comedy

I fancy myself as a funny guy, but to be honest my humor can use some work. In Steve Allan's Make 'em laugh he talks about brainwashing yourself with all of the best comedy you can get your hands on.  So I dream about taking 6 month to a year or so to brainwash myself with the best comedy; movies, T.V. shows, Books, magazines anything I can get my hands on. I am sure my sense of humor will improve if I do something like that.

babbling on about making a website

I want to put up a website now more then I ever have in the past even though I still have no idea what type of website I want to create other than to make a personal website, or a blog. I suppose putting up those kinds of websites would be fine, but I already have a blog and my personal life is not that interesting. So I hope I can come up with some different ideas. If I can learn how to design programs and learn some php maybe I can make an interesting site, I don't now.

A few posts ago I wrote about not caring about any of the goals I wrote down. Well I still want to learn xhtml, css, javascript, php, python, blender, gimp, xml, so I can put up a website and make some animations. Maybe I was to hasty in saying I did not care about the goals I set for myself. I'll be back here writing tomorrow.

blah blah blah, more talk about nothing

I want to talk some more about my blog today. First up I wrote a post about posting a 3d model that I've made every day for a year on my blog. I am tossing that goal aside because there is no way I can post a 3d model to my blog every day. I tried to post a 3d model every day and it made using blender no fun because I felt pressure to find a tutorial and make the model and post it to my blog.

Another thing I don't want to do anymore is try to meet the goals that I said I wanted to accomplish. Last year I wrote fifteen posts that listed goals I wanted to accomplish, but I don't care about those goals anymore. Good by goals I wrote down.

Today I looked through some folders that I keep pdf files of books in and came across a pdf file called Berkeley Logo: An introduction and quick reference guide and decide to read it. I managed to get all the examples in the guide to work, Yay for me.

After reading the guide I looked for the blog post I wrote about logo last year. After reading the post I wrote about logo I thought wow that post does not make any sense, I hope I have improved my writing since that logo post.

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.

Goal #14 Learn Synfig

Goal #13 Learn Synfig. I wrote a post about synfig on September 14. In that post on Synfig I wrote that I wanted to do all the tutorials on the synfig website, but I have not used synfig since that post so I have not done any of the tutorials.

So I want to start doing the tutorials on the synfig website so I can create some animations for this blog. I want the animations that I put on my blog to be at least 5 seconds in length.

I know learning how to animate in blender and synfig is a lot of work, but I want to at least attempt to learn how to use both programs.

Goal #13 is Learn how make animations with Blender

My Goal #12 is to make animations and video games with blender. I wrote another post about blender on June 26. I also posted two animations I created using blender. The first on is Ginger bread man walking and the second one is The first gingerbread man I animated.

I know in the Ginger bread man walking post I said I wanted to post a new animation ever week, well I have not met that goal yet, but some day I hope to accomplish that goal.

I want to make animations that are at least 5 seconds long with sound if I can find some sounds. I want the animations to be longer than the first two I have posted on this blog because those two don't show very much animation.

With blender I also want to create small games. I would like to created games that look like games for one of the big game consoles, but I am sure I can only create small games and they might not be very good, but a least I will be making games and that is something I have always wanted to learn how to do.

Goal #12 Learn Gimp

Goal #12 Learn Gimp image manipulation program. I think I have written only one other post about gimp. I know in that other post I said I want to learn gimp, but I want to make learning how to use gimp one of my goals.

Right now I only use gimp to crop photos and also scale them for my blog, but I would like to learn how to do more with gimp. I would like to be an image manipulation whiz, but that will take a lot of work, but who knows maybe I can do it.

Goal #11 Learn XML

I wrote a post about XML on October 3. I know in that post post I said I wanted to learn xml, but now I want to make learning xml one of my goals.

I have not learned any xml since the October 3 post although I have signed up for about.com's xml class, but I have not done any of the lessons yet. I am not sure what I want to use xml for I just know I want to learn xml

Goal #10 Learn Rebol

Goal #10 Learn Rebol. I have written two other posts about rebol. The first post was on June 5 and the second post was on June 6.

I know yesterday I wrote I only wanted to learn 5 programming languages, well make that number 6 because I want to learn rebol. I went to the rebol website yesterday and I got excited about rebol and thought why not make learning to program in rebol one of my goals.

I just cant get over the small size of the rebol download. I thought I would not want to learn rebol because rebol costs money to get everything I could get with something like python for free, but I think the language is interesting and there are two free versions so why not learn it.

Goal #9 Learn HLA

Goal #9 Learn HLA. I have written 3 other posts about hla. The first one was on June 7 the next was on June 8 and the most recent post was on October 28.

I am still trying to finish the book The art of assembly language. I have read the first volume of the book and I'm now going back over the material to make sure I understand everything. I want to finish the art of assembly language programming book and I am sure some day I will.

