Viking Helicopter

Author: jawapro
Date: Thu 11/03/2010 10:11 PM




 

The Melbourne Lego Users Group (MUGS) has a monthly competition. This month it’s to turn any Lego set into a Helicopter. The less like a helicopter the original set is, the better. You’re only allowed to use pieces from your chosen set.

So for my entry I turned a Viking set (7021) into a helicopter.

 

As we all know, Vikings (at least the lego variety) fight dragons. But Dragons can fly, so it’s a little unfair. Enter the Viking Helicopter – the Helirothgar!

The Helirothgar carries two Vikings. One to pilot the craft (using a Viking shield as a steering wheel) and another to man the gatling gun … er… spears.

The main rotor of the Helirothgar spins, but sadly the rear rotor doesn’t.

I didn’t end up using any pieces from the Dragon – so it is still intact and ready to battle against the Helirothgar.

 

I don’t think it’s too bad for my first attempt at this sort of thing.

Full photo gallery at http://www.headlessmoron.com/images/blogged/legovikingchopper/



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Adele and Brendan

Author: jawapro
Date: Tue 09/03/2010 11:03 PM




 

On Saturday I went to Brendan and Adele (that’s Tim’s sister)’s wedding. It was a very nice wedding and was held in the Auty’s garden (normally a pretty place anyway, but incredible after all the work they put into it getting ready).

 

^ Adele and her Dad.

It had been raining the night before - but stopped a few hours before the wedding, and by the end of the ceremony it was sunny again. While this was for the best, it did make everyone hide in the shade. Thankfully there was a lot of shade available. If I ever get married, I'm thinking the middle of winter sounds good. Maybe in the snow somewhere...

Now while other members of my family might post pictures of the cake etc (which was quite awesome) - I’ll jump straight to the important part. The cars!

Sorry Andrew and Tiani, but your Trans-Am (awesome as it was) just doesn’t cut it compared to these.

 

Check out that Landrover! Now they are what I call wedding cars!

 

So all the best to Adele and Brendan Moore - may the smiles last for years to come!


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Welcome to the Slicehost

Author: jawapro
Date: Sat 06/03/2010 10:00 AM




Well - if you can read this, it appears things are working.

After having so much trouble with our previous web hosting, Klutz, Turkey, and myself decided to go shares in a slice host. That means we have a virtual server in the US that we control! We have root access!

So in the short term some things might not work (please let me know) but overall things should be much more stable from now on.

Keep posted.



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DVD Bargain

Author: jawapro
Date: Tue 02/03/2010 06:23 PM




 

Check out this collection of DVDs! I went to the Geneva Fair on Saturday and came back with them all.

How much do you reckon they cost me?

$50?
$40?

And no - they weren’t free.

They aren’t even all junk ones. We’ve got titles like Rogue, Max Payne, 28 Weeks Later, Cloverfield, Van Hellsing, Brothers Grim, Next, The Patriot, The Kingdom, The Golden Compass etc. They aren’t your cheap chickenfeed dvds!

So how much do you think?

The Kingdom and Golden Compass DVDs were given to Tim in trade for his ADSL router (his idea). I’m not sure if the router was a lend or complete swap, but either way it’s helping me out.

I also gave Zeke a heap of the corniest looking movies because he wanted to watch them. Plus a VHS of Aliens 3 which I already own on DVD.

So all bets in on the total cost?

Well here goes.

Two bucks!

Two measly dollars!

Good old Bec was in charge of the White Elephant stall again this year. Bec really gets into the idea of being a salesperson and tries to sell something to everyone. I’m not sure why Geneva let her do it again though, as she’d sell the who stall for $5 if she thought someone would buy it. It’s not exactly a money-spinner.

This year they had some DVDs to sell, but being a Christian School Fair, they decided they couldn’t sell the MA dvds on the stall and put them aside. Because she knew me and couldn’t sell them to anyone else – she tried to sell me the whole lot for 50c, but even I’m not that stingy!

So that was my big bargain for the week. Thanks Bec!




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The end of things...

Author: jawapro
Date: Mon 01/03/2010 10:48 PM




Summer is over! And it's about time!

Last night was actually cold! I was in heaven! Bring on the coolness!

In other news, Summer went out with a bang. Not only do I hate it, it hates me. Threw in an electrical storm on Friday night. The lightning was very close, and it fried my awesome cisco adsl router. Just what I didn't need when I was saving up for a UHF! I haven't managed to scrounge a working router (thanks Tim, but yours wont work) so I'm off to buy one tomorrow I guess. Doh!

Thankfully I have a work laptop with a next-g connection now. Won't go completely crazy. Its amazing how odd it feels when you lose your connection. I can go camping and not care - but when I'm at home it feels wrong if it's not there.

---- UPDATE ---

Turns out I was a little hastly in bagging Tim's modem. After working out some issues related to static IPs, I finally got it going - so I'm back on the net. I still need to get a modem - but it's not so urgent.



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