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A photo looking over a grassy field/hill with massive sewer pipe segments visible at the left, a big digger in the middle of it, and a bunch of chonky unit blocks in various states of construction beyond it.

RIP the pony club that used to be here. 😞

Posted on 11 July 2022, 16:30

A photo of the four elven miniatures that make up The Shadeborn warband from Warhammer Underworlds: Nethermaze. They're all in very dynamic poses, all lithe and mid-leap. The painting is a black undercoat with white airbrushed from the top angles of the miniature so it really gives a sense of depth as all of the lower surfaces are darker, as they would be if they were lit up directly from above.

The five Skaven from Warhammer Underworlds: Nethermaze. Skaven are sneaky, tricksy ratmen, and these ones are in very dynamic poses as well and look like they're about to attack. The bases are sculpted to look like they're lurking in a sewer, and the painting has been done in the same way as the Shadeborn: black undercoat with white airbrushed from the top so it looks like they're being lit from above.

Well, I'm not remotely confident enough to do actual painting with my airbrush, but I reckon I've got the hang of this zenithal highlighting thing.

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Posted on 23 June 2022, 21:58

A photo of the box of Warhammer Underworlds: Nethermaze, and the Exiled Dead warband. The box art for Nethermaze has an elf with a full face mask on, with long hair and she's wielding a sword and staff. Underneath that are more elves in combat with sneaky-looking rat-men, the Skaven. The Exiled Dead warband is a bunch of zombies that have a very Frankenstein mad-scientist vibe to them, several have metal pieces coming out of them with electricity crackling around.

Yassss, moar plastic.

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Posted on 1 June 2022, 16:05

A photo of a Warhammer Underworlds game board setup. There's three individual boards, two are have the artwork underneath looking like deep within a cave and the third looking under it's an underwater cave with lots of blues. At the front closest to the camera are four lithe and elegant aelves, the far side has three diseased Nurgle warriors, and the left has seven gore-covered ghouls.

Another visit from @[email protected], another game of Warhammer Underworlds! Beanie was really good, we didn't even need to break out the treats to get him to stop barking. The Underworlds game was very one-sided, Kristina won 12-7-7 and I only scored my last three glory at the VERY end of the whole game.

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Posted on 28 May 2022, 18:23

A photo looking over a cityscape with lots of tall buildings. You can see all the way down to the street, and rising above all the buildings is Sydney's Centrepoint Tower (or whatever the hell stupid corporate-sponsored name it has now).

I'm in the office today to play some Kill Team after work, and am up on Level 30 this time. Love the view from up here!

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Posted on 24 May 2022, 14:59

My First Song

My guitar amp simulation software of choice has been BIAS FX 2 on my iPad (https://www.positivegrid.com/bias-fx-mobile/) and it's pretty great, but I'm starting to get the point where I'm outgrowing the iPad for what I want to do, I think. I've bought a selection of BIAS FX 2 stuff on desktop, and it comes with Audio Units plugins that you can use in GarageBand and such. It turns out you can get a 90-day trial of Logic Pro, so I'm giving that a red hot go and we'll see if I can manage to make some sort of song! I recorded some drums yesterday today but my biggest issue there is keeping in time, even with a metronome going. 😛 But today I recorded my first song in Logic Pro, with me playing both guitar and drums! 😁 Granted it's less than a minute long and is pretty repetitive, but whatever. Yay! Big thanks to @[email protected] for pointing out Logic's "quantize" functionality that will automatically move your slightly-out-of-time notes to be back in time, very helpful for getting a good drum track. The drums were was just recorded straight into Logic then quantized, rather than playing back again with any of the built-in Roland drum controller kits that the drum kit comes with (I haven't even looked into how that's done yet), and the guitar was recorded with one of Positive Grid's "BIAS Pedal" effects.

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Posted on 15 May 2022, 15:49

A screenshot of the iOS Fitness app showing the summary of my workout, which was 43 minutes, 1,979 active kilojoules, and an average heart rate of 150 beats per minute.

For the first time I think possibly this year I've actually been able to watch an entire episode of something on my iPad while using the elliptical! 🎉 You have no idea how happy this makes me, since COVID hit I was doing it every day after work until I buggered up my right knee towards the end of last year. Ended up going to a physiotherapist followed by like two months of twice-weekly exercise physiologist. Tomorrow's my last regular visit, then I'll just pop in for a check-up every fortnight for a bit, then it should be smooth sailing! I'm still not at the amount of incline and resistance on the elliptical that I was doing before, but that's just a case of building up to it now.

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Posted on 12 May 2022, 18:40

A photo taken from the end of a train station platform, looking down the tracks. It's overcast and slightly foggy, and the weeds between and on either side of the track are a little overgrown.

Oh shit, I am waiting for a train! (We've got a team event today and work is flying the people in to Sydney who don't actually live here. It'll be good to finally meet the people face-to-face who've joined since we changed to full-time remote.)

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Posted on 29 April 2022, 9:18

A photo of a Breville "the Bambino Plus" espresso machine and a Eureka Mignon Specialita grinder alongside a stainless steel container for holding coffee beans. The espresso machine is very handsome, it's all black and shiny chrome, and the grinder is all black and looks very retro 1950s.

Yasssss, birthday haul. 🎉 I still need to tweak the grind fineness—and the single dose attachment I'm getting from my parents on Sunday will help with reducing the amount of beans I end up wasting because I ground too much—but man, even with that it's a night and day difference between the old machine and the new. I had no idea espresso could be so thick and rich!

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Posted on 20 April 2022, 10:25

A wide-angle photo of the inside of a big community hall with blue-grey carpet and a bunch a wooden-topped trestle tables, with plenty of people sitting at them.

We've gone out to dinner at an allegedly German beer hall, except it's actually in a Croatian cultural centre and the tables are trestle tables and it's possibly the daggiest place I've ever eaten.

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Posted on 1 April 2022, 19:07