-_- And now I'm going to see how well I can write with my eyes closed. I've been pretty lazy today, so that's how it's going to be. It's kinda interesting, trying to understand how you're making mistakes without seeing them. It's pretty easy when you're looking at them, but without sight, it's quite difficult. I won'der how blind people go about it. That reminds me of something that's kinda interesting to me: sight as a measure of good things. Not to dis on those who don't have good sight, but I think it's important that a person be ablet o see their world clearly. Without it, how can a person think, do, or react? I think that my eyesight is extremely important to me.I like hearing things like music or speech, but reading with my eyes is important and my thinking processes have almost melded with my eyes. Being able to make small changes is only available through sight. I assume there's a way to go about without sight, but I wouldn be interested to see the differences. My right index finger has been hurting since dinner. I don't know what I did to it, but I'm going to stop using it now. How does my spelling and typos increase as I lose a finger? My typing is certainly slower and it's harder for me to know if what I'm typing is right, but it seems to be working. But I don't now ecause I'm also blind as I type this. Odd isn't it? My father onc asked me if I had ever teied closing my eyes as an exercise, tring to find my way by touch and memory. I had, siince my stairwell is pretty dark when our light is out. It'sd interesting that a person loses a lot of mobility and thought when they are blind and injured or differently abled, but there always seems to be a way to do things. That is the human nature, to adapt to your life and environment. Given lemons or oranges, one can make a tasty fruit juice because our minds are not limited, but rather expanded by our limitations. Judt try to get me to draw a picture with nine fingers and no sight...
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What's up today? Not much. I slacked on all thinks important except for physics. Not only did I start my physics assignment three days early, I spent most of the day working on it. Why? Because that is the last thing needed to be done in that class. That means no more labs, no more lab write-ups, and happiness abound. I was unhappy with my busy-ness level anyway, so it worked out. No big rant tonight. If you want one, you know where to find them. Today, I will give you what you really want: a lesson!
I released AltSci3D Manga Director 4.19 today. This is no minor release, it's like a 1.0. It has all the features I need to do JF, so celebrations around. Or wait, I need to actually do the last two frigging pages of JF Scene 1 before we can really celebrate. It'll happen, I tell ya. I think I told you already, but I found something on the internet that blew away my perception on what kind of quality in JF I should be looking for. It was absolutely amazing. I won't link to it because the page said not to. If you really want the link, e-mail me. But I really want to do some major things with JF. I want to double the resolution, brighten the colors, space it out a lot more (bigger boxes, more pages), and use emotions if possible.
As I type this, I am ripping Evangelion Death and Rebirth. Why? Because I disrespect Anno Hideaki? The exact opposite. I love Evangelion so much that having bought the DVD, I want to rip it to my hard drive in Divx format so that I can play it whenever I want. I will not be trading this online in peer-to-peer networks for love or money. What I am doing is against the law, specifically the DMCA. It is quite unlikely that criminal charges will be filed against me because the MPAA is looking for heros like Joh Johanson, 2600, or the four programmers who index the networks. I am advocating and participating in this civil disobedience because the DMCA is not a just law. It is a law that attacks creative and productive individuals for creating extremely useful products which greatly help people who legally purchase media and simply wish to use that media fairly. For example, had DVD Jon not posted the DeCSS code on the internet, I would not be able to watch Evangelion (since I only run Linux and almost exclusively open source software), and thus I would not buy Evangelion. The MPAA has this inkling that a person will not buy a DVD because they can spend fifty hours downloading an extremely low quality version off the internet. Do the math, it's cheaper to buy the DVD. CDs on the other hand are much easier to trade in the form of mp3s and have decent quality. But that means that the RIAA has a perfect means of capitalizing on that market. Using low fee per song they could easily make money by providing a service (imagine that). They would continue their business without these costly lawsuits, lobbying, and bullying tactics that have bankrupted many legitimate businesses. Might I also add that their lawsuits have done nothing to dent the trade of music? Even the full destruction of all p2p services would not stop free trade of music. A DDOS attack on Dalnet? Darn, we switch over to another system. RIAA shuts down yet another college search system? Code one by hand. It only takes an hour to write a decent network crawler. Are they going to arrest everyone for writing software that looks for files? This is a very interesting repeat of the historical VCR lawsuit. People can copy movies with VCRs. VCRs should be illegal. VCRs are vital for many legitimate uses including security, history, and private fair use entertainment. And if you didn't know, the MPAA gets paid due to VCRs, let alone movie rental places. People use VCRs to copy tapes illegally, it's true. But I'd like to see VCRs illegalized. The MPAA would go down like a crazy bitch (not to insult crazy bitches), not to mention Blockbuster, Scarecrow, etc.
