This is a pretty amazing video. Stephen Wiltshire, Kunst Savant Aus London (damned unfortunate title that one!) spends three days drawing a five foot aerial portrait of Rome having spent only 45 minutes in a helicopter viewing the city. The document is near perfect, his rendition of the Colosseum is practically identical when overlaid on a photograph of the real thing. That’s deeply awesome!
I celebrated my second consecutive birthday in Bangkok yesterday. As is my usual custom, I took the day off work and instead attended to a few personal administration issues. First on the agenda, it was getting very out of control…
Then I wandered by Lumpini Park for a little jaunt in the swan shaped pedal boats. I’ve seen the next scene countless times in the park, but it never fails to bring a smile to my face…
Alas I couldn’t bring myself to participate, I just wasn’t wearing the right brand of spandex, but maybe next time! 
That’s gotta be a bummer when you wake up with a hangover and go looking for your car…
While reading something on the internet the other day, I came across the concept of a modern day nomad. What a great word. Nomadic. It struck me that it pretty much sums up my life at the moment. I’m nomadic. I don’t exactly travel, I’ve hardly been to a tourist site in the last year. But I don’t stay in one place either. I’m not on holiday, I work, but I don’t work in one place.
So I reckon I’m a nomadic developer, although that sounds pretty geeky. I was thinking about the word entrepreneur, but it has all these weird connotations I reckon. So I think I’ll stick to nomad. I’m a nomad. Or for the Scots, am nae mad ken.
I’m living in a house with a cat…
So I thought I’d take this opportunity to try some animal experimentation. I’ve been arguing recently that animals have the same basic emotions as humans, love and fear. My motivation was more to play devil’s advocate than anything else, but it strikes me that this cat provides an interesting testing ground.
So, if you have any suggestions of experiments I could try, please let me know. Note: I use the term experimentation loosely. So animal rights activists, relax, I’m not going to microwave the cat. Animal abusers, take your suggestions elsewhere, I’m not going to microwave the cat. Harm free suggestions only. For example, could I train the cat to ignore me during the working day, but come say hello at 6pm exactly? Oh the possibilities…
It’s that time of year again, but do you know what the Easter Bunny is doing for the other 364 days of the year? I’ll show you…
Many thanks to Dr Jamesonian Kendallosis for this contribution…
Check out the Goliath Expedition (new window). Karl Bushby, a british ex-paratrooper is currently 8 years into his 12 year walk around the world! He’s hoping to become the first man to walk around the world with unbroken footsteps, whatever that means!
He set off in 1998 and has walked 17’000 miles so far. A little something to inspire you as you consider whether you should walk to the coffee machine or wait until you see one of your colleagues heading that way!
My pink keyboard is up for adoption!
Any suitable parties who may be interested in taking on the responsibility of caring for such a precious gift of nature should apply herein. Unfortunately, it simply doesn’t fit with my lifestyle. We’ve had a grown up discussion, compared our differences, and decided it’s time to part company. It’s an amicable parting.
Applications on a postcard…
It’s amazing the things you come across in a working day on the internet…
Google is available in a number of different languages, quite a large number in fact, but did you know they support the internationally recognised language of Elmer Fudd? Check out Google Preferences in Elmer Fudd (new window). If you click “Save Preferences”, it will actually change Google’s language, you have been warned…