CompuServe Messages

Jeez, I hate it when people agree with me. :^) Let me dream for a second: There I am with 8000 frames to render, its 2:00 pm, I need the animation for a board meeting of the XYZ corporation in the morning, and I need it on tape, and in enough quantity to pass out a copy to each of the 12 board members. No sweat, the frames render in 1.5 mins on the Alphas instead of 5 mins on the Pentium. I have 80 workstations available to network render so the completed animation will be done in 2.5 hours which puts me at 4:30 pm. I need to make 12 copies of my final product so I have all of the frames rendered directly to the PAR drive which I then record great quality first generation tapes for each board member. The animation is just short of 5 mins so the recording is done just before quitting time at 5:30 pm. I go off to the beach in time to catch a couple of 2-man beach volleyball games as the sun sets on another easy ALPHA kinda day. Please don't bring me back to Intel reality!