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Fun Stuff => CHATTER => Topic started by: nobo on 14 Nov 2008, 17:08
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There are 7 weeks left til the end of the year. I propose we have a year end goal challenge, like of like IRON WEEK but for the next 7 weeks.
In the next 7 weeks my goals are:
1. Drop under 200 lbs in weight (currently at ~210)
2. Finish both of my projects at work
3. Find a new place to live
4. Figure out how to propose to the gf
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1. sound my urethra until i can fit a .308 round
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1. Start looking for an apartment.
2. Strengthen my relationship with my sort-of girlfriend. That is, remove the sort-of.
3. Ace all my classes.
4. Learn to not suck at double bass.
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1. Get a new job.
2. Get around to getting my X-Men tattoo (this will be a direct result of the new job)
3. Scrape together more spending money for my trip to the US.
4. Hug people who deserve it (So. Easy.)
I was going to say things about getting offered the place in the honours class I applied for for next year but I've submitted my application, there really isn't anything I can do at this point.
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Can you provide a picture of the xmen tattoo design you're thinking bout?
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1. get better grades.
2. find more awesome music.
3. get noticeably stronger.
i can't think of any more.
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Basically this but on my right shoulder (I like symmetry). It's kind of blurry but you get the idea.
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y258/jimmy5times/DSCF0570.jpg)
Also I'm going to add in 5. Lose some weight or start going for long walks or something.
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i want to lose another stone and stop apologising for being a twat because to be honest, i apologise far too much and i could do with being more of a twat. also to stop agreeing to cover for people because i am turning into a doormat at work.
fuck them.
i want new years' day off.
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Once I get finished with all the major assignments (two papers and a 3D modeling assignment, rest should be cake), start actually exercising instead of sitting in front of the computer doing homework. I used to do 100 sit-ups and 50 pushups 3 days a week, but I haven't found time for two months. If I can lose 5 pounds by the end of the year, I'll be pleased. I'll leave the next 20 for New Year's resolutions.
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1: Get my tax done
2: Pay my bills
3: Enrol for that Photography course for next year
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What sort of 3d assignment do you have? Is it an engineering CAD assignment? or something art related?
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finish knitting those wrist warmers i started back in june
get my flat stomach back
paint something on my wall
watch seasons 2-5 of the wire
i won't be able to do much else with my life other than school until i finish exams in december, and then i doubt i'll want to do much in the way of hard work. these will be good enough.
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I'm a game design student, so no CAD. Took a class in high school for that, though. Nah, we gotta do some form of keyframe animation in 3DS Max. He hasn't given out the assignment yet, so I don't really know the details. I don't expect it to be hard, really, just time-consuming.
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I watched my buddy do some work with MAYA and it was very difficult to follow. From what I could understand you guys work with creating surface meshes? or wire frames? something like that? very different from the CAD modeling i do.
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Joe's the expert on this board. Right now we're just working with editable poly's, our teacher warned us against meshes. It's basically an introductory course, but it's an advanced topic anyways. It's kind of like CAD, except we strive for efficiency instead of visual accuracy (lower polygon count while not looking too different from the concept art), and there's less of a focus on symmetry.
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Can you walk me through how you would model something like a human character that is meant to move like a real person?
Would you start with a stick skeleton with joints that move? and then build mass around it?
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I think that's actually what the next assignment is. I've made a model and I've keyframed a skeleton, but never combined the two. Also, 3DS Max isn't really a strong animation tool, Maya and SoftImage XSI are better for that.
Our teacher has been lecturing us on it, though. The newest version of Max lets you create a bipedal skeleton instantly, which you can animate. What our teacher did was throw together a quick human model, skin it (so you can attach the bones) and attach the bones of the skeleton to the appropriate parts of the model, and then use a walking template to animate it, raising steps and rotating the path it followed. You can scale the bones to change the amount of influence they have when animating. He's been modeling for 15 years, so he threw this together in about an hour and a half. He also showed us a script that generated bones for facial animation (normally you have to handplace each one).
But I don't really know enough about that yet. There are quite a few tutorials and things floating around the internet, though.
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Nobo how did you manage to derail your own thread not even a page in?
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I'm going to do...uh...things?
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And I helped!
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Slack off less, finally ask a girl out for drinks?
I don't have goals. I just hit the woodwork.
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(http://www.manuelbieh.de/kram/blog_highfive.jpg)
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Nobo how did you manage to derail your own thread not even a page in?
yeah i suck. i'm a sucker for design work and Dim's project sounded interesting
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My goals are to save money, not go insane, maintain a social life, and not die. That's about it really.
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Become a red belt.
