Happy Father's Day to all the people that do Father's Day!

We had Josh's dad, my uncle and one of my cousins over for lunch.  My uncle offered to cook the fish so we pulled 6 trout out of the tanks.  I've been observing that some of them were pretty big when feeding them, and one of the ones that Tao pulled up was quite large.

Big rainbow trout from the aquaponics tank, being held by father in law and patted by 3 year old

...privacy concerning if you're one of those people that object to things like tracking you around the internet, and not a big deal if you're not.

Dearest Apple

I hear you've won your most recent case against Samsung regarding rounded corners on rectangles.  Please forgive me for not jumping up and down in excitement over this little victory, as I happen to think the whole thing was pretty fucking stupid (pardonnez mon français) and a massive waste of time, effort and resources that you could have spent doing stuff like making your existing products better and maybe even inventing something new (or at least a new take on something old).

Throughout the years I've used:

Because I don't blog it nearly as often as I should.

Tao's reading is now well and truly away.  He reads everything from street and shop signs that we're passing to books.  His current favourite book is his Pokemon Black & White Handbook that Sprat bought for him. It's not unusual for him to wander around the house with it, have it open on his lap while watching tv, and sometimes he'll be multiscreening, watching tv, playing Pokemon White on his DS and have the book open beside him for reference.  I've known for a while and I think both Tao and Josh are discovering that he can actually parse what he considers large blocks of text when he wants to.

My OT character Lyric hunting with her two eevees, Amber (big shiny mutant thing) and Lightfoot (normal one).

If the Kanto/Johto regions weren't supposed to be tropical I would have left the sky clear, kind of rushed the clouds a little.  And my lighting went to hell when I exported as a jpg so my dodgy quickfix was to turn it into a png.  It only helped a little.  My painting is slightly dodgier than usual as I used a hard edged brush all the way through for some reason instead of a soft edged one like I usually do.

I know what I did wrong :) All I need to do now is catch them before I get to the point of "too hard to fix"...

The kids watched many Pokemon dvds while we were on Christmas Island.  I have a Pokemon fanfic sketched out in my head which I don't give a lot of time to as it's a very occasional diversion from working on AR.  This is sketch of my OT (that's "Original Trainer" for those that aren't versed in Pokemon fanfics) and two of her Eevees; Amber (combining cliches, she is an abnormally large shiny mutant, and female!), and Lightfoot (perfectly normal male).  They're hunting whatever might be good eating probably somewhere in the Kanto region.

Recently, in a mad jumble of chaos and confusion well coordinated and executed attack, my sister and I surprised our parents for their 60th.

I took a bunch of photos but didn't put them on my laptop due to the constant dramas I've been having downloading photos from the camera (keep losing connection, and the closer I get to finishing the import the more it breaks) and also the internet connection on Christmas Island is so agonisingly slow that photos would have taken aeons to upload anyway.  So now having gotten back to Perth and back onto my desktop, after struggling with importing 227 photos for the last two hours, I'm going to do one of those big long photo posts that is going to exasperate my sister.

Don't worry, I'm not posting all of them.

My plans rarely go according to plan.  They do usually result in a desirable (and sometimes even the desired) outcome though.

The latest one worked a charm, considering how many factors, unknowns and randoms got involved.

My parents are 60 this year.  When we were up for Christmas in December, I made some noises about attempting to come back for the big birthday bash they had planned in the middle of the year if I could scrape the money together.

As the party date drew closer, I realised I wasn't going to be able to scrape the money together.  When my mum asked about it during one of our phone conversations, I mentioned this.

"Where is the Green Sheep" is a picture book by Mem Fox and Judy Horacek.  It's been a favourite for all three kids and it's pretty easy (repetitive sentences with one-two word variations).  In the interests of LOTE I decided to translate it into lojban for them.

Unfortunately, I completely destroyed the lyrical rhyming thing while doing so.

Happily it seemed like a mostly straightforward task (which means I'm slowly getting better or conversely I fubared it and don't realise it yet).  I can't find a word for "clown" and I don't think {sakli} is the right thing to use when describing playground equipment.

And of course the Lojbanic Translator is being excruciatingly slow/non-responsive so I can't check my work.  Will just have to get the people that are actually fluent to shoot this thing down in flames help me out :) Here goes.

That would be Blender the open source 3d application not the kitchen appliance.

2012-06-22: I want to split out the Lightwave viewports and have one view on the big screen so I can see a big picture of what's going on and work on smaller zoomed in sections on my Cintiq.  Lightwave can't do that.  Wonder if Blender can because it's all open sourcey and whatnot and it's statistcally improbable that I'm the only person on the planet that would want to do such a ridiculous thing.  Find out it can, download.  Messed around a little with menus (most important thing was change the rotation thing from turntable to trackball so it would move in a way I was used to) and made a mutant cube.

Have coding to do.  Must.  Wait.  Til weekend.