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RailsConf 2006
Thursday, June 29, 2006
That was awesome. I've never met so many intelligent, ambitious, and just plain appealing people in such a short amount of time. I received a lot of the kind of advice and inspiration I'm always looking for as well as a couple major epiphanies. Truly - all the galaxies have once again realigned themselves in my small, turbulent mind ;). Being exposed to all that greatness, I now feel a kind of pounding regret from already having wasted so much time not doing what I now wish I had done. Ahh!!
I'm too busy at this moment to do a complete overview of what I got out of the conference (there's also the Getting Real workshop and the Rails Studio I've been meaning to write about) so for now, I'll just briefly mention my favorite part.
Out of the 550 attendees at RailsConf, only about 10 were women, so one night we gathered together for dinner where we pretty much laid out all our plans to take over the world the industry :). Well, that's not it completely, but there are many ideas and many plans that will definitely change things once enacted. Getting a glimpse into those strong and passionate and beautiful minds, I knew. This is where I wanted to be.
My mind rendered completely open. Completely and totally opened and my ambitions split apart. Once I'm put back together, I promise you. It's gonna be great.
But not great enough to prevent me from making these silly, barely-related drawings :D
More to come
Engaging the core
Monday, June 12, 2006
I'm really loving my three classes at COD so far. Cardio kickboxing is bliss - I would do this every semester for the rest of my life if I could. Something about immersing fully in high-intensity routines makes me feel so good about life ;D.
Eventually, I'll have to go back to karate - it's really become a family thing with my dad who's just earned a black belt in Tang Soo Do, Weien who's only a couple belts behind, and my mom who's at about the level at which I stopped (green belt w/stripe). But I have to say, cardio kickboxing is so much more enjoyable. No big tests or memorizing of moves and terminology, no intimidating high-degree masters noticing every little thing you do, no huge weight of honor and legacy and ranking to be upheld... just fitness and having fun.
Anyway, I'm thankful I started seriously working out a month before the class started because they're really extreme workouts; you're pretty much in a constant jumping-up-and-down while punching and kicking for an hour, then toning/weight-training for an hour. It actually reminds me a lot of Kinetic, even down to the vague techno/house/R&B music and stretching sequences.
My 'Programming Logic & Technique' class rocks xD~ I'm having way too much fun beating myself up and thinking I'm better than I really am. After agonizing and feeling totally pitiful for several minutes while trying to modify this simple robot-moving program, I was finally able to cut it down to be 4 lines shorter than the class example - angels sang in every cell of my body, if that gives you any idea of how much it pumps me up :]. Also, my professor is weird and freaky and tells hilarious unrelated stories every chance he gets. I love it. I'm really looking forward to taking more CIS classes this year.
Intro to Lit is a nice, happy discussion-circle class which is great; I haven't had one of those in a while and it's always invigorating to be in a big idea-sharing kind of setting.
Jogging - I discovered last weekend that I'm already able to run all the way downtown without slowing down :D. I realized that I always get tired right about at the one mile mark and that's when I feel like stopping, but if I just keep going, I feel energetic again and at two miles I'm still fine. I guess my new goal for summer is to the end of the riverwalk and back :D.
Time for a sketch dump~! (Some of these you can click for a higher-res version)
Logo for the wedding of my friends Vanessa and Tim
It was used on the invitations
Queen Scheherazade from Arabian Nights, drawn for the Daily Sketch Forum
x10
Though I couldn't make it to the annual Christmas conference for IBLP staff last year, the video department asked me to create a series of 10 cartoons for the intro of the video they always show at the end of the conference. You can view the finished product here. I had no idea they were going to attempt to animate everything! They did an amazing job; I'm told that applause broke out once the intro was over :].
John's bday!
Tony's bday!
It's kind of weird, but - what style I use when drawing bday cards depends mostly on the mood I happen to be in when I'm drawing them, not on the recipient ^^.
Just randomness
Experimentation, don't ask me what it means or anything
More experimentation
Just one more week till RailsConf <3! That's probably what I'll be writing about next.