Here’s a rendering I did of the army robot I modeled on the weekend. It turned out okay, but I really need to try some other rendering engines to see how well they work. I used Indigo again for these, but I have been reading about alternatives and want to try them all. Unfortunately I will have to wait, because I have plenty of work to do this week.

I have to redo some drawings for the Bents section this morning, then carry on with laying out the rest of the text. I had a chat with James last night, and he’s decided to change some text already. We knew there was going to be corrections, but I had no idea how many or how large they would be. I asked that he keep them all until the end so I can finish Bents, then move on to correcting his text for P&B while he and the students edit the Bents section.

I am trying to look at work differently these days, since I’m now paid on an hourly basis. Before when changes and corrections needed to be made it was pushing back my deadline, but not increasing my peycheque. Now if he needs those things I’m trying to view it as a chance for longer employment. I enjoy working from home and not having to wear pants or talk to jerks all day, so I shouldn’t get pissed when I have to spend hours fixing things, right? It’s just allowing me more chance to get out of the hole I’m in, and that’s exactly what I need. In fact, maybe I should sabotage the entire project!! Mwa Ha Ha!! Then maybe I can make money as well as get out of the hole – it would feel good to contribute.

I looked into 3d printing of Sketchup models again last night. I thought if it wasn’t too expensive I might try and get one done, but it looks like you still need to do a lot of work to prepare your models for printing before you can just get them printed. Again, I doubt I’ll have time for this anytime soon, so it will have to wait.

I want to take carving classes. I would love to carve little robot guys out of wood and add little led lights, then sell them to people as lame as me who would think they are cool. Although I often doubt there is anyone as lame as me out there.