New stuff:

• Pics from New York. I’ll get around to some NYC related posts soon. Sooo busy!
• A non-published, but thoroughly orsum article in Articles.
• In soon-to-be-published news, my article in Dirt Action is due any day!

Is as I remember it- bloody awesome.

Day 1 weather was ok- sunny after a bit and was great by the time we got to SoHo to meet up with Stephen and Sarah for the first time. (Sarah first time, Stephen I know pretty well)

We’re uptownish next to Central Park. Been active and been for a run twice (Rachel three times) through and around The Park. I get lost everytime as I can’t orient myself when I am in the northern hemisphere- the sun’s all wrong. I got hit by a particularly aggressive dash of jetlag that resulted in me having 19 odd hours sleep in a 24 hour period. I’m over it now, but it has given me a bad back. Too much time in a crappy hotel bed.

We’ve bought our weekly passes for the subway and frankly the trains are old, loud but frequent and bloody handy. Seen bugger all motorcycles about- mostly Ducati Monsters and scooters. No real suprises there- it does snow like all hell here in the winter so a bike would suck for at least four months of the year- perhaps more.

Out to dinner tonight with old family friends, the ceremony Wednesday, followed by dinner Friday night, the reception (and my speech) Saturday. etc.

Picture post to follow soon…

It must be love- love! love!

Shall I compare thine new iPod to thine one that hath passed over? No, for thine new one pwns the olde- as it should be, world without end,
etc.

I have a new iPod 60. As has Senor Cameron Reilly at TPN. We are happy in our little world of iPoddy goodness. We need no other sustenance. Ask the miners in Tassie. One day the truth will come out- they ONLY had iPods and survived on the life giving. I have a bunch of videos ready to watch when we go NYCing on Friday morning.

I love:
- The interface- COLOUR my lovelies!
- Video- 2 series of Lost. One Season of: Desperate Housewives, Everyone Hates Chris, Scrubs, House and other videos to boot.
- Leather case. Oh so chic.
- USB cables interface. Holy hell! No need for a damn slow-charging-bloody-annoying firewire.

And the new version of Sharepod (you Google it, I’m @ work and net access is near random) is just incredible. You can download to your iPod without Itunes and the best feature is the ability to upload songs from your iPod to any computer (backups of course). You can get Sharepod to upload playlists or the entire iPod and get the MP3 tag to name the file (and put it into a dir to boot) for you. It’s just fantastic- tiny, tiny files that sit happily in the root directory of your iPod…

Speaking of Cameron Reilly, I will be on his G’Day World (once again Google it as I can’t link from here) Podcast- talking about the Machinima 101 program @ ACMI (yes, Google that too). We’re recording at 10 am and I will post the .rss feed address for your iTunes subscription. Cheers!

The ever more amazing ACMI had a wonderful weekend of Machinima goodness. On the Saturday Donny and I went to see season 3 of Red Vs Blue. This was followed by a Q+A that was dominated by Halo kiddies who generally shit me to tears.

Sunday was way orsum. The RvB gang returned to show off how and what they do and the great machinima champion Paul Marino showed his wares and a buch of really fantastic Machinima films. Rich Hounslow from my Halo 2 clan came by and really seemed to enjoy himself.

We went out for 1 or 10 beers with the boys and took some pics.

Jason from RvB (“Tucker”) signs on

The crowd after the saturday showing

A few delightful brews with the crew. I’m holding up a beer to the camera- Burnie Burnes from RvB is opposite.

The Saturday Q+A L-R: Gus, Matt, Kathleen, Jason, Burnie.

Same again- no gus (he was probably asleep)