" Wedge" will be my next animated short film. It will be around 3 minutes long and will, if things go well, feature a soundtrack by my good friend Mauricio Tinoco. This is the project I was working on when I decided to make " Jose’s Dinner" I came up with the idea for “Wedge” in March of this year and I hope to have it done by the end of this year, although I may be able to finish earlier or it may take longer. I really want to do this one well and take the time to make good textures and as good an animation as I can. Here’s to " Wedge"!

My latest attempt at computer animation is called, Shrodinger’s Cat. Check it out!

I was recently in a hotel room with my wife and her brother and sister. We both have the exact same acer computer - the Acer Aspire 3680-2022. I have Ubuntu on mine and he has Windows Vista. We bought them both at the same time. So this is IDENTICAL equipment. And in the hotel room he could not get a wireless signal while I was able to get a nice sustained signal the entire time. It’s not what Microsoft wants to hear, but in this case Ubuntu was BETTER on wireless than Windows!! That’s right - Linux IS ready for the desktop NOW! Not next year - now!

and I’m happy to say that today I got 35 views on " Jose’s Dinner" too bad no one’s leaving comments. But perhaps most of my viewers are not from the vimeo community.

Often the biggest gripe people have about CDs is that they are two or three hit singles packaged with a bunch of crap to justify selling it to you for $12 or more. I’ve felt that way many, many times. The phenomenon is a large part of the reason behind models like iTunes. In fact, the record companies STILL don’t get it - that’s why they offer you a discount if you buy the whole album vs the singles. One day they’ll learn that artists should only release their good songs. People will buy them a la carte.

" Wikipedian Protester" from the great mind behind xkcd.

Every time politicians speak, I want to question their numbers, to force them to quantify where it came from. No one has the balls to do this out there other than Colbert and John Stewart who will play back to back quotes of politicians contradicting their selves. Seriously, does the rest of the news industry work for the Ministry of Truth?

I don’t like posting too many videos because they could be removed at any time, leaving this post worthless. However, here are some neat cartoons I found. The first one, “Wanted”, I found because it was featured in issue #92 of 3D World. It was the final project of some German film students. It took them 6 months to complete.

“Bath Time” is a cute CG short I found on youtube after watching “Wanted”:

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System76, which sells customized Ubuntu laptops allows you to write in an get a free set of “Powered by Ubuntu” stickers. Thanks for offering this service! It was annoying me that my computer said it was perfect for Windows Vista Basic, when it’s running Ubuntu! So, I now have my Ubuntu stickers.

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The good news is that it looks slicker. That bad news is that I no have no idea where the heck anything is!

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