I have wasted my entire Sunday getting the webcam to work. We now have one indoor and one outdoor cam. I will leave them outdoor one on as long as the computer is on and the indoor one to spice it up. SHould have set it up for the party. Oh well, next time I will get a projector and really geek it out as Aaron said. I think it would be fun.

It was such drama to get the files to just be a live feed and not FTPed. I just didn't want to waste my servers bandwidth so I tried to do it locally by serving it off the supercomp.

The problem being that I have windows XP running most of the time and it sucks. So anyways, I was able to get it all to ork with a javascript work around. I guess now everyone will get to live life on elmwood via the cam. At least until the mega icecycles come and freeze the cam solid.

Matthew was saying how we should get a more all weather cam. I just laughed, I don't think they make any electronics that live up to Buffalo winter weathering.

So I guess I should get to some homework befor ethe weekend is up. I heard back from UB about modelig instead of programming for VR and its seems to be a go. I am really excited about it. I love modeling in 3D and I never get to do it anymore now that I spend all my time on these lame web projects.

It is almost time to start adding new features. I am looking for other artists interested in displaying their artwork, poetry, prose, and sound/video projects. I have one more presentation at UB and then the rest of the semester is projects, so hopefully you will see some results.

I am so stressed out. I just found out the the independeent study I requested at the beginning of the semester, and never heard back on, was excepted. I found this out while registrering for next semster. I looked at my schedule and it said I am enrolled in 16 credit hours. Imagine how distressing this is having to complete a semester's ammount of work in a month. I seriously feel like I am going to puke.

Anyways, so I asked at my job to see why the situation with becomming full time is next year and they said there will be a position but that they have to conduct a national search. This is expected but it makes me crazy considereing how I have alterned my life continuously for the possibility of a job that I am techincally highly qualified for.

It also means I have to complete 13 credits plus my thesis in one semester. I gues it sounds possible but I am also teahcing two full courses and an independent study in addition to this.

I think if I did not get the job in the end I would be quite devastated. Not because I couldn't find another job, as I am really knowledgeable and skilled in my field but that I spent a year living on the edge of being human in order to jump through the hoops required for it. I would feel like they stole a year of my life.

Moreover, I am beginning to physically alter from 20 hour days. My skin tone has changed, I am in near constant pain from sitting and I don't really smile anymore. Mayeb I should just hold off and not care about the job and stretch school out.

Sorry it took so long to get you the STL files. Our class only meets once a week so I had to wait until I saw the students in order to request a test file. Then I had to adjust the file to make it to correct some inconsistencies.

The renders of the file are below. The is non-colored. I didn't think the dimensions printer could do color. I wasnt sure about the sizing so I left it up to you. Just scale proportionally till it fits. We saw on the Dimensions video that the Catalyst software can do this.

If not please feel free to email me and I will send you a resized copy ASAP. Thanks for your time.

Crab without water-like film

Crab with water-like film

I have been extremely busy catching up with installing linux for my VR art prject. It has been an insane tedious process. I finally got the wireless to work which was seriously a miracle in itself. It took about 4 days of non stop tinkering. So finally I am untethered and awaiting the new hard drive to make the switch complete.

I also got a chance to visit Nonna. She seems to be doing good but her legs are really hurting her. While there I got lots of pictures from the old family albums and scanned them.