Brian

rtdn @ 2008-01-11T20:32:00

2008-01-12T04:33:44Z

guys a little bit ago I had a batch of t-shirts done up by customink.com and it was pretty excellent. I can reccommend with confidence that you Design T-Shirts Online at CustomInk.com.

rtdn @ 2007-09-29T00:21:00

2007-09-29T07:21:00Z

(12:19:38 AM) hay its rootdown: problems earl, the girl's got problems
(12:19:40 AM) hay its rootdown: she's white
(12:19:43 AM) hay its rootdown: she's got her youth
(12:19:51 AM) hay its rootdown: and her whole priveleged life ahead of her
(12:19:54 AM) hay its rootdown: i am just dying
(12:19:58 AM) hay its rootdown: to hear about this girl's problems

rtdn @ 2007-09-13T13:03:00

2007-09-13T20:06:56Z

I want Lauryn Hill, Macy Gray, and Tracy Chapman to collaborate and release an album together.

That would be rad.

found on flickr

2007-08-10T21:12:44Z

rtdn @ 2007-08-08T00:11:00

2007-08-08T07:12:08Z

Prehistoric bacteria are brought back to life in a labratory. That's crazy awesome.

rtdn @ 2007-08-06T11:03:00

2007-08-06T18:04:05Z

Huh. Autodesk bought Skymatter. I'm.. not sure how I feel about that.

rtdn @ 2007-08-01T19:41:00

2007-08-02T02:51:28Z

Okay friends, I have a really irritating computer problem.

Yesterday morning shortly after I started work, my work computer stopped downloading websites. The browser will locate and contact the website, send the request, and then download forever without actually loading anything. This is the same in both firefox and IE, however an embedded browser in another application will load websites without any issues at all.

I don't recall making any major changes or software updates outside of recently reinstalling the Rhapsody music player. I uninstalled it to see if that would fix the problem, and it didn't.

All other internet applications run just fine, including fireftp, an ftp plugin for firefox.

The computer is a 2.8 ghz pentium d with 1gb of ram and a stupidly fast internet connection. None of the other computers on the network have this problem.

The firewalls check out ok. I uninstalled and reinstalled firefox. We ran a virus scan and came up with nothing. I've run CCleaner a bunch. I uninstalled google and yahoo toolbars that were installed in IE. I ran a tcp/winsock utility that was supposed to restore the XP defaults but the problem persists. I edited the registry to update the MTU values but the problem persists.

EDIT: problem solved (and not by me). It was McAfee security updates that was causing the problem, uninstalling it made it go away.

needs

2007-07-27T01:44:42Z

I need to overhaul my website.
I need to start painting again.
I need to get started on my comic.
I need to bike every morning.
I need to draw more.
I need new clothes.
I need to fill out my application for a seller's permit.

rtdn @ 2007-07-23T21:47:00

2007-07-24T04:47:48Z

Hairspray was great! You guys should go see it.

rtdn @ 2007-07-06T20:47:00

2007-07-07T03:52:11Z

rtdn @ 2007-07-05T20:47:00

2007-07-06T03:51:50Z

yeah so that no more capslock thing didn't really work out for me

2007-06-30T19:05:06Z

YEAH YOU KNOW WHAT?

YOU KNOW WHAT???

I--

what the hell kind of jackassity question is that to ask somebody anyway

2007-06-27T03:48:24Z

Have you considered behaving Civilly? --Douglas Muth 18:52, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

rtdn @ 2007-06-23T00:20:00

2007-06-23T07:20:34Z

God lore sjoberg is irritating. Shut up, lore sjoberg.

beep fried? jeep fried? I don't know

2007-06-20T18:45:59Z

my name is brian root and I am the kind of guy that gets excited about buying software

2007-06-15T20:54:45Z

I have been saving for it for the last few paychecks and today I finally ordered me a student license of Maya Unlimited 8.5 (and the video compositing and encoding software that's offered as a bundle with it) and I have gotten the email back from the vendor saying that they've confirmed my academic eligibility to purchase student discounted software. It should arrive sometime toward the end of next week.

Oh you guys I am so excited. I also ordered 2gb of ram from newegg so that my computer will run it properly and uninstalled my questionably obtained copy of maya 7 to make room and everything.

:D

rtdn @ 2007-06-14T18:37:00

2007-06-15T01:42:11Z

Today I successfully converted an animation from the widely-used .bvh format into the apocryphal .seq format that we use at work and then I got our quicktime video encoder working.

rtdn @ 2007-06-10T21:46:00

2007-06-11T04:55:35Z

I'm really into lowpoly artwork right now. Like when I was first getting into 3d I thought the idea of doing stuff that was perfectly photorealistically rendered was really neat but right now I am really digging what people can do inside of oldschool constraints. It's kind of like how we appreciate the artistry behind sprites now that we have xboxes and wiis that can push a bajillion polygons and huge texture maps and bump and spec and opacity and normal maps. Like if you look at the artwork you see on the current generation handhelds, that's what I'm talking about. Seeing what people can get away with on a budget of 200-300 polygons and one 128x128 texture map.

Like look at these threads, some of the work people are doing in them are just perfectly magical:

http://www.cgchat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=18643
http://boards.polycount.net/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=96988&an=0&page=0#Post96988

rtdn @ 2007-06-08T20:20:00

2007-06-09T03:27:12Z

rtdn @ 2007-06-07T20:42:00

2007-06-08T03:47:39Z

As Lemuria gained some acceptance within the scientific community, it began to appear in the works of other scholars. Ernst Haeckel, a German Darwinian taxonomist, proposed Lemuria as an explanation for the absence of "missing link" fossil records. According to another source, Haeckel put forward this thesis prior to Sclater (but without using the name 'Lemuria'). [1] Locating the origins of the human species on this lost continent, he claimed the fossil record could not be found because it had sunk beneath the sea.

Other scientists hypothesized that Lemuria had extended across parts of the Pacific oceans, explaining distributions of species across Asia and the Americas.

rtdn @ 2007-06-06T20:16:00

2007-06-07T03:22:22Z

Some believe that Atlantis and Lemuria were around partially at the same time and that the more scientific-rational group inhabited Atlantis, and Lemuria had more individuals that were more artistically and spiritually inclined. Some also believe that large-scale experiments which took place in Atlantis caused the eventual destruction of both civilizations because of dramatic geo-physical dislocations.

rtdn @ 2007-06-06T17:18:00

2007-06-07T00:21:50Z

My money is on the Lemurians.

rtdn @ 2007-06-05T13:04:00

2007-06-05T20:07:49Z

whatever it is it's obviously the work of a culture far more advanced than our own and has been here for thousands of years and I don't think that we should tamper with things we don't understand.

rtdn @ 2007-06-03T17:10:00

2007-06-04T00:11:58Z

sign language status: passed

Ladies and gentlemen, I have graduated from college.

^5

rtdn @ 2007-06-03T12:11:00

2007-06-03T19:11:39Z

Silo 2 is now in public beta. Download it and try it out!