holiday driveing

today i just drove home from my brothers house, on the news, before i left they reported that the cops were saying slow down. the bad weather and fast driving was causing many accidents. in truth i do not think it was the speed that was the problem. the problems come from drivers letting there egos get in the way when they are driving, altho the bad weather we have had does have an effect.

what happens is people get driving down the road then are passed by a ford, or a Suzuki, or a Chev and they decided there car can go faster. a good example happened to day as i was driving home.

this happened to 2 cars, one white truck and one green SUV, first thing that happened is a green SUV passed me in a nice passing lain up over the top of the mountain. shortly after the white truck started to pass me and the green SUV moved into the right lain. nothing weird about that the white truck even pass the green SUV. then the passing lain was over and for all intensive proposes they were out of my hair (not that i have any.)

the odd thing was that by the next passing lane as we went over the mountain i could still see the white truck and green SUV and guess what i saw the green SUV stated to pass the white truck and as far as i could see they 2 cars were racing each other from there. now all it would take from there is one patch of ice or even slush and on of those 2 cars to loose control and you could have a nasty accident.

another revers example is as i was driving up the canyon just as i was starting there was a car. i believe this car was thinking i was not driving properly because i was fallowing too close (i really was not that close but i was preparing to pass) the first passing lane he took up both passing lanes which i admit made me mad and started making me believe this guy was trying to slow me down for my own good, you know controlling others.

the next passing lane he pulled a staying in the left lane even with signs posted saying 'keep right except to pass'. i think that clinched it, that is when i knew he was playing with me some how, or he was a very bad driver. ether way i was not staying behind him. i also know it is better to pass some one than to stay behind them and start to drive angry. now i admit this was not good form on my side, but i passed him on the right side.

now i am not saying i did not do any thing wrong but after i had passed him the car kept up with me. meaning they were only slowing down because i was behind them and they were preventing me from passing for some reason i am not sure what it was, but i believe this was a ego trip. there are other times when people have ego trips, i know i have had some as well.

the point is that when you, or i have an ego trip we do things we would not normally do. many of these things are unsafe and dangerous in the best conditions but when you pull these tricks in bad weather it can be fatal.

Backcountry.com adventure party

what is there to say. i just got home from the backcountry adventure party and i am speechless. what a groups of freaks and weirdos, but i guess that is why i like working there and why i fit in so well. so our once a year company party was held at the Depot in salt lake city. most of the club was devoted to us. we had dinner and then parted the night a way. most of the reason most people go is just to get the stuff. and yes every one that comes to this party gets a gift to go home with. the employees get all kinds of fun stuff.

today i got a bag, a set of head phones, and a jacket. don't like the jacket so much but hay it was free and i bet some one at work will be willing to trade for it. (i kinda really don't like it but that is my luck and my life)

the other stuff every one got it was kinda cool. they passed out awards all over the place and we all had fun. the main reason this was done now is that in a month every one will be scrambling. trying to get every thing done. the next 3 months is backcountry's bizzest time of year. so here gos to the fun part and the next 3 weeks is a scramble for me then i am free of most of it. code freeze ain't it grand.

enough of my rambling
later

me and my shadow

today is a sad day. i just found out that i have lost my shadow. she was was my dog and she put to sleep some time in the last two weeks. between the last 2 rain storms we have had. my dad decided it would be best to take her to the vet and get her put to sleep. i really don't blame him. she was 16 years old very old for her size of dog. she was a medium small dog. and there really so many memories from that dog.

she was getting so old she, in the last rain storm she sat on the porch in the cold rain. my dad tried to get her to go into her dog house but she would not go. she refused and just went back up to her spot on the porch in the rain. so sad. i miss her but i know it was best for her.

the last time i saw her she was getting better she had all these big bumps and soars but she seemed to be getting better. i remember getting her she was just a puppy and my best friend at the time, dog had puppy's. she was just a mutt but she was mine. at the time we did not have a fence around the yard yet so we were afraid she would run away. so i traded her in the back stairwell with some chicken wire, some boards, and rocks to hold it down.

i made sure that she had food watter and a place to sleep down there for the night, and i guess she got board. she ran off that night. i don't remember how log it was tell she was found but she was wondering around the neighbor's empty lot when the neighbor found her. i don't know what happened to her in that time but not long after she was found we had the fence up. and i don't think she tried too hard to get out. i know it was escape proofed because of our other dog Fred, he always had to find a way out.

a few years after we found out she would not go out of the fence. i think we had scared/trained her to not go out of the fence (more the first than the second). but she was a good dog. she was happy and had a good life i think. (well she did live to 16 that is unusual for a dog) when they get that old they start to get senile.

in the end she had become my dad's dog. some one for him to visit when he was outside. some one that loved attention and would search for it any time she could. now thinking back i hope she had a good life, and that she still loves us even after all that we have done to her.

i really loved my shadow.

later

Random brain ideas

here is a random idea.

