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A photo of the side of the thermal imaging camera sitting on a table. It looks like of like a cop's hand-held speed camera except much less chunky. It's dark grey with red highlights and and has big handle that you hold with a trigger that causes the camera to take a photo.

A photo taken with said thermal camera. It's showing my computer setup, an ultrawide monitor with a laptop sitting open to the left of it. The monitor is various shades of orange, shading up to yellow towards the top, and the laptop has the bulk of the heat in the middle where the keyboard is. The screen is relatively cool, and most of the rest of the surrounds are just blank purple, but you can see a faint warm patch in the desk where I had my arm resting when I was typing on the keyboard. There's a tracking point showing the warmest part of the image is middle of the laptop which is 32.7 degrees Celsius.

And today was in fact a double package day, I had also ordered a set of D12 dice from AliExpress (my very first order from there; all I wanted was a decent number of them to keep track of wounds when playing Kill Team, but all the D12 sets I could find were just a handful of D12s along with a whole bunch of other different types of dice which I had no need of) and while poking the site around I found a cheap thermal imaging camera so grabbed that too! I've always wanted one to double-check the insulation in the house and various other things, but I didn't want one that required a smartphone and app, and all the standalone ones were multiple hundreds of dollars at the very least.

This one works perfectly and was only $150, my only complaint is that somehow none of the USB-C cables I have actually register when plugged into it, I've needed to use the cable it comes with (which is USB-C to USB-A annoyingly, so I need an adapter).

Posted on 20 February 2026, 21:07

A photo of my home office desk setup: an expanse of white standing desk in its standing position, with a 34" ultrawide monitor in the middle, and my laptop to the left looking like it's suspended in mid-air (it's on a monitor arm/laptop mount). Underneath the right side of the monitor and the laptop on the left are two speakers sitting sideways on the desk. They're almost entirely white except for the rubber bit around the woofer cone and they look VERY sleek and modern. Tucked away, if such a word can be used to describe a honking great black box, at the left foot of the standing desk on the floor is the subwoofer.

The speakers (and subwoofer) arrived today! I'm glad I got the speakers in white, they're very handsome-looking but also blend in to my desk rather than being BIG CHUNGUS OBVIOUS BLACK. I'll need to do some mucking around tomorrow to get the subwoofer levels right, and there are some switches on the back of the speakers that changes some frequency response to counteract them being so close to the wall so that'll be another thing to play with too.

I also need to go to Bunnings to pick up some sort of individual switch powerboard or adapter to plug the speakers and sub into so I can easily turn them on and off, because fuck me is reaching around to scrabble behind them trying to find the power switch annoying.

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Posted on 20 February 2026, 20:54

A photo of the band Lacuna Coil on stage, lit in red and purple. Two vocalists, one female and one male, a guitarist, a bass guitarist, and a drummer. The two guitarists both have full corpse paint on.

As expected, that fucking ruled. 🤘🏻

They played a couple of my absolute favourite songs (Kill The Light from Dark Adrenaline, and Spellbound from Shallow Life) and man Cristina Scabbia can hit those notes that are so pure and clear that it makes the hairs in the back of your neck stand up! I took a bunch of RAW photos and will see what came out tomorrow.

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Posted on 14 February 2026, 22:57

A photo of a band on stage, lit in white and blue. Two guitarists at the far left and right, guy with a magnificent beard on drums, a tall woman in bass, and the vocalist is a woman who couldn't be taller than five and a half feet or so, she's got a really good clean singing voice and an hell of a roar!

The opening band was called Future Static, they're from Melbourne and have a woman on vocals and bass! They were quite good and it turns out they're on Bandcamp too. :success:

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Posted on 14 February 2026, 20:36

A photo of two white men standing in a very dark concert hall, smiling at the camera.

Currently waiting for the opening act before Lacuna Coil with @[email protected]!

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Posted on 14 February 2026, 19:43

A photo of my home office desk setup: an expanse of white desk with a 34" ultrawide monitor in the middle, and my laptop to the left looking like it's suspended in mid-air, sitting on its shiny new monitor arm/laptop mount. Underneath the main monitor is a USB audio interface and guitar load box.

