Squirrel feeder Redux

So I posted how I had put up a little feeder for squirrels on one of my trees. Well, some chubby American squirrel put his fat ass in the box and it collapsed (maybe the feeder was working too well). So I decided to build a sturdier one.
About 20 minutes after I got it finished [...]

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Starship VC progress

Been getting into the habit of doing just a little work on the Starship each evening. It is the only way it is ever going to get finished. I am currently focusing on getting the VC geometry and texturing done. I am creating gauges as I go along, but they are mostly non-functional yet (that [...]

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Squirrel feeder FTW

Since I saw the trees in our back yard, I’ve been wanting to put a squirrel feeder in there. A couple of days ago I found an old wooden chocolate box, attached it to the tree with some long screws, and filled it with some bird seed. Success!
This little guy was munching for about 15 [...]

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Rabbit hutch v2.0

Been working on the new rabbit hutch for the bunnies. Here is the previous one:

This time I am making several improvements – first off, it is bigger (2.25 meters long, as opposed to about 1.6 last time) – so that means power tools (last time I built the whole thing with hand tools, which was [...]

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Inaue Daikuroo Masatada

Kuniyoshi was a Japanese ukyio-e (woodblock print) artist who worked in Edo (now Tokyo) during the first half of the 19th century. Unlike many of his contemporaries who liked to depict peaceful country scenes (like Hokusai) or famous contemporary stage performers (like Sharaku), Kuniyoshi’s preferred subject was martial heroes from legend. In this work he [...]

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Exchange 2010 has left the building

With these simple words, Paul, our release manager, released Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 to manufacturing.
It was quite a day. In fact as late as 9 pm yesterday (the day before RTM), I was in the office digging though some code looking at what were hoped were some false positive warnings on a security tool we [...]

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ANA annouces RetroJet 767-300

This via Seattle-PI airline news: All Nippon Airways (ANA) has announced that it will be painting one of its Boeing 767-300s in the ‘Mohican Blue’ scheme it used in the 1960s.

The jet will run the Tokyo-Miyazaki/Tokyo-Kagoshima route for four years, starting December 1st.
The “RetroJet” fad is something new among airlines since about 2000. A [...]

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