Of course, the problem I’m facing now is, how to get all this new crap back to Australia. My luggage was close to the weight limit coming over, and now I have more clothes. Let alone all the other cruft I’ve accumulated. Extra bags for the plane start at $80US each, which I guess isn’t… Read more
So, I’ve just totalled my weights for the first 10 weights sessions, and it seems my total comes in at about 48,330 pounds (that’s 21,922 in real units). Or, nearly five African elephants, or roughly 192,000 bananas, or 8,630 MacBook Pro’s. Shiny. I’m practically Superman already. ;) Of course, that’s just 3.65 x 10-21th of… Read more
Apparently someone had some fun with some detergent (or somesuch) and the big fountain near our place. The results… shiny. :D
The three of us just got back from campus, where we viewed a SIGGRAPH presentation. Basically, a whole bunch of cool computer animated movies. There was the usual stuff in there – the generic “behind the scenes” crap from Industrial Light & Magic, DigitalDomain, etc. But the good things were the independent stuff, the small… Read more
I forgot to note, also, that Bronwyn knew exactly where my surname is from. She’s the first person I’ve ever met who’s even got the country right, let alone the town. Scary. :)
Yeah, I am still here. Just haven’t had much free time this week, with Macworld and all. It’s been fun, but exhausting. This weekend I’m taking it easy, with plenty of time to finally write things up. I’ve got a few hundred new photos to sort through, which I’ll post as soon as I can.… Read more
Halo’s a great game. But buggy as #%@!. The Xbox version’s way worse, but even so, the Mac version doesn’t give me more than ten minutes at a time without a major bug. Such as this one here, where the level disappeared. This was in a 16 player online game. I was carrying the flag… Read more