I wonder if this counts as an Irish Dinner?
Though I think we all have strange food cravings at times … I wanted chips (the Irish kind) Beans and Fish tonight … well close enough right?
I appear to have hit a fork in the road!
Lots going on right now and lots and lots to think about.
Hitting forks in the road is a good thing right? :) (couldn’t resist)
Spider a website via the command line …
Found myself needing to do this this morning as it’d just be handier to be able to grep everything from the site … it’s wget to the rescue
wget –mirror -p –convert-links -P ./temp http://website
While there’s nothing amazing in there it’ll be something I’ll need to figure out again at some stage and it’s rather handy :)
Storyboarding
I’d love to say I came up with this lego picture before I did the actual invites for our Data Centre launch.
I simply didn’t.
I am currently working on a video however which is kinda cool and actually requires some story boarding and careful thought rather than my usual dive right into an image. Especially as rendering time is probably going to be insane on it.
Are there any useful story board utilities out there? (for the mac or online)
I’m inviting myself to a ….
So I’ve gotten to work on an invite over the last month or so. It has been an on and off thing based on feedback and other bits and bobs.
I ended up receiving my invite today and I have to admit that I’m blown away by what I can do :P No seriously though I find it really cool. A few images merged together into a postcard style image.
The print quality is amazing with a gloss on the front and I’m simply left grinning about it all. OK if I worked more in print it probably wouldn’t be a major deal but it’s a kinda fun image, it was fun to work on and in the end it’s fun to give to people.
Did I mention I received the invite today and I’ve booked my flights already? :) Ireland here I come ( once again )
Cheap knockoff lego…
A few weeks ago .. I was scanning ebay for Lego as I do … ( HEY! some people collect stamps and stuff :P )and lo and behold I saw some lego like mini figs. CHEAP CHEAP minifigs. Now if you follow Lego sales at all you’ll know an Iron Man minifig will sell for 10 euro give or take. Darth Vader can sell for 20 – 50 at times madness I know!
I opted for the 15 pack of superhero minifigs and they arrived this morning. I’ve been kinda excited about their arrival. You know those toys you always wanted as a kid? I wanted lego … LOTS and LOTS of lego.
So which one is which? :) (1 is actual lego the other is the knockoff)
Of course the suit isn’t the same ( there are 6 different iron man costumes available ) The colours are maybe off slightly but then I’m not sure if that’s just the different suit.
Am I happy? HELL YEAH!
It’s imitation Lego at a fraction of the price of the real stuff. The build quality isn’t quite up to the same level as the official stuff. The brand is Decool in case anyone is interested.
Chicken!
I ended up cooking my first chicken by myself today. Nothing amazing there I know it’s just the first time I’ve ever gone and cooked a whole chicken by myself. Charlotte is sick at the moment so she slept late on Sunday and we had brunch instead of a nice roast lunch. She went to the doctors today so we thought it’d be nice to have something special for her. (She hates going to the doctors)
Wash / Rince .. put in tray .. put in oven at 180C hey presto it’s CHICKEN!
Why on earth I’ve never cooked a chicken by myself before I’ll never know. I left it completely plain. Didn’t put anything on it and the results are pretty amazing the taste is lovely. Of course it’s not one of the 2.99€ chickens you can find in the supermarket so it’s practically a case of what you see is what you end up with once it’s cooked. We’ve made a conscious effort since last year to use better quality meats / poultry. I was for example picking up a roast chicken from the market every second sunday. It was nice it was convenient but the taste is nothing like our own oven roast chicken. I wasn’t actually buying a free range roast chicken either as the price on those was putting it up at 15 – 20€. Understandable in some ways. You want good quality you pay for it.
The local supermarket is currently doing 25% off their free range chickens so I may end up picking up another one. The above was guaranteed to have lived for at least 81 days.
One chicken breast has fed the three of us for lunch so at 7.23€ for the chicken (including the 25% off) that’s pretty good value. We’ll be getting another nice chicken breast .. 2 legs and so on out of it. I see a merguez / chicken cous cous in our future :)
Next up … I’m going to get seasoning it. No idea what to do I don’t want to kill the flavour too much. I’m seeing thyme and lemon … garlic chicken and all the while coated with butter. I’ll be throwing in some veg the next time as well I think.
lego Simpsons is coming and I’ll be ready!
So my streams were all a buzz last week about the new Lego sets that are coming out. People may think I’m obsessed with lego at times. The sets in question are of course the Simpsons sets. Well I’ll be brushing up on my lego photo taking skills and maybe even adding in one or two Props! Unfortunately the above prop disappeared shortly after this photo was taken.
Have a look at the below video it’s rather cool it’s the Simpsons Lego house it’ll be costing around the €200 mark which while quite pricey is rather good pricing for a set of this size. ($199 dollars in the US which comes in at around €150 why why do they do this sighs) Will I be getting it? God no but I’d love to pick up a Homer. I’d even need to pick up some more props for him :)
Forbairt in Lego
How do you make yourself in lego? I’m not entirely sure. Step 1: take what you suspect people think you do most and Step 2: dump it into a photo? Does this count as a lego selfie? So what did I put into this “Forbairt Lego minifig”
- Cool t-shirt? ( I like to think I’ve generally got a cool t-shirt on)
- Camera?
- Coffee? (I’m trying to give up honest)
- Ginger Cat
- Computer (Stuck in front of one at my desk – my desk is black and has red legs)
- Twitter?
- Bed Hair? :)
Am I missing anything? :)
Battling coffee addiction!
I started the year with plans to cut down on the coffee. I drink too much of the stuff I dump sugar into it and repeat. This gives me the buzz at the time but later on I crash or worse still I can’t sleep. So I ended up finishing off all the coffee in the flat. I think there may be some decaff pods somewhere but erm .. decaff what’s the point.
So today I whipped out the juicer. It takes minutes to make a really nice juice. For the above I threw in:
- a few branches of celery
- 1 apple
- 1/2 a cucumber
- A decent sized chunk of ginger (1 – 2 cm cube )
Refreshing and tasty though a lot of people seem to have a problem with celery and it’s taste I love it. If I’d had any carrots around I’d have thrown one in as well.
While I get plenty of veg in the dinners we prepare I generally don’t go out of my way to eat any extra veg / fruit. I like to think this is a good way to get some and it’s quick too. The longest part is the clean up of the juicer.