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A photo of a lightly forested area with a bunch of plants covering the forest floor. Through the trees you can see the sky is completely blue and sunny.

A photo of an open field with a lightly mottled white horse with a black mane leaning down nomming on grass. Right behind it and partially obscured is a smaller white horse sitting down on the ground.

A photo of what I'm fairly sure is a white deer standing in a lightly-forested area nomming on some plants.

A photo looking off the side of the walking track, there are a bunch of long grasses then trees behind that. Everything is very lush and intensely green, and the sky is clear and blue except for some fluffy white clouds.

Despite having lived in the area for well over twelve years now, we'd never actually walked through any of the Western Sydney Parklands tracks, so we did that this morning! Two and a quarter hours, and 9.2km. We met some horses, a deer (!), and while there was a nice breeze that picked up at various points, it definitely could have had more shade. Even though it was only 25˚C, the sun was warm enough that I think that was probably our last walk until autumn arrives given it's meant to be getting into the 30s starting tomorrow.

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Posted on 4 October 2025, 12:52

A photo of a bright red electric guitar with a black pickguard and maple fretboard sitting on a stand.

New guitar day! 😍

It's a Fender "Made In Japan Hybrid II Telecaster" (how's that for a mouthful) and damn does it look good in red. I'd been considering getting a Telecaster for a bit though never really thought about a red guitar, but the lead guitarist in We Are Lady Parts had a red SG and I was like "Oh, yes."

The Hybrid series in particular is neat because it has a fourth pickup switch position that runs both pickups in series and so you get a really meaty sound out of it.

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Posted on 3 October 2025, 13:09

A photo of the Anker charger, it's a white cube probably roughly 5cm a side. It has an angled "lid" that comes up from the top of the cube that my iPhone is attached to, a little pop-out shelf at the right where the Apple Watch lives, and behind the lid is a spot for my AirPods Pro case to charge.

I got some more referral bonuses from the union for getting people to join, and have spent this batch on an Anker 3-in-1 Qi2 charger, so I'm now living in the future with wireless charging!

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Posted on 29 September 2025, 12:49

A screenshot of the overview of Deep Space Nine as shown in the media software Jellyfin. The artwork at the left has the head and shoulders of the character Benjamin Sisko, a handsome Black man with a bald head and neatly trimmed goatee, in front of a starry background. In front of him is Deep Space Nine itself, a space station that looks like a ring with another smaller ring in the middle, connected together with three equidistant arms, and three curved fang-like structures coming out above and below the outer ring which give the station a bit of a predatory look. In front of that is the U.S.S. Defiant, a compact warship that looks basically like a chonky circle with glowing red engines on the side and a section poking out in front. The text summary of the show says "When the Cardassian occupation of Bajor ended in 2369, the mining space-station Terok Nor was left abandoned, its systems ripped out. By invitation of the provisional Bajoran government, Starfleet stepped in to oversee the rebuilding and day-to-day operations of the newly christened Deep Space Nine. DS9 soon became a center of travel and commerce thanks to a newly found stable wormhole leading to the largely unexplored Gamma Quadrant."

And now nearly 122GB later, we have the entirety of Deep Space Nine encoded to H.264! 🥳 I played around a bit with H.265 but it only saved about 100MB or so an episode and took a fair bit longer to encode so I decided it wasn't worth it. I'm surprised at how good the resulting quality is given the source material is just standard definition, even when viewed on our 55" TV.

Speaking of encoding times, I'm also converting the special features as well and I don't know what it is about them compared to the actual episodes but they're taking an eternity. One of the features for Season 1 is 18 minutes long and it took 26 minutes to encode, versus an average of probably 8-10 minutes for an entire 45-minute episode of the show! The file size isn't even abnormally large, it's just taking ages. Having skipped through to see what was in it, there are a number of interviews from like 1992 that look like they were being played back through VHS so I wonder if it's just all the artifacts in those segments that's causing Handbrake to have to work a lot harder...

