I ahve IMax Tix for Wed night. My daughter saw it on Saturday. She's 24 and she was terrified. This isn't your Adam West type Batman, and Heath Ledger ain't no Ceasar Romero. She thought it was great, but SCARRRRY!!!!

@remus said:

Actually, a study has recently shown that the skin cells liberated from the slappes face significantly contribute to global warming

But if we could somehow "Harness" that energy . . ..

Can I get in on this?

The dog food diet

I was buying Oscar a large bag of Purina Dog Chow at Wal-Mart and was about to check out. A woman behind me asked if I had a dog. What did she think I had, an elephant?

Anyway, being my usual jerk, I told her that no, I didn't have a dog, and that I was starting the Purina Diet again, although I probably shouldn't, because I'd ended up in the hospital last time, but that I had lost 50 pounds before and wanted to give it another try, even though I had awakened in an intensive care ward with IVs in both arms.

I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet, and the way that it works is to load your pants pockets with Purina nuggets, then simply eat one or two whenever you feel hungry. The food is nutritionally complete, and it's the only diet that has ever worked for me.

By this time, practically everyone in the line was listening. The woman asked if I ended up in intensive care because the dog food poisoned me. I told her no, I stepped off a curb to sniff an Irish setter's butt and a car hit us both.

a little Local Humor for you guys. . .

If Three BYU Coeds are standing on top of the Marriott Center (huge sports arena), A blonde, A Brunette and A Redhead, which would fall first?

The Marriott Center

What's the difference between a Univ of UTAH wedding and a BYU wedding?

UTAH wedding.. .the bride is pregnant. .

BYU wedding . .. the bride's mother is pregnant.

actually it does. . .if you turn one gear all the others would turn. ..for no apparent function. . .but it would work.

I can't take credit for the idea. I actually have one of these on my desk. It was 3D epoxy printed and it works!

I usually don't post a lot of stuff in a gallery type situation showing off my work.

1. lack of confidence
2. I'm not at liberty to postmy real work
   but here is just some more silliness from my limited free time. . . .

A worthless gear machine thing-y

Aidan . .. First Books and Now Movies. . ..I expect to see you now on Regis Philbin with your DVD cabinet. .. Like Kramer's Coffee Table Book. Just don't spew Coffee on Kelly.

On second thought. . .go ahead --Spew the Coffee.

Oh well . ..c'est la vie

So does this work as XREF in autocad that it reduces model size and hence adds to speed cuz the model is referenced and not attached or bound, (inserted) into the mother model?

@jon said:

Cool, I love seeing stuff like this done in SU.

Wow Jon . .. you look just like Jerry Seinfeld!!!

thanks. It was inspired by the Laugh-IN wall clock. . ..okay, I am dating myself. ..whre Gary Owens introduces the show, the cast and "Morgel, the Friendly Drelb"!

Anyway. . .it was done in Podium. took about 1/2 hour or so to render.

No big deal . .. just a little bit of playing around

@tim said:

My favourite was a slight misprint -
"Tim is the wisest counsellor"

I know TIM. .. .he's a good guy.

My latest. . .

"You are leader in your Own Way"

which is saying. . ."yeah you're a leader. . .but no one follows you.

Kinda looks that way. I mean Solo's cartoons are amazing but that???? it's funny. . .I thought this was a SketchUP forum.

@unknownuser said:

I don't want to end up completely unemployed, so I will have to write you a PM about which school fired me, David. Being fired from a studio is a "blacklisting" capital crime, you know, even if it is for silly reasons. I'll never get another job as a studio critic again, anywhere. All because I supported SU as a design tool!

Actually I do get it. I have heard reports of Univeristies firing language, philosophy and PolySci Profs for not being PC enuff, or denying tenure for not being in step with that schools line of thinking. . . .Ironic isn't it? Mostly political "conservatives" getting booted from "liberal" instituions. Free thought is good as long as its their "free thought" i guess. I am not ranting about Conservs vs. liberals. . . just pointing out the irony.

All the points mentioned above are excellent--We have no idea what is in Google's Central Aortic chamber (heart? One thing you do have to give them is that they are flush with Cash and whatever they have in mind for SU they can certainly accomplish. I teach SU to design students as well and they all love it so the community grows and grows. I introduced it to my office here in SLC and now we are using it extensively as part of our work flow. It's a great tool.

Lewis . . .what kind of regime were you working under? that is unbelievable. you would think .. you would HOPE that design people would be the most open-minded and innovative thinkers and would realize the no matter what tools one uses. .. .SU, Max, Pencil and Paper of CHisel and Stone. . .DEsign is design is design.> What difference could it make. What a gang of thugs those guys must be.

is this all being done with SUBSMOOTH? If it is I am just blown away. The amount of control and precision amazes me. So far I have been able to make pretty convincing amophous blobs, but that's about it.

this is heartbreaking. Years ago, before Google became the Wal-mart of Cyberspace, and there wre all of these other engines out there. . .Alta Vista, Excite, etc. I htought they were really cool and innovative. Then came the IPO which alas, I didn't get in on but that's beside the point. . .now the shareholders and and the board are pushing this thing and when they bought @Last I knew things were not going to go well for SU. I am totally d'accord with the Biebel--if SU isn't going to develop further go OpenSource (yeah. . like I know what I'm talking about ) or I may have to bite the bullet and go to 3D Max.