http://teapotrobot.net Just another blag Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:30:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en (Continued from Game night! Woo!) One of the other games I played at our game night was Monty Python Fluxx. It’s a pretty wacky card game created by Looney Labs with an ever-changing set of rules based on the cards in play. I found myself losing interest pretty quickly. The ... http://teapotrobot.net/2010/02/game-night-woo-part-deux/ Thursday night I had the pleasure of being a guest on a new podcast, Hops and Hockey with Dyke and Yannik. It was started by two friends of mine in a flash of brilliance, combining their own personal interests and expertise to share their views on two of life’s greatest ... http://teapotrobot.net/2010/02/hops-and-hockey-madness/ This past Friday I attended a get-together held by my former adviser so that all of her students could meet her brother, who would be in town for a few days. The idea was to have a whole mess of people over, eat food, drink drinkables, and play as many ... http://teapotrobot.net/2010/01/game-night-woo/ I finally dragged myself to the theater the other day to check out Avatar in 3D. I originally had no intentions of seeing it because the "big bad military vs ignorant and honorable natives" plot has been so thoroughly overdone and never, in my opinion, done particularly well. But this ... http://teapotrobot.net/2009/12/james-camerons-avatar/ For the past three days I’ve been having a go with Blender. My earlier attempts to get into 3D modeling were extremely short-lived, due to its complicated nature and my relatively short attention span for things I don’t understand. A few years ago I started using Google SketchUp, a program ... http://teapotrobot.net/2009/12/adventures-in-the-3rd-dimension/ I hope everyone is doing their duty and, if not watching V for Vendetta, then going out and causing some sort of anarchy... http://teapotrobot.net/2009/11/the-5th-of-november/ I am eating pizza, I am drinking soda and I am alive! For the past week I have been out of commission due to some withering disease imported from the dank depths of western Pennsylvania. However, the downtime has been put to excellent use in that I have officially become ... http://teapotrobot.net/2009/10/i-am-alive/ I've been messing around with the demo of ArtRage for the past week. It seems to be the perfect amount of natural media simulation without the inherent complexity of Corel Painter. The way the paints and other materials blend and layer is quite satisfying. At $25 for the full version, ... http://teapotrobot.net/2009/08/artrage-2/ I was reading through some Journal entries on DeviantArt and one of the artists was reflecting on the importance of eyesight for someone devoted to the visual arts. Surprisingly, for someone with absolutely terrible eyesight, I hadn't really considered this and so I took some time to ponder what I ... http://teapotrobot.net/2009/07/artistic-insights/ I'm not actually dead. I can't even say that I was particularly busy. I just... forgot... to update. Luckily it only took me four months to remedy the situation! http://teapotrobot.net/2009/07/cough-sputter-hack/