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Equal rights

Monday, 21 November 2011 @ 12:00am

Earlier today, I got an email from AllOut requesting signatures for this petition (the image from which I’ve stolen).

Russian activists, stolen from AllOut site

Last week I got this email from Getup requesting donations to get a letter by a psychologist to the government run as an ad in a couple of major newspapers.

Insects and a gappy boy

Friday, 18 November 2011 @ 12:00am

It’s all happening. The garden is going nuts, we’re going to go through a stage of not having to buy so many veges, and we’re turning into those old people that like pottering around their gardens (though I don’t do much of any garden work as I seem to have a knack for killing plants).

This morning, as we were going around to see how the garden was going (the zuchinni is huge, all zuchinni plants have gotten bigger since the last post), when we encountered this fellow practising kung fu on a mulberry leaf:

I think one of my roosters is possessed

Thursday, 17 November 2011 @ 12:00am
Black naked neck cross rooster closeup

This one crowed directly outside the window and sounded like he’d been recorded and some sound technicians had remixed and resampled it and added some reverb and echo and all that (can you tell I don’t know anything about sound?) and played back what a demonic possessed rooster would sound like if a film maker ever had need of a demonic possessed rooster crowing.

Photos. Lots of them.

Wednesday, 16 November 2011 @ 12:00am

[minor pseudonymising edits during Drupal to hugo migration for all the good that will do now]

Not quite intelligent enough for a coherent post, so have lots of captioned photos instead.

kids storyboarding on a storyboard template

Homeschooling art and English: storyboarding with Mummy (who was working on AR storyboards)

AR notes: mashing a calendar for AR

Friday, 4 November 2011 @ 2:18pm

Seeing as I’ve decided to use lojban as the IAL for AEfter Ragnarok (easy way to facilitate communication between people who don’t speak the same language; all people are strongly encouraged to learn their own culture, language, traditions etc first and foremost), I figured maybe I should have a “culturally neutral” (or something to that effect) global calendar as well.

The calendar reform article on Wikipedia had a bunch of links to check out.

Everybody was kung fu fighting

Wednesday, 19 October 2011 @ 10:52pm

Good thing I’m not trying for ranking in keywords to position myself as an expert on anything, as this would drown in a search :)

I’ve been wanting to get back into training for A Very Long Time (tm), so have been poking around for a kung fu school. There’s some wing chun and other styles floating around the place, but in the end I admitted to myself that what I really wanted was Choy Lay Fut.

3d-fyn, now with eyebrows and face morphs!

Saturday, 15 October 2011 @ 5:51pm
3d me with eyebrows and some face morphs

I’m not convinced my colour map is working. Will have to see when I do other random renders while fixing up the weight maps and seeing if I can work out cloth dynamics on the clothes. And I think I need to darken my hair a little bit. After that all I really need to do is see if I can work out how to get my freckle constellation on my face and I’m calling me done.

Drawing on the Cintiq

Thursday, 13 October 2011 @ 3:59pm

[minor pseudonymising edits during Drupal to hugo migration for all the good that will do now]

4yo likes experimenting in all media. Recently I let her have a go with Pixelmator and my Cintiq. This is what she came up with.

Small girl and some of her friends

Now I have to go to Carousel to get her more paints and a canbus.

What to do when .gitignore doesn't

Wednesday, 12 October 2011 @ 10:32am

So. At work we’ve switched from using svn to git (and GitHub).

Difference: decentralised, therefore “commit” commits it to the local repo rather than the remote/centralised one, and you have to “commit” then “push” to the remote.

Problem: .gitignore was not gitignoring some files (settings.php and .htaccess which I had to change to make it work on my local) which it was supposed to be gitignoring.

Solution as per RobWilkerson.org:

Do: git status which should spit up a list of modified files since lasy commit/sync/something (shut up I’m still working git out ;)

Thoughts on DiSo

Tuesday, 4 October 2011 @ 11:34am

I’ve had several.

Simultaneously, I’ve had several thoughts on which way this post was going to go. Originally I was going to go along the vein of a blog post from Zauber Paracelsus (which outlines the “nymwars” debacle to the date of that post, people embarking on “Project DeGooglefy” and alternatives to Google services).

Then I was going to do something or other about G+ and Facebook and problems with centralised social networks.