Nightshadow - The world of Aaron

So, as everyone knows - I prefer canon. But if someone throws Nikon equipment in your face, it’s hard to say no.

So… after doing parts of the Monash Micro Imaging Live cell imaging course and playing around with millions of dollars of microscopes from Leica, Olympus and Nikon … I’d have to say that yeah Leica rocks (depending on the model, the LX is a LEMON), olympus is ok (good images but buggy setup) and the Nikon a1: 

is damn good for the price.

So, the reason I just pimped Nikon? There was a lucky door prize and I just won a free Nikon coolpix S210 (3x optical, 8mp, vibration reduction, nikkor lens).

So yeah - one positive output from the week anyway.

So I was watching this doco on ABC by david attenborough covering the Lakes district. Apparently steph and I chose to drive up the steepest road in the UK when we visited a few years ago, hollister pass. We also drove by the sing side stone circle, quakers hill etc. David attenborough has such a cool voice, despite his voice.

Yeah what else - been shit busy with work… yay.

Bought a new GPS - 4.3″ widescreen, bluetooth and a built in DVB-T tuner (shh don’t tell the cops). - have virtually every piece of software available for it.

Researchgate is taking off… be a part of it.

Wrote a mini-review for the faculty of F1000 - an elitists society for scientific publications/evaluation etc. It’s good to have a boss with a big name.

Doing lots of crazy live cell confocal microscopy.. expensive lasers to play with, yay.

Just watched man city play man utd - damn good match!

It hailed down here last weekend, for no reason, and apparently even snowed in the city (very briefly). This weather is damp sporadic.

The christmas tree is up, where has the year gone. Where has my life gone.

My sister is pregnant, so is Em, so is Cindy, so is Lisle so is Panny, etc etc - so many kids around aswell.

and yeah.. that’s it. more soon.

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.