Google SketchUp

As a kid I used to spend hours sketching space ships... now there is a better way to spend those hours, it is called Google sketch up. SketchUp is a free 3D modeling program that does wonders. Above is a small SketchedUp space craft that I did in the spirit of my childhood drawings. A few fun features:

1. Google has a '3D warehouse' where people can post their designs and you can find many objects.
2. The final rendering style can be chosen.
3. It is quite easy to use, the SketchUp site has many youtube tutorials which are helpful.

Enjoy,

Good night

Amir

Miluim

So,

I returned from a week of reserves duty training last week. Naturally, my objective in this training was to minimize my efforts while maintaining good relations with my environment. I think I did a good job on that front (be the first one to do the training equals a 24 hours break, etc.,)...

On the way home I gave three guys a ride, One of them fell asleep, the other two discussed politics with me. First of all it occured to me that no one talked politics at the training. Maybe this is a supression mechanism that helped us work together dispite our deep differrences. Getting back to the discussion, I was pleasently surprised to find out that there was no argument about facts (like the fact that Israel is a flawed democracy, that the last war in Gaza was pre-planned in order to regain Israels deterant image on the backs of the Palestineans, that we are probably not blood relatives of the biblical jews, etc.,). This does not mean that we agreed on everything, I represented the left side of the political map, the firsat guy represented the right side, and surprisingly, the second guy which is a religious settler was in the middle. The positive side was that these guys are aware of what is going on. The sad part was that guy number one believed that it was all justified.