I'm doing seasonal work in the fields and it's coming up to harvest time for some of the fruits I'll be picking, and it sometimes feels like I'll never get the time to do anything creative again. (Having to wake up at 4AM sucks... though not as much as having to be in bed by 9 PM).

What's more, I'm amazed to find out that I haven't fired up Poser in just over a month (Christmas Eve to be precise) and although that's partly due to hardware problems -- a grumpy video-card that doesn't play well with others - mostly the reason for my slackness is... broadband.

Ironically, finding new content for Poser was the main impetus in my deciding to get broadband in the first place, and to be fair, that part has succeeded beyond my wildest dreams. I've pretty much plundered the known net for freebies, but I've been too busy finding things to actually use them.  Add to that distracting little time-wasters like YouTube & Wikipedia (now *there* is a bad idea - let someone like me (who loves to sound off about any topic under the sun) loose on a freely-editable encyclopedia.) and before I know it, I've let another day slip by.

AAAAUUUUUGGGGHH!  >pant<  >pant<  >pant<

Anyhoo... time to stop the rot.  The good thing about fieldwork is the pay -- so once I've accumulated enough cash, I am gonna buy a new PC purely for CGI work in general and Poser in particular. My current machine will be the only one linked to the net.  With two machines, I can design and render with one as I surf with the other.  Hopefully.

Enough of my little rant. Had to write it down somewhere, thought it might as well be here.

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Am I the only one who thinks they named it Windows because it is a major pane? BA-DUM BOOM!!

It's not only your problem Groucho, actually my inspiration is at a very low level and I've things in real life that stop me to do something beautiful. I use my Poser-time trying to learn some techniques and features of the programs... I've just found the "Morphing tool" thing in Poser and passed the evening testing it with Posy   ... Boradband is good, I can't go back to dial up. I can even use online phone and conferences call with my friends with skype and not talking of the online games ...

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I heard other people use his or her Poser-time trying to learn some techniques and features of the programs too.  Only just? How did you feel when you found the Morphing tool thing in Poser and passed the evening testing it with you heartbeat ? How far up?  Oh you can, can you?

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I won the Loebner prize !

Ok honey  

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Oh, you are a poet.

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I won the Loebner prize !

I do exactly know, how you feel
Not two month ago I had been working with Poser3, an old P III 500 with windows NT4 and a dial up 56k, it was realy relaxing. My equipment wasn't faster than me .
Now I'm on Poser6, a brand new computer, and broadband, too. I feel like riding a rocket , and am not completely shure if I should be happy about it   

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Know how you feel....

Broadband at work, broadband at home... not enough time to spend on the net doing... um, just stuff

I feel like an impostor here, even though I'm an old hand. I haven't been around for a while, work, family, etc. And I don't even have Poser loaded on my new machine after six months. It's just sitting there patiently in its box, waiting to be loaded. Version 6 for goodness sake!

And the WWW. Too much to read, too much to look at. At least with dial-up you could get some work done while you waited for the downloads to finish, now it's so quick you're playing with the latest toy while the next one, two, three, four.... arrive at the same time. DVD after DVD of backups, never opened and hardly looked at.

I just purchased a 500gb external backup drive and I've half filled it with just my DVD backups so far.

But still, if someone took away my broadband, I'd just shrivel away

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Computer Lie #1: You'll never use all that disk space.

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound as they fly by." - Douglas Adams

Hi Ozy !
Good to see you kickin in from time to time

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You just never know when I'll turn up.

Like to keep people guessing  

It's good to be back again

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Computer Lie #1: You'll never use all that disk space.

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound as they fly by." - Douglas Adams

Yup... My latest fatal mistake is finding a site called the Internet Archives, which has THOUSANDS of public domain films from the beginning of the 20th Century onwards... including a lot of Public Service stuff from the '30's, '40's & '50's that are just hilarious in their earnest ineptness... Though the 'highly optimistic' Cold War advice films like 'Duck and Cover' and 'About Fallout" are sobering in their stupidity.

(And if you ever wondered where some of the inspiration for "Hi... I'm Troy McClure!" from The Simpsons came from, look no further... particularly in the episode "Duffless", the one where Homer has to go to Driver's Ed class and almost falls off his chair laughing while watching a "Red Asphalt"-like shockumentary!)

GrouchoC.

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Am I the only one who thinks they named it Windows because it is a major pane? BA-DUM BOOM!!

(link?)

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Well, okay... but:

WARNING!  This site can be really addictive!

Internet Archive - Images, Sounds, Text... A Treasure Trove

Did I mention it can be addictive?

GrouchoC

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Am I the only one who thinks they named it Windows because it is a major pane? BA-DUM BOOM!!

Thanks a lot (I love beeing addicted, sometimes ) !

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I think I'm falling asleep.

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Quick (tiny) list of some of the full-length Public Domain films in their film section

A Walk in the Sun
Ace Drummond [SERIAL]
Adventures Of Smilin' Jack [SERIAL]
Angel and the Badman (John Wayne)
Atom Age Vampire
Attack of the Giant Leeches [Roger Corman movie]
Beat The Devil (Humphrey Bogart)
Battleship Potempkin
Buster Keaton movies - many (YAY!)
The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari
Charlie Chaplin movies - many
D.O.A. (Edmond O'Brien version)
Dick Tracy {SERIAL]
The Fatal Glass of Beer (W.C. Fields) (YAY!)
Flash Gordon Conquers The Universe [SERIAL]
His Girl Friday (Cary Grant - a true classic screwball comedy!)
Le Voyage dan la Lune (THE FIRST SF MOVIE... Waaay back when!)
M (Peter Lorre - Fritz Lang's classic master-piece)
Mask Of Zorro (Douglas Fairbanks)
McLintock (John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara)
My Favorite Brunette (Bob Hope)
My Man Godfrey (Screwvball comedy...!)
Night Of The Living Dead (1967) (The ORIGINAL!)
Nosferatu (classic silent vampire movie...)
The Outlaw (Jane Russell!)
Pools Sharks (W.C. Fields!)
Private SNAFU cartoons [SERIES] WWII US Training Films
Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa's break-out classic)
Reefer Madness (So Bad, It's GREAT!)
Santa Claus Conquers The Martians (WHAT THE...?)
Sex Madness (From the mindset that brought you 'Reefer Madness'!!!)
The 39 Steps (Hitchcock)
The Last Man on Earth (Vincent Price)
The Little Shop of Horrors (Original Corman version)
The Memphis Belle - Story Of A Flying Fortress (1944) - CLASSIC WWII Documentary
The Stranger (Orson Welles)
Things To Come (SF Classic)
The Werewolf Of Washington (1973)

Plus thousands of educational videos, newsreels, machinanima, sports, classic cartoons, music videos, news archives, news-reels, documentaries...

And the Open Source part of the site - which is like what YouTube would look like if YouTube was on steriods and cocaine at the same time...! (WARNING: ADULT CONTENT ON OCCASION!!)

All of this is just the video side of the site.  There is also e-texts, software and audio libraries as well.

ALL IN PUBLIC DOMAIN

(I DID say it was addictive!)

GrouchoC

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Am I the only one who thinks they named it Windows because it is a major pane? BA-DUM BOOM!!