Nightshadow - The world of Aaron

so - currently I am studying phagocytosis and autophagy. A lot of hardcore visual microscopy and computer modelling-

e.g.

The above is from software called Imaris. $10k +$5k maintenance /year/computer. I have a 1 month off-site licence on my laptop for October (free, yay).

As far as tunes go - KMH’s new cd is out saturday. I have been listening to it on Nova. She has gone like mainstream alternative. i.e. it’s very much “quirky pop”… nothing really show’s off the potential of her voice. There are a few songs on their with real singing - but the rest are ok I guess. She is playing in Melbourne next month, I think i’ll go.

Photos - so many photos to go through and convert to jpg… eeek..

In general, most roads down here are much wider then back in QLD. So why the hell do people almost run you off the road when on a freeway???

and why do people spontaneously decide they want to kill you if your reflexes aren’t good enough to avoid their crazy driving.

Ahh well, the daily challenges of driving in Melbourne.

p.s. My washer/dryer has the longest, craziest “finished” tone sound.

So.. recently I saw

Released: 2008

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In Bruges

Elizabeth Berrington, Olivier Bonjour, Ann Elsley, Jean-Marc Favorin, Brendan Gleeson, Zeljko Ivanek

What can I say… damn good! One of the best movies I have seen in a while, unique, well written and a good laugh. It is the directors first full length film, but he did well. You can tell he is a playwright - and I like the style. Anyway - go see it.

so… i’ve ben meaning to post for a while. but meh. Life is busy, another year older, a bit more broke.

My old computer crashed, the one I used to store a lot of my data/photos etc. I’ve lost the original (raw’s, some jpgs) of a LOT of my photos. 50gb of data, irretrievable. THAT FUCKEN SUCKS. so yeah, I have a few jpgs, the ones on my gallery, in high quality - but most of the originals are GONE.

so yeah - I booted it up to back it all up and … bam… grinded to hell.

I now have a 500gb portable HDD for scientific data and photos… aswell as dvd and my computers HDD (laptop for some, desktop for others). hmm.

So, there is a little good news. I have a new portable HDD… and a laptop that seems quite reliable… and a desktop that behaves.

Steph wants to buy a mac laptop, they are sexy.

I have some new camera equipment, canon EOS 40D, 17-70 f2.8 sigma, 70-200 f4L IS USM, canon 430exII speedlite/flash etc.

Settled into melbourne, working hard, little time for fun - but oh well.

So, recently steph purchased:

HTC touch dual - http://www.htc.com/www/product.aspx?id=142 

(work will pay, eventually).

Recently I purchased:

Canon EOS 40D - http://www.canon.com.au/eos/range/eos40d/default.aspx

Sigma 17-70mm F/2.8-4.5 DC macro - http://www.sigmaphoto.com/lenses/lenses_all_details.asp?id=3315&navigator=6

Canon 70-200mm F/4 IS L series - http://www.canon.com.au/products/cameras_lenses_accessories/telephoto_zoom_lenses/ef_70-200mm4lisusm.aspx

so yeah, I feel guilty.

Damn, 4.4 tonnes, 15 million tablets or $440 million worth of ecstasy. They claim it’s 60% of Vic’s eccies. One would imagine a price rise. At least the dealers not arrested won’t be affected by federal inflation for a while. That’s a lot of drugs to be in tinned tomatoes… I hope the legitimate shipments of tinned tomatoes from Italy aren’t held up. I am quite fond of the ones from my local importer.

So, mental note: clicking cancel (then yes to delete the torrent) on a partially downloaded file in ShareAza does not delete the data. It leaves it sitting in your temp files in the shareaza directory. After struggling to work out why the windows system drive was full - I deleted 30gig of partially downloaded files. yay.

In other new… yeah nothing really. Had an awesome sat/sun away at blairgowrie (mornington peninsula).

Photos on FB, so far.

It’s good to chill. So much cleaning etc to do this w/e. tax return is back, yay.

I might go buy a camera.

The universe apparently wants the hooker-look-a-like Miss Universe: Venezuela to be the new Miss universe.

Miss Venezuela (as per the judges)….

or

Miss Colombia.

ahh well..I’m happy with steph

so… 5 left. I think MU: Australia should have scored higher. Stunning dress she had and yeah, talent. MU: columbia, damn… she is utterly gorgeous. The judges actually seem to be leaning her way (they never agree with me). Anyway, we’ll see in a few minutes.