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GrouchoCaesar
Tuesday, 24 April 2012, 02:40 AM

Re: The Twelve Tasks Of Grouchales
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State of Play Update #6 

Three and a half years... really?  That long to spend all my money?  That long to build up my DVD library?  That long since I've done anything... ANYTHING... substantial with Poser or 3D MAX?

Sheesh....

Time flies when you're spending up large.  Thankfully, I'm done now.

I spent early 2009 to late 2010 concentrating on building up my DVD library to something really impressive.  2736 movies, 282 TV series spread out over 780+ seasons, 120 documentaries.  It will take decades to watch all this... kinda why I bought it.

I spent 2010 to now dealing with mundane stuff, family crises' of various intensities, accumulating a herd of cats (seven... I just lost one a few weeks ago when it disappeared), and getting to grips with a new toy that really got all my attention - a Fujifilm Finepix Real3D W2 stereoscopic camera which is [i]so[/i] much fun to play with...

Really early this year I started concentrating on getting back into the swing of things with Poser by first of all updating and testing all CGI software, and second of all, getting up to date with all the freebies out there... took a while, but it's done.

So now what?  Oh yes, that's right... how about producing some art... what a good idea.

I'll update my PC list first - here goes.

1 LEELA 

She's been sitting alone and forlorn in my office - barely booted up at all in the last two years.  Now I've installed things like Encyclopedia Britannica, The Complete National Geographic collection, Playboy - the 50's and my favorite... 53 Years of Mad Magazine. Now being used as my primary image manipulation computer. 

2 DAWN 

Little Dawnie - ignored as well - until recently.  Now used as a DVD ripping machine to back up my DVD library to external drives for safe-keeping.

3 TARA, 4 FAITH, 5 HARMONY, 6 WILLOW

Sold Harmony to my mother once it became clear that the NEC Powermate PCs are incredibly reliable and I don't really need four of them.

Tara is running XP still, and is now my primary PC internet machine.  Willow sits there patiently waiting to do CGI... and Faith really, really hates my PS3, because it gets all my gaming attention at the moment.

7 JESSICA a.k.a. BIG RED 

The best laptop I 'd ever owned… and I gave her to my little sister… who BROKE IT!

She nuked the GPU by overheating the machine.  It can be fixed, but I'm still a little miffed - so I took it off her.  Currently sitting in a cupboard, boxed up and ready to send off for repair.

8 KENDRA 

Currently being used as the base for all my stereoscopic experiments.  Also recently found out that the EULA for 3D Max 2009 explicitly states I am allowed to install a second copy onto a 'home' machine as well as on my primary workstation.  Wish I'd known that earlier... so now Kendra has a copy of Max on her as well.

9 AMY 

Currently my go-to machine when using the internet around the house.  Also has my massive DVD library database on it running on Bento.

Two weeks ago I started plowing through some of the books I bought on Poser.  A lot to digest... but I am getting there.  Stay tuned...


