Blender 3D Work

I have recently began working on Blender 3D. I plan on documenting my progress on this site as I go

This is my first attempt at modeling. It is a mug. Can you tell?

Another day, just another day

Watching Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein as I write this. A guilty pleasure from my past.

Anyway, got a big weekend coming up. Just need to get through the next couple of days. Have to justify my job a little by explaining to the CEO just what I do.

The weekend has me filming a couple bits for Coffee With Jeff, seeing a Southern Rock band on Saturday Night with a bunch of old friends, some I have not seen for 25 or 30 years! And I Sunday, POKER! It is a poker league and we go into the forth week out of 12, and I'm tied for second.

So, sorry about the lack of Daily Jeff's, but I'll try to so better. Probably not.

Back to the movie, I remember, when I was a youngster, staying up very late with a huge amount of anticipations to watch this on WGN's Creature Feature. I tend to think that even then the film was a disappointment.

Milly Meier and UFOs

Have you heard of this guy, Billy Meier?

He is a dude from Switzerland who claims to be in contact with aliens since 1942. I have a few problems with this. First, he has been aboard their ships yet all his photographic evidence is video of ships from a distance, and they all look like picture and video a child would take. HE has picture of two alien women that tuned out to be from an old Dean Martian show. Of course, Billy has an explanation about the Men in Black.

Billy has hundreds, if not thousands of followers and I would like to point out just how stupid these people are by bringing up one points!

There are no aliens or space ships from other planets. Duh!

Coffee With Jeff

Just wanted to make a quick post thanks on Sundays Coffee with Jeff this weekend, I will give a explanation of why I know believe in Flying Saucers and a great conspiracy that no one but me has noticed.

Me and Dawkins Day 1

Started reading Richard Dawkins The Blind Watchmaker today. Don't know if I have the brain capacity for Dawkins, but I'm going to give it a go. I', also watching American Splendor as I read, and I'm blogging. You know, I'm not bright enough to understand Dawkins when I focus just on the book, so why am I attempting multitasking.

Anyway American Spender is a fantastic film. It is the story of Harvey Pekar, the man who wrote the comic book if the same name. It stars Paul Giamatti, a great actor, and also has the real Harvey Pekar. Anyway, it sort of jumps around between Giamatti as Harvey as well as other actors playing real people, to the real people.

Another Hour Gone

How is that game going. You know, the one of Facebook, Farmville or Mafia Wars? Or that Xbox war game you are playing with that little headset on, talking to you buddies as you kill the enemy. Look at the clock. 7pm. Now look. It is after 8pm.

Tomorrow you will go to work and bitch about how you life never gets any better. It's not you fault you say. What about those hours you wasted last night. You are you because of the choices you make. The smart people makes the games and the sheep play the games.

Albert Einstein and Time

Here is the story as it is told by Michio Kaku on the wonderful podcast, Radio Lab. Michio Kaku is an American theoretical physicist specializing in string field theory, and a futurist.

"well is actually starts when Einstein was a child. He read a children's book, perhaps the most important children's book ever written in the history of the human race, which asked the question, what would it be like to out race a telegraph message in a telegraph wire?"

He goes on to say that Einstein asked his own question, "What would it be like to out race a light beam? What would it look like?"

And then, one day when Einstein is 26 years old, he is on a bus on his way to work at the patent office when he looks at a giant clock in the center of town. He was traveling on the bus away from this famous clock when he had a thought. He wondered what the clock would look like if the bus was moving at the speed of light. "He said. now wait a minute, if this bus is moving at the speed of light than light from the clock will never reach me. There for the clock will be at rest. The clock will be stationary. And then he said quote 'a storm broke in my mind', these are his exact words, 'a storm broke in my mind' and the very next day he went to his friend, Besso, and said, 'I have solved everything.'"

I understand that time behave differently depending on how fast you go. It has been proven time and time again. If fact, artificial satellites that whip around in space have to account this but I am confused about this example that sparked everything. You see, what if water was pouring from a faucet and youwere underneight it, and let's say you could travel downwards for an unlimited amount of time. (I know that is impossible but for the sake of auguement). Now you turn on the water and you travel downwards looking up and you fall as fast or faster than the water is falling. The water will never reach you but that doesn't mean the water is not falling, right?

Trust me on this, I know I am missing the big picture here. I know I have a lot to learn.