Here it is Once Again

Here it is once again (as you may have realised from the title); tomorrow is, in the  Catholic church, "Fat Tuesday," making the day after Ash Wednesday, making it Lent. And this Lent, for the first time, I've decided to give up all computers. Totally. And utterly. And completely. As you might be able to tell, it won't be easy. But I am determined...kind of. So this will be a test of your powers of Bloggerism. Will all...two of you be able to return to regular commenting on my blog after fifty-odd days? Hester? MeshWeaver? You are the only two of my fourteen ex-followers who survived last Lent. And I promise, after Easter, I will look and comment on all your posts you posted in my absense. See you after Easter!!

How to Play Journey of the Sorceror on Piano

I know I ussaly have short, concise, and descriptive (Julian Smith reference) post titles, but I'm hoping that this blog will appear when one Googles that very phrase (Apologies, Yahoo!).

Let me just begin by saying that "Journey of the Sorcerer" is my favorite theme music of all time, and that goes nicely with the fact that it's the theme (though not originally) of my favorite franchise of all time: The H2G2, or The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

I believe this is an easy-to-follow link and an easy-to-download .pdf file, but tell me if it's not...

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/113260082/Journey-of-the-Sorcerer-for-piano"]Journey

Also, remember that I wrote it out like it was using all the "middle" keys, but it's precisely one octave higher in real life. And I figured it out by myself, so it may not be perfect...but since I've got it permanently stuck in my head, you can be pretty sure I know a thing or two about this theme.

New Stuf!

I am so psyched about the new "speaker" capability in Blender 2.6 alpha 1! It is so awesome, and I cannot tell you how valuable it will be in The H2G2 in LEGO. I will now have to do no sound editing (apart from cutting out the bits where he takes the Lord's name in vain and uses words like-gasp-Belgium!

Hi there!

Just checking up and saying hi...at a friend's house; he's playing MineCraft and I'm blogging. Obviously. BTW, I just rendered a twelve-second long animation for the intro to the H2G2-5. It's not in the movie, but it's very funny, if I do say so myself. But I got a question for you guys. It's 200 frames long, and I rendered it at 23.98 fps. But when I watch it in QuickTime, it cuts some of it out. Any advice?

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeell... (Read the below post first!)

After a night spent pizza-ing and Hitchhiker-ing, and a 12:00-6:30 spent talking and Simpson-ing, all the Sea Scouts slowly drifted to bed, but not me! I stayed awake, and, having nothing to do awake, I turned to what I usually turn to in my time of need: The computer. Morespecifically, my sister's red Dell laptop, which has been through thick and thin with me: From the deserts of Nevada to the deserts of Utah to the deserts of Arizona to the frozen deserts of Maine.
     So, yeah, I decided to open Blender 2.54 and build a Pokemon Magnetite like MeshWeaver always does, but it turns out I've gotten a little rusty on my Pokemon stuff since age ten. I still haven't gotten around to selling my cards on eBay. So I decided, since animating the H2G2-5 always gets me irritable, to make Marvin. not LEGO Marvin, not even the cute, white plastic Marvin we (meaning I) all know from the 2005 movie, but the real, classic 1981 BBC TV series Marvin. Half an hour later, he's finished.



I took this...



...And turned it into this!

So, yeah, just wanted to convey to you that boredom is the best motivator.

Aych! (Eye-ch)

Would anyone like to guess who, what, when, where, and why, I am? The Who is three Sea Scouts, one of them my sister, the What is a red Dell laptop and an iota of Wi-Fi, the When is 5:40 AM on January fifteenth, 2012, the Where is the Maine Maritime Museum, the most haunted place in Southern Maine, and the Why is because it's so damn fun!!!
     Yes, it's true, we were meant to go to bed at 2:00 AM, but after watching The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (by a curious coincidence) and Crossroads, we wanted more. More! So we snuck onto YouTube and watched The Simpsons Movie. When that was finished, it was 4:00, and we had no intentions of going to sleep (except one of us, who had to go to college in the morning), so we broke out the laptops, the FaceBook, the AngryBirds, the PenguinSlash, and the Google Chrome! And I'm hoping to go around the Interwebs recruting followers after I'm done posting. So...yeah. I'm done posting.

InterWebs!!

My dad and I finally got the Internet up and working on our Windows Vista®, so I'll be able to post a lot more than I have been. This is the first step of re-building a thriving blog!