Day 005: My Goals

I really should be writing about my own goals, and I really shouldn't be writing so much in my posts. I may lose attention.

Short, sweet, and to the point. Here we go. Nao. ("nao" should be used only in place of "right now," not "now, I'm doing this" or as replacing "at the moment." It denotes instantaneousness).

Semester goal: Finish my CMS
I'm building a content management system for websites for managing content. Joomla's okay, but it's convoluted to me. This will be a simple, barebones CMS. I'm calling it Barebones CMS.

Yearlong goal: Sing a song
When recognizable music comes on, there's always this overwhelming urge to sing it, however suckishly. Problem is, I always steal the style of the artist singing it, so my sub-goal is to find out what my own style is and sing Chasing Cars with it.

College goal: Create motion capture video game controller

Deadpool with labeled guns

I keep coming back to this idea: use 3 cameras to track 3D motion. The Kinect can't see behind you. I want to use the 3D motion data to control fighting games intuitively, so Deadpool will actually shoot if you perform the motion of popping a cap on your friend's hindquarters. I might switch this idea out.

Here's the new idea. I'm thinking glove and ankle controllers. Motion capture with multiple cameras is definitely my goal for near-perfect spatial tracking, but gamers want controllers, and it'd be more involving that way.

They're good, concrete goals. You can measure them. Notice I didn't put "become famous" or "get really smart." I could put "go to Mars" (someday...), but it's almost completely implausible right nao. I mean atm.

I feel like coming up with daily goals might help me be more productive. Like, "wake up," and "go to sleep."