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I’ve been having a hard time working on personal projects the past few days.  This is how I feel:

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This is my Spore creature, Frank.  As you can see, he has a very large suctoped to help him get around.  Watch him dance here.

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I read this article here the other day about future technology as predicted by Ray Kurzweil. It had some really interesting items to discuss.  Highlights include:

Within 10 years, Dr. Kurzweil explained, there will be a drug that lets you eat whatever you want without gaining weight.
Solar power will be cost-competitive with fossil fuels in […]

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Lately, I’ve being wondering through the lands of Hyboria in Age of Conan.  It’s been pretty fun hacking and slashing with Jigglybits, my Dark Templar.  On my latest adventure, I ran into a soldier with no pants:

Poor Balthas, he has no pants! I’ve been playing for a about a week now and it’s pretty fun.  […]

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That is one big burrito.  I must find the place that makes this burrito.

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Today was a pretty big day:
 
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The auto industry puzzles me. Over the last 3-4 decades, cars have remained relatively the same. You could take someone from 50 years ago, teleport them to the present day, show him a car, and he would probably say, “Yep, that’s a car.” Sure, cars have fancy gadgets like MP3 players, GPS […]

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So apparently, the plastic that my water bottles are made out of, called polycarbonate plastic (not to be confused with the carbonite that encases Han Solo) contains a chemical called bisphenol A.  A quick search on bisphenol A reveals such lovely facts as “it can act as a synthetic estrogen” and it is an […]

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Has it really been over a month already since my last post? Work is keeping me busy. A job in the CG industry is like no other job out there. Whenever I tell people what I do, their eyes light up and they want to know more. When I get home […]

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