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New Orleans
The city that never sleeps. I’d forgotten about that little tag. We got in on Sunday night at 10, worried about finding a decent place to eat. We shouldn’t have. We got out of the hotel room on Royal Street and the city was as busy as if it were day. It turned out that…
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Second and third days of Siggraph exhibition
I have been thinking about updating this blog everyday since Wednesday night but the time and circumstances have consistently kept me away from my computer. The presentations of Vue 8 and talking to people about it continued on through those days. The most popular of my presentations was the ones about Vue in a Maya…
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First day of Siggraph exhibition
Forward: I wrote this on Tuesday and forgot to hit that all important publish button. So the yesterday that follows here is actually monday. Let me back up a little, to yesterday morning. Vladimir and I walked in, looking for the e-on software booth. We’d seen it several times on the map, but walking in…
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Getting ready for the show
We spent the day with the e-on software team, mostly standing around while they got the booth put together, then a meeting about what we would be showing off for Vue 8. They are great people and I can tell it is going to be fun working with them. An interesting thing was said in…
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First night in New Orleans
When I got to the little Boise airport yesterday, my carry on backpack with all my electronics, books, etc. got searched. And then the lady came back with the halva we’d brought for friends. What’s this? So I explained to her that it was a sweet treat from Russia made from the leftovers of sunflower…
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Getting there
My trip to Siggraph is perhaps one of the most indirect of anyone getting there. Yesterday I drove from my home in Utah to my parents home in Idaho and will be flying out of the Boise airport, meeting up with Vladimir back in Salt Lake to catch the flight to New Orleans. This plan,…
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Panic at the desktop
It’s well established that I’m a writer and a mom. This means that getting ready for work usually doesn’t involve more than brush teeth, shower, lotion, clothes. To get ready to look my best everyday, this morning I practiced adding in the other things, like killing my hair with heat blowdrying and curling my hair…
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More prep for Siggraph 2009
Before we get into the art that I’m working on, let me tell you about the beautiful art my four year old had been doing. First, walls make great canvases. But so do TVs. The preferable method for walls is marker. And for TVs it’s peanut butter. Make sure you sign your name, so mom…
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Siggraph preparation
I’ve been getting ready for Siggraph for several months, and now that preparation is wrapping up. I’m getting both excited and nervous. In a week we’ll be in New Orleans. I’ll be blogging and tweeting this from now till the end. So this Siggraph for me is woven through my life as a mom, a…
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George Bernard Shaw quote
I follow John Cusack, an actor I’ve loved since I was fifteen, on Twitter. He tends to tweet a lot of quotes, to the point that this morning I complained that his massive amounts of tweets had drowned out my real posse, a bunch of writers mostly and some other friends and my sister (none…