The derp factor rises as the attendance does.

"I need some software to make animations. Let's check out Autodesk 3DS Max", he says.

"Let's check out something else.", he says, after a brief glimpse at the price tag.

Not about to spend that on a application that will be used to create a silly, in-game animation.

My caffeine to hemoglobin ratio is weighted a little to heavily towards the latter.

Same flying. Same endless expanse. Just with a chat session on the second monitor. :)

Spent the evening streaming Elite Dangerous on Twitch. Had a nice chat with a few viewers. Very chill evening. I think I might have found my winter hobby.

Quite a few.

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Easing into the game streaming thing a bit more. Seems like something innocuous to keep me occupied over the winter months. By spring, I am sure I will be tired of it and ready to move on.

I think I still have a data dump of my LiveJournal from when BradFitz sold and everyone made an exodus. No clue why.

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I'm glad my initial, "you don't want to waste your time with this", assessment was correct. (It often isn't)

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I am so, so tempted to give AMD another shot. Haven't even considered them since the Athlon XP days.