More on ripping...

Alright, so ripping apart isn't all that simple and probably should have been given a little more attention. 

Scientists have playing with making their own miniature black holes for a little bit now with some success.  Ripping apart space and time is well within our grasp and we just have to get better at it.  Dangerous?  Yes. 

The tiny little experiments that we are doing now pose little threat as the tears in the fabric are microscopic.  Pinholes that don't weaken the overall strength of the universe.  At most, a few atoms can slip through the hole but what happens if we need a hole big enough to fit a ship through?

The best case scenario is that the universe wants to stay together.  If we poke a finger into a bowl of gel then pull it out, the gel settles back into the space our finger occupied.  If the fabric of space works like this then we'll be alright.  The hole our warp drive makes will seal itself after the ship passes through.

Now, there is another scenario that isn't very appealing.  If the universe is more like Jello then we have an issue.  Poking a finger into Jello leaves a distinct channel where our finger has been.  It does a fair job of resealing itself but the damage has been done.  If we keep poking at the same piece of Jello, it begins to fall apart and we're left with a delicious yet sticky mess.

If our warp travel through the universe leaves these little tunnels where we've been then eventually we're going to make a mess of things.  Every trip will make a wormhole that will leak energy and matter from one end to the other.  More and more wormholes means more and more leakage.  Eventually the wormholes criss-crossing through the universe will make a mess of the universe.  Matter and energy will slip about in the universe at random and if the wormholes start to grow then we could see entire solar systems swallowed up and flung about the universe.  Scary.

The problem I see is that I don't know if we'll be able to tell which scenario it will be until it's too late. 

Snowplow / Warpdrive

Good morning!

Yesterday we ended talking about aerodynamics and snowplows.  Today we will use them in space.

On Earth, making an object so that it travels easier through a medium is simple.  Basically we just make it pointed or sharp.  Knives slice through butter because of it's thin leading edge.  Airplanes are long and thin so they encounter less resistance when they they fly.  This is an easy concept to test and observe on Earth because we are dealing with matter.  When we want to improve our speeds while traveling in space, we have to deal with energy and that makes things complicated.

In order to increase our top speeds we need an energy snowplow of sorts.  No longer are we concerned with thin edges and pointed nose-cones because now we are dealing with a medium that is made of pure energy.  We need a warp drive.

In Star Trek, the warp drive is a device that creates a sub-space bubble around the ship and allows it to travel at insane speeds because it is no longer part of the regular universe.  In the real world however we don't really know anything about sub-space but we can use the concept as inspiration.

What we can do is rip the fabric of the universe apart.  The fabric of existence, the neutral base energy we talked about, can be manipulated.  If we introduce energy at the right frequency and amplitude into space we can excite the NBE and cause it to contract.  When it contracts, a soft spot is made in the universe and we can travel through it, at amazing speeds, without having to deal with energy displacement.

 We travel in a bubble of pure nothing.  Actual nothing.  This is the dangerous part.

...which will be explained later.

Warp Drive Continued

Not sure what happened to the formatting of yesterday's post.  Sorry about that.  Anyway.

Foam!  Space foam!  Yesterday we started talking about how energy displacement in the black of space is like trying to push through a big block of foam.  If we had a spaceship with an engine that could put out an unlimited amount of power we could let it loose and attempt to hit the speed of light.

First things would go pretty well.  Our powerful engine would provide us with enough energy to tip the balance in our favor and we'd accelerate with ease.  As we continued to accelerate however, we would now be passing through more and more energy at any given moment as the foam around us begins to condense.  Since we have unlimited power in our engine we just lay on a little bit more and keep going.  When we approach the speed of light, the foam becomes thicker and thicker around us as we compact it before us. Eventually it becomes so thick that it begins to become hard to push through.

