I won 35 prizes in 2008

I won 35 prizes in 2008, more prizes than I ever dreamed I'd win this year. And I won 9 prizes last year so the total number of prizes I have won is 44 for 2007/2008. I can't wait to see what sweepstakes prizes I win next year. See you in 2009.

Make Human

On the wings 3d forum I found a link to a program called Make Human. Make Human allows you to easily make a 3d model of a human. I got very excited when I saw the make human website and could not wait to try the program, but I did not have time to downloaded make human the first time I went to the website.

A couple days ago I went to the make human website and downloaded the make human program. The download took about an hour and a half on my slow Internet connection, but I got it downloaded and installed on my computer. I tried using make human, but was totally confused as to how to use the program so I downloaded the documentation from the website and have been reading it for the past few days.

Here is an article about make human on blender nation.

Cool chess websites

Yesterday I read a post on lifehacker about chess that had some links to chess websites. As I have mentioned before on this blog I want to learn chess. But unfortunately I have not made much progress on that goal. I have not even finished the wiki book I got on chess yet because I stopped reading it awhile ago.

The lifehacker post got me excited about learning chess. The post had 3 links to chess websites, but I have only visited the flash chess website so far and it looks great. I want to play a lot of chess on flash chess so I can get good at the game.

Past win Gelaskins laptop cover

This is the Gelaskins 13" laptop cover I won in may. I don't know what else to write so I will just write that it's a nice prize. Also I had never heard of laptop covers before I entered the sweepstakes.

Past win, Book

I won the book fast profits in hard times in may of this year from a daily entry sweepstakes. It just came in the mail one day, what a surprise. I have not read the book yet, I hope to read it someday thought. I love reading books.

Bad website design

I can't think of anything else to write about to day so I'll write about Web Pages That Suck another website I got from about.com. It's a website I want to read, but I always forget to read it.

I don't have much to write about web pages that suck other then to say I want to start reading the site regularly and it looks cool. I also hope to have my website featured on web pages that suck someday.

Human Anatomy

One thing I want to learn more about is human anatomy. I like computers and learning how they work, but I think anatomy is even more interesting. I have thought about looking on the web for a anatomy website, but I never got around to it. Today is my lucky day because I read a post on make blog about an anatomy website called Think Anatomy. I hope to learn a lot from the website.

Leaning anatomy seems like a huge challenge and I don't know if I can learn that much about anatomy, but I will try.

Not doing enought programming

I feel I have not been doing enough programming and that frustrates me. As I have mentioned before I want to put up a website, but I have not been doing much programming lately, because I have been doing other things online like reading emails and RSS feeds.

So I want to cut down on the amount of emails I get and hopefully that will give me more time to learn how to program and work on a website. I also want to use that extra time to make 3D models and work with gimp.

Back to programming. I have been doing it for a few years now and I never seem to progress that much. I mean I have never designed my own program and that is something I want to eventually do. But maybe with a lot of practice I can get better I don't know.

Animation meat update

I just want to write about animation meat again today. In my earlier post about animation meat I said I wanted to do some animation tutorials on the site, but after I wrote about animation meat on my blog I looked at the site again and I did not find the tutorials I wanted to do. I did not look at the website close enough before I decided I wanted to do the animation tutorials. The tutorials probably have not been available for awhile.

I was disappointed when I saw the animation tutorials I wanted to do were no longer on animation meat and I wish I would have download them when the were available, but I got over it. I still want to lean how to draw animation thought.

I still draw every day and I still think I am not very good at drawing, but I keep drawing anyway.

Wow, I have written over 220 posts

Today I just want to congratulate myself for writing over two hundred twenty posts. When I started this blog I never thought I would be able to find ideas for that many posts. The posts may not be that good, but I keep posting and that is all that matters. I only have one hundred forty posts to go to reach my goal of posting on my blog every day for a year. I hope I make my goal.

3M instant win

Today I won another race day credential holder from the 3M performance driven instant win game. That makes 3 race day credential holders that I have won from the 3M performance driven instant win sweepstakes. I got a win in December Yay!!

