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Pareidolia normally makes you see faces, but I see a huge capital letter "A" in the sky. Can you see it, too?

Water Cannon


Originally uploaded by iwoolf.

Water Cannon

Note the penguins

Ultimo Science Festival

This is my best moon shot yet. No multiple photos stitched together, just one capture. Same old Pentax, better use.
In honour of Neil Armstrong.

This sign from the railway might be good on a t-shirt, for Looxcie-wearing.

Seen at the supermarket.

I interviewed Dr Gideon Chitombo about his ATSE Clunies Ross Award and Extreme Science Workshop on mining research at Darling Harbour.

I'll be posting the interview with the full Science Extreme Experience special edition of Diffusion for Monday's broadcast.

The Ashfield Anglicans continue with their message.

 This is the actual sign at St John's Church in Ashfield, they're inviting doubters to engage over the next few weeks.

Robosapien at Questacon in Canberra.

I didn't know we had a department for abolishing legislation! The minister should report more often on her successes.

This looks like the hallucinogenic Fly Agaric mushroom depicted in all the Fairy illustrations. Can anyone confirm its identity?

This tiny kite was sold at Newtown festival as the world's smallest.

This wild peacock pair showed up outside my window on my visit to Canberra

Cool sculpture at the Library of Victoria

Last night I went to add a bag to the garbage which had been taken out to the kerb by Pauline, the woman who cleans your garden whether you want her to or not. There was an elderly woman going through the recyclables bin, but it wasn't Pauline. She apologized and moved away. I told her she was OK to keep doing what she was doing, but she said "no, you have guns", and walked away.

I have been fenced away from the back yard and clothes line ahead of the new family moving into the house my flat is attached to. Somehow I don't think I should be their main concern.

At 7:30am I was woken by giants running around on my roof. By 8:30 the tradesmen (as it turned out) had stopped jumping on the roof, now a guy with a chainsaw is playing in the front garden.

I had to move out while my landlords renovated my kitchen. I spent 2 weeks staying with a friend in Dee Why (very long way outside of Sydney), and then a week running around Melbourne for the MEAA Freelancing as a Business Conference and training. I managed to catch up with seven friends and make some new ones, and see some of the Comedy Festival. The exhaustion has finally hit.

I'm still moving stuff filling my lounge room back into my newly renovated kitchen, and horrified that I can't simply plug in my old dishwasher to the new sink. It will take a while to make the new kitchen back-injury friendly.

I attended the MEAA Freelancing as a Business conference and took some photos as part of professional photographic and videographioc training. Now I just need a DSLR!

I wrote questions and hosted a trivia game at Rowda Ya Habibi for a Mardi Gras fund-raiser dinner.

I recorded ten interviews at the NICTA techfest 2012 today. The National Information Communications Technology Australia is funded both by the State and Federal governments, and partners with industry. Today they showcased all their public research. I would have recorded more interviews, but some of the staff were shy, and didn't want their voices on radio.

Then I went straight to record a Diffusion episode at 2SER, and trained the volunteers, and then finally crept home. Here's some photos from the techfest:

EXposing Privacy leaks

Media drone

Adaptive mobile wireless meshing

Electronic Pain Management implant

The Bionic eye project

Minister Stephen Conroy

by artist Nathan Sawaya, exhibited at Sydney Town Hall

You can visit Diffusion's 2SER radio page, or the Diffusion podcast archive.

The Jedi Path is a new book for Star Wars fans that comes in an amazing box that opens with lights and sounds.

Here's some pictures of a television from the World's Fair of 1932 especially built in transparent lucite so we can see inside. The TV is at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne: