The Smirkonian Sightseer

Saturday TweetSheet

The daily hightlight snap from my twitter feed. Got slightly carried way today folks. Sorry 'bout that.

@Eamon_Sullivan

Eamon Sullivan

I'm sorry, I just can't watch the woman's tennis final. They sound like a pigeon being punched to death

 

@lehmo23

lehmo

@Gawndy I'm watching lesbian porn. The neighbours think I'm watching the tennis

@PaulSmithDesign

Paul Smith

Which team does @markcavendish ride for? To enter e-mail your answer to competitions@paulsmith.co.uk

Oh … probably not mine.

 

@TVSpyNews

TVSpy

Charter bus collides with WCPO news van during live press conference: mbist.ro/wfhvIP (VIDEO)

This wouldn't happen here. Would it?

 

@TVTechnology

TV Technology

McAdams On: News Puppetry ow.ly/8IV2L

That happens here (but we don't use puppets!)

 

@SafeCyclingOz

S.C.A.

The new SCA Shane Warne Jersey is available now. Simply because he's an idiot fb.me/Z4rHPSCP

Quote Warnie at checkout.

 

@petapixel

PetaPixel

A beautiful time-lapse of star gazers under the Milky Way: bitly.com/xTS5Zi

Babak Tafreshi of The World at Night created this beautiful time-lapse video of star gazers looking into the heavens while the stars sweep across the night sky.

 

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@nytimestv

NYTimes TV

'Big Bang Theory' Is Now Bigger Than 'American Idol' nyti.ms/yjbUUE

Did a fat lady sing or something?

 

@Lightroom

Adobe Lightroom

#POLL: Have you downloaded the Lightroom 4 Beta yet? #Lr4

Yes and love it. Adapting my workflow to the new Develop module layout.

 

@slanginc

Julian Alexander

New (old) movie posters: atimetoget.com/2012/01/anothe…

 

@AmazingPics

Amazing Photography

Stunning Long Exposure: New Zealand Church at Night: ow.ly/8BFxG

Stunning indeed. 6400ISO, 30 sec exposure @ ƒ2.0 on a Nikon D700. Unfortunately Nikon announced this week that it's discontinuing the D700 model, believed to be a popular choice with landscape photographers.

 

@halfadams

Patrick J. Adams

Circle of life... RT @Chris_Gorham: "Daddy, there's a new game for the iPod, it's called 'Tetris'!" lol

Ah, my old favourite. Getting popular again.

 

@Quantel

Quantel

Interesting article here on the 'Future of Television'? tech.lifegoesstrong.com/article/what-f… #TV #3D #SmartTV #OLED #HD #4K

As long as it still has a picture, I don't care.

 

@nadasurf

matthew caws

yes! can i join in? psyched! "@TheSoftPack We are playing with @NadaSurf this Saturday in San Diego! Maybe we'll play Brightside together?"

 

@nadasurf

matthew caws

The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy (CD/LP) and new T-shirt designs are available at our merch store: bit.ly/vNMnMn

I've been listening to Nada Surf's new album all week. Love every track. For me, that's rare. With most CD's these days I'd only like a few tracks. That's the beauty of online individual track purchases (iTunes, etc)

 

@NelsonAspen

Nelson Aspen

Ferris Bueller returns for the Super Bowl. deadline.com/2012/01/ferris…

YAY!!! He's d'man. Look's like there's something in the works here. Nice little teaser. FBDO was my favourite movie in 1988 (yeah, I'm old).

 

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Another source tells me this will be a Superbowl Ad for Honda CRV. Interesting to note, there's currently a stock shortage of the CRV line due to the Japanese tsunami last year.

 

@Lotus_F1Team

Lotus F1 Team

In case you missed it, here's the link to the teaser trailer for our 2012 car - the E20! youtu.be/5LG3f2VYCWc #F1

 

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Dan, thanks for posting this one!

 

@SmirksTas

Andrew Shepherd

This what happens when airlines allow pets as carry-ons bit.ly/zkzjsK I hope Air Canada don't allow this on long haul.

[update] Well, apparently they do…

 

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@BicyclingMag

Bicycling Magazine

Need a laugh? 10 responses when someone yells at you from a car ow.ly/8GvWZ

Twitbits Monday

 

The daily snap of highlights from my twitter feed….

 

 

@SmirksTas

Andrew Shepherd

Lego Star Wars Death Star II - anyone got a spare $950 amazon.com/dp/B000FTXNRI/…

- Saw Sheldon having a go at constructing this on Big Bang Theory. 3417 pieces take around 10 hours to put together and then it doesn't look complete - haha!

 

@BrianJacobSmith

Brian J. Smith

Ummm I thought the cockpit doors were supposed to be closed? And will the engines work in all this rain? #paranoidflyer

- Proving that actors who play crack space pilots are the worst flyers.

 

@kochie_online

david koch

Here's a naughty JOD 4 your Monday: How do you find a blind man in a nudist colony? It's not hard.

 

@NelsonAspen

Nelson Aspen

I find this photo a wee bit disturbing: Tori Spelling's baby dressed as a Thanksgiving turkey! usmagazine.com/celebrity-moms…

 

@wilw

Wil Wheaton

We Wheatons aren't exactly Christmas traditionalists... goo.gl/wGnNF

 

@miketomalaris

Michael Tomalaris

@tomke636 Had a great weekend in Launceston. #Lonnycrit The warm, friendly people of Tassie love cycling no matter the gruesome conditions.

