Update on the Appletalk over IP thread from yesterday: I set up my 8500 as a server, opened a port on the router and was able to connect up-from inside my house-over IP. I still can’t connect up from work however. I also found that you can’t leave your digital camera out in the sun- all the photos I took Saturday were corrupted.

Update on 3dsMax: I built my first model yesterday, and I was able to do a bunch of stuff that previously was impossible to figure out. And I actually had fun with it. Stay tuned… (today I’m working on promotional stuff for the rollout party of Emperor tonight. Also, inside sources tell us that as of yesterday, the demo has been downloaded over 20 thousand times since being posted last week.)

I found this article via camworld about an MIT professor who was ambushed on Donahue when invited to come and speak about violence in video games. It’s too bad he wasn’t able to explain his ideas in detail, but that’s modern media culture, baby.

I got an email from my friend Todd last week, who commented on my
half-formed August 30 post about personal freedoms:

“Adjusting Amendment 1 or abolishing it as we know it today is taking
a basic freedom guaranteed for so many generations away from me and
future generations….I refuse to be dictated to about what to think
is right or just cause for persecution of those who oppose the
mainstream.”

Right on. I couldn’t say it better myself.

Jen also had a comment, about the Cusack/Max article on Salon yesterday:

“People don’t like to see things in anything else but black and white because at heart it means that they might be forced to acknowledge their own failings and possible evils.”

Which is a very, very good point. I can understand Spielberg bailing on the project for obvious reasons- his commitment to the Shoah Foundation is not considered lightly, and the Holocaust is a very sensitive subject- but the folks who backed away should stop and consider what they failed to offer the public as a means of discourse and self-reflection.