past sweepstakes win feb.2008

The picture is of a 99 schnapps recipe magnet. The magnet came in the mail one day. It is a nice looking magnet. I have not put it on the refrigerator or anywhere else, I just keep it in the envelope it came in. I think it would get ruined on the refrigerator or somewhere else.

The fist gingerbread man I animated

This is the first gingerbread man I animated. I wanted to put my first animation on my blog, but I did not know where the file was on my computer. I checked where I put all my other blender files, but it was not there. I looked in the tmp folder where blender saves files and found it there, but it was not finished. It had 11 frames, but should have had 40 frames. I tried to upload it, but I always got an error when I uploaded the video. So I figured out maybe a video has to have a certain amount of frames to be able to be uploaded.

So that is why it is changed a little. As I said when I put up the last video my first animation was not good. The gingerbread man walked, but he did not walk right. The legs moved back, but they moved back at the same time. The legs did not go one forward and one back like they are suppose to. The arms were not right either. To summarise my first animation was horrible.

So in this short animation I used the original scene and fixed the animation so at least the gingerbread man looks like he is walking. I made the video 50 frames. Looking at my first animation on my computer because I still have the video I think it was only 11 frames. So I did find the original finished file and not some unfinished saved copy like I thought. I guess I messed up the number of frames too. The first animation never had 40 frames. oh well. I used quicktime instead of avi raw which I used the first time. I also tried to make the gingerbread man wave at the end.

prolog programming language

Prolog is another programming language I've tried. I have tried a line or two of sorce code in prolog and that is all. I wanted to learn prolog, but didn't follow threw with learning the language. I want to learn logic programming some day because I have no ideal what logic programming or prolog is or how to use prolog. As I have said before so many programming languages so little time to learn them, at least for me anyway.

perl continued

I have not programmed in perl much, but I downloaded activestateperl which I read about on about.com perl . I tried a few lines of code and that was about all. Two perl distributions and I don't use either Indigoperl or activestate, I like to download a lot of new toys and don't ever use then you could say. I am not sure I want to learn perl, but it does look like it could be fun.

Perl Programming language

I did not know there was a programming language called perl until I saw about.com had a site about the language. About.com had an email course to learn perl so I signed up for the course, but never tried to learn perl. I signed up for the email course twice by the way.

The about.com perl emails are where I heard about indigo perl which is perl, php and apache all in one package. I installed indigoperl on my computer, but could not figure out how to get indigoperl to work. After awhile I got indigoperl to work, but I was not interested in learning perl or php anymore.

I thought indgoperl was not being updated anymore, but I looked at the site and I saw it was recently updated. I think I'll get the new version of indigoperl and use it to learn php and test my website on my computer. I am happy indigoperl is still being updated.

First sweepstakes win of august

Today I had my first sweepstakes win of august. It was an instant win from WD-40 a $50 gas card. It has been awhile since my last instant win and I am glad to have gotten one. I had not won anything this month so I thought august would not be a good month and then I won the $50 dollar gift card. What a great win.

Rock Crawling

I heard about rock crawling from steel dreams a T.V. show about all things steel. Before I saw rock crawling on steel dreams I never new it existed. Some things I like about rock crawling are. I love vehicles with big tires. I would love to be able to buy on of those dune buggy's, I think that is what they are and drive around off road somewhere.

I don't think I'd do good at rock crawling it looks scary. I would be afraid to flip the vehicle over. I think I would not have the Patience for rock crawling either, because the sport looks to me like it takes time. Rock crawling was fun to watch though.

Open Object Rexx

Another programming language I have downloaded and installed on my computer is Open Object Rexx. I found out about rexx from the dictionary of programming languages. I was not sure that I could find a free interpreter for rexx, but some how I found Open Object Rexx.

As usual I got excited and downloaded and installed the interpreter on my computer. I wanted to learn rexx so I download the documentation. I read a little of the documentation and then gave up and have not used rexx since. I'm not sure I have even written a single line of rexx code. So all I can say is I like Open Object rexx because it is free. Maybe I will try using is some day.

