I think I have proof I was getting over something icky yesterday by taking the day off work. Today, out of the blue, my brain decided the best thing to think of was a mashup of Nation and Henson. The Daleks Take Manhattan.
( some snippets )

Just a quick one, upgraded the cog generator on vonexplaino.com so you can add spokes and a mooring hub. As you were,

EDIT]: Edited due to LJ's input box deleting most of the content before posting, because that's fun apparently.

So I haven't been able to say anything further regarding the big secret because it hasn't gone anywhere yet. While those involved have been assured that something will happen, at some point, the current status is "give me ambiguity or give me something else." *sigh*

In an unrelated topic, honest *casual whistle*, my new style for my home site has gone up to absolutely no fanfare. Budget cuts, don't you know. While you can still access the site from lapse.nerdvana.org.au I'm now the proud owner of http://vonexplaino.com/ — huzzah!

I've got a journal over there where I'm posting Steampulp shenanigans with hopeful regularity. While I do have code links under "Experiments" and a code post in the blog, I'm probably going to remove those and have the only experiments shown Steampulp related ones (direct links to devices, the cog application, the jaeger application etc.). I'm not entirely sure, though, as I have had some of my applications discovered and used by google-hunters — the GURPS lite character generator and life-path generators to name a couple.

Oh, and mandatory Connie update. I had the door closed to my room this evening so I could work without hearing Master Chef, but as soon as Jos opened the door to ask me a question Connie ran in, jumped on my lap, and decided I wasn't paying immediate attention to her so forepaws walked up my chest until she could face rub against my cheek and chin.

Cute kitty is cute.

OK, so now I can tell you a little bit more about why I'm excited. Because it's close to being confirmed.

You may want to be watching Channel 10 Brisbane news next Monday/ Tuesday nights. Some friends and I may be on it. There's a chance it might be shown on the Ten News Videos page. Fingers crossed.

Update: It's now sometime this week. Curses.

I am so incredibly excited right now. I wish I could tell people why, but this has to remain a secret for a week in case I jynx things and get lynched.

To my fellow secret-holders: shhhhhh!

This has been some months in coming but devil may care, all around good guy Aleks tagged me in ye olde "Seven things you may not know about me" meme. ( My responses ) There are apparently some rules that go along with this, but I mock their petty requirements. I tag Kevin Rudd, the cast of Neighbours, Phar Lap's ghost, Pi, the sound of one heart breaking while another soars, Count von Count, and the surprisingly legitimate love child of Cthulhu and the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Hi there, long time no speaky. It's been a while but I'm trying to get back into the ol' LJ vibe so it's catchup time.
( Melbourne trip and Birthday weekend )

(as suggested by Rocketpilot)

The Comedian -> Jokey Smurf
Ozymandias -> Vanity Smurf
Silk Spectre -> Smurfette
Rorschach -> Grouchy Smurf
Nite Owl ->Handy Smurf
Doc Manhattan -> Brainy Smurf

OK. I watched the Watchmen. I liked the Watchmen, as I'd read the Watchmen. Other people have made better review posts, I will merely giggle at the cinema-screen-sized-wing-wang and move along.

I'd like to watch Coraline. I've enjoyed the web site, read a few reviews, so I hoped onto the local cinema site to discover when it'll be out in Australia.

August.

America is seeing it right now, and I have to wait 5 months.

Until studios/ distributors can figure out why that's a problem piracy will continue to be rampant.

(Note: I'm stupidly going to wait until August like a good citizen, so no spoilers or pointers on how to get it now please)

Since I've got things I copy back and forth between work and home machines; plus I don't cart the desktop everywhere I go, I've started using DropBox. Sits in your task tray (win, mac, lin) and works just like another drive but it syncs to a central server where you get up to 2Gig of space. And it's free for that amount of space, and a subscription fee to get 50Gigs of space.

Been using it for ages, works fantastic. They're currently doing a promotion such that if you sign up by this link we both get an additional 250M of space. Free! Huzzah!

No, it's not the naked prof, thank goodness. Although that would make for an interesting series. "Let's see what death dealing devices I can make with simple ingredients."

Nope, the Professor's new vest has been photographed with goggles, hat, official badge and your choice of either Love-o-meter or Adventure bag.