We keep laying on the power with our super engine but we are no longer accelerating, the amount of energy in the in the foam condensed in front of us begins to equal the mass energy of our ship and the engine's energy output.  Our engine may have infinite power but space is infinite as well.  As the equation comes into balance another problem begins to arise.  Our engine is putting out infinite energy and pushing against the back of our ship while condensed infinite space in front of us is not letting us travel forward anymore.  We are a tin can trapped between two infinite energy sources.  Since our ship is not made of infinite energy it is crushed between the two.  The force is so great that even the atoms of ship are crushed and all mass is released as pure energy.  This energy cannot go anywhere since the infinite pressures on either side are still there.  It becomes a sphere of pure energy, something that really shouldn't exist.  It goes without saying we'd be dead.

So how can we go faster than the speed of light if energy displacement will never allow it?  We build a snow-plow.  A cosmic razor snow-plow.

If the buildup of foam in front of our ship slows us down and eventually kills us, we simply have to push the foam to the side as we travel to decrease the amount of energy we have to deal with at any moment.  It's the same principal as a V shaped snowplow on a truck.  Without the plow, snow builds up in front of the truck as it travels until it becomes so heavy the truck can no longer move.  With the plow however, we do a neat little trick with physics and some of our forward energy is used to move the snow aside as we travel, reducing the buildup and allow us to continue forward.  We're cheating at energy displacement!  This is of course just aerodynamics and what we use to streamline vehicles so they can go faster.  Nothing special really.

Time's up!  Sorry kids.  More later.

Warp Drive

We've covered the idea of Energy Displacement so let's look at how the warp drive works.

Traveling through space allows us to achieve incredible speeds with very little effort.  Simply throwing a ball in space will propel it at speeds considered insane if you were on Earth.  As fast as we are able to travel, we have an issue because the distance between objects in space is vast.  Traveling from Northern Minnesota to Southern Louisiana is about 1,500 miles and would take you about 23 hours to drive.  The Earth to the moon, our shortest trip in space, is 238,900 miles.  Traveling around the Earth is only 24,901 miles.  When we start looking at places not in our neighborhood things get farther fast.  When things are lined up the best, traveling to Mars is around 36,000,000 miles.  That's quite the jump.

New fusion engines being researched for Mars jumps are estimated to get us to Mars in sixty days.  That's a huge improvement over our current travel time of over twice that.  That's not very good if we want to start colonizing Mars.  We need to go faster.

The problem with going faster is that even in space, we have to contend with the Energy Displacement which limits our speeds.  Now, you might be wondering what there is to actually displace in space.  My last example dealt with grass and air, neither of which you would have to deal with in space.  Space is empty; right?  No.

This is why we have to think of it as Energy Displacement and not Matter Displacement.  Matter is energy and there is a lot of energy in space.  Solar radiation, photons, space dust, hydrogen and helium are out there for us to run into.  Plus, we have to deal with the neutral base energy of the universe itself.  I know, I know, that doesn't actually exist you say.  Neutral base energy?  That's not a real thing!  Well, it sort of is.

Neutral base energy is the stuff of the universe that allows everything else to exist and travel.  If there was nothing to travel through then it wouldn't have to travel.  You can't have distance if you don't have something between two objects in space to take up the space between.  Neutral base energy is theoretically just unformed proto-energy that never bothered to condense to form radiation or particles.  It is the fabric of the universe that everything else is painted on if you will.  The amount of energy it possesses approaches zero but there is still enough there to have to overcome when we start to look at being able to travel faster.

The faster we travel, the more energy we have to displace at any given moment in time because we are squishing the medium we are traveling through in front of us.  It's like punching foam, it's easy at first but once the foam is condensed it becomes more solid.  The foams energy becomes tightly packed in front of our fist, resisting displacement and preventing us from traveling any further.  Neutral base energy is much like the foam.  As we travel faster and faster, the NBE in front of us begins to condense as we travel through it.  The faster we go, the greater the condensing effect becomes until it becomes so dense we can no longer pass through it.

It seems I am out of time for this morning...I will continue later.

