Daedalus (Tong Rebourne)
Tuesday, June 20th, 2006The title of this post serves as a good introduction as to my next endeavour: I’m planning to restructure Tong into a more flexible system to aid me during my Masters course. More on the latter in a minute. I’ve got myself a little render farm in the basement of my current residence. There are a few computers that aren’t in the shot to the right of those. This house is crazy: not only are there five computers in the basement, but four more upstairs. <3
The new system will be called Daedalus. I was thinking of Tong 2.0, but that was boring. Then, seeing that I'm probably going to go to Bournemouth University in September (fingers crossed) I decided on the Tong Rebourne title. Daedalus sums it up nicely, though, as he is the Greek god that is claimed to have invented images. The name Daedalus also features in Deus Ex, so it also holds to my naming convention. I’m aware that thousands of other projects probably exist with the same name which is why I’ve tagged (Tong Rebourne) on the end of it. No prizes as to why Rebourne is written like that.
An update on the persuit of a Masters degree: Currently Bournemouth is the most likely candidate. As much as I would love to return to Teesside, the chances of that happening are infintesimally small. The course is unlikely to run and even if it did it doesn’t stand up to Bournemouth’s. Bournemouth seems to have a formidable reputation, where-as Teesside is still catching up. Teesside is still heard of and respected, so it’s still a worthy runner-up. In order to fund my Masters I’ll be grabbing a Career Development Loan (CDL) from good ol’ “We-Love-Bin-Laden” Barclays. All of this was causing me a headache about 2 weeks ago, but now I’ve resigned myself to the fact that I have no idea what’s going on. One thing that is still annoying me is the waiting. Before I apply to any I’m going to wait and see what my results are from my degree: the thought actually makes me slightly sick. I have to wait nearly a whole month… 
