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I said in Slapstick that she was the person I wrote for—that every successful creative person creates with an audience of one in mind. That’s the secret of artistic unity. Anybody can achieve it, if he or she will make something with only one person in mind. I didn’t realize that she was the person I wrote for until after she died.

Via The Paris Review

Also, this is a test of the new Windows Live Writer beta. But mostly it’s about the Failboat.

This might help you to process movies that are defined higher than the garden-variety ones, but only if you think in hexadecimainfully:

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Here it is, hopefully it will be more random and less dull than this blog is

I wrote a big post on the 3D modeler Blender, but in trying to delete the spammer link that some random bot had posted, accidentally deleted the post itself. Great. Well here’s the 2 second summary:

• Blender: New website, new release, is much more awesome
• Push Numpad5 to switch Blender out of orthogonal mode and the viewport won’t look broken and wrong
• Go into options and switch rotation mode from trackball to turntable and you won’t end up gimbal locking yourself all the time

Update: Someone sent me back my original post!

Happy 1st birthday to my blog

I’ve added a few small fixups to my blog, namely fixing the fonts on Windows so that they’re more readable as well as adding code highlighting courtesy of Dean’s Code Highlighter v1.0. Check out this post for an example.

I’ve decided that I’ll be redoing paulbetts.org because while it’s definitely functional right now, Portage is completely hosed and the software on the machine is getting quite out of date. But the main reason? This suddenly got awesome.

“The party enters a mall swarming with the undead. After a fierce battle, you come face to face with their necromancer.
What do you do?

Roll your initiative.

I have been known to press Page Down repeatedly. And Page Up. Perhaps with the same finger.

PS: If any of you out there have a Final Countdown ring tone, that would be wonderful.