Our former leader Mark Honeycutt will be marrying Katherine Giddens in roughly 26 hours. Everyone is already in the loop about this shit, but it seemed like the kind of important thing that should be blogged about. The wedding will be somewhere North of the city in the woods, where the service will be administered by a grizzly bear. I personally like Katie a lot, so I'm very happy for them both.

Also, I have been beating my head against a wall trying to install Maya on some Macs. That program is stupid difficult to get running, and then to do anything with. Apparently one of the previous teachers used to teach a class about it. I told the school I'd be happy to pick up the class now that Steve (the old teacher) has moved/passed on (RIP). They didn't tell me that it wasn't installed on anything, or that they would be giving me a classroom full of non-tech savvy freshmen to teach this program to. It is difficult enough for me to understand, and I have 2 degrees and prior experience with basic 3D modeling. These kids are fucked.

To find another way around the problem I looked into using Google's Sketch up as a very basic 3D modeling tool. I works alright and teaches some basics that we can move on to more difficult things from. I made a searching game (find 7 red rectangles in this virtual building) to teach the kids how to use pan/zoom/rotate, and I thought that I would e clever and use a google doc/group to deliver the file. Little did I know that GOOGLE DOCS DON'T FUCKING SUPPORT GOOGLE SKETCH UP FILES. So far my best analogy for this is like Coke making a can that wouldn't fit in its own vending machines. Sure, maybe that happens in real life, but it is fucking dumb.