2nd Life (again)

Decided to try out Second Life again tonight, now I have a better PC

The above is what's been constructed as "Australia" - there's more to Oz than Sydney Harbour!

I've also revised my avatar, which currently looks like this (see right). Elsie Broek is slightly more beautiful than how she used to be (maybe I'm getting a better self image)!

 

Invasion

I've been watching the DVD collection of Invasion from the local library, a Dr Who adventure. What I find interesting is the fact that some of it is reconstructed. Some individual episodes were officially missing - that is, they didn't have film/tape copies of them. And yet, they were able to reconstruct these.

What they used were amateur audio tape recordings of the the original (or repeated) broadcasts. Most of these were done on cassette tape players placed close to the TV and the quality varied from horribly fuzzy to crisp. Anyway, they got Cosgrove Hall Films create animation for the missing episodes, and created soundtracks from the recordings - very clever.

Also reasonably watchable, but then, I'm a fan, and Patrick Troughton (who in one of the special features is described as being like a "mad uncle") is my favourite Doctor, so I'm a wee bit biased.

Heat

Bloody hot day today.

The page at the Bureau of Meteorology for the Hunter lists 30° for Cessnock, which is less than 40 km away. Newcastle Uni was 24.6°. Gah, it fair on drains the energy out of me. I should be working on web comics, but I would have sweated all over them had I tried. Maybe later tonight after a bath...

Emotional Peaks

Been having a very rushed, very crowded time of late. Or rather I did last week. This week has been busy but oppressive weather has been sapping the energy from me. I had a rush of being out and about a bit too much.

( The details )

So I feel really exhausted. After about Saturday it felt like all artistic energies had temporarily drained out of me. I need to have at least two web comics done for this year's Day of Remembrance Project, but haven't got to them at all yet.

"If I were..." meme

Infected by both johanna_hypatia and angharads_house:

• If I were a metal, I would be:  Zinc
• If I were an animal, I would be: Salamander
• If I were a colour, I would be: Indigo
• If I were a mythological being, I would be: Attis
• If I were a human activity, I would be: more awake than I am now
• If I were a work of art, I would be: Guernica
• If I were a tool, I would be: tweezers
• If I were an emotion, I would be: exhaustion
• If I were a character in a book, I would be: Mavra Chang
• If I were a famous historical person I would be: Virginia Wolfe
• If I were an article of clothing, I would be: head scarf
• If I were a kind of weather, I would be: El Nina
• If I were a part of the body, I would be: liver 
• If I were a gemstone, I would be: opal
• If I were a plant, I would be: grass
• If I were a sound, I would be: ambient buzz
• If I were a food, I would be: Mexican taco
• If I were a geographical feature, I would be: Lake Eyre