@plot paris - that was great! I can see that being on a segway saves your tired feet from walking all day - this makes sense... if you're a postman or policeman... just in dangerous situations... feet would be preferred IMHO.

Very nice. Thanks guys.

I'm STARVING!!!

"Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. trallala dumm di dumm dumm... (forgot the lyrics - but you know what I mean) best wishes

Whats wrong with these: [image: http://www.nitro-pak.com/images/sandbag-wh-200x200.jpg] On a more serious note, those look like a pretty good idea. I cant help but wonder how stormproof theyd be though, they look pretty floodable, although i suppose it depends a lot on the scale of the things.

@loewenkatze said: Mike, today Little Francis is 6 feet 2.8 inches tall [attachment=0:1nvc4g1v]<!-- ia0 -->shoe.jpg<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:1nvc4g1v] AND - I can really see Coen's eyes now... coool. Ahhhh, 'Little Francis', I'd need a stool (to stand on) to look into your eyes BUT Coen would have no problem even today at your 6' 2.8"

@frederik said: @ross macintosh said: PS -- It looks like Csaba pee'd his pants! Tell me, Bossy Rossy, it seem as if the two of you (Csaba and you) have become very close at the Base Camp... Very cute... I'm sure you'll be a nice couple... Ahhh No Kim ..... I was in the back seat of the Cruiser with Csaba

.....on this matter, I just noticed last night that one of the UK TV channels is doing a program on what happened to Building Number Seven! Should be interesting to hear about the reasons for is collapse

I think a web based viewer application makes sense. but for content creation on a large scale or high poly models only an on board application will work.

Latest Plucky Adventures... The wood half-rounds and balls I ordered from these folks (http://www.craftparts.com/) arrived, as did some 17" heavy-duty cable ties. I put together two hubs and an edge section last night and it looks/feels pretty good. I hope to do some additional work with the pieces this weekend. As I've been working with this stuff I keep thinking that a similar structural system could be implemented using bamboo in place of the PVC, and hemp rope in place of the plastic wire ties. This would give you a completely organic structural system, using materials that would require only simple and low-energy processing and that are locally available (growable) in most of the world. Interesting. [image: IMG_4689.jpg] [image: IMG_4691.jpg]

Lately I am starting to use http://www.vimeo.com as video uploader. They have a better (almost 1 on 1) conversion of input to output, resulting in sharper video. At Vimeo, the viewer will see a better quality by default...

Mike and Ross, Thanks for this link and the reference. Very interesting read, and I really like her work. Thanks again for sharing! Bytor

That would be AWESOME

I tihnk thats the idea, although obviously its not very enforcable.

@remus said: Did you do any significant distance on your tandem? Any tips? Main tip I have is make sure your fitness levels are pretty high ready for when you do it! I imagine hill climbs are pretty tough on tandems. Good luck though, sounds fun.

Future OUTLAWED practices... RED Meat Trans Fats (Already NYC) Cell Phones in Cars (KAHLIFORHNIA--the Governator) Naughty TV SUV's Having more than 2 Children Dogs Things that are Terrible but will always be with us. . . "Reality Shows" McDonald's Wall Mart Mini Me Howie Mandel

Look at the South of Florida (or the Netherlands), increase the water level and see what happens. Yikes!

@jackson said: ...I woke up in the middle of the night having a very stressful nightmare about cleaning up this model, but at full scale. I hope to find that in reality sometime in the future... I used to help developing an immersive room at my university, a box (3m x 3m x 3m) with screens at three sides and floor. wearing 3d-glasses you could explore models in true scale. my dream for the future is to have such an immersive room fully developed with an intuitive 3D SketchUp interface. you can model your building in small scale, then press the true scale button and enter the newly created design in real size - with reflections, bump mapping and dynamic lighting (in real time) what a wonderful idea. oh yeah. and we could have a competition for modelling the new virtual SCF meeting roomevery month!!! but back to your nightmare, Jackson: these dreams about facing an unmanagable task can be really nasty. lets hope we will have some more positive ones in the future...

Thanks Ross. I actually got through level 37 during a couple lunch breaks a few weeks ago. Then I got the 3D version. I guess it is time to go back and finish those last few flash levels. BTW I did a little searching and there will be a Portal 2, no release date yet but it is confirmed.

I never got into Tron but I was addicted to Robotron: http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=robotron&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS266US266&um=1&sa=N&tab=iv# I spent countless hours in the arcade playing this game. My high school friend Wes and me would take turns playing for hours on just one quater. We would roll the machine several times. Ah to be in high school again and have unlimited free time....and do something productive other than play video games. But we don't get to go back and change things do we.