#MartinF's a Virgin! eh?
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hello all,
as of today, I'm a Virgin! ….. a Virgin employee, that is <g>
I just wanted to let anyone who gives a tinker's cuss that I started working
for Virgin Interactive Entertainment today. In the highly respected position of
… <fanfare>… lead 3D ferret-strangler! (with a chance of promotion to
tea-lady within 6 months if things go well).
Following months of negotiation, thousands of cups of tea and chocolate
digestive biscuits, Richard (Branson, you fools) and I came to an employment
agreement ….
Sorry, it wasn't really that exciting and I never met Richard, but I heard he
likes tea and I got carried away – the product of an overactive imagination
<g>.
Anyway, seriously "Animatrix" lives on and this doesn't mean you should all
stop sending me money, or work offers, or both. There's 168 billable hours in a
week (336 using LZW compression) and Virgin's only getting about 40, my wife
gets 7, the cat 3, the dogs 2. That leaves …. duh …. duh ….. well, quite
a lot for other work, so there's no excuse for ignoring me. OK? Good.
stroll on.
Martin
Martin:
Congrats, mate! Sounds like too much fun to handle! Does that mean that
you'll be staying around for a bit longer? I was afraid we'd loose you to
Zephyr-Down-Under or something!
Greg Pyros
PS – But that still doesn't excuse you from not attending our 3DS User's group
meeting last Saturday!
Martin
Are you going to be doing 'toons for those tiny TV;s on Virgin Air? 30×20
should be good enough<G>
Congrats!
TedB
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Ted,
>> Are you going to be doing 'toons for those tiny TV;s on Virgin Air? <<
naw, Ted. That must be some other division <g>. I'll be working on games for
PC-cdrom and the new 32-bit/64-bit game platforms (Sega, Sony, Nintendo etc)
Hi Martin…
Congrats……
Harry D….
Harry,
>> Congrats……<<
thanks. What are you doing these days?
Hi Martin..
I'm working for Suburban Cable Tv doing graphics I finialy got 3DS R3
about a month ago and Im in love <g>… I also have written a chapter for a
book called PC Graphics Unleashed , that will be out in Nov on Computer
Painting Tech. I just got 3ds Special Effects yesterday I like the Bottle
<g>… Gotta go Im cooking dinner and the wifes hungry <g> Gotta feed her or
she'll un plug my machine <g>..
Talk to ya later..
Harry D.
Harry,
>> I'm working for Suburban Cable Tv doing graphics <<
congrats! Hope to see more of you around the forum here.
Hi Martin!
Congratulations!!
I'm jealous! (g) That's great though, I'm sure you'll do very well.
Cheers!
Alex K.
Alek,
>> Congratulations!! <<
thanks very much. things are going quite well.
Martin,
Congrats. Could you fire off your latest phone# (since the house sold)
to me for referral purposes?
Kevin Krell – Computer Support Associates
>> I'm a Virgin!
Congrats!!! Sounds like a great opportunity. (But… what ever happened to
your thoughts on the corporate thumb?!?)
– Dave
David,
>> (But… what ever happened to your thoughts on the corporate thumb <<
Well, if you know anything about Richard Branson (Virgin founder) and his style
then you'd realise it's not your average American corporation. There's a lot
more flexibility than most, but if not ….. I'll be a freelancer again 🙂
>> it's not your average American corporation
Sounds like a real winner!! Best of luck with it.
David,
>> Sounds like a real winner!! Best of luck with it.<<
thanks very much 🙂
Yeehaawww!
sounds like you'll be in a position to abuse as many ferrets as you like <g>.
I've heard they've got those new robotic armature, servo controlled 3D ferret
real-time input devices on every desk at Virgin… or is that only on YOUR
desk?
John Tissavary | LUNA cie, inc
John,
>> I've heard they've got those new robotic armature, servo controlled 3D
ferret real-time input devices on every desk at Virgin… or is that only on
YOUR desk? <<
Not everybody gets the ferret work. The really senior people get gerbils and a
training session from Richard Gere <g>.
Thanks, Martin and John T! My mood heretofore was entirely too somber!<BG>
Connie
Connie,
>> My mood heretofore was entirely too somber!<BG> <<
I hope that means we amused you. I try to inject some levity whenever I can 🙂
Martin –
Congratulations! You're already able to animate images the size of a postage
stamp in your current line of work – what will Virgin have you doing with
ferrets??!!! Sounds kinda kinky to me. . . <BG>
Best o'luck. (
Don't let your PAR gather dust, though – or give me a special deal on a
slightly used unit!)
bob
Bob,
>> what will Virgin have you doing with ferrets??!!! Sounds kinda kinky to me.
