use both my skills and the environment have changed with time. Three separate changes.
(1) My eyes and brain were sharper 20 years ago, but my alleged "artistic" skill has improved. I can reuse the detailed workflow tools and programs I developed back then, which I couldn't possibly rebuild now. What I can do now is produce a more realistic and better-looking animation.
(2) My earlier work functioned inside a Windows computer where you could count on a stable and flexible set of API commands. Thus my original courseware 'engine' was much more flexible and resourceful than the HTML/SVG/JS mess you have to deal with now. Globalism removes skills. Graybill.
(3) 20 years ago you could buy good anatomical models at a decent price. Consolidation and litigation and digital "rights" management have globalized and Graybillized the market. Now the only source is one HUGELY EXPENSIVE store. Their products are more legalistic than the earlier ones, but I don't need legalistic accuracy. I need stuff that won't break my budget. Fortunately I acquired a few good pieces when they were cheap, and even more fortunately I kept them so I don't need to patronize the HUGELY EXPENSIVE store.
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Major point: We measure innovation backwards, just as we measure value and growth backwards. What we call innovation is actually KILLING innovation. Patents are explicit blockers. Stock manipulation and mergers buy up new ideas in order to squash them.
In the tech world, the only real innovation is new methods of exterminating heretical ideas and replacing them with rigid and constantly changing orthodoxy. Room 101 is the business model of Google and Facebook.
In sum: NYC eradicates ALL forms of capital. Land, money, workers, ideas. All must be exterminated to achieve the ultimate NYC heaven of PURE MATH and PURE VERBAL ORTHODOXY.
Thanks, Ralph 475, whitewall edition
Vastly enjoying the epidemic of autonomous Tesla crashes. Love love love love LOVE to see idiot theories disproved by killing the idiots who believe the idiot theories. PERFECT justice.
Noticing one common factor: In every one of these crashes, there's a long unmarked white wall on one side of the road. A cement barrier, a guard rail, a long white semi-trailer. The Tesla seems to have an unquenchable desire to drive INTO those walls.
Just a consumer choice
Italy has firmed up a DEFINITELY anti-EU and Neutral government. Well, firmed up as much as Italy ever does. The EU monsters are having trouble with their usual bashing and mockery because the new gov't is half Left and half Right in proper terms. They can't quite manage to call it ultra ultra ultra ultra far far far right right HITLER KKK NAZI TRUMP HITLER as usual.
Simple thought: Why is opposing EU treated as political, let alone HITLER NAZI TRUMP?
It's just a simple rational consumer preference.
If I feel that eggs are good and nutritious for my body, I'll keep eating eggs.
If eggs raise my cholesterol and make me feel icky, I'll stop eating eggs.
If I feel that EU is good and prosperous for my country, I'll keep using EU.
If EU raises my poverty and makes me feel icky, I'll stop using EU.
Still non-barking Hubbard
[Mostly keeping this space occupied whlle I'm pushing toward final deadline on courseware.]
I've made this point before, and it becomes stronger with the passage of time.
Last year I accidentally noticed a wonderful dissident magazine called Aberree, published from 1954 to 1964 in Enid. Since Enid was my old stomping ground, I knew a lot of the places and people mentioned in the publication. I was surprised that I hadn't heard of the magazine during the years when I was in and around Enid. Still surprised.
Alphia Hart, the editor, was a sharp-eyed and heretical observer of everything, but his main focus was on the Hubbard organization. Hubbard's mafia tried to take him down and finally gave up.
I wrote 50 related items over six months, then used up the available material and moved on. With 50 items citing a dissident who is still mentioned in Hubbardian circles, you'd think the modern Hubbardians would have clusterfu