what if the brain is like a dual core processor, two streams of information that go through the same unit whit 2 different purposes. except unlike the processor the mind and devote different amounts of processing power to each, ie. brain waves. the idea is that the 2 parts of the mind the subconscious and conscious mind process different kinds of things. it is known that the subconscious mind interprets body signals, and much non verbal communications.

so inside our mind we have 2 sets of brain waves (who knows if that is true but that is the idea). one being the conscious mind and the other being the subconscious mind. now in each one of us the balance between the subconscious and conscious mind tend to be equal. but in some the conscious mind has more processing power than the subconscious. this would cause people like geeks and nerds. people that are good at thinking things but not so good at interacting whit people.

if that is true then the reverse is probably true. some one that is great at interacting whit people (to the point they can begin to predict how the people will react before they do), but when it comes to thinking it becomes much harder for them to do. so there are the normal cases then you can get into the extreme cases like autism in which they have amazing thinking power but they are unable to interact with people but on the most basic level.

now if you take that into account would it be possible to nudge the brain waives in someones mind to more favor the subconscious or the conscious mind. changing there abilities in that area. able to think clearer or be able to interact with people more easily. now the problem here is if you begin to start nudging the brain waves you could change some one to be more out going but that would take away the conscious thinking power.

now i am not say it is not possible for some one that favors the thinking mind to interact, but it becomes more more difficult to do so. because something that the subconscious mind does by instinct that person begins to have to think their way through it, because the subconscious mind no longer has the processing power to do.

OK that is enough of my rambling
later

Spore

spore!

what else is there to say. this looks like just a cool game that any one will be able to play.
o i aught to put in a link SPORE
now that site does not do it justice. but this is the kind of game i like. one that you can play many times tell you are sick of it then come back and play it some more months to years later because the game will have changed by that time.
this game was made by the same company that maid Sim city, and the Sims, and that is the kind of game it is a sim-ulation not of a city or someone's life it is a simulation of life it's self. a simulation of how life progresses and continues to progress today.
in it you start as a single cell organism, tell you reach an animal state, then you progress to the intelligence(human) state, progress to a civilization state, then on to conquest and exploration of the galaxy.
but that is not all as you progress you run into other creatures/races and of theses all/most (they are unclear on this part) are created by other players as they have played the game in their own time.
this to me is a new innovated and dynamic game and i can not wait for this to come out.
later
-rusty

new place new dreams

so i have not written in a long time the reason is that it took all of last month to move. but tomorrow i get out of the rat hole. i am so happy. a new place new dreams, well new place same old dreams. this time off allowed me to think about what i want and how i want to do it, at least for the story fusion site.
so the begging design is set and it is now time to start coding i will get back to you when i get the chance

wouldn't it be cool if...

wouldn't it be cool if to control a game you could actually control parts of the charter's body. so like the set up would be like it is now wasd, and the mouse. one button on the mouse would be an action. but when you move the mouse it is more like moving a head. you can only move the head so far to the left and right and up and down. when you move your head it changes your view as well as let you see you body in front of you like you are looking through the eyes of the charter.
but that is not all when you press and hold another button on the mouse and the mouse now controls the waist you pull back and your charter leans back. push forward and you can get to a point that you are actually leaning down. what makes it fun is if you hit back and jump at the same time you will jump backwards, i know wow i can do that now. but with the waist control you jump back and lean back you you will do a back flip increasing you range of motion, note the same with the other directions you can do cart weals and summer salts all those fun things.
another part is that to attack will take two hits to the action button one to ready the weapon and the other to actually attack. but then with this more complex system you can end up doing things like stepping into someone and pushing them over.
i don't know this is just a thought that popped into my head tonight. would it not be cool to be able to run on walls, be able to roll with the punches, and even be tripped up by doing too many things at once or even by a rock that is sitting on the ground if you hit it just right.
i know most of this is a pipe dream but if any one knows any game that is like this, please tell me. i would love to find out what is out there and see how the gaming community is developing in this way.

coding slowly

progress is slow...
i know if you wanted to do it you would have it done by now. i have one slight problem, i have to do it right the first time. where is the problem with that? there are so many right ways that i have a problem deciding. see that is part of what spawned this endeavour. a series of stories i need to write that are all about "what if?" and that is just where my mind gets stuck most of the time what if this what if that. if one of them is a bad decision then i will be kicking my self later for it.
any way working on learning cgi and seeing where that will take me, hopefully it will take me far. all i can do is keep working. oh i should note another reason why i am slow. i work on up-keeping a website for a living.
when you get home i usually just want a break from code...

The Begging of it All

And it began. Well to tell the truth it began a few years ago with a story idea. A story that others contribute to, to continue the story, and now it has evolved to the idea for a site where people can contribute their own stories to share with the world. right now this site is in it's infancy. the site has begun to be constructed and planed out. now comes the work to program it...
yea i know that is not hard but at times it is when you are trying to do it in your own time and you have so many other things you could be doing. that is when distraction can take root and ruin a project. not to menchen i have other asperations in my life that will conflict with this. what can i say some times:

you got to do what you got to do.

yea I know i am a Futurama freak get over it.

that is all..
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