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About Blender Fox

Recreational road-runner, blender/CG rookie, linux user (LE-1, LPIC-1, SUSE CLA 11, SUSE 11 Tech Spec), programmer, avid tinkerer (I'm always breaking things), self-confessed anime & manga otaku & japanophile

Sintel, Big Buck Bunny and Tears of Steel on Wuaki

Wuaki is a streaming service like Netflix, Love Film and Amazon Prime. I found it when I was clicking through the apps on my Panasonic Viera TV, and found that the three Blender-made short films were all there. You can also access them on the web interface. Oh, and they’re free to rent and watch, so you can’t get better than that.

Free Movies | Wuaki.tv - Chromium_001

Eric Wasson: Johnny Baby’s bar bouncer in St Paul, Minnesota, wrestles man armed with gun in dramatic CCTV video | Metro News

 

Bouncers often get a lot of stick for not doing their jobs, or throwing drunken or rowdy customers out, but this proves that some people take their job very seriously, and put themselves in the line of fire.

Source:Eric Wasson: Johnny Baby’s bar bouncer in St Paul, Minnesota, wrestles man armed with gun in dramatic CCTV video | Metro News.

Long Run #3

Another long run weekend. Today’s target: 13K (8.1mi). Met that in 1:28:17 (Average pace: 6’47″/km), and got a new trophy.

Stats (via Endomondo):

  • Cooper (12 min): 2.27 km
  • One hour: 9.81 km
  • 1 km: 5m:03s
  • 1 mile: 8m:16s
  • 3 km: 16m:05s
  • 3 miles: 28m:05s
  • 5 km: 29m:13s
  • 10 km: 1h:01m:35s

Nike+ - Chromium_001

Royal Parks Half Marathon

Well, I guess I’m not running the RPHM. :(

Still, I can still train for it.

Disney’s Frozen – “Let It Go” Sing-Along Version – YouTube

Time to join in. Enjoy the song, and one word of warning, this song is a definite earworm

Disney’s Frozen – “Let It Go” Sing-Along Version – YouTube.

Lost + Found

Whilst doing a long run, I spotted a sign “Found. Cat. Please call {number}”.

1.5 miles down the road, I spotted another sign “Missing. Cat. If found, please call {number}”.

Can’t really be that easy, can it?

Irony or Hypocrisy?

A couple of months ago, I got hauled in front of one of the directors and given a formal written warning for both performance and going over the line in terms of access and what I was allowed to do.

A few months later, the company is offloaded with a high-priority (CEO-driven) project, onto which they put all their best and most-knowledgeable people (myself included). Now, one more than one occasion on this uber-high priority project, I’ve had to write things like scripts and conversion routines which are out of my jurisdiction, to which I previously got into trouble with, but they’ve been accepted for this project, presumably because they saved the company, and saved time. I also wasn’t supposed to touch a machine without being watched by a member of the tech team, but the same director that gave me the lashing and the verbal warning, asked me to come in on a weekend, work on one of these machines – and unsupervised, I might add.

So I get in trouble for using a machine, but then am asked to work on it without supervision?

Long Run Weekend #1 – Day 2

Second day of the long run weekend, and it didn’t turn out too well. I decided to run my local park instead because the weather looked ominous. One lap around the park (about 1 mile), and my hamstring was hurting again. Seemed to ease up if I changed my running posture, though. So perhaps I picked this up because my running style is poor? I ended the run early to give it a rest, and maybe work on a better posture. I probably never had this feeling because I don’t normally do 15+K runs.

Still, on the plus side, a new trophy came my way:

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