OK, I didn't expect this to be on the agenda quite yet, but what's your opinion on the hitting and molesting of bots in VR ( Read more... )

The dinosaurs are back. I don't know what it is about the concept of Jurrassic Park and dinosaurs, but they keep appearing in my dreams.

This time the park was in a coastal area, similar in feel to Queen Elizabeth II Park, just south of Raumati.

@SallyMclennan had decided to land her space-ship house there. She had chosen a spot based on the map, ( Read more... )

A chemical gel that can walk like an inchworm, or looper caterpillar has been demonstrated in a Japanese robotics lab.
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Shingo Maeda and colleagues made the colour-changing, motile gel by combining polymers that change in size depending on their chemical environment. This is based on an oscillating chemical reaction called the Belousov-Zhabotinsky ( Read more... )

The last four days have been one long wonderfully decadent pastciche of snuggles, sleep, food, and anime, primarily Death Note

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I'd never watched the entire series of Bubblegum Crisis until this evening. I've spent most of the last three nights doing so. This is a great series that holds up extremely well seeing as it was produced over ten years ago.

Things I like about it :

• Megatokyo - Yup, we saw it here first
• Pris - Classic mercenary tough girl, a rock singer, biker ( Read more... )

Got the virus, with the help of Kaspersky, an impressive product, nicely designed internally too seeing as you can have numerous different windows open from different sections of the app, all tracking it's current scan status, I bet it's got a great internal subscriber model. It even detected my collection of hack tools, and raised a flag about ( Read more... )

Saturday was largely a day of work, I killed Ivy, and other creeping plants, and created a huge pile of it in front of wasup_bro's car. In doing so I discovered a ladder.

jarratt_gray offered take me into Armageddon, but I declined, so I could continue work, though the offer was appreciated. superlate tried to get me hold of me to organize a game, but I couldn't hear the ( Read more... )

This morning I dropped off seraphs_folly at her sis' place, marking the end of her visit to me this side of Christmas. As I'm sitting here actually able to use my computer (grin), I'm missing her already.

This last week has been a bit of a nasty one, as far as biology goes. I was sick at home for two days, and seraphs_folly has a tummy bug, so there wasn't a lot of, um ( Read more... )

Well, firstly I suspect should apologize for not getting to various meetings with people this weekend. Some like Steph's gathering on Sunday I'm afraid I didn't hear about until afterwards due to being out of web contact for most of the weekend. Others, well...( let's start Thursday night... )

Just have to pass this on to people : www.animevisions.net

Some lovely pics there, especially in the shounen-ai and couples section!

I feel some new user-pics coming on... ;)