<<
if I do really well, I'll get promoted to director of sheep-shagging. However,
the competition is really stiff from the New Zealanders who have a huge
advantage in that field <G>.
Go get dem ferrets, boy!
Wade,
>> Go get dem ferrets, boy! <<
yeeehaw! <g>
Way to go, Martin! 🙂
Now, let me open this e-bottle of Dom Perignon <bg>
ana /krazy images
Ana,
>> Now, let me open this e-bottle of Dom Perignon <bg> <<
I'll drink to that! BTW, where've you been? I haven't seen you around the forum
for a while ….
I am always here. I don't have nothing to say, though <g> Or have a lot of
things to say but little time to do it. Or who knows? Maybe I am tried about
all this modem thing <bg> Maybe I have found too many unpleasant experiences
online that keep my mouth closed.
I was in europe two weeks ago, if that's what you mean, but I was connected to
Compuserve throught a Powerbook there. However, it was not time to write about
anything 🙁
Well, I will say something interesting I found today on Byte: With 345,000
PowerMacintosh computers sold in just four months since its introducion, Apple
computer has become the largest RISC-based workstation manufacturer on Earth.
ana /krazy images
ps. I bet that you can see the random dot stereogram wishlist item for r5 I
have attached in this reply <g>
Ana,
>> Maybe I have found too many unpleasant experiences online that keep my mouth
closed. <<
sorry to hear that 🙁 It can get unpleasant around here sometimes, but overall
I like it – I must like it I've been a regular for 3.5 years now 🙂
I hope you had a good time in Europe. I needed 3 weeks rest in the USA to
recover from my 5 weeks trip to Europe <G>.
>> Apple computer has become the largest RISC-based workstation manufacturer on
Earth. <<
Sounds good. Although, it's not difficult since RISC systems sell in such small
numbers compared to CISC. Over at Virgin I don't think anybody has PowerMACs –
they are still using Quadra's for Photoshop.
My point about Apple being the largest RISC manufacturer in the world (because
they have the cheapest systems and other nice features 🙂 is not to say that
they will kill CISC (at least, not the PowerMac alone <g>) but that they
represent the biggest chunk of the RISC market, and that's something very
significant in marketing terms. This is something that we could speculate
about, but the people at Wall Street seems to have no doubt about Apple's
future. The company's net profits were $144.6m, compared with just $2.7m last
time, on turnover up 16.5% at $2,493.4m. Net profit for the year to September
30 rose 258% to $310.2m after a net gain of $78.7m to
reverse part of a restructuring charge this time, and a net restructuring
charge of $198.9m last, on turnover that rose 15.2% at $9.188.7m. Net earnings
per share was $0.95, up from just $0.02 last time in the quarter, and rose 257%
to $2.61 in the year. (bwahaha, yes, this has been a quote, but I bet that it
has surprised you <BG>)
What all this economical chat mean? Simply, with over 600,000 machines sold in
7 months, the PowerMac is not something to laugh about. And if you compare this
number with the numbers of any other new architecture sold during that first-7
month period in the last two decades… well, you will be surprised. Indeed,
the PowerPC chip is being the most succesful chip in the story of computing.
Now, I only hope it continues that way.
So I will say it with Bela Lugosi's voice : "Beware of the PowerMac, Beware!"
<g>
ana /krazy images
Ana,
>> Net profit for the year to September 30 rose 258% to $310.2m after a net
gain of $78.7m …. <<
So, you are saying I should buy shares in Apple? <g>. Maybe I will 🙂
I like Apples. I always have. I used to eat one every day when I was growing
up. Macintoshes are great too. I say: "take one with you whenever it's raining
– and an umbrella as backup" <G>.
But seriously, I do use Quadra's a little bit in my game work and believe that
Powermac's will be very successful as long as the software developers go that
route – I think they are. Personally, I will go with whatever platform my
software supports. This year I've used PC's, Quadras, and SGI Indy's – I'm not
particularly loyal to a machine. Software is different though.
.
tools-loyalty
.
100% agree 🙂
ana /krazy images
Hey Ana!
Haven't talked to you in a while. How are things? Everything is great on this
end. Just wanted to ask you if you've been using Puppeteer because I'm trying
to figure out how to assign a motion file to a mesh. Have you had any
experiences with the program?
Are you still in Miami? Let me know, maybe we can get together sometime.
Talk to you later.
Alex K.