Recessive eye

Posted on 27th Sep 2005 by essiep

Windy, refreshingly cool

These floaters are really bugging me today. I have appointements to keep.

The latest painting is probably not going to make it to this section- I may as well put it straight into the "Finished pictures" section. I can safely start the new picture having proven the idea in this one.

Floaters

Posted on 26th Sep 2005 by essiep

warm & very windy

I have floaters. They are bits in the eye that partly obscure vision. The thin thready ones have always been there, the ones that have diffraction rings around them. the new ones are more blobby and get in the way of seeing things. Its like having mucky glasses on- at least it’s only one eye and not the dominant one.

Painted freckles today. That picture with fractured eyes now has freckels. Come to think if it, it has eyelashes and eyebrows too.

Clean arm

Posted on 25th Sep 2005 by essiep

only 44.8 miles today. Windy warm & close. Rainy bits too.

My hand doesn’t smell of that incident yesterday anymore.

AW38 Whitley renders. the mesh is near enough finished, so made some sample renders today so the Whitley-project people could have a look.

Down the drain

Posted on 24th Sep 2005 by essiep

17°C, sunny and clear.

Imy came home distraught, she’s dropped her mp3 player down the drain. It’s been missing for weeks then today she found it again. Hours later dropped it down the drain in a moment’s clumsiness; in a hurry to get to work I suppose.

Below are the pictures of me trying to retrieve it. The drain is like a big pot, about 4 feet deep, with an overflow to the sewer. If it went down there it would be lost forever. So I had a go at getting it out of the accumulation of mud & decaying leaves in the bottom of the pot. The drain cover had to be removed first, which was hard at first as it was bunged up with a summer’s worth of muck. You can see from the picture how I got it levered up eventually. Then the search began.

At one moment I felt something solid while probing with the garden rake through the jelly like mud paste. Then it was gone, inverting the rake let me pull lots of mud out, I still couldn’t feel anything so back with the rake down the hole.

This went on for over ½ an hour.

Suddenly there it was in the mud on the rake, still glowing.

It was still switched on!

It’s on the radiator now- drying out, after a blow dry with the hair-dryer. I only wish we’d got a picture of its back-light showing up in the glob of dead leaves and muddy pulp.

This is an amusing site- thanks to Dawn_82. Online text-speech. Quite handy for finding spelling mistakes I suppose.

I popped a rib getting that cover off, don’t think it’s broken, but it definitely "popped" as I levered it up.. ouch.

Help! there are poets attacking…

Posted on 16th Sep 2005 by essiep

Chill north wind, and bright sunshine from the south. The balance came out as 14°C.

The comments have raised my eyebrows higher than they heve been before. So high that litttle oxygen masks have dropped automatically from the overhead luggage – a mechanism triggered by such unexpected emergencies.

Are you an arbitor of cool? Maybe if you’re a head-girl

Whitley airframe

Posted on 14th Sep 2005 by essiep

Another nice day (21°C) more like the day before yesterday, more wind and not as much cloud as yesterday.

Feedback from the Whitley Project group has been great.thus:

Very, very impressive!
No problem playing with broadband.
It will bring a nostalic tear to my father’s eye when he sees this. He
flew Whitleys until he had an unscheduled meeting with the North Sea
in 1941.
I look forward to your next upload.
Regards
Dave

Well, I will just have to get on with the next render then (actually I have done the first new clip, of 3 seconds long. there are still a few componants that need finishing off on the mesh. But the clips done so far have avoided showing them. After posting this note, I will continue.

3DS Max: The finish is in sight! Rear turret complete – and ready for mid & distant shots. Also it gan be exported to the Stirling mesh. Started the front turret – which must remain temporary since the technical drawings I have aren’t that clear. Finally- here is a test render using raytracing on the perspex material. Not too bad eh?

Wombles

Posted on 13th Sep 2005 by essiep

Another nice day. See yesterday, but more cloud.

The wombles are everywhere. they even get into the ceiling space- I hear the pitter-patter of little footprints at night. The neighbours have had the pest-control in since they’d got into their house and raided the pantry. The neighbour on the other side has a cat with no tail. The cat with no tail is getting good at catching wombles but like our cats used to, doesn’t eat them. They did eat mice though, does that mean wombles taste bad or are they just too big to swallow?

The ladies are out there trying to stop wombling, one of them scratches at the gap in the fence while the other hopes to catch a womble as it escapes across the yard, she gives up too soon so they don’t make a great team. As far as I know they have only caught two this summer. Sometimes the mess the ladies make is as bad as the wombles.

Filmed

Posted on 12th Sep 2005 by essiep

Wow what a perfect summer’s day. Foggy ride to work, but unbroken sun

later.

The Filming was ok, I left for work before they started, but Hannah looked good on the small screen- bless her little cotton socks. Despite doing my usual sunday ride today, the ride in this morning wasn’t slowed at all, legs didn’t feel tired untill after arriving home. Perhaps a short "after-ride" would be a good idea in future.

Feedback from the Whitley Project has been good so far, they liked my sample animated video. So worek isn’t stopping on that little project.

See here Whitley Project

Film crew

Posted on 11th Sep 2005 by essiep

18°C, overcast ( mostly)

Cycle 56 miles, reduced milage because I’m expecting not to drive tomorrow.

Filming: Normally Mondays I go in the car and cycle the rest of the week, but a BBC film-crew are visiting to make a feature about people who have "ditched the car to work". Mrs D. has set this up, she’s a real sucker for this kind of thing, ( & now she’s tired of the idea too). I don’t see why this should affect me much, I didn’t normally use the car before anyway any hypothetical ditching. I’ve cycled to work for 15 years now. Before that I didn’t work full time. Oh well, all in the aid of quaint parochial local TV.

Mostly harmless.

3ds max

More work on that model, which I ‘ve sent to the Whitley Project. I did tell them it’s a work in progress! The mapping is better and more rounding of angualr bits now there is no poly limit. The exhust stacks was quick & effective- made in edit-poly then attached to the model, looks good too. the front turret is still the old one, and that’s going to be tricky to fix. The flying surfaces are now wired together as are parts of the undercarriage.

Spider new

Posted on 8th Sep 2005 by essiep

Warm & sticky day of passing clouds. 22°C

Today a new spider moved in. It’s the biggest and best we’ve had for a couple of years. It’s over 2½ cm long, tiger striped legs and rests elegantly on the drumskin web waiting for dinner to visit. We shalln’t see any of those orrid bluebottles that get trapped in the kitchen, with poop on their feet and who vom’ on food before hoovering it up. No, the spider will dutifully wrap it up in silk and then munch it late in the night. Good spider.

The worry is that it’s in a corner of the kitchen where the dogs usually jump up to the window to bark at next-door’s cat, a moment’s clumsyness could leave my spider less than it began, so let’s have no accidents ladies.

I will do my part and clear up it’s husks from the shelf underneath so that no-one is tempted to evict my new spider.

Micycle

Mike thinks b/hikes

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