Monthly Archive for May, 2005

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Half-life 2 characters in Australian suburbia

This is hilarious! I love the one with the super-soldier knocking on the back door :) . Ripped from http://www.bigkid.com.au/

“An Australian member on the facepunchstudios.com forums has been putting together some clever realistic renders of Half Life 2 models using High Dynamic Range rendering in 3DStudio Max. The models are composited into real world environments (ie. Aussie suburbia) and the results look quite stunning…”

Playing around with the kubrick skin

I put together a new header so that we can have a (very slightly) customized skin. What do you guys think? The complete image is here, so you guys can check it out.

new header for kubrick skin

Yeah, I know that I’m milking the spherical harmonics stuff, but it is so damn cool. Why else would it be in every demo ever?

Not sure why I like this

(Blog title is a link)

I don’t know if it’s the “pfft” adolescent style or the (inadvertent?) political message, but I like this picture. Looking at the rest of this guy’s website reveals an almost unhealthy obsession with J. Mascis: song lyrics and reference to album covers. There’s also a boat-load of pieces that epitomize angst and mid-nighties grunge. Aside from that, it’s a bit of a mixed bag to me.

A few snippets: very angsty, lyrics, seen this somewhere before

Who posted this message?

Meng pointed out that you can’t tell who posted a message (or what blog it was posted to) from the main (aggregrated) blog page. I had a look into it and it’s because of the theme. Either the PHP isn’t generating who posted, or the CSS is ignoring it.

Maybe we should look at a different theme. I like the current one (nice and basic), but Jim and I like this one: kubrick2evo. It’s easy to change its look just by changing image files. Could you install it Jim? And if noone has any great opposition, I think it will make a better default.

Mostly not too sick anymore

Feeling much better than I have for the last week or so. Although I still sound like a tuba. Still, it could be worse. A girl I went to high-school with looked rather masculine and when she had a sore throat (and she sounded like a tuba) people who didn’t know her thought she was a transvestite.

First post!

Yay!