Wednesday, December 31

Fantales

I'm eating a Fantale
Who the hell writes a fantale piece about Hugh Jackman?!

Tuesday, December 30

I don't even want to blog... But...

So how's everyone going anyway? New year's eve tonight!!
Cotton by the Mountain Goats. Strange song, but I love it. Even if it is a bit folky
I met a guy yesterdaw who phonetically says follkey, not fokey
Strange...
Road to Mandalay by Robbie Williams now. Had it stuck in my head for *days*
I have a fantail. Seriously love those chewy, factual bastards
Oh and Teddy's here too
He's a red panted bastard, for sure
Man, if someone game me Rhett-size pants like that I'd be their slave
Thinking of rearranging my room... Again...
Too much effort, but I've already packed the 14 (I counted) things that take AC power from my desk, so I'll need to un-pack (About ---- energy) Or continue with the rearrangement ------ energy)
Herm...
So sleepy
I was up an NINE this morning for an... Appointment - NINE
I haven't been up at nine since my now-finished TAFE days...
Man TAFE was so... Crazy and stinge...
Learned a tonne though
Oh I've got a few names for my ship (Which again I have drastically renovated again)
Heavy Metal Toxicity, Mercury's eclipse, Dutiful Courier or Diligent Envoy
Or combinations... I just like those names

Monday, December 29

Xbox 360 Vs PS3

When I can be bothered, I have pics and will finally, once and for all, answer the question that unlocks the mystery to life itself:
Xbox 360 versus PlayStation 3!!
Be prepared...

My draft ship

Enjoy: The as-of-now un-named ship:

The interior. Includes:
Cockpit with Pilot and Co=Pilot seats, and dual safety harnesses
Crew Quarters, with two desks and bunk system
Cafe' with counter and drink machine, sofa facing the stars and a table with two chairs
Captain's Quarters, with mahogany desk, comfortable bed and personal safe
Cargo area with garage-type air lock for easy outside access
Maintenance room, with storage and tool rack
Engine room, with detailed engine
And a 6-stud wide passenger and small-cargo ramp!
See here for the pics!

Friday, December 26

Also-

What the hell is that song ABOUT anyway?!

Take back the city

I was listening to that song (Which I don't mind) and painted in my head was something like this:
(Please note the bolded sentences are lyrics from the song)
I'll fully work it onto a fantasy piece one day. Maybe.

The word spread through the camp like wildfire. Take back the city
Take back the city for yourself tonight
Or I'll take back the city for me

I said to her. Once pretty and dainty and gentle, now grungy, dirty and all innocence robbed. She simply nodded.
Take back the city for yourself tonight
Whoa

God knows you put your life in two a times
And it's both cradled you and crushed

The leader said to everyone. Speaking of our hard times and our glorious ones. Of oppression and revolt and rebellion.
Crushing defeat and despair, and on the contrast bright days lacing glorious victories
But now it's time to make your own demands
And we did. We're taking back the city
Whoa

All these years later and it's killing me

Across from me, a seasoned fighter said to no-one in particuler
Your broken records in words
Ten thousand craters where it all should be

He referred to our previous battlefields.
Whoa

No need to put your words into my mouth
Don't need convincing at all

We said to the leader. Eager for a fight. Rowelled up after all the speech.
I love the place where I have no doubts
She said to me. Whispered in my ear
Whoa


Extreme rough draft, of course

Oh, they're so crazy

Have a look at this (Thanks to ABC news)
Who else thinks the Japanese Government's well-earned yen could be spent... Oh... I don't know... Curing cancer or building nanomachines!?

My Hover Helicopter

Whipped this up watching Rambo 3
Hehehe Oh, that Rambo is so crazy... He just wants to be left alone hohoho
From Hover Helicopter

From Hover Helicopter

From Hover Helicopter

Thursday, December 25

"First thing we should do when we get out of this [Alien invasion] is make our robots arm wrestle again!..." -Scwartz

"The stars themselves once lived and died at our command, and yet you still dare oppose our will." - Farseer Mirehn Biellann

"Honour is a lie; Glory is of no use to the dead." -Darth Revan

"Definition: 'Love' is making a shot to the knees of a target 120 kilometers away using an Aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope. Statement: This definition, I am told, is subject to interpretation. Obviously, love is a matter of odds. Not many meatbags could make such a shot, and fewer would derive love from it. Yet for me, love is knowing your target, putting them in your targeting reticle, and together, achieving a singular purpose, against statistically long odds." -HK-47

"Maybe there's a God above, and all I ever learned from love is how to shoot at someone who out-drew you." -Leonard Cohen

Wednesday, December 24

German Daleks...

