  That and a hot cup of black coffee would be great in a few hours.

The dose makes the poison

Too much of anything is never a good things.  For me it was Godfathers Pizza buffet.  Ouch.

Three Chords and the Truth

And ice cream and pancakes and time and dedication and sore fingers and teachers and dogs and pickup trucks and brothers and double dutch and baseball and so forth.

Beware the Hidden Costs

In our house we consume Netflix 30 days at a time.  We wait until they offer a free month and we take it.  Free movies and TV may sound like a great deal and we appreciate it but that’s not to say that there aren’t costs involved.

 Late nights in front of the TV. Sore back from hours on the couch.  Skewed sense of reality from fictionalized portrayals of motor cycle gangs and drug traffickers.  These are the hidden costs.

Buyer beware.

Weird

I know I’m in the minority on this but I think it is weird that there is a multibillion dollar industry that promotes adorning people with items whose practical claims include cutting hard things and being heat sinks in microelectronics.

Free, Free, Free Everyone Wants Something for Free

About a year ago I worked with a filmmaker whose team used Maya to create some scenes and animations for us at work.  As part of the contract with him we were given access to the models and other source files from the projects.  This was awesome but we also had a problem.  We had no way to use the models because we didn’t have the software to open it. 

Yesterday as I was back in the folder of unattainable assets I thought there must be a way to open them.  A quick Google search later I came across a solution so brilliant it’s as if it was actually made for the situation and in fact it was.  To open the program it was as easy as putting the software that created it on my computer. 

I thought this solution would have been out of the question because of the high cost of the professional software that was used to create the models.  I was surprised to find that the program is available for free from the publishers of the software at http://students.autodesk.com/ .  In fact you can download the entire suite of Autodesk software as a students or an educator. Thanks Autodesk.  That was awesome.

What do you get?

What do you get when you take a perfectly good cabinet, a 1 ½” spade auger bit, a cordless drill and 2 guys? A perfectly good cabinet with a number of holes in it.  You also get a solution to a bunch of cords running across the top and front of the cabinet.  Not too bad for a few hours work.  Nice work men. M&M’s and oatmeal for everyone.