I’m up to 66 pages, around 21,000 words. And I sort of want to make a chart to track my progress and see how many words I’ll hit by this time next year.

Also, I need to get some L channel aluminium to build a small frame to hold my new watering system together for my plants. So many things to do!

not that i have anything on my desk that can show off the coolness of 3d yet. But I’m working on it. Planning out my next big desktop machine that takes up as little space as possible. I’m done with gigantic heavy boxes.

Thank god for being able to restore deleted files or I’d be fucked. Okay, so if you don’t want dropbox to fill up your hard disk and you’re sharing it with someone, then just UNJOIN the directory, DONT go deleting shit in it.

thankyou.

I didn’t write too much tonight, but I managed to move a few sections around and make a few 3d scenes for rendering out some basic diagrams to illustrate some basic concepts.

This character isn’t meant to demonstrate anything other than foot placement and a basic walk cycle. So to that end It’s going to remain very simple. In later chapters more advanced looking characters will be used, but for the sake of simplicity a super simple character is going to be used. Modeling and rigging is done in Maya, and I’ll be providing an FBX through the GitHub server once that’s setup.

So at the moment I’m writing about writing. I’m hoping to get at least another 2000 words done by Sunday and I’ll be at my goal of about 5000 words a week.

I’ve been shifting gears a lot lately. At work I’m learning a ton of new C# code specific to the windows phone. Today I got started working with XNA on the windows phone and I have to admit I’m starting to want to get a windows phone, but I think I’ll wait till the windows 8 phones come out along with the wave of ne windows 8 tablets that have been promised.

Tonight I’m listening to some random Latin music on Grooveshark and wondering how much I’ll be spending in Japan, especially since my mom wants me to buy her a new iPad and a new 20x zoom point and shoot camera for the trip. Why do *I* have to get these things for her? and why did she call me asking if she should install ethernet for her vonage phone? I dont even know what a vonage phone looks like!

Anyway family techsupport issues aside, Jenna Marbles posted a new video which deserves a hit here and this one is pretty damn funny.

So I wrote in a Kinect chapter for about 1000 words, then I went into some setup chapter for another few hundred words and some screen shots. I didn’t get much done on Friday or Saturday, but I did do some work tonight being Sunday just before midnight. I’ve been trying to do at least one hour of work every week night, and at least that every night on the weekend. This is a big project and will require many hundreds of hours to complete. I hope if I can keep up this pace i’ll have enough written by this time next year for the new UDK book!

I started to go into a rant a little bit about the Kinect and it’s lack of fun games on the Xbox, but really, I do hope that games that are fun come out soon. I hate dance games, i really do. They’re not creative at all. As a matter of fact there is very little i find interesting about music and dance games in general. And so it seems, the rest of the game buying masses have throttled down their consumption of pretending to play music.