Nothing special, just that I am back to school after more than a decade, in the same university as before (IAUS) and for a M.Sc. Eng. in Mechatronics. It is in the same direction I headed before, so most of my work will be the same. Just thought to update everybody about this.
Paymaan.
Back in the 90’s, One of my hobbies was to create 3D models and 3D animations, it was the latest trend and well I really liked it.
I believe I started with software like Real3D and Imagine, maybe even a little of TurboSilver. Computers were slow and It would take a lot to render quality images to make acceptable animation, but the result was stunning and I could take the pain of waiting for it to render for hours even days. I guess also the habit of me never turning my computers off started there, My Amiga was always working and rendering so I didn’t turn it off, and then I never turned any other computers of mine off, they work year around, and now that there are messengers and web2 apps etc. around, there is always a reason to keep it on 🙂
Back then I made a few demo animations, a leather sofa model (which really got attention from around) and a really successful TV commercial for a giant supermarket chain. I also used 3D software to cover my non-creativity. I am really not a creative person I guess, and maybe that is the reason I never entered music market. I draw sketches, a lot of them, and I am good at designing them, even for a few years I draw Manga, but it wasn’t artistic at all. So I used 3D imaging software to create the graphics I needed.
So I believe there is a fine line between creative drawing and composing and even film making and technical versions of these. I almost design and draw and paint and illustrate and direct all graphics and art I need for my web design work (or whatever else, even designing graphics on my PCBs) but never considered them artistic.
And after everybody rushed in the 3D animation market, I jumped to another hobby, say first university and coding and the rest is history. Technology changed and I didn’t like any of the 3D software anymore. I felt lost in them. complex stupid UI’s with a ton of unusual things to learn every time you touch a software, and thousands to pay for each. I stayed on designing embedded hardware, crafts, web sites etc. etc.
Then I have a lot of time spending on social networks, and specially after my heart attack, I feel to create more. more than 2 decades and never entering music world, I feel like doing it. I feel like sketching even more, and I really want to enter and goof around 3D modelling. So, tried a little search for most popular ones, and decided to try Blender. It seems much like Maya, so I would have less problems understanding it, possibly 🙂
Maybe I lose the interest in a few days, or maybe I design my sketches in 3D afterwards, I don’t know. You too just find something and get the hell out of FB and Twitter and Linkedin and whatever else consuming your creative time. Right NOW I mean!
Paymaan.
I loved a piece of text and this is what came out after a few hours of recording and mixing things together. My first (and possibly last) in decades.
So please be kind 🙂
Yes, this seems to be real for all people living in Tehran, Iran of today. Normally I don’t write about politics. But it has happened to me and I think I have to do something about it. Everybody is suspicious this is really happening since two years ago but nobody confirms it directly.
Living in Tehran all my life, I have never smoked, never had any kind of alcoholic beverages. I eat very little red meat and lots of veggies and fish and I have tried to keep my weight down. I do walk, sometimes hike, and do a little exercise too. I want to say I live an almost healthy life. I am 41, and suddenly it happened to me, in the worst shape.
I had a sudden heart attack and one of my coronary arteries was 100% clotted! a full hundred percent! Do you believe somebody can feel absolutely no signs of chest pain when his/her heart is for example 99 percent clotted? I am thinking, I have done a lot of heavy things a few hours before that, and I felt nothing wrong. So I say, my artery has been open at least for a few big percents. Something has happened while I was driving in the city which led to my artery being closed suddenly. Not slowly.
Too many birth defects, times more cancer related sickness, and lots of heart attacks have happened in the past 2 years in Iran, specially after they started disrupting foreign satellite TV channels by installing stationary and mobile rigs disguised as military trucks or flagpoles so tall and huge strongest winds can’t wave!
Nobody is doing anything to stop this. Just because they want people to not see the news, they have turned the whole city into a huge Microwave oven burning insides of us slowly.
I don’t need a proof to this anymore, I am feeling it inside me. I know what they are doing, and it doesn’t matter what they do to me now. I am not scared. I saw my death again and I know they are the reason. Thanks God and my hospital and professional Doctor, I am still alive, but what will happen next? what about others, what about our kids?
How long and big their idiocy is going to continue?
Paymaan.
As always, in the news there were some reports about Gorillas having to migrate to higher altitudes to find food, as the globe going warmer everyday.
I thought, well, the atmosphere has captured too much heat and energy, leading to warming. Everybody talks about reducing the heat, by limiting the production, energy consumption and, loss of energy in forms of heat, by making things more efficient.
All good thoughts, but I thought, why don’t we find a way to release more energy into the outer space?! Think about it. All the efforts to reduce heat production have been good but not enough, what if we really design solutions for example to reflect some of Earth heat into the outside? Can it be done? Can we make huge reflectors to redirect some heat towards outside of the Earth atmosphere and so control the global warming?
Please spread the idea, maybe this is a solution to one of the biggest problems of mother nature.
Paymaan.
This is possibly one of the worst weeks in history of computers, first Steve Jobs, and now the more important Denise Ritchie, the father of “C” programming language, which is behind almost every type of serious application and OS, died.
It is absolutely not OK to me that his death didn’t get the attention needed for his importance in changing the world the way it is. He is much more important than almost any other person in the computer industry.
Without him, none of OSes and Applications could even exist. Even many other computer languages are made possible by C language. If it wasn’t there, most other software didn’t exist at all. May he rest in peace, and we remember him as a legend.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie
Paymaan.
RIP Steve Jobs Apple CEO and Co-Founder, PIXAR
I have never used an Apple computer yet except for emulations like ShapeShifter back on old Amiga days, We Amiga users were always in competition with Apple users, arguing etc. etc., But just like Amiga’s visionaries like the Jay Miner, Steve Jobs was a great visionary, a gigantically professional CEO and somebody who changed the world we live so hard.
Obviously, his products are far far better than Windows PCs and anything Microsoft based. and I doubt for sure Owners of Microsoft ever get such respect when passing, you know who I mean.
He died of cancer Yesterday 5th OCT. 2011, and I pray for him and hope he rests in peace.
This morning I was watching a review on 2 of SOG and CRKT knives, and I thought is it possible to put, plant, or grow some firm plates inside body, right behind skin and flesh, to act as some kind of body armour at least for special organs like kidneys, heart and stomach?
Say something like a metal or composite material implant, or helping small flat bones like scales grow in front of heart, in a way not hurting the normal behavior of body parts?!
It is just an idea, but I guess it can have some futuristic, super soldier things in it…
Paymaan.
About two weeks ago in trip to north province of Mazandaran, under an small waterfall, I noticed this beautiful cricket and his/her mate. They looked so pretty I couldn’t stop taking images and here is 2 of them:
Paymaan.
This is a cheap Scope from Bushnell. Not a bad choice, but as Bushnell makes cheap scopes, you will find it some times uncomfortable. The reticle spins and you need to make adjustments, Overall, If I want to buy something this time, I would go for a red dot or holographic scope instead.
At about $120, I guess there are lots of better choices. This one is illuminated in green and red, but I guess an ordinary 4×32 does much better.
Paymaan.
