A long weekend, but some really, really cool stuff happening. Some little
stuff first:
- In case I didn’t mention it, I got my ear pierced again the day before
Valentines day. My left one and that is the second ring in it. It is healing
just fine.
- According to my
software the 401st weblog entry of mine in this log.
- I got to see
Kimiko teaching at the Dojo on Friday, she was giving out push-ups and
generally kicking ass and getting respect. Mad props to the lil’ bite with the
big bark! (look at me, all urban)
We got to move
Flagg into his new place. He lives about 9 blocks or so from
Tatsumi right now, still in my town but far enough away that he feels like
he is on his own now (hi honey!). A number of people who like being nice to him
for reasons I can’t fathom showed up and cleaned his new place, his room at
Tatsumis’ and her kitchen. We moved stuff from storage and got the refrigerator
from Tatsumis’ basement up to her kitchen to replace her dying one. She also
moved her bedroom.
The big news is that we had an opportunity (thanks to Tatsumi! She is
amazing!) to make an investment in the company and we took it. We ordered
two machines from
Dell, one that will become my workstation and one that will be handling the
majority of our 3D and DV rendering. The A/V machine has a DVD+RW, analog and
digital video capture ability and can do video encoding as well as rendering the
animations. If it blinks, flashes or makes noise we will be rendering it on that
box.
The machines are
Dimension 8200 based boxes but we customized ’em heavily, running a
Pentium 4 at 1.8 Ghz with
RDRAM. This will be a serious upgrade for me, my primary machine is still a
Pentium III at 500 Mhz. So this is going to be sweet. I will put a GeForce 4
in sometime soon and then all will be well – super frosty. And yes, I have very
good reasons for not going with an AMD processor.
We will have a render farm of 4
Celeron machines at around 600 Mhz to help out as well and for general use
as workstations. These are older machines we have here that we will be putting
into services and reloading as the two new boxes take up a lot of the strain of
day to day work for me. All of our machines will soon be running
Windows XP Professional.
Anyway, I’ll post more info on the emerging state of the systems here as I
get the chance.
Time to sleep now, but for your final thought here is the "A
to Z of Britney"!