Dan MacDonald

I am still alive!

Well I know it has been a long time but I have been very busying in school and doing just everyday things. I am still around but Time seems short to Blog and Email friends and going to see their pages and thing like that. Well, School is going ok but its has been a lot of work and frustration but isn’t that what school is anyway? Right now I am in Live drawing for animation class and it has been tough one! Other then that much has happened here in the last six weeks. So that is why I haven’t been Bloging that much in the past few weeks.

I have been very happy with the Job that Barrack Obama has been doing since he has been in office for 200 days. I do believe that he will the U. S to recover and improving the country in whole. I was trying to remember when was the last precedent we had that really made a difference in this country. The two Bushes forget about them they where no big thing to talk about. Bill Clinton did do some good and he helped bring the national dent down but was not big on foreign affairs. He was caught with his pants down and it was said that he smoked pot in college but that was the 60's and that was no big thing back then. I can her him now saying to his wife, “Honey can you get me the pork whines and the bong and maybe a cold beer!” He was ok and he did help the country out.

Ronald Reagan was good man and I really liked him and he did a lot for this country and was big in foreign affairs. Then we had the peanut man Jimmy Carter that really didn't do that much. So was the one before him Garland Ford but he was just a stand in for Nixon that was very shifty and you can tell by looking at him. Ford was ok when he wasn't falling down stairs but he was in for a very short time. Before Nixon was another sort team guy also that took over for JFK when he was killed. I think JFK was a good president and he would have made many big changes in this country if he was Shot and killed. That is my rundown of presidents for the pass almost 50 years.

Other then that, I don't have much to say about the other things happening in the world. We will just have to wait and see what happens in the weeks and months ahead. School will be out on June 6 and I will have two weeks off then. I will try to update you before that but I can't promise. Since school, I don't have time like I did before and time seems to be sort and not much time to have fun anymore. At times, I do have a change to read some pages and check out photos at Flickr.com. I also go to youtube.com a lot and see some videos that others have posted but not like I did before. Well that is it for now and I will try to update you as much as I can.

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This is a nice song by Roy Clark.




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At this time I am on Semester Break; that is very much needed at this time to get ready for next semester. I just finished Eng1010 and I am happy to say that I finished with an "A ." Tomorrow, I am having a memory upgrade on my system to four gigabyte. The programs that we use in school require four gigabytes of memory; With all the graphs we create like video, audio, images and of coarse animation, all of that takes a lot of memory and a system that of 2.5 Gigabyte processor or better. This system has a two-gigabyte processor and only two gigabytes of memory (Soon to be four gigabytes), So this will run a little slow but it should work while I am still in school. After I am out I will have to upgrade to a  64 bit with a three or 3.5 gigabyte processor system with eight or more gigabytes of memory, with a  ATI fireGL 10 bit  graph pipline with 2 or 4 gigabyte  of graphic memory. That is a  high speed graphic card for animation. I am still working on the production of my animation and I hope to have time to complete it with school and all the other things that I have to get done.

I had a great surprise from my long time Pen pal from over seas. She sent me two new Tee-shirts with Chicness writing on the front of it. They are very nice shirts and it was wonderful of her to send it to me -Thank you very much LD for thinking of me and sending the gifts to me. I knew her for a long time and we have Kept in contact for more than thirty years.

Well, that is it for now and I will try to update you before I start the next semester. I will be taking “Life drawing two for animation,” and “Animation object developing.” I am sure that I will like these two class and semester after that I will be taking three classes again. I will be making more videos and posting them when I can, So keep checking on the Youtube channel.

Dan's Saint Patrick's Day Video Message



I hope you didn't drink to much of that Green beer!!
Happy Saint Patties Day
Dan

Food Blog:Pizza Party!! Vegetarians night-mar

 

Well this is pizza of all pizzas! The toping is ham, Bacon, sausage, pepperoni, salami and Hamburger.  Come and Join me and have a slice or three. I have ice cold Samuel Adams beer, Next Pizza: Greek pizza.

Leave a comment and join in the Pizza Party!!

Food Blog.

 

A Thai Garlic Basil Stir-Fry, with shrimp and Asian Vegetables over the Thai noodles, served with Bolla Chanti wine. What a mix that is! This Chanti is a robust wine has a pleasant wine after taste but it is very intoxicant red wine; one glass and you are feel effect of it but it is an Enjoyable wine! Anyone cares to join me? Let me know in a comment what you think of this dish.

First Video from new Video Cam.

This is the first video from my new cam. It is a trip though waterville Maine-It's like being in OZ! It is about a 10 min video of video of around town,they will become longr as I use it more.


A trip though Waterville, ME. March 08, 2009


Paul Harvey Dies at 90 years old, 1918- 2009.

 

There is no doubt that one of most listend to radio Broadcasters, well be missed.  A man who brought the news  to us in his own style and with the wisdom of his many years with us. We all listened to me, day after day, at lunch time and as we were coming home from work at 5PM. He was aired on 1300 stations across the US. He started boradcasting in 1933 at the age of 14 and has been broadcasting for 76 years. How many times have we heard these words from him "Now you know the rest of the story!," He will be missed and not forgotten and Paul is now on a new page.

Paul Harvey News Web Page

Paul Harvey Broadcast in 1963

Last broadcast Feb 7, 2009

 

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Dan is an 46 year old artist and programmer from Waterville Maine. Dans art can be seen in public shows and other places in the area. He also plays Guitar and Piano. Enjoys the out-doors and cooking -Eating is always great! Dan been a General class Amateur radio operator since 1993 and handled NTS message traffic via Morse code and voice. Also a member of the Amateur Radio MARS program




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