Displacement Part II

I wanted to expand a little on the idea of Energy Displacement.

Matter is energy and quite a bit of energy at that.  Although an atom is mostly empty space there is still a large amount of energy and according to our models of atomic structure that energy is constantly moving.  Thus we have a spherical field of energy (electrons) around a center mass of condensed energy (protons & electrons) that can be represented by a ball.  Any ball will do really.

This ball has mass which is just a grouping of energy large enough to create a gravitational field.  I think we'll hold off on gravity for another time.  Anyway, the ball.  Much like an atom, our ball has energy passing through it constantly.  Radiation in many forms can travel through the ball as if it wasn't there.  The waves and particles travel through the ball because they can find the tiny gaps in the energy structure and do not have to deal with displacement.

If we move our ball we have to expend energy.  We push the ball and the ball rolls.  As it rolls, it displaces the air around it easily as the mass of the ball is much greater than the mass of the air.  We can start to understand the total energy equation of the ball.

Y=M+E

Y is the total energy of the equation where M is mass energy of the ball and E is the energy applied to make it attain motion.  If Y is greater than the total energy acting against this motion, the ball will move.  Gravity must be taken into account down the line but I'm not getting into that mess now.  The energy acting against the mass energy of the medium it is passing through and any energy that is affecting that mass as well.  This would be the same equation basically but we'll label it X instead. So:

if Y > X then movement is achieved; if Y< or = X then no movement is achieved.

It is energy versus energy in the end that concerns us most.  Remember, mass is energy.

Our ball will increase in speed if energy is applied constantly or increased.  It will slow down when applied energy is decreased and Y gradually approaches equality with X.  Kinetic energy is the equation coming back into balance over time when applied energy is ceased.

So that's the basics of movement.  Energy Displacement becomes clearer when the mass of the medium increases in the middle of our balls journey.  Say we were to roll our ball across a concrete sidewalk and into a grassy yard.  Across the concrete part we are dealing mainly with the medium of air, which is easily passed through.  When the ball enters the grass, it encounters a new medium of air and blades of grass.  Suddenly the mass energy of the medium shoots up significantly and the equation balances quicker because the total energy of medium increases.

This is the 'stopping' force that the grass imparts on our ball.  The energy of the ball fights against the energy of the grass it is moving through.  The energy used to move the ball is lost as the medium absorbs the excess energy in the equation and eventually the ball comes to a stop.  If we wanted to keep the ball accelerating when it moves into the grass, we would have to put more energy into it's side of the equation.  Simply walking over and throwing it again would suffice.

These are the basics.  I refrain from using what we consider traditional physics terms for these things because we will be dealing more in the quantum level later which of course plays by it's own rules.  Eventually we will get to warp travel.  I promise.

A few notes on speed...

The speed of light is considered to be the fastest that anything in this universe can travel.  This has remained true for all of history but perhaps we can do better.  The warp drive might actually be the key but we are still a ways off from making it happen.  How does it work?  The concept is simple.  

The speed an object travels is determined by the amount of energy the object has dedicated to it's motion.  This can be object generated energy such a human being walking or energy imposed on an object such as the effects of gravity on a rolling ball.  This is the simplest way of looking at it but there is another important factor.  Energy displacement.

Energy displacement could also be called matter displacement since mass is energy in a different form.  This is an easier way of understanding how it works.  When we travel at speed, we are traveling through a medium.  On Earth, the typical mediums traveled through are air and water.  

Air is a medium that is easily moved through by humans and their vehicles.  Despite our freedom moving around in it, there is actually quite a bit of matter that has to be displaced when traveling through it.  In water, there is even more matter that has to be displaced to allow us to move and thus slows our progress. 

If we are to expend the same amount of energy moving through water as we would air, we would travel at a slower speed.  There is more matter that needs to be displaced to allow our matter to occupy the new space.  So not only does the energy expended determine our speed but also the medium in which we are traveling.  Seems pretty sensible.  

