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Three days ago I commented to a comment on reddit about cellphones, mentioning how as the world's last cellphone non-haver, and with them as such being unusual objects to me still that I don't at all take for granted, the one thing most annoying about them - outside of people texting while driving - is that in every dramatic movie now when someone ( Read more... )

I had been posting each completed operation in here as I went, but then it just got too tedious for all of us. However, Monday of this week was the 1-year anniversary of the day I broke ground on the thing (i.e. went shopping for the first bits), and it was only about 1-2 weeks ago that I finally finished it, hammering in the last shingles on the ( Read more... )

When a meadow floods at Green Lake in Austria, these guys are there to dive it with their underwater HD camera.

I want to go to there.

You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com

Water Level 9,40m ... from Alex.Be. on Vimeo.

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I finally finished up my wood shed this week, painting in the gables with the same rust-colored Thompson's Water Seal that's already weathering on the rest of the structure and hammering in the last few shingles across the crown, which have sat unfinished all year. Apparently I wanted to wait until one of the hottest lunch times of the year before ( Read more... )

I just made these pics from 5 months ago public, because I also just identified it. Here are some scarier pics from other sources. Note in my pics that the tail is a bit nubbed - I had accidentally closed the trash can lid on it a week or two prior, breaking it off. The tail flailed around for nearly 10 minutes, helping the little guy escape my ( Read more... )

Apparently now is the time to join.


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So for most of this year I've been in Autodesk 3D Studio Max, bane of my existence. I'm an Alias|Wavefront PowerAnimator, Alias Maya, Autodesk Maya user, born and raised, and I'm certainly used to a certain way of doing things. However, after spending several hours today learning about and banging together some MAXScript, there's only so much ( Read more... )

I think for humor, this one actually beats that "Take On Me" video. Impressive.

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