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Here’s an awesome little webpage I found the other day on www.digg.com and spent a good hour or so fooling around with. I’m incredibly impressed by how inutitive the designer has made sketching in 3D. The only thing I think it’s missing is a zoom control.

Anyways, this great little applet lets you sketch a design in 2D and then it creates a 3D model from what you’ve drawn. The controls couldn’t be easier: Left click to draw, right click to rotate. If you want to attach an object to another object draw the shape of the connection and it enters “extrude” mode. then you can rotate the image and draw the shape to be attached.

Anyways, here’s the link to part of Takeo Igarashi’s site Teddy: A Sketching Interface for 3D Freeform Design .

Apparently he has created a newer version that lets you colour the 3D object as well but it must be downloaded. It’s available here (SmoothTeddy).

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Ok, so after having lived in our free Korean apartment for seven and a half months we finally decided to test out the mysterious device sitting atop the bowl of our toilet. I figured the safest way would be to put cling film over the top and just let ‘er rip.

So we set it all up and tested her out, I’ll let you have a look at the video instead of trying to describe what happened exactly. By the way, that’s me laughing like Kermit the Frog.

Google video in a new window and Download Here

So, all in all, the bidet gets a mediocre C in the water temperature category delivering a luke warm stream. It gets a B+ in ease of use, though I’m still puzzled by the flower knob. But blows the competition out of the water (pun not intended and then later intended) with a massive A+ managing to soak the ceiling above the coat closet in our hallway.

Just thought I’d drop this quick post to help out some bboys and bgirls who visit my blog. This is the final battle from BOTY Korea 2006.

Drifters vs Rivers

Drifters won and will go on to compete at BOTY Germany

It’s technically no longer summer but it’s 25 bloody degrees out and I’m in here freezing my butt off. We had the aircon (it’s easier for Koreans to say than air conditioner) set at 24 and let me tell you that for such a tiny little box it’s done a hell of a job of turning our
apartment into an ice box. Maybe it’s my terrible blood circulation but until I just put socks and a sweater on I think my feet were about to fall off.

Anyways, I’ve been worrying a bit about the future recently and reading some job/financial blogs recently. Namely raganwald2.0 who is a very well spoken person in the tech field. It’s gotten me thinking about whether I want to try and get a tech job right when I get home and start moving up in their company as Az and Tony are both doing at their jobs. Or whether I want to go back to university and earn a masters degree, as I’m really excited about the field of HCI (or Human Computer Interaction).

Even though I miss all my friends from back home and can’t wait to see them all again I’ve still got the travel bug and want to see more of the world. The thing that bothers me essentially is that I love travelling and meeting new people but I’m also excited to get a job in tech and start coding or designing things. Unfortunately, as far as I know these two passions do not overlap very well and there is very little demand for wandering hobo-coders.

So my goal here is to strike a balance between the two and find a job that allows or encourages travel and is also tech based. Any suggestions or encouragements would be well appreciated.

Cheers

technorati tags:hci, masters, technology, computer, science, travel, job