If we travel in space, things become a little more complex but the general idea remains the same.  In space there is very little mass or energy that we have to displace when traveling.  This allows for much greater speeds with little energy needed to be expended.  Light traveling through a vacuum is considered the fastest that anything can travel.  It makes sense since it is pure energy traveling through a seemingly empty medium and the photon itself has basically no mass.  It is the perfect vehicle for achieving speed.

If we are to attempt to travel at that speed we run into a problem.  We have mass, which is energy trapped in a tightly packed ball that interacts with other energies in a problematic way when you want to go fast.  In space, as well as on Earth, that much energy must displace the majority of the energy it comes in contact with before it can move forward.  A photon can slip past the miniscule amount of energy in the universe because it has little to no mass and rarely interacts with other energies.  It barely exists.  It displaces almost nothing and thus achieves an impressive top speed.

A human wishing to travel at those speeds would have to be expending a huge amount of energy to attain those speeds because we would be constantly displacing energy we encounter.  The faster we go, the more energy we are encountering at any given moment which leads to more energy needed to increase our speed. This eventually leads to a balance problem when the amount of energy needed to overcome the energy displacement is unimaginable.  Our mass can no longer displace the energy in the medium and we are considered to have 'infinite mass'.  It's like hitting a brick wall while running flat out.  This problem kills our ability to travel the stars with any efficiency.  Unless you have a warp field.  

More on that later...

Soon?

The base ship sketches for CosmoViking are all drawn and inked now.  I'm not sure how long it will take to get them scanned and finished on the computer.  I hate scanning things.  It's a slow and terrible process that involves not doing very much.  Next week I plan on getting it all done if possible since I am taking a little time off of work to catch up on various projects.  Go CosmoViking!

Yes, vacation.  It's not a proper vacation by any means but it is time away from work.  It's been nearly a year since my last vacation and that was when I moved into my new house.  As fun as that was, it was still a hectic activity and not really the sit back and relax type of vacation I need right now.  The real trick of course is staying motivated on this stay-cation as they call it.  I could easily burn through a few days doing nothing of importance but that wouldn't be very good at all.  

Big things to get done:  

- Basement.  I have to get that thing finished up and then the room cleaned up.  Sadly this means boxing up all of my Warhammer stuff.  So sad.  I just worry about them when they're not safe on their shelves.  

- CosmoViking.  Sketches need to get done.  This will be a nice first day of Vacation project I think.  I'll set up the scanner in the living room and watch bad movies until they're finished.  That sounds like a perfect Monday.  

- Prep for the gig.  Yes, I have a show next week play with The Seasonals.  Friday, May 3rd at the legendary Bridgid's Pub, downtown Bemidji.  It's going to be a fun evening and I encourage everyone to get out and enjoy the spring air by walking around downtown taking in the local culture.  I need to brush up on some songs but overall I feel good.  More than anything I need to get used to the new bass pedal.  It's just so solid and well built it feels weird under my foot.  It's going to take a little bit to get the feel for it.  

Well.  That's about it really.  I'm sure there will be some partying and all that as well.  Hopefully some gaming at some point.  Woot.

Have a good day kids.

Spring?

Snow!  Yes, there was snow yesterday but a quick check of the 10-day forecast was a little surprising.  High temps in the fifties at the end of this week.  Yes, fifties.  Amazing.  I think it's finally coming to a close, this winter of everlasting.  Highs in the forties for the majority with partly cloudy skies and no sign of snow.  Glorious.

If this is the case, I look forward to a pleasant and productive week.

Another Friday...

Another Friday and thus begins the month of events.

It's going to be a fairly exciting few weeks here as spring seems to possibly coming our way finally.  Tonight is gaming night, hopefully, where the lads will face their most hated enemy to date.  Will they live?  Will they have their revenge upon him who betrayed them?  Always a good time and I hope it goes well.