This is actually a really easy goal. I'm setting the bar pretty low for this because I want to relax.
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1. Get making/performing good music and writing fiction.
2. Succeed in moving into this flat.
3. Put muscle on, lose last little bit of flab on my otherwise stupidly skinny body.
4. Grow a metaphorical spine.
5. Not be making money from annoying strangers on the phone.
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I was thinking about this earlier actually, how coincidental!
I think the two main things I want to do are:
Manage my time better. This is an on-going project and it seems to be looking up. I'm very very busy at the moment, which makes me a lot more focused, and I'm also happy which helps too. I have exams in January so I'm going to revise hard for them and get some time off work to let me get enough sleep before them.
Stop bursting into tears when customers are rude to me. This happened again today when I asked a boy for ID to buy a 15 computer game (he was not fifteen) and his dad started shouting that it was him who was buying it (not relevant or true) and that it was unacceptable and blah blah blah. My supervisors all say I was doing the right thing and to take no notice but that doesn't seem to make a difference, I just cry anyway.
Other things are like saving up, letting people know how much I appreciate them and being the goddamn best editor ever. And the best film maker. And basically doing everything as well as I possibly can.
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1) Start going to the gym regularly again
2) Quit smoking (for like the third time)
3) Sort things out with numerous girls
4) Meet someone new
5) Finish that play I've been writing
6) Write next chapter in short story
*Edit: Wait, I've thought of more*
7) Go back to channel 4 for another weeks work experience
8 ) Do more reviews for Audioscribbler.com
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Hmm.
1. Get a B or higher in all classes.
2. Lose 10 pounds and then 10 more until I'm skinny-ish. Around 140.
3. Discover more music.
4. Be helpful in the musical and not get in the way.
5. Be nice and give hugs!
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1) Get somewhere new with this Reason thing, maybe hammer out a decent cover or two, at least.
2) Get into college and get classes lined up.
3) Figure out if I'm going to San Francisco or not.
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1.) Rock my audition
2.) Get my school bills in order
3.) Be prepared for my jury
All attainable, and 1 and 3 have enough overlap. Should work out.
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1) Walk
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1.) Go from second to first as far as physical fitness goes for my class
2.) Maintain my number 1 academic standing in the class
3.) Either commission or actually create a tattoo design for my right side, ribs to ankle. (I know what I want, but I've never done any artwork that ended up as a tattoo, or on a scale that large)
4.) Consolidate my student loans
5.) Find out a way to let my dream girl know that she is the best of all things, without sounding overly creepy.
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1)Spend more time reading
2)Spend more time walking
3)Spend more time sleeping
4)Spend more time chemisty-ing
5)Git moar tyme
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Hand in lots of CV's
Get job
?????
PROFIT!
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1. Apply to grad school
2. Get my school's nomination for a Windgate grant
3. Make at least three more artworks
4. Do well in my classes
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Hit rank 40.
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1. get a job (nearly completely)
2. get another job (not started)
3. keep a sketchbook. Fill it up by march (in progress)
4. dance classes regularly (as of this week i promise)
5. life drawing (tomorrow!)
6. party hard (a given)
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1). Come up with good ideas for things to do in 2009. (Apart from the Finish Degree in March and Get Job that are on the list already)
2). Do well at my current graduationinternship
3). Figure out what ill get for the ladyfriend for christmas
4). Try not to make to much plans for things
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1. Start training for my round Scotland Bike trip - all 1600 miles of it
2. Climb consistently at 6a
3. Improve my Gaelic
4. Actually start my MCDST course and not get distracted by Linux, Mac OS and anything else that's not Windoze based.
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Hmmm
1) Stop doing terrible in school
2) Eat healthier, since I do not do that at all
3) Send Zebra Cakes to Liz
That should be good for now.
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Number three is obviously the most important. Get on it.
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Hooray list threads!
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I should maybe add DO NOT CRAP MY PANTS since I seem to be drinking coke and only eating painkillers and jerky alot.
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That is a fine goal for any man.
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it's more likely all the protein from the jerky will make you incredibly constipated.
advice: be prepared for one hell of a bowel movement sometime in the near future.
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yes, yes, no.
every time i ask this question in a group of people i'm the only person who admits to having crapped her pants and it makes me think everyone i know is just a big fat liar. there's no way i'm the only person in the entire world who has had food poisoning.
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My best friend when I was in grade school shat himself during a basketball game and I think his parents were there.
I cannot imagine how embarrassing this was for him.
Basically what I'm saying is that I hope I never shit myself during sex or nothin.
