Chicken for rent

Not bad for a SUV

Gemballa will produce only 50 Porsche Cayenne Gemballa 750 GTS Tornados. Price - $519,953. 
Under the hood is a V8 and 750 HP. 0 to 62 mph in 4.3 seconds with a top speed of over 186 mph.

I'm glad I'm a boy

I'm Glad I'm a Boy! I'm Glad I'm a Girl! (14 pics)

Get ready in the morning in five minutes

Katja's assembly 11 March 2009

Arnold and Sonja

At Belmont Forum



At Burswood Casino Park

Bombing squadron

Optical illusion

Helicopter taking off. Look at the propellers. And how is this possible? (4.6 Mb)

One dog show

Ten business lessons from Battlestar Galactica

Very good read from PC World.

Line6 Variax 700 Bass guitar

I never mentioned my newest musical purchase - a four string Line6 Variax bass. Black, off eBay, a shopfloor model from over east. Had quite a bit of rust, and required a bit of TLC, but it only took me an hour or two to get it into reasonable shape. Still a bit of rust I have to continually monitor, but it was well worth the very low purchase price.

What makes Variax so special? Well, it is a modelling bass guitar. It uses Piezo pickups on the bridge, and modifies the sound to that of a number of classic models, e.g. Fender Jazz bass, Fender Fretless (a.k.a. Jaco Pastorius), Upright, 12 string, a few modern bass guitars, etc.

Works very well with my Line6 Bass POD Live, which can change Variax settings via MIDI when you selct a different Amp/effects channel. Way cool.

Pity the Variax bass never caught on more, and Line6 has stopped manufacturing them. One day I will own an electric 700 guitar, as well as a Variax acoustic, but all in good time. The list is growing, though. I now have the Lowdown 150 amp, the Pod, and the bass. I will stop now for a bit. 

Natural camouflage

Honesty is a good policy!

Via.

Bouncing Sonja

With Arnold helping.

Some great songs

First up, Mr. Louis Armstrong.

Next up, two home studio recordings by Stelios. Enjoy.

Sonja and the bubbles

Taken last month.

Katerina

I don't post much about our pets, but they do mean a lot to us. If it wasn't for Katerina, I would have no bite and scratchmarks on my hands, for example. So here is my tribute to our cat, and two of the fish.

Spider web

Made this for Sanet today.

Geology 101

I spent the whole of yesterday getting an introduction to Geology, from what geologists do, through drilling, sampling, QAQC, geostatistics and many other interesting tidbits. Not much one can learn about a specific subject in a packed day, but it was still good. Gave out lots of business cards, and had to teach the whole class about shallow offshore drilling, as the presenter did not have any experience in the subject field.

So I mentioned sonic, vibrocoring, and of course the mother of all systems, the MACC.

It was an interesting experience paying for the course myself, and I found myself wanting to learn everything there was to learn, and I did. It was a good course, presented by Snowden Perth.

Synchronised drinking