Go crazy?
Don’t mind if I do!
There was no blog on Monday because my internet was down. At home, anyway, and I make it a point not to blog from work because, well, they’re not paying me to blog. They’re paying me to move a heck of a lot of old assets from old packages into new packages, renaming said assets as I go. That’s what I’m getting paid to do at the moment, anyway. I did get to do some 3-d modeling and texturing earlier this week, so that was a nice break.
The thing about the internet is that you don’t realize how much you use it until it’s gone. I’m not an internet addict by any means, and I can function perfectly well without it when I’m camping, or at a beach house, or doing things that take me away from the computer and out into the world with the Daystar. But when I’m at home, and the internet goes out, it throws everything out of whack.
“Well, I kinda wanted to go out to dinner, anyway. I wonder if that cafe is open tonight. I’ll check–dammit, no I won’t. Maybe I’ll start on that new knitting project. I just need to print out the pattern–shit. I didn’t save that one. Okay, I’ll do some yoga. Pandora has a good yoga music channel–crapdamnfart!” Everything that I would normally do, or look up, or check on without thinking about it becomes nigh impossible.
It’s like this at work, too. Technically speaking, a 3-d artist doesn’t always need the internet, but when it goes down a great cry rings out around the office. With no internet, we can’t find reference for meshes we need to model. We can’t download texture references. We can’t authoritatively win the argument over whether the 360 is better or the PS3 is better. (Okay, we can’t do that even when we HAVE the internet. But without the internet we can’t link to memes and pictures of LOLcats to support our point of view.) We geeky types love us some internet, and it’s become such a ubiquitous part of our lives that when it’s suddenly gone, we feel the absence keenly.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to SexyManButts.com. I haven’t been able to access it for DAYS.