After months of toil and sleepless nights (this time, before this SIGGRAPH deadline), my most recent research project has been released. Dryad is an intuitive tool for collaborative tree modeling, intended to allow even the most casual of users to produce beautiful 3D models of trees for games or virtual worlds. Check it out!
My Grandfather, James Winston Milam, used to sum up his philosophy on living with one simple sentence: everywhere you go ought to end up a little better for your having been there.
In his case, everywhere did.
“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter–tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther… And one fine morning–
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
One of my favorite poems:
The worm drives helically through the wood And does not know the dust left in the bore Once made the table integral and good; And suddenly the crystal hits the floor. Electrons find their paths in subtle ways, A massless eddy in a trail of smoke; The names of lovers, light of other days – Perhaps you will not miss them. That’s the joke. The universe winds down. That’s how it’s made. But memory is everything to lose; Although some of the colors have to fade, Do not believe you’ll get the chance to choose. Regret, by definition, comes too late; Say what you mean. Bear witness. Iterate. |
-John M. Ford
Happy Thanksgiving, everybody.
The “Series of Tubes, Not Dump Truck” party really needs to go…
Since I’m back in Virginia for about 36 hours, earlier this evening I found myself watching cable television for the first time in months. My viewing experience prompts me to offer the following comment:
If, one day, I have a daughter, and she in any way resembles this girl when she turns sixteen, please feel free to go ahead and call the police, because I will have fucking murdered her.
Just for the record, Snakes on a Plane is the best motherfucking movie I’ve seen all motherfucking year.
[Edit 8/20/06]: It was even better the second time.
[Edit 8/25/06]: The third time, however, was by far the best.
