I'm not working due to a health condition. Used to work in the computer field - in my big 6 year career I've worked in low level operating system development/debugging, I've worked high level networking, I've developed simple database applications for a multinational organization, and I've handled the maintenance of 150+ computers in public access labs of a major university on my own (above in order I remembered them, not in order they came in).<br /><br />I'm not an artist. But I'd love to learn how.. Of course, they say it can't be taught, it takes "talent", I'd like to see if I can dig up some kind of talent.<br /><br />For toys: I have Adobe Illustrator CS, I have Adobe Photoshop 6.0, (and in Linux, of course, I have the GIMP), Adobe Premiere Elements, Adobe After Effects 6.5, and of course I have A:M. So I have my basic art kit. Now to figure out what to do with it, I've got nothing but time (unfortunately, I have an attention deficit thing too).<br /><br />I don't know why, but I am a (paying) member of: ACM, <br />ACM SIGGRAPH, IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, ASME, and for some unknown reason, the MAA. Basically, all that means is I subscribe to a few magazines which probably never get read. Though I must read them sometimes because I was once mentioned in the SIGGRAPH newsletter ("Computer Graphics" magazine) public policy column (back in 2001?), but it was unrelated to graphics. That was a different time in my life though.
Hardware Platform
Windows
System Description
Two on one keyboard/mouse/monitor :
-AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+, 1 Gig ram Home-Made System.
-HP Media Center PC m470n (P4/HT-3.00Ghz), 0.5 Gig ram, Windows XP MCE
And:
-DELL Laptop, Inspiron 6000, 1.2Ghz Celeron (one of the newer celeron's), 1GB Ram, Wireless-G networking
Disconnected, but networkable:
-Compaq Laptop - 2.00GHz P3, 512MB, Windows XP Pro (broken PCMCIA port on this, no more wireless lan support)
Elsewhere on the network at home:
-Self-Built PC: P3-800Mhz, Windows XP Pro (My mother uses this PC)
-Self-Built-PC: P3-500Mhz Windows XP Pro (This used to be one I built for my sister, but she lives elsewhere and has a laptop now)
(Now what would it take to get these to share the rendering load!)
