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Now tell me… isn’t he the most badarse LEGO minifig you have ever seen..?

Reviewing some articles at FoxRockX and FoxTalk archives.

Site is in German but PDFs do have an English version.

One of these days I’ll organized a better and more structured VFP related links in a single page.  Right now they’re scattered in the archives.

FoxTabs.  Just in case you don’t have this nifty tool yet.

Bought this discounted September 2011 issue of Heavy Metal magazine.

I recognized the artist before I saw the Imaginary Friends Studios label in the cover.

I stumbled upon ArtGerm’s art back in the deviantart.com days ( Those days when I visit the site regularly ).

That was even before IFS involvement in the Lamb animated movie.

I’ve been a fan of his character Pepper ( see Pepper Project ( and this )) which I think is the one in the cover.

The table of contents of this issue points out to several deviantart.com artist gallery links.  ( Including kunkka another favorite of mine. )

I think Chester Ocampo, an artist we interviewed before in TheLair, still works with IFS.  ( Though I don’t see his name involved in the Heavy Metal issue ( I was hoping he was ( especially after seeing his latest awesome witchblade artwork. )))

Nice to see their artworks in this issue. I like to see more ‘digitally created/enhanced’ artworks inside Heavy Metal.

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I’ve been playing around with several iPhone graphics/photo apps.  Even mentioned some of them before.

But I still can’t arrive at a combination that really satisfies me.

Resizing before uploading doesn’t help as it destroys the quality of the image.  ( See previous posts. )

So I’m sticking with this combination-manip for now.  ( More later. )

No resizing… but if you’re viewing the image not on my website that automatically resizes the width to 550, it looks offensively large at 1280.

Beehee.

So You Want To Build a Software Product

My pet tiger has a new hero… Mr. David Thorne.

It’s that time of the year again… when traffic is so bad.

I have to cancel 1 of my 3 meetings today and changed venues on the other one.  The one I met also cancelled one meeting of his own.

The picture above is not even a main street.  It’s the street around a mall.

FoxyPreviewer update v2.88 ( via VFP Imaging )

– No more need to distribute ReportPreview.App and ReportOutput.App
– Easy debugging, because all the needed files are in the same module (with debuginfo)
– No more need to deal with nonupdated systems. Lots of users reported issues, but the source was the report*.App wrong (old) files
– Ensure the FoxyPreviewer initialization will be done using the correct procedures
– A significant increase of speed running the reports and previews

Link:  VFP Imaging:  FoxyPreviewer Major Update

Found this LEGO Spybotics Secret Agent Training Manual ( 80% discount at BookSale ) while I was walking home from a ‘serious’ client/partner meeting yesterday.

This would be a nice read one of these days.

The blue envelop… I received from a client.  It contains a printed photo of my favorite food from their place and a softdrinks picture… : )

I prefer giving short descriptions on the pictures I post in here.   But I’m taking these pics and manipulating them ( resizing / recoloring / adding borders  ( Yes in that order )) on an iPhone, so oftentimes I’m too lazy to type these things in a limited/small phone screen keyboard.

I’m too lazy to edit some posts afterwards too.

But I’m making an exception on this one.

Today I found out…

Nice site.  Especially if you’re an info geek.

Speaking of info geeks…

That’s a nice site if you’re a picture junkie.

Like me.

LEGOwarp:  CUUSOO.

Maybe not as cool as Neo Classic Space, LEGOLoverman’s Flickr Photostream or the Flickr NeoClassicSpace Pool, but still there are models that are worth checking.

Like this Macross VF-1 Valkyrie.

… and the whole cuusoo site is promising, as well.

Earth 2.0

From the link I posted previously is this article:

In early 2007, scientists using the Spitzer discovered evidence that potentially indicates the famed three Pillars of Creation photographed by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope in 1995 in the Eagle Nebula were destroyed by a nearby supernova explosion about 6,000 years ago, but the light showing the new shape of the nebula will not reach Earth for another thousand years.

A new, striking image from Spitzer shows the intact dust towers next to a giant cloud of hot dust thought to have been scorched by the blast of a star that exploded, or went supernova. Astronomers speculate that the supernova’s shock wave could have already reached the dusty towers, causing them to topple about 6,000 years ago. However, because light from this region takes 7,000 years to reach Earth, we won’t be able to capture photos of the destruction for another millenium or so.

Link:  “Pillars of Creation” — A Cosmic Artifact Vaporized by a Supernova Explosion 6,000 Years Ago

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The DailyGalaxy.com

Now for some non-programming related links:  12 Famous Magic Tricks and Illusions Exposed / crypto-class.org ( via GeekPress.com )

Uhm.  Did I scribbled ‘non-programming’..?

One out of two will do. Unless you categorized illusions as mind programming.

Which in a way… I think is.