Sunday, May 27, 2001
Creating the Family Tree
Spent a good part of the day working on the family tree, using all of the data I gathered from my Uncle John. Yikes, I almost up to 200 people listed in over 50 families at this point, and that primarily my maternal relations. The program I have been using produces decent Web output, so I have put my current work in progess on this Web site here, which I will update over time. The pages aren't as polished as I could make them, but I figure I'll leave the tweaking for a latter date, when I have added got more info. Have already registered the site with the Mormon's Family Search Web site, and will soon add them to other directories of note. Work still to be done includes working out some of the convoluted relationships for my distant South African cousins, plus a lot of work on my paternal relations, which I suspect will require some fieldwork in Liverpool at some point. Am also interested in contacting my distant cousins many-times-removed, just to see what they are like. Likely a life-long task... Saw Shrek
Caught an early-evening show of Shrek at the local cinema, taking Vanessa with us. Fun story, and while it was aimed primarily at kids older than Vanessa (and Erika and I loved all of the visual in-jokes), she was beaming at the close of the movie. Found it interesting viewing the different levels of verisimilitude used in the movie. The human characters look deliberately "cartoony", but admired at many of the seemingly minor effects which must have taken a lot of number-crunching to get right, such as making grass and hair look and behave much like the real thing, and the flickering fires which are the closest digital equivalent I've seen to the real thing. Of course, all of the effects would be nothing without a good underlying story. So saying, I have serious doubts about Disney's forthcoming Atlantis, based on the trailer I saw at this show. Look like a mish-mash of bits of stories taken from a bunch of other recent Disney animated features thrown haphazardly into a single movie. Time will tell whether or not my original impression is correct...
Spent a good part of the day working on the family tree, using all of the data I gathered from my Uncle John. Yikes, I almost up to 200 people listed in over 50 families at this point, and that primarily my maternal relations. The program I have been using produces decent Web output, so I have put my current work in progess on this Web site here, which I will update over time. The pages aren't as polished as I could make them, but I figure I'll leave the tweaking for a latter date, when I have added got more info. Have already registered the site with the Mormon's Family Search Web site, and will soon add them to other directories of note. Work still to be done includes working out some of the convoluted relationships for my distant South African cousins, plus a lot of work on my paternal relations, which I suspect will require some fieldwork in Liverpool at some point. Am also interested in contacting my distant cousins many-times-removed, just to see what they are like. Likely a life-long task... Saw Shrek
Caught an early-evening show of Shrek at the local cinema, taking Vanessa with us. Fun story, and while it was aimed primarily at kids older than Vanessa (and Erika and I loved all of the visual in-jokes), she was beaming at the close of the movie. Found it interesting viewing the different levels of verisimilitude used in the movie. The human characters look deliberately "cartoony", but admired at many of the seemingly minor effects which must have taken a lot of number-crunching to get right, such as making grass and hair look and behave much like the real thing, and the flickering fires which are the closest digital equivalent I've seen to the real thing. Of course, all of the effects would be nothing without a good underlying story. So saying, I have serious doubts about Disney's forthcoming Atlantis, based on the trailer I saw at this show. Look like a mish-mash of bits of stories taken from a bunch of other recent Disney animated features thrown haphazardly into a single movie. Time will tell whether or not my original impression is correct...
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