Virtuality

The Crazy Frog Toad; a friend indeed.

I have a toad. In work, I use TOAD. But it’s referred to as “my toad”.

That’s cool. I have a pet.

It’s my toad. That’s cool.

This morning I made my first human powered commute to work. I picked up a racer…

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Well, I have been assigned the task of making desert for a little xBoxen tournament today. Here’s what Sophon found for me, in the Somerfield magazine, so all copyright Somerfield. :) I’ve never been much of a cook; my 43things list includes learning to cook.

“A Really easy baked cheesecake that can be served with strawberries, raspberries or a drizzle of toffee sauce.”

8 Slices
Ready in: 45 Minutes

Base:
150g digestive biscuits
50g hazelnuts
50g butter

Filling:
300g full-fat soft cheese
40ml cornflour
100g caster sugar
1×142g carton sour cream
1 egg
5ml (1tsp) vanilla essence

1 Preheat oven to 180C, GM4

2 Crush biscuits by placing in plastic bag and hittin with a rolling pin, or whiz in food processor. Do the same with hazelnuts until crushed.

3 Melt the butter in a saucepan, add the hazelnuts and gently cook until golden for 1 minute, add the biscuits and stir. Press the mixture into the base and half way up the sides of a 20cm loose-bottomed spring from tin. Place in the oven and cook for 5 minutes. Cool.

4 Place the full-fat soft cheese, sugar and conrflour into a bowl, mix together until smooth. Beat in the egg, sour cream and vanilla essence. Pour into the tin and bake for 25-30 minutes until set, leave to cool. Don’t worry if it cracks. Serve cut into slices.

Per Slice:
£0.45
440 kcals
33g fat

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/

Another day, another blend.

Triumph! My first rendered blend.

I’m getting the hang of this application.

Penguin Llama,
Penguin Llama.

A good weekend indeed!

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Pleased.

I have managed to create a cube in Blender, an open source 3D graphics package. I’m taking baby steps with this application at the moment, as I plan to create a DVD of my graduation ceremony with extra pictures and music for all my family that couldn’t make it, and for prosperity as well.

I need nice titles on the DVD; a quick google of blender DVD titles came up with a really interesting page: Blenderwars tutorials - a page of tutorials in Blender, with a star-wars spin.

There is a tutorial on how to recreate the opening titles of Star Wars with blender. I don’t know if I’ll go that far, but the concept should be similar enough to teach me what I need to know for the DVD.

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!

Via Veritas Vita - the motto of the University of Glasgow.

Graduation was yesterday, a great day had by Sophie, my Dad, and my Mum.

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