Past win, One Missed call DVD

This is the One Missed call DVD I won all the way back in may of this year. May was a great month, I won 8 times in may, what great memories. I have not watched the DVD yet although someday I'm sure I will get around to it.

Past win, Mad Money DVD

This is the Mad money DVD I won in June. I have not watched the DVD yet, but I hope to watch it someday.

Leopard Programming langauge

I don't have much to write about leopard, but I will write about it anyway. I thought I had mentioned all the programming languages I have tried, but I forgot about leopard. I can't remember using leopard, I just downloaded the compiler that's all.

TCl programming language

I read an article on Dr. Dobb's and it mentioned the Tcl programming language. I think I have heard of Tcl before, but I have never wanted to try it, well now I want to insall Tcl on my computer and write some code in it. I am not sure why I want to try Tcl, I just need to.

AutoHotKey programming langauge

yesterday I read a post on lifehacker about which programming language to learn first and I saw a comment by Gina Trapani about autoHotKey. She also put a link in her comment to a autohotkey tutorial that I want to try. I don't know what I can do with the language, I just want to try the tutorial.

Scratch programming language

I first heard about scratch when it was kim komando's cool site of the day a few years ago, I think. So I went to the scratch website for a few minutes and wanted to download and install scratch on my computer, but I didn't.

A few days ago I read a post on make blog about a game someone made with scratch. I think it would be interesting to try scratch, but I am not sure if I ever will because I have other programming languages I want to learn first.

Wings 3d

Yesterday I was going thought my bookmarks and I found a blog called Linux which has a bunch of links to free programs.

On the blog there was a link to a program I had never heard of before called wings 3d. When I saw the website for wings 3d I thought wow another 3d animation program. I looked around the website a bit and then downloaded wings 3d and installed it on my computer.

I launched the program to see what it was like and it looks like it might be fun to use, but I have no idea how to use wings 3d or exactly what I can make with it.

I want to download the user manual an try some of the tutorials. I hope I will be able to use wings 3d to create something to post on my blog.

Rubik's cube

Yesterday I read a post on about.com 20th century about the the rubik's cube. I also went to the rubik's cube website. After reading the post and going to the website I remembered that I have a rubik's cube and thought I should try and solve the puzzle. But there was only one problem I did not know where my cube was so I went looking for it. I found it today.

I don't know how many years I have had that cube, but it has been awhile. I have tried to solve the puzzle in the past, but I did not try that hard. So now I want to put in some effort and solve the puzzle. It does not matter how long it takes me I just want to keep working at it.

Past win, Greg the bunny dvd

This is the greg the bunny dvd I won in June. The sweepstakes was a daily entry sweepstakes.

I had not heard of greg the bunny before I stared entering the sweepstakes for the greg the bunny dvd, but I entered the sweepstakes anyway. I have not watched the dvd yet, but I want to.

CameSpace

I read a post on make magazines blog about camSpace a program that allows you to use a web cam to play video games. I have not used cameSpace yet so I am not sure if my web cam will work. I am not sure if my web cam will work because my web cam is also my digital camera.

To make my digital camera into a web cam all I need to do is screw in a part to the bottom of my camera. The part allows my camera to sit on my computer or any flat surface. I hope my web cam works because cameSpace sure seems like it would be fun.

Game studio

On about.com c/c++ David Bolton has a post about a program called game studio. The program is used for developing video games. I want to try the program, but have not download it yet. I hope to download the free version of game studio soon.

I always write that I want to create video games, but I never think about what kind of video games I want to make, plus I have not even made a video game yet unless I count a simple game I made with blender. I need to make a video game.

A flash game tutorial I want to complete

I read this ars technica article about Kongregate Labs having a tutorial showing how to make a game in flash. I thought great I want to do the tutorial, but I don't have flash so I was disappointed until I read in the article about open source tools to do the tutorial.

I can't wait to do the flash tutorial because I have never done any flash. I am also anxious to see if I can get all the tools to do the tutorial set up right. I'll just have to do the tutorial and hope everything works.

Some perl websites

Yesterday I looked through my Perl bookmarks folder so today I want to write about some Perl links I found. So here I go. Oh yeah I originally got most if not all of the websites from about.com perl.

