05/25/06
Last night I took some cute pictures of Sean and his newest school project: a sail boat made
from a votif candle, a straw, some play-doh and construction paper. There are also photographs
of our ever growing garden thanks's to Sean's enthusiasm and green thumb. Unfortunately my
computer is still grinding away at a big render and Bryce and Photoshop don't play
nicely together. The render, which I will also post tonight, is at 86% complete for the final
stage (anti-aliasing).
Sean has learned how to bring up the pictures in the camera to preview them on the back
screen. I think pretty soon he'll be taking photographs himself. He could probably do it
now if I let him but I'm worried about the camera being dropped.
Don't Try to Open 270 Files at Once:
Last night while I was waiting for the render to finish I was working on fixing a set of
text files that had somehow gotten their numbering really scrambled. Since each file is only
4K in size, I selected the whole lot to open and hopefully batch fix. A few 4K files are
no problem but 270 files at once lead to an hour of slowly opening files. They never did
all open. I could hear my computer seriously thinking about crashing to avoid doing whatever
harebrained task I had planned for it. I decided to give up and go to bed. So I forced quit
the process and let me poor computer rest. Mind you, this was more than an hour past my bed
time!
Steps: 4500 
