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3:30 We land. Have something to eat in North Satellite restaurant. Write up today. Feels good to be back. Sunny. Odd that I just made flight even after screwing around in Turtle Rock this morning. After reading the appendix of Computer Animation, I realized that is what Southern California is all about. I am not a storyteller or entertainer. I keep things organized largely, and it is not my fundamental nature to act or make presentations or do things that communicate. But wait I just spent the last 2 years on parts of Works which communicate and interact. So I created a tool with which users can work, but the results itself is not a presentation. Yes it is - - a very malleable one! But I am not saying anything with it, I am just providing a tool. In a sense this encapsulates and constrains what user can do, but it also allows a lot.

4:30 As stated last night, what I want to do now is start using other people's tools creations, and see what I can do. I am bored with the book, because I want to do something with it, but without programming the lower levels. Call Schwab

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4:45 Go get van to parking lot, head home. Listen to messages. Put stuff away. Look at Algorithmic Image a bit. Yes, I read that last October in LA. Thought maybe I should've just relaxed after yesterday morning, and run in the surf (Probably decided against this due to Tuesday Night's dishing of Laguna Beach trips plus traffic there Tuesday!), but what I got out of it is impossibility of my doing the work I want to do now because I read book on animation, but nothing follwed through in the evening. It's also just not a good environment for me to study that sort of thing. (style-less?) GOOD