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@mattgoss1986

Matt Goss

On the way to Canberra for 2 weeks training camp! Looking forward to putting some good kilometers in the kegs.

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@mattgoss1986

Matt Goss

Haha yes, legs! Not kegs....

- I was starting to wonder what kind of camp it was.

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@Wes_Sulzberger

Wesley Sulzberger

In Canberra for the @_GreenEDGE_ camp. Impy arriving tomorrow, room to myself tonight so I should get all my snoring away early.

 

@NBNCoLimited

NBNCo Limited

To tie in with the launch of the #NBN Demo Truck we've launched a series of videos: bit.ly/rSYThO and bit.ly/vMAG4W

 

@Joshua_Freeman

Joshua Freeman™

That time I stood in for @realmikefox for Back to the Future poster art... pic.twitter.com/D7YJNTkB

 

@KylePollard

Kyle Pollard

You wanna stump an entire newsroom, ask a maths question.

 

@SmirksTas

Andrew Shepherd

Pic of the day: The view from Hong Kong's Victoria Peak at dusk flic.kr/p/6EDuob

Goodnight,

@SmirksTas

 

Twoddle Sunday

@petapixel
PetaPixel
How to photograph a flock of phones: bit.ly/u7lIlH

- Very clever. Now put it through AE and animate it.

@joeyldotcom

Joey L.

Big news: my new tutorial with @LaraJade_ finally announced here: joeyl.com/2011/11/lara-j…

 

@petapixel

PetaPixel

12,225 mile road trip around America in a 5-minute time-lapse: bit.ly/td6B61

Doing the grand loop around the USA with a Canon 60D at breakneck speed.

 

@Ryan_Doyle

Ryan Doyle

Action Edit from Turkey... its pretty cool :) youtube.com/watch?v=jj7t71…

 

@Saintwalks

Steven

Just home from work to find yet another animal of the flying variety ..shitting is way through the kitchen,and Ella asleep on the couch

- Sorry to say this Walks, but that pussy needs to be replaced.

 

@SmirksTas

Andrew Shepherd

Game On: Red Bull Reactions with Naked Penguin Boy redbull.co.uk/cs/Satellite/e…

- 286 is a crap score!

 

The best things in life are free...

Yesterday I downloaded to my Mac a Tetris-like game called Sosume. I'd forgotten what fun I used to have with this game many years ago in the pre-Mac OS X days. There are many variants of this falling tile game, but Sosume seems to be the best, and it's free.

Score update...

Personal: Level 13 ,17602/127 rows

Global: Level 39, 63132/383 rows

Firefly forever?

It was a fantastic tv series and I'm glad they made the Serenity movie for those die-hard fans (like me). Well, for some fans that just wasn't enough. It seems that Firefly was never meant to end. This particular space frontier will live-on in an MMO thanks to the people at Multiverse.

Personally, I'm a bit sceptical about this venture as I'm not an online game player, and never had an interest in role playing. My own life can be difficult to manage as it is.

A Legoland far, far away...

Friday I went on a huge spending spree. Games console, memory cards, operating system... just a few from a very long list.
I bought my own PS2 console... and just had to buy a game or two. After my poor performance with StarWars Battlefields I bought the Lego StarWars game. Now this turned out to be one of the best games I've ever bought. Designed for ages 3 and over it's full of fun, lots of adventure and amazing graphics.

Life on the PlayStation

My mate Tony has lent me his PS2 console while I'm on leave. Last night I had a session on it with my work colleague Steve. Yesterday I'd bought Star Wars Battlefront, which I'm having trouble figuring out. I really should read the book. So we progressed on to GT4 and had a few hours of fun on that, trying out various tracks and cars in arcade mode.

Later we tried our skills at International Pool Championship. We just used the simple 8-Ball game but made it interesting playing best of three. The loser dropping his pants. I lost.

 

Life at the wheel

Usually Good Friday is a low key affair but this year I invited Tony to Beauty Point to see the start of the Three Peaks Yacht Race. It was a rather colourful spinnaker start.
 

Saturday Tony ventured over to my place and brought over his PS2 to try out on my plasma screen. And it was freakin' wonderful! Played Gran Turismo 4 .... and spent most of the time over correcting the steering so we ended up more off the track than on it. So we set off for the nearest Harvey Norman store and bought ourselves a Logitech Wheel controller each. Then we were in PlayStation bliss.

Later we watched Bourne Supremacy. It's one of a few movies that deserves to have a sequel.

Sunday (today) is was back to work unfortunately. However, I do have 2 weeks off at the end of this week. I feel another Hobart trip coming on.

Next time you play Scrabble...

McJob - "a low-paying job that requires little skill and provides little opportunity for advancement."

- from the 11th edition of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.

Shopping spree

K-Mart had a few bargains in their catalogue, so off I went - armed with credit card.

First was Bill Bryson's Notes From A Small Island DVD on special for $8.89* and Finding Nemo PlayStation2 game for $69.84.*

I'd partly read Bill Bryson's book 'Notes From A Small Island' a few years ago but never finished it. The DVD is a 6-part television travel documentary on Britain... I like spotting places I'd been to when I was there.

The Finding Nemo game is fun and easy to play. I haven't had a chance to see the film yet.

* Australian dollars