My Christmas Eve LEGO car

Merry Christmas to all bladiblabla
Enjoy this, I know you will

Rhett out

Tuesday, December 23

Christmas Eve

I've been curiously apathic this whole holiday
Kinda like "Oh, christmas is near. Oh joy... Meh"
Guess I had other things to look forward to beforehand =P
Broke into a 2G SIM card to find out what was in it
They're curiously small devices
Got an xbox 360 also a few days ago
Man they're fun. But everything is such *low* quality compared to my PS3
Enjoy these photos







Rhett out

Strange package

I received this strange parcel in the mail box today
From The Illuminati do exist...

Notice the "Illuminati" word on it.
Please note, disappointingly there was no secret invitation to *join* said secret organisation...
Bugger
Ah well, what I *did* receive (Millennium Falcon by James Luceno) is a glorious book, albeit somewhat derivative from the main story arc of the 'Legacy' series...

Sunday, December 21

Brain vent

So much stuff has happened recently
And now not much is
Not much at all
Makes the mind wander

I gave a gift, recently
A very very important gift
The person who received the gift will read this
And she'll know what I'm talking about
It wasn't a new idea, unfortunately
But the gift came with a meaning
A very important meaning
And the physical properties of the gift represent that meaning
Shape and also material
I pondered it endlessly beforehand
I didn't need to
I wanted to make myself sure as sure can get
But I already was
And also the inscription on the gift conveys that meaning
But only her and I will fully understand the words, and our past behind the words

The present was also partially for me
Because the harpoon might shrink if I'm sure she knows
And it has
But it's still there
It will go
But I have to work for it
But it's OK
Because the way I see it, I can't ever *not* get this harpoon removed

I also made a list of some of the things I'm thankful for
My girlfriend
My goal
My job
My car
My family
My location
The contents of my wallet
My Ebay account
My iMac
My Nokia e71 (Seriously in love with that phone)
My PS3
My collection of X-Files: seasons 1-9 including both movies
My Star Wars books
My huge DVD collection
My love of tech
The fact that my previously mentioned gift was accepted instantly
HMO's
The Government
Nixon
Logitech MX revolution
My girlfriend
My Logitech iPod speaker/clock/alarm dock
My girlfriend
George Lucas
Sony's earphones
Steve Perry (The Expanded Universe Author, not the generic name combination. Even though...)

My official "Make myself look more adult in my parents' eyes" campaign has started to success. Thank god
Tonight's very tame pizza was a hit. Even though I didn;t even get ot put anything fun in there (Hello - a desert pizza, or one with egg, or one with fries/potato gems)

Oh and I also gave another gift
But I think I would be in trouble if I told people about that one =P

(Actually, I know it's the case but I'll just make doubly sure gift was properly appreciated and accepted... I'll get back to you on that one)

I'm getting into the new Snow Patrol song. Take back the City.
The title is very inspiring
*fictional cogs are in motion*
I'll get back to you on *that* too

Rhett out

Friday, December 12

New Indiana Jones set review

Thanks to daoudbazaar for this one:


So lovely...
Rhett out

Thursday, December 11

Why people need people like ME in their world #455,236

So I went to Lily's school thingamajig last night.
Truly it was awful.
Usually they're these pissy half-hour speech and a song and dance from each school year group. This year there was bloody speeches galore, twenty two songs with dance. Few group speeches (Completely faked and terrible - what alse should I expect from six-year-olds though)
I should update my grand list of people I should be legally able to kill to include:
Obese mothers who screech at their kids and wallop them for screeching back (Where do you think they learn that from, you pig-faced moron?!)
Parents who are so stupidly proud of their children they STAND UP in their seats to see said child, blocking 30 peoples' view
Principals and school captains whose speeches are almost identical and cover EVERY topic the other's did
It's a bit bigoted perhaps, but these parents wo send their kids to mid-low level range catholic schools are the WORST, the most MORONIC drivers ever in existance.
Thankfully my father and I share this opinion.
If you don't grab your kid and RUN to the car park, you're trapped behind thirty do-gooder drivers who do things such as:
Stop and give way when they have RIGHT OF WAY
When turning into a kerb, they don't turn gradually; leaving drivers such as me sneaking room to move around them instead of being stuck behind them as they do a sharp, quick turn and have to correct and re-correct and re-re-re-correct
Drive 20km/hr BELOW the speed limit, in the dead of night
Wear those obnoxious "Baby on board" stickers in their windows
Drive gas-guzzling massive four-wheel-drives when their most rugged terrain is driving up a quasi-inclined driveway
Well, whinge over.
Oh- the REASON I blogged was to say that for about half an hour the school's IT guys had projector troubles. For chrissake, CHANGE THE RESOLUTION TO MATCH THE PROJECTOR'S, IT'S A LITTLE HARD ON THE EYES BUT IT WORKS!!!!!!!!
Rhett out

Saturday, December 6

Finally my sweet-tooth pays off...

Look at this! I'm so proud - it's PERFECTION!

I bet you couldn't remove the foil absolutely NEATLY with the paper wrapping! I am the MASTER!
-Rhett

Tuesday, December 2

Testing embedding video again...

Thanks to ZDnet and Techrepublic for this: