In The Beginning...

 In The Beginning…

How far do you go to prove a point?
What if, in proving it, you learn some new skills?

In a psychology class, long ago, the lecturer made a claim that just sounded ridiculous.  “Every building that’s taller than it is wide, is a penis.  Every building that’s wider than it is tall, is also a penis – lying on it’s side”.

I was reminded of this when watching a comedy show, “How I Met Your Mother”.  One character had plans for a new building, that apparently reminded everyone of a penis.  One character even commented that, by trimming the bushes at the base, it could be made to look taller.

This got me thinking, and I had an idea: two skyscrapers, shaped like a pair of woman’s legs. One would have a radio antenna at the top, and be designed to look like the heel of a stiletto shoe.  Tacky and tasteless, for sure.  However, it would go to show that not all buildings are a penis.

So, how to create this building?  The logical (free) software is – Blender. If any standard graphics is also required, the (free) program Gimp would help, too.  Since both these applications run under Linux, why not use this as an exercise in setting up a Linux environment, too? 

And so we reach the target goal: Setting up Gimp and Blender, on a Debian Linux Virtual machine in VMWare.