going to queensland on saturday for a week DDD yay

/me waits for it to arrive

now i just need to wait for all the redskins to dissolve, then i need to remove the white leftover gunkstuff

then drink!

edit:
Finished making it, added filtering pictures and final product

Redskin vodka

:D:D

eeepc

]]> http://blog.thedt.net/2009/eeepc-d/feed/ 6 http://blog.thedt.net/2009/valentines-day/ http://blog.thedt.net/2009/valentines-day/#comments Sun, 15 Feb 2009 05:26:14 +0000 dt http://blog.thedt.net/?p=100 That crazy day has come around again ;o

Hope you all had a romantic day : >

Gallery of stuff from mine ;> (that I gave ;p)

The Neanderthal Parallax - Hominids

The first series I read was The Neanderthal Parallax by Robert J. Sawyer Its a series of three books, in which a portal to a parallel dimension is opened, but in this dimension the Neanderthals came to power instead of us. The series is all about our communication, love etc with the Neanderthals : >

Mindscan

The next book I read was by the same author, Mindscan is about a company being able to “copy” your brain into an android, so you’ll be able to live forever, It discusses the ethics of doing it, what the rest of the world would think?

I liked it : >

Frameshift

Frameshift is harder to describe so I’ll just paste the amazon description

There is a 50 percent chance that geneticist Pierre Tardivel is carrying the gene for Huntington’s Disease, a fatal disorder. That knowledge drives Pierre in his work on the Human Genome Project, an attempt by scientists to map human genes. But a strange set of circumstances–including a knife attack, the in vitro fertilization of his wife, and an insurance company plot to use DNA samples to weed out clients predisposed to early deaths–draw Tardivel into a story that will ultimately involve the hunt for a Nazi death camp doctor.

/me has not a clue what he will read next, but maybe The Engines of Light Trilogy by Ken MacLeod

Spin

I got a little bored, so I started reading. This time It’s a book called Spin where the earth is suddenly wrapped in a artificial membrane which slows down time, so each second on earth is three years outside of the membrane. The book is about humanity trying to figure out why this has happend, and to do something about it before the sun turns into a red giant and destroys them.

Its a nice book, I enjoyed reading it :>

Axis of Time

In the last few weeks, I’ve read quite a few books the first was a series called Axis of Time Which is a series revolved around a US lead taskforce of ships in 2021 which end up traveling back in time to 1942, and the impact these advanced warships have on the culture of 1942. The problem isn’t only with the technology they bring back with them (which is a huge issue in the books), its also the attitude of the crew, how many ships in 1942 had female crew members? or openly homosexual ones?

I quite enjoyed reading this series, and I recommend that you go read them too ;p

There are three books in the series (I do wish there were more )

• Axis of Time: World War 2.1: Weapons of Choice
• Axis of Time: World War 2.2: Designated Targets
• Axis of Time: World War 2.3: Final Impact

Onto the next series of books that I’ve been reading

Cast of Twilight

Twilight, yes I know many of you are sick of hearing about it =p so I wont go into much detail, but the books were quite enjoyable. Its like a classic romance novel where two lovers are figuring out their relationship and have to struggle through issues and dangers….. It has a nice supernatural cast of creatures, like vampires and werewolves in it to make things interesting ;p.

There are four books in the series

• Twilight
• New Moon
• Eclipse
• Breaking Dawn

Quite a few people have said bad things about the movie, I more want to see it to compare how the author and director envisioned the characters compared to how I imagined the characters (just looking at the movie poster I can see small differences)

If you any suggestions for the next series of books I should read leave a comment

(If you haven’t figured it out yet, I do like scifi-ish books ;p)