| July 22 ,1997 | |||||||||||||||
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| Dye | |
12:53 am
The white dot is no longer visible on my eye. I'm going to wear my contact lenses tomorrow, after cleaning them off
extra carefully. I'm not sure what I like more about contacts, the absence of a thing sitting on my nose, or the ability
to see out of the corners of my eyes? These past few days I've noticed exactly how much I look sideways. It always seemed
like such a waste to swivel my entire head just to see something that wasn't straight ahead. When you're wearing glasses, you
have no choice; when you look sideways all you see is blur. Contact lenses let you glance around furtively. Sometimes they fall out
if you look too far to the side, though.
Looking at someone without them knowing that you were looking at them comes in handy all the time. There are lots of inventions which were made especially for that. One way mirrors, Periscopes, closed circuit TV, hidden cameras, tinted windows, sunglasses, spy satellites, telescopic gunsights... contact lenses? Sure. You can't wear sunglasses and normal glasses at the same time. Can't look sideways wearing normal glasses. Can't use a sniper sight real effectively. | |
| The Orb | |
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Today I stayed in the house mostly, writing my newest resume. After a while I got sick of writing about all the stupid things
I know how to do, so I played Descent II for a while, using the space orb 360 controller. It's an interesting way to interface,
the orb itself is a little rubberized sphere. You can twist and slide the sphere in all directions, giving you 6 analog ranges of movement (twist X,Y,Z, slide X,Y,Z).
It takes a little getting used to, so it comes with a little tutorial on CD. Your guide through the tutorial is a malevolent looking spherical head
named 'Orbus' who commands you to do different things to get used to the orb. In fact, Orbus looks a lot like the rubber ball part of the controller.
It makes me want to paint a little face on the controller and give it a name. Eh, I know more names for my things than for people.
Geez... today I am just blank. I have been concentrating on writing this MIDI song, 2nd Reality, which was originally by Purple Motion of the Future Crew. I'm nowhere near finished, but you learn a lot by taking apart something by someone as talented as PM. It's kind of sickening, though, seeing someone as skilled as he is who is exactly the same age as me... he wrote 2nd Reality when he was 17. I'd better work on it some more, I'm at least 4 years behind. |
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