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