It's rare that an idea for a render pops into my head that is so strong that I drop everything and go off and do it. The thought process was as follows.

"Hmm, arcade machines are a good, easy subject for a Blender scene. Boy, I wasted a significant number of ten pences in my childhood! What if my favourite roleplaying games had tie-in arcade ( Read more... )

Okay. I just received an email from something called LiveJournal that congratulates me on reaching my 18th anniversary.

Bloody Hell, I have a LiveJournal! And it's old enough to watch an adult film and poison itself with alcoholic beverages - all sorts of fantastic stuff that is legally unlocked after 18 years.

I'm sorry I've been utterly neglectful ( Read more... )

What was I doing on this very day, last year? I have no idea. When I used to tap out a daily brain dump, I'd always have a record of things you don't think matter. Nice breakfast? A running theme to the boys' tantrums - all recorded.

So, I'm thinking of taking a few minutes each morning for grammatically muddled and mistyped trivial thoughts and ( Read more... )

Today Noah is 65 days old, by contrast I'll be 15,101 day old.

Last night we had a scare. Clara had fed Noah some time after 1:00am. He did a little sick, leaving a small, blood-tinged patch on his baby sleeping bag. Blood is not good. No sign of scratching, or nose bleed. No injury on Clara's breast. I felt a low dull sense of worry, kept under control by Noah's sleepy smile - clearly he was not unwell in the ( Read more... )

So, the Murder Night got cancelled. Again. Too many actors off sick, the organizer's said. HR lady, Jen cancelled and scheduled for us to attend a Sheffield Ghost walk instead ( Read more... )

I'm going to leave that title dangling there to tease you. "Surely Mark hasn't turned his back on a life of trying to be quite nice, donning, instead, the big black top hat of evil." I hear you say. Of course not.

New managementI've moved back under the authority of the Engineering department. Good times, busy times, increasingly technical times. ( Read more... )

Another slothenly couple of days off work. It wouldn't be at all fair to blame baby Noah entirely. During my paternity leave I would retire to bed as early as 9:30; whenever Noah decided to call it a day. I'd have no need to burn the midnight oil to feed my artistic or gaming indulgences as to these passtimes I could devote those parts of the day ( Read more... )

Little to report, except that my coffee tolerance is that of a very large brown bear, who worked in Starbucks as a student. I had four strong white coffees before lunch, and that was a mere starter. I think the Ill effects that you might expect were masked by my horrible head cold, which has now become a normal all-rounder cold, having dropped its ( Read more... )

Big day. Matt and I pulled into room, told that we're moving out of the product team. We'll be moving under Engineering's umbrella - although maybe forming a new team if we can agree on a name. We're taking on a new tech writer - looks like I pulled the right name out of the air , when asked to suggest a new addition because within an hour of ( Read more... )