March 7, 2003 - Friday

I forgot to mention the really funny thing that happened yesterday at the GDC. I was at this one booth, for a company called Semi Logic, and they were handing out these quizzes. If you did one, you'd get a free t-shirt. They had an artist's quiz, and one for programmers. They offered me one, and I figured, what the hell, I'll try. So I take the artists quiz, since my programming knowledge will fit comfortably inside an electron, with room for a new couch. Anyway, I take this quiz, thinking it'll have just general art questions ("what's a 2b pencil?"). God, I was soooo wrong. When they say "art" they mean "3-D rendering art master of all knowledge in this field". The quiz is all based on a familiarity with 3-d rendering. So I'm screwed, right? Nope, cause they say you can draw a picture on the back. ^^ So I did, but then I decided to take the quiz anyway, because I like inflicting pain on myself like that. There were about 15 questions or so, and I guessed on all but 2. Well, I guessed on those 2 as well, but they were more educated guesses. ^^ So I give the quiz back, and the guys giggle because a)I'm an actress and I took the quiz, and b)I actually drew something for them, and only 3 other people had done that. But then we all were surprised. Out of the 15 questions on the quiz, guess how many I got wrong. 4. That's right. Only 4 wrong. In a field I know nothing about. The booth guys were impressed. They accused me of knowing test takeing techniques, to which I replied that since I was a Theater Arts major, I don't take tests. ^^ They were impressed, I was impressed, and I got a free t-shirt (and the guy asked for my business card, too. ^^). I just thought that was funny. ^^ I guess I'm smarter than I look.

[^e^] - 9:33 AM PST

Old Friends Yep! It's Thinh! You guys remember Thinh?! Well, at least those who went to Yerba Buena Highschool. I bumped into him at the Game Developer's Conference. He was at the nVidia drawing contest. Man, the bastard won too. He got a GeForce 2000 FX workstation card. A friggin' $1700 card man!!! I hate him! I also drew at the contest but won nuthin'. All I got was a lousy shirt! Dang. But heck, it was good bumping into him. Still the same old Thinh man. Still drawing the same perverted stuff. And yeah. I saw Erin yesterady and the conference too. She had a lotta schwag on her. For some reason I really suck when it comes to collecting schwag at cons. I guess it's just what to do after you get all that stuff. Well, hope she gets a gig doing voices for video game characters. That would be so kewl. Check out her demo stuff on her site. She has a BA-YOO-TEE-FO voice. So tomorrow's the last day of the conference. I actually talked to more people than I did at previous conferences in the past. I've gotten more contacts too. I did kinda got more inspiration though. It was kinda like a energy that I felt from others that made me wanna do more creative stuff. It's like when you see something kewl and say, "Man, that's kewl! I wanna do stuff like that!" I never had that feeling for quite a while. Although losing that drawing contest kinda got me miffed. But I guess people don't like S.W.A.T. officers in high tech S.W.A.T. gear. Oh well, next year then.

[^o0Kynger0o^] - 11:21 PM PST

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