Cheap Therapy

• Many things have happened, given my last published update was September 14th
• Went to something to do with the iPhone that I can’t talk about.  And yet I can talk about programming the iPhone. Stupid NDA. Met some interesting people and talked shop.
• Wandered aimlessly around Sydney. Well, there was the Lindt café, beer, much walking (and thus blisters), cheap cherries (AU$7-8/kg), Qantas Club, art and nice Unagi-don. Oh, and Nicole and Hugh opening their film. Catching up with friends was good too, although would have liked to catch up with more of them!
• Less than a week away and already Bilby and Cygnet have changed noticeably.
• My father made 3 score and 10. Hopefully now the world is a different place to what it was then.
• Shopping with the whole family
• Deb’s fabulous Disco 40th
• Camera (box) shopping
• J’s first Birthday party
• Dreams of people falling. People falling in reality
• SF@The pub

Qantas have some A380 desktop pictures and Mac and Windows screen savers up on their site. I suspect the hand of Photoshop though, I don’t think one’s flown over Perth, all the shots are from the same angle and I’m still pretty sure it can’t land on the current runway.

In Austria and a Fiat dealership in a small town in Brazil.

via PhotoshopDisasters

A reminder that on Saturday a vote for Elizabeth Re is a vote for a monorail to Scarborough!

There’s a Cosplay lecture on at UWA on 8th September (see link for details) by Leng Leng Thang from Singapore.

The poster they have up in the lunchroom indicates there’s an iPod touch as a prize for best costume.

In case anyone’s looking for a secondhand car in Perth, Western Australia, let me know in the comments. Has 227,000km on the clock. 5 speed manual, airconditioned, tinted windows.

… Massachusetts was renamed to Aquinnah in 1998, no doubt due to people repeatedly getting arrested when asking for directions.
On an almost totally unrelated note, Aquinnah is the name Michael J. Fox gave to his daughter.

Can you guess it’s baby name season again?

Scaled Composite’s new Mothership “Eve” (aka WhiteKnightTwo) will lift Spaceship2 to 15000m. It’s the world’s largest carbon composite aircraft.

I don’t think their naming scheme is going to scale too well, I suspect “Spaceship54″ won’t be as compelling

For geek porn, check out the link to Scaled Composite’s giant CNC mill (available for rental to further your world domination plans)

Just awesome, check out the NASA photo archive (via Slashdot).

• Home Based Learning Network trade fair. I won the first door prize
• Touring the frozen eastern states. Qantas cancels two of my flights due to maintenance issues, and books me on the earlier flight. Fortunately I am able to make it to the airport on time in both cases, although one of them involves eating my dinner in the car… One flight is on a plane flown up from Melbourne to replace the original aircraft. The new plane has a loose interior panel next to my seat, which the hostie kicks into place And the reading lights don’t work. Hopefully nothing else is wrong with it!
• I’m going to try a cut for those who like such things. Apologies if this doesn’t work on the syndicated feed.

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