Right. New post.
Went to the readings of Metonymy '08 this evening. Brain too tired to think right now, but it is good to be out and about!
Currently reading Latro in the Mist by Gene Wolfe. I'm enjoying it, and the bed is nicely warmed.
Mmm. Bed.
I wonder if I'll make another post before the end of 2008?
(Looking at my track record of the past 2 years!!)
The bed calls me from the bedroom, inviting me to sleep within its hot and crisply sheeted depths.

Must remember to update blog more often. At least I've overhauled the look.
(Too many damn emails and half-pie blogs elsewhere - that's the problem!)

Good grief.
Nearly a year since I last posted on this!
I note that there is dysfunction in my archives, perhaps that is all for the good.
Life at present involves waiting to see how the application for funding goes, vis a vis a small book project. And still working (albeit in a more part time facility) on those Rangers of Power. Quelle joi.
No animation for quite a while.
Finally got some stuff finished though - the Beatallica piece, and another little bit I did for fun based on a game called World of Warcraft.
I have the youtubeness! >> animbuskiwi

Why is it that words are harder and harder to come by, these days?
Was it YOU?
Did you move my mouse?
*scans the room*

*vanishes in puff of smoke*

Hi Tim, as per request, an updated entry to this blog! (I wasn't aware I'd let it lapse for quite so long...)
Sadly, I was not accepted onto that MFA course I told you about, ergo the scholarship opportunity is pretty much sunk for this year. Was a bit bummed out about that, but have recovered sufficiently to think that at least I'll be able to afford a decent computer (this laptop is still chugging along, but it's better for stopping my car sliding backwards on a hill, these days!)
Have finished the bassist and drummer on that Beat' animation, pushing it through bit by bit (was able to save the work off the defunct Iolaus (R.I.P!)) phew.
Friend Stephanie nearly bought me a penguin-shaped waffle iron.
As I said, "I don't collect them (penguins) - other people force my collection upon me!" I have escaped the addition of it to my already crowded wee flat.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night was a good read, I demolished it off in only a couple of sittings! (Indeed, I may have even polished it off in just one...)
;)
So cheers for that. Hey, when I have a worthy machine of my own, I'll be able to do animation again - hooray!

Today I snuck up to the door of a friend's house with my (recently arrived) didjeridu, and announced my arrival in an unconventional manner. Most people prefer to use the doorbell, I'm told - but no! Not me.
BrrRRRROOOwwwwoggagwoggaoggabrrrrrprrrbrrr....
(That, for the hard-of-reading, was an approximation of my didjeridu playing skills, which are short and not brilliant! I wonder what that would sound like through an audio "text-reading" programme! ?)

So, hiding out at my Grandmother's house for a week or so!
Impromptu snow has been falling (which necessitates me heading out into it at nighttime, armed with my stereocamera, and with the assistance of "nearly-cousin" Peter armed with the flash on his digital camera, attempting to photograph snowfall in 3D. How do you spend your evenings? :D

Hello me darlin's.

Piwakawaka is the Maori word for Fantail. It's been preying on my mind since this morning, when I saw one of the wee chaps darting about in the back yard.
I would also like to say that in the forthcoming NZ elections, I will be voting for Labour. So if you suffer from peer pressure, I am your peer, and I am pressuring you!
I don't like the policies (or the politicking) of most of the opposition.

And the colour red "goes faster", which is in line with the "political preferences" of young Bu.

The Monkey Experiment.
There's something about factors of randomness, and the possibility (even though remote) of monkeys being able to type a Shakespearian play quite by accident.
Well, I figure that I'm pretty advanced for a monkey - I've managed to lose most of the body hair (by some careless means no doubt), even though I still like drinking tea with lots of sugar.
So...

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...AND WITH THAT (oh. Caps Lock.)
...and with that, I have managed to write nothing of substance, or else some very unique piece of coding.
I discern the following multiple letter words/abbreviations:

bam (which is almost a word.)
ad
dvd

I endeavoured to capture the spirit of the monkey, whilst jabbing at the keys. I thumped my hands on the keypad, I poked my finger thoughtfully at a few, I rested a while.
That sounds pretty much like me at work!
And tonight, like the snowbound monkeys of Japan (I think it is Japan), I will go and soak in some hotpools.
I may even raise my eyebrows in the way that monkeys do.

SUDOKU
...consider me addicted. Confounded infuriating logic puzzles - dagnabbity!
Can't... stay... away.
Otherwise, I am in the middle of alternating between finishing off reading the Kushiel's Legacy series by Jacqueline Carey, waiting to see what the new Robin Hobb one is like, and illustrating in between it all. That is, when I am not at work doing some particularly pedantic rotoscoping (my current torture du jour), but it "pays the bills" as they say.

Also having intermittent desires to submerge myself into a hot pool.
Mmmn. Soak!

Edited from months on in the future, to add that Sudoku has been booted off the throne of K's favourite logic puzzles by this!
Jannieballs

So, here I am another year older!
The occasion was celebrated in grand style with a troop of us (sounds like monkeys, no?), heading out of town to a hot pools bathing place. (Waiwera)
We all behaved impeccably like adults, if one counts making a big whirlpool in the circular pool, and then proceeding to play "tag" with much shrieking and splashing, as being appropriate "grown-up" behaviour. Heck, I do!
After the soak-a-thon, we invaded a 24 hour dining establishment (Denny's) to fatten up on all manner of carbohydrates. Very Satisfactory.
:)

Spoke to my Grandma on the phone yesterday. She said: "Well, next year I'll be 85, so I'm older than you! Nyarr!"
This is one of the reasons I love my Grandma so much... she's as grown up at heart as I am!
;)