Roller derby starts up again tomorrow night.  I'm pleasantly surprised by the increased interest in getting me help for the NSO crew this spring.  There seems to have been a real push to get the staffing issue under control.  It will still be a frantic affair but I will actually pull it off this time without too much issue.

After that there is a little bit of a break in the action as the weather starts to warm up and I get cracking on house things.  I still have a little interior patching to get done and get some much needed spring cleaning done.

Then, after that is done I'm thinking of taking a few days off of work for a mini-vacation.  If the weather holds, I'll be cleaning out the garage and enjoying some much needed head clearing time.  Work is being quite the pain in my brain lately and it would be good to worry about Minecraft rather than garment orders.

That would be capped off by my triumphant return to the stage.  A wild and crazy evening with The Seasonals at Bridgid's Cross on May 3rd.  It's a Friday.  Bigger energy now with me punching things up a notch and bringing my signature louder is awesome style.

After that it's back to derby action training and then hopefully Out of the Hat coming up mid-May.  May 18th as I have heard.  I think there was something on the 11th too that was pretty important but I have forgotten now.

In the middle of all of this I have two very special projects to be working on.  First, the sketches for all the regular ships for CosmoViking are finished.  Huzzah!  Now to get them scanned, colorized and stuff.  That will be fun.  Secondly, my new book idea is really taking off.  Things are bouncing in the brain and after purchasing a ridiculous sketchbook to use as idea journal, I'm not losing my ideas anymore.  Notes I'm jotting down at work are transcribed into the tome of awesomeness at night and saved.  The plot is coming together and I would expect I can start putting some actual words down soon.  I just need some character studies and then I can get writing.  It's very exciting.  I owe it all to Froyd and his wonderful whiteboard for making that little idea explode and become a real story.

Anyway...time to get to work.  Just a few hours and this crazy weekend will commence!  Good luck to you all.


(Edit) P.S.  The Wi-Fi card is working again...sort of.  It will work fine for awhile then randomly disappear for a few then come back after it's shut down for at least a half an hour.  I'm wondering if there's a heat issue or some sort of incompatibility issue with something else that only pops on randomly once in awhile.  Unknown.

Ups and downs

Tuesday turned out to be a day of ups and downs.  On the upside, went to my first band practice in over a decade and it went rather well.  I'm a bit rusty and having trouble remembering how certain limbs move at certain times but overall it was fun.  I need to do some studying before gig day but I think it will be a good show.

On the downside yesterday, the wi-fi on the wife's laptop crapped out a day after I finally got it working right!  It wasn't long after we got the thing that the internal wireless just wouldn't connect.  It would see networks but never be able to connect.  I pulled the card, checked the antenna connections but still nothing.  I checked the drivers and such but nothing seemed out of place.  We had a USB Wi-Fi adapter sitting around so she just used that until that got damaged.  So I ordered a new half-card, mini-card wireless adapter for five bucks and dropped that it.  What happened?  Perfectly connected up, no problems, top transfer speeds across the board.

That worked great for an entire day!  I came home last night, picked it up and connected to a minecraft server and played for an hour.  No issues whatsoever.  I put the thing down to eat some toast and watch some IT Crowd and when I picked it back up the card was gone.  

Yup...the card was no longer listed in the device manager.  Poof....gone.  I popped the back off just to make sure it hadn't been stolen by pixies but it was still there physically.  Odd, I thought, it's still there!  I restarted and now the computer is trying to tell me I have a unrecognizable USB device attached to the computer.  What the heck?  Somehow, in the span of making toast, the system decided that the wireless card wasn't a wireless card but rather a mutant USB device.  I am a titch angry.  If I can install it manually rather than relying on the plug-and-play awesomeness that is modern computing maybe that will clear it up.  It's a fix I will try tonight.  

Sadly though I fear it's a bad port and never repairable.  I guess it's back to USB adapters.  So sad.  

At least Bioshock: Infinite downloaded the day it was working. ;)

Coffee

There's coffee all over my shirt now.  I hope you're happy.  