So recently I've

• Eaten chicken's feet, on purpose.  Like quail, it's too bony and a lot of effort for not much gain.
• Predicted doom, how accurate that is remains to be seen.
• Run around madly trying to prevent, or at least prepare emergency plans should doom arrive.
• Gained a specific purpose waistcoat personally tailored for Professor von Explaino by a seemstress who creates professional movie costumery.
• Gone squee over the above, loudly and often.
• Bachelored it up while Jocelyn was away at a training course.  This involved me eating prepared meals she left me, and cleaning the house.  I think I may have forgotten how to do that properly.
• Not minded forgetting how to bachelor properly.
• Come closer to having my iPhone application actually released unbuggilly.
• Found out that it likely wasn't bugger code, rather unexpected quirks in the input that was my downfall.  Stupid downfall.
• Ninja-delivered chocolate twice.  Once the recipient wasn't there and that was easy.  The second time I delivered it into their intray while they were at their desk and wasn't noticed.
• Re-ordered my comic collection to make some room for new comics.  Anyone want my PVP collection?  I've got issue 0 up to thirty something.
• Put on weight.  Damn you, weight.
• Gotten my arse handed to me in online Left 4 Dead but had fun regardless.
• Discovered I may be getting bored with Fallout 3.  Looks like my attention span for long-reaching games has dimmed, I think the last game I actually finished was Penny Arcade's game - and that was because it was a tailored interactive and personalised* novel
• * by personalised, read the same sort of personalisation you get out of those Christmas books you can buy that have your child's name in it - only this time it also has a close approximation of your face**
• ** by close approximation, read as good as you can get from predrawn Penny-Arcade style person parts***
• *** by that, read the game kicks butt and if you don't own it you should.

"Would you believe I could dodge bullets?  No?  How about a BB-gun?"

"Oh Neo..." *rolls eyes*

"Ve Are Agentz!  Ve do not 'doo doo' here!"

*Neo fails the jump* "...missed it by that much..."

Quick prop-check before work this morning reveals the Love-o-Meter is broken.  Hopefully I'll have enough time/ skill/ equipment to enact repairs tonight.

So I've been playing a lot of Fallout 3 lately.  By a lot I mean on occasion, I don't get to really play for days on end/ an entire weekend without sleep any more.  More than I've been playing any other game recently, how's that?  There's a number of people at work that also play, so morning teas can be filled with references to what people have found/ been doing/ what they like about the whole thing etc.  Now the makers have released the GECK which is their development thingy to create your own adventures.

Which got me thinking of one of my favourite daft RPGs.  Also post-apocalyptic.  Also with a slightly off-centre sense of humour.  Also with a love of various ways of killing anything around you.

When is someone going to take the GECK and build a Macho Women with Guns module? 

Today's "Origami a Day" is a talking dog.

Passers by> "Ha, does it really talk?"
Colin> "Hmmm, step 5: Summon Cthulhu..."

Last night Jos, Jolyon, Kane, Susan, Haikal and Karin went to Alchemy, a very expensive restaraunt in Brisbane. Why? SCIENCE!

The meals themselves were great, and the cocktails were tasty and the conversations were fun. My highlight, and the reason for picking Alchemy, is because they do Liquid Nitrogen desserts. They freeze them in front of you and then you eat them. Typically, while I was eating the treats and blowing jets of mist from my mouth the only photo I've got is me with twin jets of mist bursting from my nose. Thanks Kane ( ;) )

COLD!!!!!

This event happened after morning exercises. Connie was being shark-like, even to the point of plonking down behind my head mid sit-up and attacking it when I completed the sit-up. She ran out with me when I went to do my outside stretches - I'd barely started when a crested pigeon buzzed her and she just leapt up and snatched it out of the air. She ran off to under some bushes but I pulled her away and picked up the pigeon - it was already dead.

Cats do these things, fine. I've already found a few small lizard corpses around the place much to my disapproval. I don't want to have to lock her in a cat-run but that may be the only way to protect the local wildlife. Pigeon now, could be a lorikeet or one of the blue tongues later. Plus it would protect her from the other, nastier cats in the neighbourhood she gets chased by.

*sigh* They grow up so fast.

I may be thinking about Relapse the Ninja a bit too much lately, as that character appears to be warping my brain patterns. Today I'd managed to work off the weight I'd put on over the break, but I'm still over 90Kg by a fair margin, lowest I'd managed in the past 5 years was 89Kg late last year. I've been bouncing between 91 and 95Kg for about a year, ignoring the 89-for-a-few-days-after-being-ill aberration. Today's morning exercise really hurt, and I was down about the whole weight thing.

[Colin]: It's hopeless.
[Relapse, joining thoughts unbidden]: Then in the absence of hope we will rely on effort.

more animals

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