Posts made by Paul Russam

A bit of reference:

http://www.howbigistheworld.com/

Between 87 and 97 I lived in London and shared a few houses with a few people but no one quite like Meg for meeting people she already knew.
Meg is from Darien, Connecticut and went to school in Tennessee (I think). She would repeatedly bump into people from Darien or people she went to school with whilst getting on or off a tube train but the weirdist one was when she was temping at some big office and one day the big boss heard her accent and asked where she came from, the conversation went something like this:
'Where are you from in America?' he asks
'Connecticut' she says
'O I've got a house in Connecticut' he says
'Where abouts?' he asks
'Darien' she says
'Wow, that's weird, that's where my house is' he says
'What street' he asks
'Bla Bla Bla street' she says (Ok I don't actually know where but you get the gist)
'Silence'
'Uhhh.... that's where my house is!' he says.

It turns out that it was the house opposite Meg's mothers that was never occupied!

Meg quite use to this sort of thing was quite unfazed by it but he was just a little shocked by all accounts.

Beautifully said Kristoff.

I remembered the name of the building in London, its called 'The ark' and its by Ralph Erskine, here's a link:
http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/ark/index.htm

This may help
http://www.netcarshow.com/ford/
and this:
http://www.fordvehicles.com/suvs/sporttrac/features/specs/

In London at Hammersmith Roundabout there is a building whose walls pitch out like yours, I can't remember its name but its quite famous. It produced a problem that nobody foresaw, the sound of the traffic bounced off the walls and was reflected back down to the local residents.
If you were to add louvres/fin etc. to break up the smooth reflective suftace it would prevent this problem.

Well done Craig, you well deserve it.

A China Man walks in to a bar with a parrot on his shoulder.
The bar man says "Where'd you get that"?
"China, there's bloody millions of them over there" the parrot replies.

Granted, Your now an East German female shot-put champion

I wish I'd never started smoking 20 years ago.

Granted, under the title:
"Meet the man who gets to wash Slip Knot's Underware"

I wish I had a superpower

Granted but its cleaned by Tracy Emin

I wish I could play the Piano like Jools Holland.

Granted but there's only one toilet per city due to lack of demand.

I wish my boss could plan things properly

My first quick thought it to check the image mode (Image Menu/Mode) it should be RGB Colour.

If its not then change it and check the channels.

Thanks all for the nice comments.

Robert, I know what you mean but this part of the presentation was to show how well the scheme fits in with the existing street whilst someone talks the audience through it, if it went faster then by the time they've mentioned one thing they already beyond the next point they wanted to make.

Apart from all that YOUR RIGHT, its turgid, slow and boring!!. The ability to plan and edit shots is not one of my skills, I tried to find a course here but to no avail, I assume it would be perceived in the film industry as directing.
If anybody has some ideas or knows of an online resource then I'd love to know about it/them

Back to the anim:
Tell you what, take a guess at to which is the new scheme, a gift box of 300 spare vertex's to the winner.

Granted, just don't ask where it came from.

I wish the Half-Live Orange Box would come out early.

Granted but the Roman empire never disintegrated and the whole world speaks Latin .

I wish I'd bought Microsoft shares in 1977

Granted but the other 2 are password protected requiring you to use 2 of the 3 to get the passwords.

I wish I had an A1 touch sensitive 3D screen and SketchUp v15

Been busy on this project for a while, Knocked out an animation for a presentation and thought I'd upload it to Youtube:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=kQYk7Eb9QWk

The original is 1024x768 and comes in at 1.75Gb

It was exported from SU as TIFF's at 2048x1536 with the result of ~7400 frames coming in at a rather heavy 86Gb.
The export failed twice when the camera tried to pass through a wall and a tree (me bad) otherwise it went perfectly.
I was getting between ~2 and ~3.5 frames per minute, which I thought was good considering the size of the model (21Mb) and the complexity of the scene.

I've had an iPhone for about 2 weeks now (Xmas pressy from me to me) and I'm loving it.

The screen uses a weird form of touch sensitivity that makes use of the heat from your fingers, if you use a stylus it will not work, even a fingernail fails to operate the screen! This way it cannot be accidentally operated whilst in your pocket but.... it also means that if you have even moderately manicured nails(my wife) they get in the way and it doesn't work!

It took me a while to get used to the keyboard but once you realise that you can keep your finger down and move around to get the right key its easy.

As of the 15th there's a new firmware update(1.1.3) that introduces some new stuff:
Multiple SMS recipients
Home screen icon rearranging
Multipage home screen(s)
Bookmark web pages to the home screen
Pseudo GPS using the cell towers in Google maps
There's more but this is the fun stuff for me.

I'm no PC or Mac fanboy but I've come to the conclusion that Microsoft are good at the big ideas but they're rough around the edges whilst Apple are good at making the small stuff work.
What I mean by this is that there's nothing really revolutionary in the iPhone but its a pleasurable thing to hold and use, just the way the thing scrolls or zooms in will bring a smile to someone's face.
When I was in London I wandered into the Apple store on Regent Street. Having worked with PR1ME's, VAX's and PC's for 20+ years it was (almost) a revelation to come across such a cohesive experience. I almost bought an iMac just for the sake of it but realised that I wouldn't be allowed to live long enough to take it out the box

Big Country: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Country
Runrig: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runrig
Not too sure about the head count though

What about
The Who ?
Pink Floyd ?