I really have to get the brain working again.  I think we all expected to be hopping rain puddles and putting away the winter wear by now.  This snow stuff really has to end soon.  I keep doing little things to keep me feeling like I'm being productive but it's a bit like shoveling out a ditch with a spoon.  I need a backhoe to get caught up.  

Things to do:

- Get my room back in order!  I'm almost there.  After some rearranging I need to seal up on more crack and then I shouldn't be needing that damn dehumidifier anymore!  Priority level:  Half a year late...

- Music Music Music!  I need to write a few more tracks for the dominant species project.  I don't know if it's even being worked on anymore.  You know what though?  I'm finishing that damn project!  

Priority level:  Pretty important...at least for the ego.

- DRAW!  Cosmo Viking will be released and if I don't get off my ass I'm going to hold that whole project up.  Priority level:  Go Team Venture!

- All the other things on the plate!  Seriously.  Derby, new band, new dance album, work, housework, learn to golf better as to not embarrass myself at golf weekend this year, make cookies, build a wood box, build garage shelves, flush and fill my transmission, get oil change, get my marriage officiant paperwork approved by the state...an more!  F.

Grumpy Friday

There is so much talk right now about the marriage stuff that it's making my head spin.  I would write some articles explaining the craziness of it all; but who has the time?  Also, what would it do?  Seriously.  On a topic such as this, your mind is probably already made up on the issue and little is going to change it.  People throw up articles on Facebook not so much to convince others but rather to stir up trouble.

So many of the articles are the same anyway, rehashed and retold by somebody new to appeal to another demographic.  Old man, young girl, married couple, college girl, gay man, straight man.  It's like they've all been handed a list of points they have to make for their article by some central mastermind that isn't that good at being a mastermind.

I guess the only thing to really do is stop trying to convince people through two-clicks worth of effort linking some article that you probably only skimmed anyway.  Things are happening and effort should not be wasted on fighting skirmishes in the digital alleyways.  Instead, concentrate your efforts pushing others into action in the real world.  Rise above and all that.

I'm going to go look at cats...

Thursday...right?

Facebook equal sign day is over and for me it passed without much drama.  Browsing a little reddit I found that it became quite an enlightening experience for some facebook users.  Apparently plastering your beliefs all over the internet can cause tension between people who don't share them.  Who knew?  

It's all a bit like high school.  It seems like the biggest thing in the world when you're in it but in reality it's very silly and unimportant.  We can make huge social change through social media!  That's the mindset and it's really quite incorrect.  If the actions you take only exist within the social media world than they will stay in the social media world.  People talk about how social media is helping candidates win elections and influences voters to make a difference.  That's true in a sense but it's actually not quite right.

What is actually making a difference is that you are connecting with people who already share your opinion and notifying them to go out into the real world to do something.  Essentially you're doing a quick and far reaching text message.  It works and works well but it's not doing what people think it does.  People who use it to accomplish their political goals like to say they accomplished so much with social media.  However, it was a combined effort through rallies, door to door campaigns and social media that made things happen.  The social media aided a real life event and made it better.  Changing your profile pic and blasting some opinion on your wall accomplishes little. Opinions are rarely going to change in a social media setting.  

Say you're in a stadium with thirty-thousand people and you're hanging out with your closest friends.  You're going to mainly be hearing what they have to say because their in close proximity.  The remaining thousands having conversations will just be an indiscernible rumble.  If it's "wear your most politically charged t-shirt day", you're probably wearing the same or similar t-shirts as all of your friends.  Now, say a person from the fringe of your friends group walks by on the way to the hot-dog stand wearing a different t-shirt.  You'll exchange some words, maybe argue a bit but you're not going to sit down and have a debate about your views in the middle of the noisy stadium.  Especially since you have ten to twenty of your friends there to pitch in their two cents on the matter.  In fact, you'll probably both say some dumb stuff because it's chaotic and uncontrolled to begin with and possibly tell that person to go stick his head in the toilet.  There won't be any sudden changes of opinion.  There won't be really any change at all.

