Neanderpundit

I’m in Inventor training this week. Autodesk Inventor, to be exact, Autdesk’s second attempt to compete with real 3d products. Their first attempt, Mechanical Desktop, was a failure of biblical proportions, and frankly, this should be too. I am stuck with this, our company has chosen to go down this dead end, and I have to try to make it work. Ayone out there who needs a decent 3d design tool, look ANYWHERE but Autodesk. Save yourself!

At least I hope you all are. Try again.

Seems at one point about 31 BLOGsnot URL’s got added, along with the root. Let me know if that helps.

So by popular request, here’s a picture of the deer. Because dead deer are not so nice to look at as live ones, it’ll be below the fold. Above the fold, I’ll put this picture of the alley where I dropped her.

Now imagine that in ten inches of snow. The brush you see to the left is mostly briar and multiflora rose. The wood stand you see to the right is not mine. Mine is to the left, in the shot, but, of course, you can’t SEE it, which would be the POINT.

Still. Part of my problem earlier was being too preoccupied with other things, and as I have an attention span even shorter than the norm, I was fidgety and tended to get out of the stand and wander off.

This time, I was not preoccupied, and had brought an old friend, to keep me company: Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain. This book never fails to involve me, and is what I like to call “artificial patience for the short attention span”. Last year, I read something also very entertaining, a yet unpublished work by Fran Porretto. If you aren’t reading his fiction, or haven’t read it, you should be. It’s very good. It helped me get a deer last year. Anyway, here’s my deer.
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