Saw this on Digg while wasting time. It’s called Bathtub IV and it’s a lot of fun. It’s personal project from Keith Loutit and if you visit the video page you can read up on it.
Go to Vimeo to see it in HD mode, it looks great.
Year: 2009 (page 14 of 17)
Why does Microsoft continue to chase Internet search? Because someday, that dog will actually catch that car. And then what will Ballmer do?
This is the HG Hy-gogg I just built. I have been catching up on my Gunpla stash lately because of a deal I made with my 7 year old son. When he’s extra good in school he gets to build a model with me.
He’s been extra good for the last 4 school day so I have been busy for the last few evenings.
He does not want me to work on the model with him, he wants me to work on my own next to him. So here’s the one I just completed and later on I’ll upload pictures of his HG Rick Dom II Colony Color version.
He’s getting pretty good at it and he’s having a fun time. Soon he’s going to demand that we paint his model! It’s all good but his sister is beginning to get jealous so I better start including her on our model building sessions.
Jim Cramer sure has guts. He did not have to show up on The Daily Show.
You can’t trumpet how safe we all are while ignoring that they let the worst terrorist attack in the U.S. actually happen.
I used Photoshop Elements 6 and liked it. It worked and let me touch up my photos quickly and efficiently. I liked it so much that when PSE 7 came out, I paid for an online upgrade as soon as I could.
PSE 7 broke the small things. With version 6, the photo downloader just worked. When removable media was inserted into my PC, the service would see image files and pop up with a “Are you ready to download them now?” This was a feature that I liked and my installation of PSE 7, this just does not work.
I have to launch the photo pownloader by hand, select the media and then I’m good to go. It’s a small point but a pet peeve of mine. This after un-installing the software, wiping out all traces of it on the disk, my %AppData% folder, and in the registry. Twice.
The second pet peeve is the offer to backup/synchronize my photos on Adobe’s site. I get asked the following question more than half the time when I start PSE 7:
Hey Stupid. I see that you are not smart enough to use the free 2GBs of storage that Adobe provides you to save your files when your house burns down.
Do you
1) Want to stop being a moron?
2) Sign up for some real space at a fee?
3) Continue to jeopardize your standing in the family by not backing up online now?
I exaggerate but not by much. The pet peeve is that I’ve been ask this question almost 50 times now. At what point does PSE 7 and Abobe get it? I have ~14,000 photos on my WD 1TB MyBook, it takes up 105 GBs of space. If I lose them I’ll feel bad, but I’ll just keep taking more pictures.
My last pet peeve is the thumbnail generation. Sometimes, not always, it refuses to generate a thumbnail for an image until I’ve browsed to that image. It’s as if it’s saying “Oh, you want to preview that file?”
Other than these points PSE 7 is okay. I rarely get into heavy editing and usually just adjust the brightnes and contrast. Since my files are all in RAW I also get to fix the white balance. The final results of my editing are worth putting up on Flickr.
They’ve solved the queue problem and I’ve just logged onto Quake Live beta. I had zero wait time. The game play was good.
It started snowing last night. Not a lot in an hour, but it did not stop. Now schools are closed and the roads are dicey.
In a very short while I’ll head out and clear the driveway.
I finished Char’s Zaku II version 2.0. I’ll post better pictures on Flickr today.
These newer MGs from Bandai keep getting better and better. The joints are very articulate and the whole model is very posable.
Quake Live beta is a nice idea. It’s the old Quake III Arena family of games but via a web browser. This version rates you and attempts to pair you up with people with similar skill levels.
It’s also popular: wait times to login are around 30 minutes! I like the idea but I re-purchased all my Quake games on Steam a long time ago. And lately I have been playing FEAR 2 so I don’t really want to wait around for the Quake Live to let me on.
Maybe after I’ve completed FEAR 2 I’ll give this some play time.
