Virtuality

I forgot to mention; you can now contact me on Skype, should you ever have the need to talk about pianos or radio communications.. or satellites.. or apple snails.. hmm.. 8)

A Military Headset was aquired from Blochairn market. Quite a nice deal, I have to say.

I’d really like to use it for comms equipment and / or voip chat while playing “Battlefield 2″tm, for a slightly more realistic game.

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This morning I entered the canteen. I opened my bag. What did I see?

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Who’s that guy in the suit?

Looks alot like me, strange.

I ask him who he is. He says he’s an MIS Analyst. Cool, I say, sounds like an interesting job.

“How come you look so familiar”, I ask him?
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I always thought the moon was made of cheese!

Image copyright google
http://moon.google.com/

Outside, that is. This morning I went for a run; haven’t done that since the exams.

The GPS states:

Average Speed: 7.3 m/h
Time: 19:47
Trip: 2.4 mi

I can do better than this!

When doing some disk clearing / archiving, I discovered an old MP3 format tune I made a couple of years ago. Thought I would put it online, in case anyone is interested.

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The “sugar boat” is what I have heard it called. Apparently sunk in the ’60s. It is clearly visible from both sides of the river Clyde, Greenock and Helensburgh, and apparently from space, too.

Since Derek Murray posted about Google Map’s new satellite imagery of Paisley, I found that the inverclyde area is covered as well. Cheers Derek.

Flight simulators have always given me a great deal of enjoyment. I really want to begin learning to fly the simulators again - I haven’t flown simulators since before I came to Uni.

I always wanted to build a flight Yoke for the PC, but don’t really know where to start on such a project. My joystick is in mothball at my parents house, in Girvan.

Problem: I don’t have the money to buy a flight controller or joystick.
Solution: xBox controllers have 2 analog sticks, 2 triggers, 8 buttons and a 4-way directional pad.

Oh yes, I’ve heard it’s really a U.S.B. device.

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