I found an article about developing games in Perl from ars technica. I forgot about the article until I found it yesterday. I probably was excited when I first bookmarked this article, but sadly I have not made a game in Perl.

Some other websites I have bookmarked that I think are interesting are perl name script generator, Graphical vi-Vim cheat sheet, perlMonks and Perl.org. I wish I would have learned Perl, but I didn't, Oh well.

Goal #15 Browser Bookmarks

I want to clean out my bookmarks because I have way to many. It seems like I have bookmarked every website I have ever been to. I bookmark a lot of sites because I think someday I might need the information on a website.

That system of bookmarking websites does not work so well for me. I have so many bookmarks I don't know what websites I have bookmarked. I bookmark a website and never go back to it because there are just to many bookmarks. I put the bookmarks in folders, but that does not help either.

SO I want to look thought all of my bookmarks and the websites I like I want to put on my blog, either write a post about the website or put a link to it in favorite sites.

The Rdtrocomputing Museum

I've been cleaning out my browser favorites today and I found a website I like. I knew I had the website bookmarked, but I always forget about it. Anyway the websites name is The Retrocomputing Museum.

About.com python had a link to an article on Linux Journal called Why Python and in the article there is a link to the Retrocomputing Museum, that is how I found the retrocomputing museum.

The retrocomputing museum is one of my favorite sites because of all the old programming languages it has. I just love programming languages. One of my favorite languages on the site is INTERCAL. I have not written any source code in INTERCAL, but some day I want to give it a try. The website also has some interesting articles that I want to read eventually.

C++ scripting language

In doctor Dobb's report there was a link to a post written by Christopher Diggins on Dr. Dobb's Code Talk about C++ script. When I saw the post I thought wow someone made a C++ scripting language cool, I want to try C++ script. Maybe some day I will get around to trying C++ script.

Bedroom Wall Posters

I read a post on about.com exotic cars written by Kristen Hall-Geisler called Bedrom exotics. The article talks a little bit about wall posters, that post gave me the idea to write about some of the bedroom wall posters I had.

I had a couple of posters of Ferrari's and Lamborghini's. I can't remember what models the cars were.

The sports posters are the ones I remember the best. I had a few posters of basketball players, Chris Webber when he was with the golden state warriors, Charles Barkley when he was with the Phoenix suns, two posters of Michael Jordan one poster was regular sized, but the other poster could almost cover my bedroom door it must have been 3 or 4 feet long.

I had a few wall posters of football players. One was Joe Montana when he was with the Kansas city chiefs and the other poster was of Troy Aikman of the Dallas Cowboys.

I don't have bedroom wall posters anymore. I am not sure why I took down all my posters, but I did. Maybe someday I will hang the posters back up, or even buy some new posters.

Reading

I read two articles about speed reading so I want to write about reading today. The fist article Speed Read is from wired by Emily Saso and the second article is from wiseBread and is written by Lindsey Knerl it's a review of the book The complete idiot's guide to speed reading.

When I was younger I didn't read a books for pleasure, I read books because they were school assignments. I probably finished the reading assignments, but I am sure I disliked reading those books and would rather have been watching T.V or playing video games

I did read sports Illustrated and the sports section of the news paper, but I wish I would have also read fiction and non fiction so I could learn about something other than sports.

It was about a decade ago when I started reading books for pleasure. I am still not a fast reader and I need to look up big words in the dictionary, but now I enjoy reading.

One problem I had with reading was I thought I had to remember every word in a sentence and I read very slow for awhile. Now I don't worry about remembering everything and that works much better.

I still read books although now I do most of my reading on my computer. I read blogs and websites and also some books that I download as PDF's.

Small basic programming language

I read an article on Digg about the small basic programming language for windows. Small basic looks like fun and I want to try it, but I have not had time to use it. I wanted to write about small basic on my blog so I remember to try small basic otherwise I might forget about it.

Commodore Basic programming language

A couple of days ago I saw a post on lifehacker by Jackson West about commodore basic. I want to try commodore basic, but I have not installed it on my computer yet. I am not sure if I will be able to make anything interesting once I do download and install it, but I will try commodore basic anyway because I like trying different programming languages.