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i have never pissed myself but i did make my friend in a coffee shop once. i don't remember what exactly i was saying but it was really hilarious and she kept laughing and saying "please stop, you need to stop, i'm going to pee myself" so of course i continued cos i didn't think she was serious. and then she actually did it, and we sort of sat there for a minute or so trying to figure out what exactly had just happened and also how we were going to get her out of there and explain a pee-soaked chair.
i felt sort of guilty about this, but at the same time pretty good about myself on account this served to provide irrefutable evidence that i am incredibly funny.
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I totally peed myself one time when I almost got run over by a bus. I was eight.
Fuck you, roller skates
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Stop bursting into tears when customers are rude to me.
Oh man. Why are so many people dicks when it comes to retail? Unfortunately, you will get used to it. The vast majority of the jerks are people who know they're doing something wrong, it's just them being defensive. Not two weeks ago this lady with gray hair was trying to rent movies on this account for a 22 year old woman. This was not the right person so I asked to see her ID and she said the worst excuse ever "No, I have my sister's ID but not my own WHY" and she was getting increasingly rude so I was finally like "WELL YOU SEE HER MOTHER IN LAW KEEPS TRYING TO RENT ON THIS ACCOUNT." She eventually grabbed my computer -twice- to twist it toward her so I said I'm not renting to you no matter what now, so you need to leave. I wasn't going to rent to her anyway considering that I guess would be a form of identity theft to us also she had her own account where she was banned from the store for being a jerky mcasshole. I told my boss about all the "fuck you!" and "fuck this store!" and how it's "just me and that other lady [the manager is the other lady, I've been there three years] who give her fucking problems". Now I have permission to call the police if she ever steps foot into my store again! So yay!
So really that was kind of bloggy, but my point is that maybe like me you'll eventually learn to enjoy it when someone is a dickface to you, especially when it bites them in the ass. It also helps that we have a "stupid customer stories" account so we can vent.
My goal is to not get irrationally angry at the boy.
Watch as many new releases as I can so I'm not all "NURR I DUNNO" when a customer asks me about it
Cook real food sometimes
do my laundry more than once a month
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I'll join the book goal, haven't read anything not art-history related in months... Which leads me to my second goal: continue reading art history related stuff for the next couple of weeks and do my very best on the last exam.
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1. I declined 'cos I decided that I
2. do not believe in the new year anymore
3. and you must confess that at times like these
4. hopefulness is tantamount to hopelessness, and I accept that it's time for a change but not in
5. places like this with people like these.
In seriousness I do not really have any year end goals, since I have managed to both complete uni and get a real job in the last few weeks so I feel like that gives me plenty of time to do nothing with for the rest of the year. I guess I do have to come up with a good one-year-anniversary thing for my girlfriend, since we met on new years.
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1. Pass all my exams
2. Actually go to class [this will probably help with #1]
3. Go out and buy Christmas presents
4. Find a dude with just a little bit of potential -_-
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4. Find a dude with just a little bit of potential -_-
I have raw potential, like the Hindenburg.
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1. Start going to the gym (this will be helped by encouraging my friend to encourage me!)
2. Lose more wieght, hopefully at least another half a stone before the new year
3. Actually do some work on my dissertation (including going to see my tutor more)
4. Try to figure out what to do with my life after I graduate (by going to a career fair or two...)
5. Read some more of a series I started over summer and then had to take a break from because of uni work and the lack of the series in my uni library.
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1. Edit my book(s)
2. Sift through possibly publishers who might be interested in my book(s).
3. Finally admit to myself that my book(s) is/are a book(s) and not "stories". Ugh.
4. Try to help my boyfriend to stop being such a little kid and grow up a little.
5. Read less yaoi/manga/comics and more actual books.
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1. Edit my book(s)
2. Sift through possibly publishers who might be interested in my book(s).
3. Finally admit to myself that my book(s) is/are a book(s) and not "stories". Ugh.
4. Try to help my boyfriend to stop being such a little kid and grow up a little.
Theese four made me check out your profile because, for a moment, there was a possibility that you were my girlfriend.
Sheesh...
Anyhow, while I'm at it:
1. finish the 5th chapter and get on with The book
2. manage to get an a or b out of all of my classes
3. fix my grammar
4. survive the crysis
5. learn english
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Hmm, probably just two for me:
1. Survive fucking Thanksgiving/Christmas.
2. Have cash in the bank after Thanksgiving/Christmas.
...which I guess number 2 would be a subsection of number 1. Oh well.
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Theese four made me check out your profile because, for a moment, there was a possibility that you were my girlfriend.
Sheesh...
Oh man, that could have been kinda creepy.
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Oh man, that could have been kinda creepy.
Well, she DID smile funny when I mentioned "this extremely awesome web comic I found"...