There you have it, I want to learn hla, php, javascript, squeak and python, programming languages. I think five programming languages are more than enough to try and learn and that number could be to many to learn for me anyway.

The main things I want to focus on are making a website with JavaScript and php and I also want to focus on program design. What I am tyring to say is I want to find out if I can program and if I can't then I want to find some other hobby. I think it is time I get serious or stop programming altogether.

Goal #8 Learn Python

Goal #8 Learn Python. I wrote a post about python on July 1. Reading the July 1 post again it seems like I was excited about learning python. I was probably doing the python tutorial that comes with python at the time. I did not finish the tutorial though, unfortunately.

To Learn python I want to finish the tutorial that comes with the python documentation. I also want to go through the tutorials on about.com python. Wish me luck.

Goal #7 Learn Squeak

I wrote two posts about squeak in June. The first post was on June 3 and the other post was on June 4. Since those two posts I've almost finished the book squeak by example, but as usual I went to fast and did not practice enough so I did not learn as much squeak as I wanted to.

To learn squeak I want to read the book squeak by example again making sure I practice what I have learned. I also want to do some of the tutorials on squeak.org after I finish reading the book.

I also want to use seaside to develop a web application with squeak. I am not sure what type of application I want to develop, but I am sure I will have fun learning seaside.

Goal #6 Learn MySQL

Goal #6 Learn MySQL. I wrote about Mysql in September. I have not made much progress learning mysql since my last mysql post, but I have read three chapters in the book sams teach yourself Sql in 24 hours.

To learn Mysql I want to finish reading sams teach yourself sql in 24 hours and then after I finish the book I want to find some books specifically on Mysql. I hope I will be able to learn mysql so I can use it for my website.

Goal #5 Learn PHP programing langauge

Goal #5 Learn PHP programming language. I wrote a blog post on php in September. I have not learned much php since my last post on php, but I have read a chapter of a book on php called practical php programming. I can't wait to start learning some php.

To learn php I want to read practical php programming and then I want to complete some of the tutorials on about.com php. Then I also want to do some of the php tutorials and look at a lot of php source code at planet source code. I am not sure how good I will be at writing php programs, but if I never try to learn the language I will never know how good I can be.

Goal #4 Learn javascript

Goal #4 Learn javascript. I have already written about javascript once before, but I will write some more about javascript because it is one of my goals to learn the programming language.

As I said in my other javascript post I want to use javascript for animation or games. I would also like to learn some Ajax. I am sure I will come up with a lot more ideas for javascript programs once I learn more about javascript.

To learn javascript I have a book called javascript in an Instant by: Toot Murdock that I want to read. The book is a few years old, but I have it and I want to read it. I also as I said in my other javascript post have signed up for the about.com javascript class. I want to finish the javascript in an Instant book and then do the about.com javascript class.

Since my last javascript post in September I have not made any progress leaning javascript, but now since I think I know html and css better I want to start learning javascript again so I can put some scripts on my website.

Goal #3 Learn CSS

Goal #3 is to learn CSS. I have probably written all this before, but I'll write it again. I have tried to learn css several times, but I did not practice it enough so I would forget it. But now I am determined to learn css.

So to learn css I have signed up for about.com's css class. I also want to learn from the tutorials on css help pile. Css help pile is a site I found on about.com web search and it's a great website. I know I can learn so much about css from reading css help pile.

Right now I an almost finished with about.com's css class and after I finish that I hope to move one to css help pile and other articles on about.com about css.

I like css and think it is fun to be able to change fonts and colors on websites. One of my favorite things about css is css positioning because I am not sure I would be able to layout web pages with tables. I also enjoy changing link colors.

Goal #2

Goal #2 is to learn Xhtml. I have already written a little bit about wanting to learn Xhtml. I am currently trying to learn xhtml. I am doing the about.com xhtml class. As I have written before I have taken the xhtml class before, but I did not try hard enough so I did not learn xhtml very well.

I try to read the class emails and practice the lessons for a half hour a day although I usually do not have that much time so I practice the lessons for as much time as I have. I have already done all the lessons and am now going back over them making sure I know the material. Someday I hope to pass the final exam, but I am not sure if I will ever pass it although I will try.

Setting goals

Yesterday I read an article on lifehacker by Gina Trapani about setting goals. The article got me thinking about goals so today I started writing a list of goals I want to achieve. Making the list of goals made me feel good. I don't know if I will achieve all the goals I have written, but I will try.

I need blog posts so I will also talk about some of my goals on this blog. I know I have already written about some goals, but I want to write more on the subject so here it goes. I will write one post talking about each goal.

Yesterdays post about magic would be goal number one. As I said I want to learn card tricks and some other magic tricks. I am not even close to accomplishing this goal because I have not even learned one magic trick yet. I am sure writing about it on my blog will help me get going one this goal.