Short, random things. I am somewhat frazzled of late and can’t come up with much in the way of coherency. (For example, I really want to rant about why music “sharing” sucks, in light of stupid comments on Slashdot; but that will have to wait for another day.) In the trip [...] » Read more

Computer graphics is the coolest computer science discipline imaginable, because even silly bugs sometimes lead to accidental art. I hereby present: Subdivision Surface Study - No. 3. [...] » Read more

During climbing on Sunday I was hauled up a 5.10b, then attempted four clean 5.10a routes in a row (topping out on two, almost finishing the other two). Finished up on a 5.9. Then ached for two solid days. But it was a good ache. Met Jan the realtor today. Things went well, [...] » Read more

Yesterday, my mortgage was finally preapproved. And what it took to get there this week: on Monday, the loan officer at Wells Fargo left me a message indicating the underwriter wanted me to provide letters from two utilities proving that I paid my bills on time. There was some issue about not being able [...] » Read more

I left my leather jacket at Larry’s at lunch and it was gone by the time I went back after work. If it was a wallet, fine; I wouldn’t have expected it to be there. But a jacket, now, that’s different. What kind of weird person just steals, and presumably wears, clothing that’s hanging [...] » Read more

PRMan 11 shipped today. Huzzah! [...] » Read more

Another beta completed this week, and a good one too. After a stunning revelation (involving code reuse, of all things) we solved all the geometry problems that have been haunting me for the last 5 months. We’re essentially feature complete now, things seem to be stable and fast, and hopefully just one [...] » Read more

Yet another beta crunch at work - long days and stressed hands as a direct result of subdivision surfaces and displacement, so I haven’t felt like updating lately. Besides, nothing of great import has happened, just a sequence of minor things. Like most days. Mimi visited last week. She spent most days [...] » Read more

SIGGRAPH was pretty lame. I’ve heard attendance figures were only around 17,000 or so - even worse than the numbers for last year. In general I ended up hanging around the booth more than I really wanted to, though admittedly there wasn’t really much that I was interested in at the rest of the [...] » Read more

I was fine with Highway To Hell being played at the end of a recent Simpsons episode. And I can tolerate Back In Black being used on the soundtrack for Men In Black 2 - ha ha, fitting pun, wink wink, snort. But what the hell was AC/DC thinking in allowing Disney to use [...] » Read more