I want it all, and I want it now.

Save me from what I want

I made a rough logo design for that software project my friend is working on yesterday. I e-mailed him a GIF of what I had done so far, asking him to let me know what I should change.

The products name is going to be named "ajax charts", and I only remembered the "ajax" part of the name. That and the "j" of the font I chose looks kind of like a dropped "i". No big deal. I made the changes in a few minutes.

Then as I looked at it more the bitmap part of the logo started looking too blurry to me compared to its super clean vector graphics. That and the proportions looked a little off. Granted I didn't start with a full resolution image, because I had decided to wait on purchasing the image I wanted to manipulate until after my design was approved. But, now I have an excuse to try the 3D editing program on my Mac (blender 2.41).

The trouble with this approach is that blender has a pretty steep learning curve. I could probably create what I want in a few more days, but I already have one ready to go, and the sooner I get this done the better. Still, I want to learn how to use blender. I guess I'll do that on my own time. Oh well. Back to using Illustrator. :-p

Looks like I have a new project. A friend of mine is a software engineering student at UMass Boston, and he's designing some kind of system for database communications along with another student. It's supposed to liten the burden on server proccesses and network bandwidth. What they would like from me is a product trade-mark, and web-site design. There's no money in it, but it sounds fun, and shouldn't be too difficult. Wish me luck.

Boston Athenæum today

My parents took me with them to a Harvard-Radcliffe alumni gathering at the Boston Athenæum today. My God-father was there too.It wasn't bad. It Lasted a few ours. There was a small but interesting collection of art work to look at. Gilbert Stuart's Portraits of George and Martha Washington, etc.

The special exhibit is running from February 23 to May 13, 2006. Here's a link to it: Boston Athenæum.

I pretty much went because I knew my God-father would be there too. The portraits were a surprise for me.The Athenæum is actually a privately run library near the capital building. It's pretty nice inside. I took some photo's. Maybe I'll try and post some on this blog.

I've been staying up way too late, for the past couple days. I need to stop doing this to myself. It's becoming a problem, because I end up tired all day, which is making me antisocial.

My headset microphone came in the mail today. It was well worth the expense. The sound quality is very sharp (all digital), and it works with my Mac. Now I just need to find out which of my friends also talks through VOIP. That and I need to get a job. Soon.

I've been home for almost two days now and I still haven't called any of my friends up. I still feel too tired to talk to anyone right now. I should really take a nap now.