I wanted to get a pair of Yamaha studio speakers so I can listen to and mix my songs on good speakers without needing to cart my laptop down to the lounge room and plug it into the amplifier there, but I'm quite short on space on my desk. I could fit the speakers but the left one would have to go exactly where my laptop stand was. I was doing a bunch of poking around trying to figure out what I could do, and discovered that you can get VESA laptop mounts that attach to a regular monitor arm!

So I bought a mount from Desky and another Ergotron monitor arm (I've already got my monitor mounted on one), the laptop mount arrived yesterday and the arm today, so now I'm all set up!

...now hopefully the studio speakers actually ship soon. 😛

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Posted on 10 February 2026, 12:46

A photo of the box for Kill Team: Shadowhunt. The box shows a photo of a squad of Sisters of Battle (warrior women in black power armour) battling Chaos Raptors (mutated evil Space Marines in blue armour with gold trim wearing big jump packs). The tag line says "Faith versus heresy in the shadow of alien terror".

Aw yiss, guess who has even more plastic to paint!

This is a surprisingly weighty box given it's only got two squads in it, I guess it must be the tokens and books as well.

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Posted on 5 February 2026, 10:51

A night mode photo of seven sheep on a small rise, two standing and the other five lying down. There are trees scattered around and two large white pieces of what looks like twisted roofing material like you'd have on an outdoor shed.

On the up side, I got to say hello to a bunch of sheep on the walk home!

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Posted on 2 February 2026, 22:24

A photo of a game of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. The board looks like the metal of the inside of an ancient steampunk starship, and the terrain is a bunch of walls all connected together in the same steampunk style to form number of interconnecting rooms. At the bottom left closest to the camera are my six converted all-women Space Marines clad in deep red armour and at the top left are the five similarly-armoured Space Marines of the Deathwatch in dark blue armour. Lastly at the top right are the eleven miniatures of the Sanctifiers who are basically just regular humans but religiously fanatic and just wearing robes and brandishing holy books and flamers.

In the office again today, this time for after-work Kill Team. My Angels of Death vs. the Deathwatch vs. Sanctifiers.

It was one of those games where my dice rolling was just fucked, on multiple occasions I needed 3s to either hit something or or save something, and rolled all 2s. I can't even tell if my game plan was decent or not because the rolling was so shit. I left before the game was finished because my train was coming and I was down to one single miniature left and was not even slightly going to get anything but dead last, ugh. I don't mind losing as long as the game is decent, but this was decidedly not. 😞

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Posted on 2 February 2026, 20:45

A photo of the game board for the full Warhammer 40,000 game. The board itself is red desert, and all the terrain on it is ramshackle Mad Max-esque junk terrain, or stepped hills that have been painted to look like they're in a desert. On the left are the so-called Tyranids (which are actually 3D-printed proxies that look kind of Tyranid-esque in that they're clearly xenomorph-type aliens but for legal reasons are not actual Tyranids) and on the right are the shameful Space Marines.

A photo of the much-smaller game board for the Combat Patrol game. The board itself is grey urban ruins, and the terrain is a mixture of Warhammer 40,000-looking ruined urban buildings, and a set of grey stone ruins that look like it might have come from some sort of fantasy game. On the left are the absurdly heavily armoured golden Custodes, of which there are all of eight in total, and on the right are the mechanical hunched-over zombie-looking Necrons.

Today I went over to a friend's place to hang out and watch a couple of games of Warhammer 40,000! (I have my mind full with Kill Team, plus I absolutely cannot be bothered painting that many miniatures to make a single full 40K army so I'm happy to just observe.)

The first game was a full-sized game of Tyranids versus absolutely shameful Space Marines, they were mostly unpainted and three-quarters of them were held together with Blu-tac. The second was an introductory game of 500-point Combat Patrol for a friend who hadn't played before, Adeptus Custodes versus Necrons, and both games were absolutely one-sided blow-outs. The Tyranids won 29 points to 4, and the Custodes wiped all but three of the Necrons off the board by turn 3, oof.

It's also hilarious how large the boards are versus Kill Team... the cut-down Combat Patrol game which was just two players is still double a regular Kill Team board, or the standard size you'd use for a three or four player game, and the full game board is just HUGE. I used to play 40K way back in the day and know it's a 60"x44" board but the vastly smaller scale of Kill Team has made me forget just how big that actually is. 😅

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Posted on 31 January 2026, 18:58