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Posted on 23 September 2025, 18:50

A photo taken in our lounge room showing Megalodon Rising on the TV. The poster art has a submarine with an explosion behind it, and underneath it there is the mouth of a GIANT shark whose mouth-width is nearly as wide as the submarine is long. This was very deceptive because there was no military submarine at any point in the movie!

Tonight we did a bad movie night for @[email protected]'s birthday (it was meant to be last month but sickness got in the way), and we watched MEGALODON RISING.

It's got a 2.1 on IMDB and deserves every bit of it, there weren't remotely enough scenes of things or people being eaten by badly CGI-ed giant sharks and way too much talking. @[email protected] figured out that the naval ship they filmed the movie on was a museum piece at some maritime museum in California, which explained why all the shots of the bridge had exactly one person in the shot at once because they couldn't physically fit more people in the space. 😛 And there were clearly shots that were gotten by just walking alongside the ship in the dock and aiming upwards at the deck, haha. At least the woman who was playing the main character, the captain of the ship, could actually act though!

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Posted on 20 September 2025, 22:10

A photo of the Kill Team: Tomb World box. There's nothing for scale but it's QUITE hefty. The artwork on the front has four Space Marines in their standard huge armour inside some sort of indistinct structure that's lit with a sickly green/blue glow, with a couple of robot/scarab looking things scuttling around.

Who has two thumbs and approximately three metric tons of new plastic that he really shouldn't start on until he's done with the Hivestorm terrain? THIS GUY!

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Posted on 19 September 2025, 11:21

A photo of the box of the Deep Space Nine complete DVD set.

Yessss it is finally mine to own!

Unfortunately it's a US-region DVD set so the next step is going to be finding a region-free drive with which to rip it.

...although I have a vague memory of there being some relatively small number of region changes you were allowed to do on non-region-free drives, and I suspect the Apple SuperDrive I bought back with the original-gen MacBook Air waaaay back in 2008 probably has never had its region set more than once... 🤔

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Posted on 18 September 2025, 12:25

A photo of the box of the Ravagers squad for Kill Team. The squad consists of five large snake-like alien miniatures, very much in the vein of the xenomorphs from the Aliens universe. Most of them are rearing up, and they all have multiple arms that end in extremely large claws, and generally look extremely unpleasant in a "going to eat you alive" sort of way.

Yessss, plastics for the plastic god!

Looking forward to painting these, I haven't actually painted any Tyranids before except for a single Genestealer over three and a half years ago. I have no idea what colour scheme I'm going to use for these though, I wasn't super-happy with the one I did on that Genestealer.

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Posted on 17 September 2025, 14:34

A photo of one of the two larger pieces of terrain that comes with the Kill Team: Hivestorm box. It's made to look like a ruined gothic-looking building made out of metal concrete with steel reinforcements with rivets everywhere, enclosed on all four sides but the two sides facing the camera have been blown clean away down to a bit below shoulder height and it's completely open in the middle. At the rear is the second level of the building with twisted metal coming out from where the floor ends, and there are tall thick gothic-looking barred iron windows that end part-way up the wall where the roof also has been blown off. Three ordinary human-sized miniatures are standing on and in the terrain for scale, showing that it'd be a somewhat high-ceilinged building if it was fully intact.

I have finally gotten another piece of the Hivestorm terrain done (sans rust effects and weathering)! 🥳 Now there's just the really big piece left, plus the small pieces of scatter terrain. I'm quite looking forward to having a go at the single-player mode on an open board, even though Into The Dark is my favourite way to play Kill Team.

(All this just in time for the Tomb World box to arrive next week. 😅)

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Posted on 16 September 2025, 21:50

A photo of fifteen cut golden brown cut rounds (they very much resemble scones) sitting on a cooling rack.

The #GloriousSydney levels are off the charts, it's 22˚C and 38% humidity, every single door and window in the house is open, and I've just made a batch of cut rounds for the first time in ages. :chefkiss:

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Posted on 13 September 2025, 13:55