or at least sort of artsy.
First, something I've managed to finish in just a few days. Started on it Friday night and finished just a little while ago. Space Ranger (lame title, :P), some older renders of the head
Second, something that's been around for a good long while without getting finished.
The name of the character is Mar. Some early sketchies, a finished and textured head, an untextured hand, a somewhat textured scythe thingy (not keeping that ugly blade though), a short test animation of the head (XviD compressed).
Closing with some random sketches.

Listening to: Deep Purple - Anyone's Daughter

...isn't my favorite day. Didn't get much done today and yet I'm really tired. If you're curious about what I'm doing these days, I spend most of my time staring at stuff like this. That's a quiver plot of the wind after 24 hours simulated time. It's from my most successful run yet since I'm pretty confident I can see convection cells in there and as time progresses they seem to merge into larger scale motion. I'm running almost the same simulation again right now, but saving the output at shorter intervals so that I can hopefully get a better idea of what happens. And hopefully before this week is over I'll have run my first simulation on the SGI. I'm planning to use pretty much the same settings but with finer resolution. Which will make it even more difficult to grasp the output. To give you an idea, the output of this latest very modest run, only saving the output every eight hours of totally 96 hours simulated time, gave 200 MB of unformatted binary data (and takes the poor old computer I'm using 12+ hours). Luckily I now have most of the machinery needed to digest it in place in Matlab. I'm still not very good at visualising large 3D arrays though.
There, that's a short insight in the glorious fun I'm having ^^ I hope you're adequately jealous.

Anyway, on to something completely different. Time to keep a promise (see that last sneaky line there):

1. Reply with your name and I'll respond with something random about you.
2. I'll tell you what song/film reminds me of you.
3. I'll pick a flavour of jelly to wrestle with you in.
4. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me.(I'll probably skip this one, I can barely think of anything that'd only make sense to me and anybody.)
5. I'll tell you my first memory of you.
6. I'll tell you what animal you remind me of.
7. I'll ask you something that I've always wondered about you.
8. If I do this for you, you must post this on your journal.

And to answer your questions Zoe
6) A jellyfish. Why would I think that?
Could it possibly have something to do with my jellyfish avatar and the copious use of jellyfishes in this blog design? ^^
7) Why physics? Do you like pain?
Don't you know? My mind's sharp enough to draw blood from a stone, so I need something to keep it occupied or I'll hurt myself.
Seriously though, I've come to question my decision to study physics more and more frequently the last couple of years. I started with it mostly because it's an area where I've turned out to have a bit of talent and it's a little late to back out now ;)

Listening to: Tom Waits - Earth Died Screaming

Korean movie, possibly the most twisted I've ever seen. Really good though, I warmly recommend it. It starts with a man being locked up in a room for fifteen years without knowing why, without anybody even speaking to him. Sitting alone in a room watching TV for fifteen years will give you two things. A thirst for revenge and a whole lot of trivial knowledge. It goes downhill from there right to the very end ^^

Listening to: Coldplay - Warning Sign

Just noticed that there are at least alpha releases of secure shell programs for pocket windows. How fun wouldn't it be to sit on the train and control a supercomputer with your pocket pc?
Unfortunately I don't have an internet connection for my pda since coming back to Sweden :(
As of today I do however have access to a supercomputer (SGI origin 3800 I think it's called) to run my simulations on :)

listening to: I'm in the lab, so nothing really

It's nine pm, I'm not the least bit tired so I'm planning to pack some sandwiches and take the last train down to Stockholm and spend the night at the lab. Yay for setting your own schedule!

Saturday night I was up kind of late, creativity comes with sleeplessness and I sketched some randomness using various things and pictures (mostly pictures luckily) on and around my desk for reference: The random lives!

Listening to: Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Way of the Pilgrim

In my case it was probably about 12-15 years ago. So it's understandable that I'm a bit rusty. Even if I'm probably a little better than I was then ^_~

An advantage to picking something you know next to nothing about to do your thesis project about is how much new stuff you get to learn. Today I had to teach myself enough Fortran and awk to create something that would take a number of unformatted output files from COAMPS (Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System) and make something readable out of them. Fun fun fun.

Listening to: Melt-Banana - Speak Squeak Creak (for those of you in Japan, check their website to catch them live)

I'm not so angry anymore, it's hard to keep up a proper seething rage for more than a day or two. I shall use my dad's old bike for now, he got a new recently.
In other bike related news, I helped Aki (one of the Japanese exchange students) put her new bike together. Perhaps 'helped' isn't the right word, since I did everything except hold the bike steady and lifting the back wheel for checking the tuning on the gears. The reason we had to assemble a bike was that Biltema sells bikes in boxes only partially put together. Makes them easier to stack I guess. This is acceptable since they also sell the cheapest new bikes in town.
Then we had tea before testing the bike by riding out to the burial mounds in Gamla Uppsala.
Oh, and the title. It's both a reference to a line in this song and to the fact that I managed to stick a knife deep (well, as deep as is possible in a bony finger) in my left index finger while cutting the packaging from a locking wire. Stupid. Wound is small and will heal just fine if I just keep it clean, but it throbs like hell.

Listening to: Mountain - Tired Angels