So we took the kids fishing down at the inlet again on the weekend. We didn’t really expect to catch anything. It was more an exercise in keeping the kids occupied and killing time until dinner. Jett managed to catch a nice sized fish of some description. Ashton felt a bit inadequate with her Blowfish. Those little buggers have strong mouths and jaws; they just don’t want to let go of a hook.
There’s also a picture of a Cat Haven vehicle which took my fancy. We saw this at the Mandurah Crab Festival we visited earlier in the day.
I met Miranda Kerr today. Woo hoo! She was at David Jones signing autographs.
This is what two large boulders smashing into each other at 11000 mph looks like. A couple days ago NASA released this photo observed by Hubble. It would have been great to see “live”. The asteroid belt isn’t exactly quite like what you see in movies like “The Empire Strikes Back”; there isn’t a dense ring of rocks in a seemingly random, chaotic orbit and you can’t stand on one and wave to your friend on a neighbouring rock. There’s thousands, millions of kilometers between sizable objects so this type of collision has never been observed before. The Imperial TIE Fighters would be quite safe following Han Solo into our asteroid field, and I’m pretty sure there would be no giant space worms to gobble them up. The closeup in the lower right looks bad-ass, like some sort of evil talon spaceship streaking through the sky.
… or why Avatar seemed so familiar to me, a follow-up to a post I made after I saw it.
Happy new year everyone. Here’s some pics of us fooling around with sparklers. It’s a balmy 22 degrees Celcius outside, beats the cold temperatures I know most of you guys are enduring right now!
So I was reading a friends blog post where a little program called Celestia was mentioned in passing and it reminded me of some art I’d created many moons ago and shared with the guys at mousedroid.com and potf2.com which are two favourite Star Wars collecting web sites of mine where I’ve met many interesting people and made some great friends. Anyhow, I actually saved a couple of those images from the Great Disk Loss of 2006 and here they are in all their glory. I do remember spending a bit of time getting the angles of the cameras and lighting just right on a lot of shots. It’s not like the movies where the ships are always well lit; when a starship is in the shadow of a planet, it’s hard to see. And it was especially hard on my underpowered little POS computer I had. I did a few others involving fictional planets, ”Beanstalks” and other space stations but these three images are all that’s left. I should check out the latest version and get back into it, make some more images. They might have a “Perfectly light this object” switch now.
Some cute images I found on the interwebs. I like that the Emperor is pretty much unedited in Episode 3, Revenge of the Zombies. From Wikipedia: “A zombie is a creature that appears in folklore and popular culture typically as a reanimated corpse or a mindless human being. Stories of zombies originated in the Afro-Caribbean spiritual belief system of Vodou, which told of the people being controlled as laborers by a powerful sorcerer. Zombies became a popular device in modern horror fiction, largely because of the success of George A. Romero’s 1968 film Night of the Living Dead.”
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Even with an iPod and Dopod for company, the train ride home from work can be pretty boring. So I’ve taken to sniffing for Bluetooth device names and seeing what comes up. Below are some of the funnier ones.
I do not know what this means
stevie babes
Balls of steel
Naughty nanna and Black Bitch
These made me LOL when I saved them a while ago. These images are from some eBay auctions from a few months ago. I just stumbled upon them again today when looking for something completely unrelated. Realistically, Vader would kick the Predator’s ass but they’re still pretty funny.
