A big thank-you to kelloggs2066 for posting the link to the Toyota truck-thrashing progamme (spelled that way since it was a british programmmmee of course). I entertained my two youngest with it while I cleaned my office. I think they both watched it at least four times.
Oh… here’s the link.
My office is a wreck.
I’m not quite sure how it got to this point, but I’ve got to get it in order. I come in here and can’t think. NOT good, not with the buffer at 3 colored and 7 inked — there’s serious thinking to do right now!
Tomorrow morning I need to set aside an hour to haul out the waste-paper and the giant monitor I’m no longer using. Maybe then I can find the space to sort and tidy the stuff that is actually supposed to be in here. And maybe then I can get cracking on the buffer and the last of the marginalia for Book I.
–Howard
I looked at Today’s APOD, in which the Huygens probe photos were used by an artist to create an “artist’s concept” of Huygens sitting on Titan.
Consider… the parachute is still attached.
What if the parachute had come down on top of the probe? More than a billion kilometers from home, with 90 minutes of battery power, the probe would have gotten pictures of the inside of the chute.
I’m not accusing anybody of poor planning, or anything like that. I’m just imagining that happening, and giggling quietly. There would have been no artist’s rendition, but cartoonists all over the blogosphere would have drawn funny pictures. (Well… at least one of us would have.)
–Howard
I mentioned “books to teach me how to draw” in my last post. Along with the monitor I ordered a book on drawing “dynamic wrinkles and drapes” and “dynamic hands.” These are the two places where my drawing needs the most improvement. Tagon wears a skin-tight uniform and stands at parade rest a lot because I don’t know how to draw a) wrinkles and drapes for clothing, and b) hands.
The artists on my friends list will certainly have noticed this, and have probably been wondering when I’d get around to rectifying the problem.
The books haven’t shown up yet. This is too bad, because I’m getting ready to draw some civilian clothing, and I’m afraid it’s just not going to drape properly.
–Howard