Do it now or do it later

Working on a project over a long period of time will involve more playing, smoother troubleshooting and less frustration. Doing it in the last few days requires me to work more efficiently, but is less enjoyable. It's hard to start anything without pressure though. How will results be different? it's hard to say, since the project can only happen one way, however it ends up happening. We know I'm going to end up doing it later.

iPad

This guy is excited about it.

I think my chair in digital may be faulty. It keeps mysteriously dropping during class.

first person, mixed tenses, referral to reader.

How to get to that particular mental place where I can "see"....It's like when you are in "flow" when you are completely in tune with the task, and you don't notice other things that are going on around, but instead of working on something specific I could just be walking and see the way things connect, their structure as if it were a drawing or sculpture I'm working on.

some little skiing

here's some footage that was gathered last Sunday. There's also some Daft Punk. It seems to be chopped off by blogger, so maybe click the title in the top left corner to just watch it on youtube.

problems

I couldn't figure out how to meter the wide angle camera or how to change the shutter speed annnnd my negatives ended up super duper dense.

I need a drive around to pick some things up.

Also I need my metal to arrive in the sculpture studio.

CS4 is currently out of stock at cpc at mun.

Things aren't running smoothly.

Maybe I'll just go skiing.

humour (from the desk of Bob Mankoff)

Dear Laughter Lovers, The word humor comes from humorem, the Latin word for fluid, and originally had as much to do with funny as the aqueous and vitreous humors of the eye. Nothing funny there at all, except the Canal of Schlemm which, as you can see by looking at the diagram, I’m not making up.

Schlemm rhymes with phlegm—one of the four humors (along with black and yellow bile and blood) that in ancient times were thought to determine a person’s health. The four humors had to be in proper balance in the body. This was the heyday of “humoral medicine,” when everyone had the same health-care plan: none. Just as well, because the basic advice from your health-care provider would be, “Take two leeches and call me in the morning.” In which case it would be more likely that the leeches would be around in the morning than you. Humoral medicine eventually morphed into humoral psychology. Having your humors out of whack could make you dull, tetchy, overly hopeful, or a sourpuss.

These characterological deviants were called “humorists,” and the people who mocked them were called “men of humor.” I know, I know, it should be the other way around, and in due time it was. In the interim, the idea caught on that by throwing odd characters together on the stage, or in a book, you would have the ingredients of comic conflict.

Conflict between different personality types is unpleasant in personal life but funny when exaggerated for comic effect. Think “The Odd Couple,” “Married with Children,” or these New Yorker cartoons.

The formula for this type of play, a comedy of humors based on characters who were caricatures of themselves, was nicely expressed by Ben Johnson concerning his play “Every Man Out of His Humor,” an amazing tour de force, considering it was performed without the benefit of the letter “U.”

Some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw All his affects, his spirits, and his powers, In their confluctions, all to run one way. Confluctions, eh? Probably nothing to worry about, but take two leeches and call me in the morning. Yours in good humor,