3D

Filing this under 3D as well, just for kicks.

I'm about to quit me job, ladies and in a broader sense gentlemen. That's right. Quit it. I'm fed up. Had enough. Sick of the very notion of going in to this place everyday. I've written my notice. Just waiting for the oppertune moment to hand it in. It's not gonna be pretty... I'm sure of it. It's gonna be met with, first of all, surprise. Then secondly it'll be met with slight anger, and all sorts of arguments will be put up. I'm prepared for all of them, and I don't really care about burning this particular bridge behind me. It's a shit bridge anyway. Sick of it to be honest.

What will the future hold for me? I dunno for sure. I've half typed out some applications. I'm trying out for a few gaming companies, altho I doubt I have any sort of skills they'll be looking for. Gonna stay in touch with a few of the blokes from this current job, and see if I can combine their forces with a few other friends of mine. Get a game going or something. That'd be pretty cool, to be honest. And that's sort of what I've wanted the whole way through. Make games. I'll be applying at a few hotels along the way as well. I mean, that's almost a surefire way to get a job (for me anyway).

Lastly, we got a new guy working with us the other day. He was hired as a salesman, but we all know nobody gives a fuck about our company, because our boss is a dick, so... he's gonna end up being another graphics artist in here with nothing but the most lame of jobs to do. I don't like him, of course. He's quite a bit older than me, which, as such, is fine. But he's just... I dunno what it is. He seems geeky in the non-cool way (yeah, there IS a cool way to be a geek). And he has his cell phone in a chord around his neck. So it's dangling in front of his rather large gut. Annoying! Sometimes he stuffs it inside his shirt, so there's a large sqaure outline of a cell on his rather large gut, poking through his shirt. Gaah. Also his beard is greying in an annoying manner, and his hair is combed back in an annoying manner. Hmmm... perhaps it's just me being fizzy with this job? Perhaps, but he's still annoying.. EVERYBODY IS!1111111111 It's quit time.

Yeah.. I bought a new comp today. After having this bad boy I'm on now for just over 4 years, it's time to cave in, and fork out some dough for a new one. It's gonna be thousands of hertz of Processor goodness, coupled with some killer graphics, some nice memory and a spiffing case to keep it all in. Yup, the start of a new era. But I'm gonna miss this old one tho.. it's been like a brother to me. Always there when I needed it, and to be fair, I haven't had problems with it for years. It's the most stable install I've ever had. Runs like a doozy... most of the time. After a defragmentation of me old harddrives, I've gained like 40% speed back. 

Anyway, the new box will arrive Friday, which means I'll be occupied for the weekend. I'm off work for 4 full days, and it's just needed bigtime. Just going to bed at night, and knowing I don't have to wake up at a specific time the morning after. mmmmm one of my favorite feelings in the world.

On a slightly related, but not really, note; I've considered starting to play poker, just so I'd have something to do when I was at home anyway. Online that is. But I'm not sure I'd enjoy it a whole lot. Also, when I get my new box, coupled with this new LOVELY monitor, hopefully I'll be able to do a lot more 3D modelling at home. And that's gonna be swell. Should keep me busy at night, I hope. I'll pot pics and updates on the gear, as soon as I've got it. Cheers!

I'm chalking this one down on a few categories just for kicks. 

Anyway, I bought a new monitor the other day. So far it's been my 19" Samsung 930BF that I got for Christmas in '05 along side my old trusty Sony Trinitron 17". The 17" from Sony was the first monitor I ever bought while actually caring about what I got, and it's served me for 6 years now. It had a brief 1 year hiatus, where I thought I had lost it, but on the very day I was going to throw it out, I decided I might as well yank the backcover off, and have a look inside if I could fix the problem. Turned out, I was able to fix it afterall. Messing around a bit, I found a little fuse that I figured I'd try changing. Lo and behold, the monitor worked like a charm after that. But now, it's over... and I'm gonna miss it. Had some good times with that monitor.. good times indeed. Remember when I wanted to watch an episode of Scrubs, and the monitor played it for me? Yeah I remember too.. like it happened yesterday. Good times.

Anyway, the 226BW 22" monitor from Samsung will pick up where old Sony left off, and so far things are looking splendido. Found out tho, that I only have one DVI and one VGA exit on my gfx card, so.... when I buy a new comp, I need to make absolutely sure the fucker has two DVI exits.. because running vga on a nice tft monitor just doesn't quite cut it.

I'll post an image later on, when I've decided it's time to yank up the old cam and snap a pic. Got around to vacuuming the place, and I must admit, it sorely needed it. So now that I have a new monitor for working with 3D, step 1 in my masterplan to better my skills have been completed. Step 2 is a little more daring, as it requires me to fork out quite a load of cash, but I daresay it's for the best. Step 2 is buying a whole new comp. I'll update you guys on the specifics later on. For now, I'm gonna marvel at this gem... crystal clear image, crisp colors and a sleek design. Yeah.. I'm happy.

Had another customer at the office today. A guy for whom I made 2 exterior shots. It was some buildings they want to build and sell up north somewhere. Butt ugly if you ask me, but then.. nobody did. So I just modelled them. As usual, Jakob had nothing but badmouthing left for the project. And while it was kind of ugly, and I know he's only joking, it was still nice to hear the client be very happy about it today. Had a few points he wanted to do, and then we talked about adding some more stuff... but overall, he was pretty happy. That's two strikes for Dalif.. let's hope he can go for the shutout.

On a completely seperate and unrelated note, I wanted to show off my recent tweaking of foobar2k, a music program a la winamp I recently installed. It's open source and has a lot of cool features. Special thanks goes out to Grue for giving me a hand in configuring it. It's not completely done yet, but I think it's pretty damn nice as is. Anyway, that's all for now. Enjoy!