Apparently Perth has urban foxes. At least one, anyway.

ISP woes (nationally, apparently) meant no internet for several hours this afternoon and night. After getting bored really fast, I decided to futz around with the toy design some more and see if I could sneak up on that last major component ( Read more... )

Went along to a product brainstorming workshop where three projects - one of them mine - were taken apart and reconstructed by half a dozen brains operating at once. And given that most of them were either engineers or had a severe engineering bent, the amount of data being generated, calibrated, refined, compared, reworked and cohered per minute ( Read more... )

Dashing into a rather more upscale-area-than-usual shopping centre to grab some last-minute bread the other day, I noticed something that stopped me short ( Read more... )

It seems that it is actually entirely possible to pick up the phone and convince a manager of a large company to take you on as an extremely expensive consultant.

The request I made to Prometheus Music? It seems a copy found its way to Leslie Fish... who then emailed me.

*hyperventilates*

*runs in circles*

There's now Centrelink the MusicalThis kind of smacked me across the forehead, as a squiz at the reviews showed it to be almost exactly the same thing that I wrote (and performed, with other staff) more than ten years ago at one of the Christmas parties there ( Read more... )

Nice.


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On the plus side, there do seem to exist a couple of places which could conceivably put something interesting together.

On the minus side, just the external body work and materials could cost up to $US25,000. And that's not including some of the more intricate internal structural items, mechatronics and control systems I'd be looking for ( Read more... )

Holy crap it's HUGE!

(I also nominate this statement for most techno-embarrassing in ten years time when everyone has projected or virtual wall-sized screens.)