Classes over, Spring ’09

Hoorah hooray. I guess.

Things in engineering all went pretty smooth. B’s and A’s, it seems. But everything else seemed less than satisfying. Oh well, grades will be grades, and nothing better or worse.

I’m going to keep working on user interfaces. I need to develop some better context solutions for a digital canvas.

Planting all sorts of things in the garden. Most of them really neat flowers.

The last thing to mention is that I told someone I would illustrate a bunch of their characters in watercolor… I want to practice some advanced shading tricks that I’ve seen others use.

I was thinking of doing a website design contest, but man. I hate contests like that. People waste countless hours, the design is usually sub-par to what the client could have gotten and the designer could have created. The ambiguity is killing me. I wish that people would stop doing that kind of thing, bite the bullet, and just send out a request through the university pipes, asking for someone who is interested in design work to give them a call or something. I would totally go for that.

Much like obsessive OO design hierarchy, the problem with this stuff is that it’s next to impossible to decide how much work you should put in to different portions, and many times things just get lopsided or you have to spend extra resources reducing the problem in your head or on paper.

Okay, enough ranting. I need to get back to work. Raytheon might be contacting me any hour now.