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very interesting article I came across here: http://norvig.com/21-days.html As i'm getting into web programming, or learning a new skill as I have done in my past, I wondered how long it will take me to master the skill that I'm trying to learn. according to the research it is about 10 years over a progressively larger effort put into the practice of the skill. quoting the website: 'The students who would end up as the best in their class began to practise more than everyone else: six hours a week by age nine, eight by age 12, 16 a week by age 14, and up and up, until by the age of 20 they were practising well over 30 hours a week. By the

made redundant last week. for the first time of my life actually... I was so over that job so it didn't really hit me hard. the feelings now are just emptiness. artists do have a hard life more or less I guess. I figure now I have some time on my hands, maybe I'll do some art. among other things...

there's actually a lot of nudity on DA. but in the world of art, everything is appropriate right, since good and bad is all in the eyes of the beholder. I can take a crap and smear it on a piece of paper and call it 'the yellow revelation'... I would use nudity because the female form is just astounding. God's most incredible creation. the nudity would arouse the natural instinct in you and it adds a richness to the painting. it would arouse you just so much to attract your feelings but not to the extent of making you wannna just get it out of your system...that's what porn does. Nudity also is a reflection of trueness, for me. a nude per