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I love me some space-rock. Muse is my favourite band by bloody far, and anyone who knows me just … knows that. I discovered today an unsigned band from New Zealand called “Battle Circus”, and they sound so much like Muse that I love them too. Here is one of their videos. They have an EP out which is quite good, and are working on an album which is scheduled to be released later this year. Check out their website for links to facebook, twitter, whatever: http://www.battlecircus.com/ ...

Here are photos of the six hermit crabs I’ve been looking after, along with a photo of the setup I used to take the photos. ...

While my friend was away on vacation, I got the opportunity to look after his hermit crabs. I had also recently purchased an intervalometer for my DSLR camera, so I could do time-lapse photography. The video below shows a rough test of that, with each frame 8 seconds apart. There are quite a few things that need to be fixed for my next attempt. I have to fix the depth of field so more of the tank is in focus, the ambient lighting could be a bit better, I have to cut down the reflections on the front of the tank (perhaps a light source from behind), fix the white balance, and not move around when the photos are being taken. That final point is what makes some frames darker than the rest. ...

The Nine Inch Nails set is here. The Jane’s Addiction set is here. I can’t really express how seriously awesome that night was. NIN were just damn amazing. It also makes quite a difference when posting these pictures to the appropriate groups on Flickr, here is the latest view-count graph of all my photos…

You can’t beat a game with a title “Robot Dinosaurs That Shoot Beams When They Roar”. You just can’t. http://www.arcadebomb.com/play/robot_dinosaurs_that_shoot_beams_when_they_roar.html

I just completely stumbled across this on Youtube. Misseri Studio were the creators of a great deal of the short 5 minute programs that were shown on ABC in Oz when I was growing up. Don’t remember any of their stuff? Here is an example: Go there. Now. http://www.youtube.com/user/MISSERISTUDIO

I just had all my wisdom teeth removed. Before being injected with the novocaine, I attempted to see how low I could get my pulse. I guess I did an ok job, hovering around the mid 60s, especially since I was freaking out a little. The whole procedure took 45 mins, with three straight pulls and one impacted (soft flesh, so it hadn’t come right through yet). I remember the dentist saying “now you’re going to feel good”, and then after that, being wheelchaired out to the car. ...

I posted this to my facebook profile a few days ago. Here is the info: Originally composed on a Kawai ES3 (I love that Piano), pumped via USB-MIDI into my computer running Cubase Studio 4, re-converted to piano choones using Synthogy’s Ivory Grand Piano, normalised and converted to MP3 using Audacity. Still can’t think of a proper name for it. Sorry if it auto-plays, I don’t know how to stop that with this app (actually, I’ve disabled it for now until I get a better solution). ...

Fulfill your Monk-like desires.

This post was wrong. I was surfing Wikipedia and found that a damselfly’s wings run parallel to its body. A dragonfly’s wings are perpendicular, like on the one I found out the front of our place a while ago: