Saw this super cool thing today - Google Earth Timelapse.
"Timelapse is a global, zoomable video that lets you see how the Earth has changed over the past 32 years. It is made from 33 cloud-free annual mosaics, one for each year from 1984 to 2016, which are made interactively explorable by Carnegie Mellon University CREATE Lab's Time Machine library, a technology for creating and viewing zoomable and pannable timelapses over space and time."
Check out northern Canberra - Gungahlin and its suburbs have only existed in the past thirty years...
Last night we did pasta for dinner, and watched Donnie Darko (director's cut edition). I saw this movie
years ago and have been wanting to watch it again ever since. And Stu had never seen it, so watch it we did. I'm pretty sure this director's cut version had a lot more explanation about the time travel stuff than the version I saw did ...
Today was a catch up kinda of a day. For brekky I had some of Annie's organic free range eggs
We did our shopping in the morning and stopped at As Nature Intended for coffee and hot chocolate and puppy watching.
Lunch was some garlic bread we picked up at the markets.
In the afternoon I fought with Google Earth/Picasa. Google Earth had lost all my geotagged place markers and I couldn't figure out why (since the first batch had worked beautifully). In the end I figured you really needed to quit Google Earth and save temporary places, rather than marking the Picasa window as "done". Got the rest of day 2 saved properly, and day 3 (Space World) geotagged. I also cleaned the pool, setup a dvd player downstairs, and cooked a beef stew for dinner (epic nommmm!!!).
Is it just me or does this chick look like Helena Bonham-Carter?
So the weekend. Where was I?
Saturday (as usual) was mostly a cleaning/tidying/organising/shopping day.
Cooked a nomm roast pork and potato bake and had Julia and Paul over to enjoy it. They brought their PS3 and Queen Singstar over, but their PS3 wouldn't talk to our TV, so most disheartened about that. So watched Rockwiz instead. Dessert was a chocolate fondue with strawberries, banana, rockmelon, and biscuits to dip.
We were very full by the end of the night :)
Sunday was fairly quiet. Stu went out for a bit, which left me alone to tidy up, and then feel a bit down. Not really sure why. Maybe all the rain.
Sunday arvo I got NRMA to jump start my car. Really need to drive it more often. Every three or four weeks is just not enough. Took it for a drive out to Mitchell to dump some speakers, a (working) CRT monitor and a few bits and pieces. I decided it would be better to go late in the day rather than early. WISE DECISION! We were in and out of the place in about two minutes (whereas people who went early Saturday were waiting in traffic for an hour or more). The piles of CRTs (monitors, tvs) and computers were amazing. Would have been good to take some photos, but we were in and out so fast and I was driving so didn't have the chance. The guys were having fun throwing things around on the piles to smash them heh.
Geotagged just about all my Japan Day 2 photos, most of them to within a few metres of where they were taken.
And then it was Monday. It really felt like a Monday too :/ Got home, had dinner and watched a special on the Lockerbie bombing, and suddenly it's nearly 9:30 .. how??
And the interwebs is broked. So think will just go to bed and read some more of The Daily Coyote. .. Edit, internet is back. Posting, but then going to bed anyway.
Before we went to Japan I put a lot of work into a big Google Map of things we wanted to see. I even found out how to make a backup of it - you put &output=kml to the end of the url.
Trying to decide if I'll update that map, or make a Google Earth kml file of some of the places we went to .. decisions decisions...
Patch Tuesday last night.. my computer will probably reboot itself
tonight.. oh well it needed a reboot.. it's only been a couple days
since the last one after all! Google Earth chews up so much memory in
vista that after not doing very much, it stops being able to save the
myplaces file. Internet Explorer still isn't working right either.
Hasn't been since either a patch or perhaps scanner drivers were
installed. I don't have the spirit to fight with it though, which is
why I'm just using Firefox. The parents are coming to stay for a
couple of nights tomorrow. Could be .. er.. interesting.. especially
when my father will have to deal with the sleeping arrangements
up-close-and-personal-like.