The onion

The onion is the funniest website that I read. I have had to stop reading articles because I could not stop laughing. I like reading the sports section of the onion the best. It's always good for a laugh when I need one. I heard about the onion years ago on computer chronicles. I go to the onion once in a while, but I want to start reading it more.

Fortran programming language

Yesterday I downloaded the open watcom FORTRAN 77 compiler. A few years ago I heard about FORTRAN and wanted to download a FORTRAN compiler, but I could not find a free one to use that seemed easy to install except open watcom FORTRAN 77. I did not want to download and install open watcom's FORTRAN compiler at that time though.

A few days ago I saw FORTRAN mentioned on a website and I thought I want to try FORTRAN. I went to the open watcom website and downloaded a new version of the c/c++ and also the FORTRAN 77 compiler and installed both compilers.

Today I went to my favorite online site with free books and went to a FORTRAN tutorial and tried some FORTRAN code. I had a great time writing FORTRAN code. I always love trying out programming languages I have not used before. I don't know if I want to learn FORTRAN, but as I said I am having fun with it now.

Gimgerbread man walking

This is an animation I made using Blender. The animation is of a gingerbread man walking in place. It's from a tutorial in the blender manual. I've done the tutorial before, but the animation did not turn out good. The gingerbread man looked horrible and he did not walk the way he was suppose to.

The first time I tried this tutorial I saved the animation using avi raw. The file was huge about 35MB for 2 seconds of video. This animation is in quicktime format so it's about 3MB for 1 second of animation. I think I did a good job for my second animation.

My goal is to do one new animation a week and put it on this blog. I am not sure I will be able to accomplish that goal, but I will try. Some of the reasons for not accomplishing this goal would be. The animations take a long time to render, this one took 20 minutes for 40 frames. Uploading the clips also might take to long. So I will keep the animations short.

Favorite Pro football team

My favorite pro football team is the San Francisco 49ers. I started liking them when Steve young was there quarterback. Some of my favorite 49ers when I became a fan of the team were Ricky waters, Jerry Rice, and John Taylor who was my favorite player.

Those were the good old days when the 49ers got ten or more wins every year. Its been a few years since they have had ten wins. I love watching 49ers games when ever I get the chance.Last year the 49ers did not do so well, but hopefully this will be a good year. I think the will go 10 and 6 and make the playoffs.

one of my favorite video games

Continuing the football themed posts today I will write about a favorite football video game. I like to play video games, but I have not played one in a while. I am to busy on my computer trying to learn how to make a video game and entering sweepstakes.

As I said I like playing video games although I am not good at playing them. At least I don't think I am good at playing them. Anyway my favorite type of games are sports video games. One of my favorite sports video games was NFL 95 or was it NFL 94 I can't member the exact name.

On kickoffs I liked to kick the ball to the sideline and off the computer opponent so the ball would go out of bounds on the 10 or 5 yard line. On offense I enjoyed playing Mel Gray because he could not be tackled easily if at all and rushing him every time I wold score 100 points in less than a half of football. On dense I liked to bring a linebacker to the line and blitz every down. The linebacker would get to the quarter back every time well almost every time. I always controlled the linebacker.

Another thing I liked to do was block field goals. I would get a fast linebacker and bring him up to the line and when the ball was snapped for the kick blitz and get to the holder. That worked a few times I think.

Of course sports video games were not as hard back then as they are now. I think they are better now thought. They have better graphics and more things to do. I hope to make a sports video game myself someday.

More Notre Dame

One of my favorite books is about the Notre Dame fighting Irish football team. The book is called Shake Down The Thunder: the creation of notre dame football and it is written by murrary sperber.I enjoyed reading Shake Down The Thunder. I loved learning the history of the Notre Dame football team. I also learned somethings about the history of college football. It took me a while to read, but I got it finished. I hope to read it again some day.

I also enjoyed the movie Rudy that came out in 1995 about a player on the Notre Dame football team in the 1970's. Rudy is an inspiring movie and I always felt better after I watched it. It is a feel good movie. I think I can accomplish anything after watching Rudy.