10/25 - Computer Issues
As of the middle of last semester my home office has been collecting a disturbingly heavy amount of dust. The reason? My desktop had crashed and I had neither the time or the money in order to fix it. And, since my laptop was holding me over (very surprising for a $200.00 Black Friday special) I didn't see the need to confront it at that time. Well, here we are, my second to last semester and classes are picking up in requirements and my laptop is no longer cutting it. So, a couple of hundred bucks later (granted I still didn't exactly have the time or the money) I've upgraded to a 64 bit processor with 4 gigs of ram running windows 7 64. There's still a huge gap in my tower where there should be a dvd drive but funds kinda ran short. Giant computer vacuum of dust aside, I am now able to run Adobe Master Collection CS5 and Lightwave 9.6 with ease.
11/01 - Fab Lab
I went on my first class field trip since grade school today with Josh's Advanced 3D class. Our next assignment will require us to construct some sort of functioning mechanism and then print it three dimensionally. Que Northampton Community College's Fab Lab. Here, you can bring in your Lightwave design and have it molded into reality in a few hours. Some of the examples that we were shown included various gizmos with cranks and gears, statues, and a working hand wrench. The highlight of the tour was a hover craft / race car with wheels that actually spun on axles. The most impressive part was that is was designed by a fourth grader, effectively transforming our next project into a ridiculous TV game show hosted by a washed-up redneck comedian.
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