Now, say you're in that stadium and someone puts a message on the jumbo-tron that everyone who thinks cats are awesome should go out to the parking lot for free kittens.  A giant chunk of people will leave and go get a kitten.  That is the power of social media.  It's not to be underestimated but it's not the miracle working thing that people have grown to think it is.

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Facebook

I did a quick buzz through my Facebook feed this morning and it was terrible.  I'd say about 70% of all the content was people linking pictures or videos.  The rest of the posts were uninformative and gave little to no sense of what people are actually up to in their lives.  I just don't understand it anymore.  It's especially bad a the moment with the supreme court looking at marriage laws.  Everybody has the same profile pictures!

I do love Ace Hardware though.  I picked up a new hammer and a chisel last night for working on the basement.  Man toys.  Can't wait to get going on that project, chiseling out cracks then filling them in.  Screw you water!  You're not getting into my basement.  :)

One more day...

I'm so relieved that the end of the week is here.  It's been a tough two weeks and I'm happy to be able to get back into my regular routine again after today.  It would really help if the weather would start it's warming trend tomorrow as expected.  I would see my mood improving greatly then.  

I have the weekend to myself and I plan to get a few things done.  Mainly cleaning up but also get some ships sketched.  If there's enough time...hopefully play a little Minecraft.  Should be a good weekend.

Ships!

It's been a productive evening!  In a burst of drawing madness I got 10 ship sketches done tonight and they are looking pretty good.  There is a good consistency across the board and some good defining features for each class.  There's still 10 more to go but I'm feeling pretty good now that I know I can get 10 done in an evening.  Woot.

Of course I still have to scan them in, add some finishing touches and add colour.  Work to be done but things are going well.  Feeling good about things though.  Bright point of the week so far.

CosmoViking!

Winter stall-out

The endless winter has driven my productivity into the ditch and buried it with snow.  Some unfortunate things last week took the wind out of my sails and the continuing bad weather this weekend left me drifting.  I could really use some warm and sunny days right now.

I tried to get back into Minecraft this weekend.  It was fun playing with the scores of new things available since the last time I played.  Fireworks!  Oh the fun.  I have a dream now of building a fantastic roller coaster that shoots fireworks and makes noises and light shows as you travel along.  I like roller coasters.

Anyway.  I'll be checked out from blogging for a day or two.  Carry on good people.  Spring will have to come eventually.

Rough Week

It's been a rough week.  Found out my Grandmother passed away yesterday.  After being sick this week I'm really turned around and a little lost.  I can't believe it's already Friday.  So that's about all I have to say this morning.

Ships!

Sat down and crunched some numbers for the ship designs last night and things are coming along nicely.  I was originally going to just draw a bunch of ships and see what happened but after realizing how many there were to draw I changed my mind.  There are a ton of ships in this game!  Wow.  

I figured by taking the various ratings the ships have in the game, convert those to cm and mm dimensions, they could be used as guidelines when drawing them.  By using these size ratings, each ship would then look appropriately sized when compared to each other on the screen.  Also, if I have the bones of the ships predetermined, the drawing will go faster.  Win!  

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Anyway...sorry about this week and the quiz.  Being sick really threw me off my game.  I should really start thinking about getting the full website up to start showcasing the art and music work I'm doing for various games.  It would be nice if I could do a bit more of that for people once I get these projects done.  If it wasn't for this pesky job I could do it full time!  Think of the games people!  Think of all the games we could make!  

Round 2?

Alright, time for some ground rules.

I guess I underestimated the power of the internet when designing this whole trivia thing.  Also, I underestimated the ability to guess more than once per comment.  Silly me. 

Not sure how to deal with this other than to require you to submit a 2 page essay with each guess.  A right answer will not be accepted without this essay.  You must cite your sources, spelling and grammar count.

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