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2013-05-23 05:43:11 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Good morning all :-)

Yes, I have had my first cup of coffee. Otherwise that would have been a different smiley.

2013-05-23 00:30:57 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 15 +1s)

Another shot of the tulip , this time in black and white.

2013-05-22 16:47:03 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

How to interact well on Google+

Once again I'm seeing one of these guidance posts floating around, with some really good advice - but as usual, the good advice is mixed with stuff which I think isn't so good. Here are specific points that I feel I need to respond to:

1. When you like something, hit +1. Yes, sure. (The post goes on to say that it's ok to +1 your own stuff. Sure, there's no law against it, but why on earth would you? Do you have conversations with yourself where you pat yourself on the back or high-five yourself for saying something clever? +1ing your own stuff makes no sense, it makes you look stupid and narcissistic. It makes me think of Cat in Red Dwarf. If you don't want to look ridiculous, don't do it.)

2. If you want to engage in conversation, post a comment. Yes. but the post then goes on to say that when you engage in... more »

2013-05-22 15:56:43 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

This is a SketchUp version of the house which I designed for my exam project. I am currently working on making a physical 1:50 model of it in materials like foamboard and plasticard.

2013-05-22 04:54:13 (18 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Mornin' G+

We are having crappy weather in my area today, with plenty of rain. Why is it, that you never remember to buy an umbrella while the weather is fine, so you have it for days like this?

2013-05-21 19:04:53 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

Hmm, I've spent more time on G+ today, than I have in the last two months combined.

It is nice to take the time to have a look around again and not just check what the usual must read circle posts. I've even done some circle clean-up and of course posted a couple of pics.

My interests tend to have a certain pattern. I get really caught up in something (lately it is roleplaying, before it was Ingress) and spend almost all my free time on it for a while. After a couple of months (sometimes a year) I have a burnout on the i interest/hobby and completely abandon it, only to have it replaced by something new, which I get just as intense about.

Many of my hobbies I return to after a while, when they suddenly catch my interest again (reading, roleplaying, and painting miniatures fits in this category), while others never return.

Lately I have been trying to not... more »

2013-05-21 17:59:13 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 13 +1s)

A friend of mine is knitting a shirt (or something, I wasn't paying attention) for her daughter, with multicolored yarn. I thought it would make for an interesting macro shot.

2013-05-21 13:44:31 (4 comments, 10 reshares, 18 +1s)

Heh..heh...

Can't decide if this cool or disturbing.. probably a little of both.

Check out http://danluvisiart.deviantart.com/gallery/43576073 for more.

2013-05-21 13:08:53 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

I'm pretty sure this is some kind of tulip, but in any case it is a beautiful flower and it was just begging for a little special treatment.

It did take a little setup to get this photo, including killing the flower and taking it home, spraying it with some water and post-processing the  pic in LR.

2013-05-20 16:03:28 (1 comments, 4 reshares, 19 +1s)

:D

2013-05-20 12:45:07 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

It's always nice to visit people who have flowers standing around, so I can get some photos.

2013-05-19 07:27:50 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

I've been messing around with doing some heraldry for my RPG campaign world.

2013-05-18 18:52:35 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 17 +1s)

+Mette Dalsgaard Brath is taking some cooking classes at the moment and was kind enough to bring this beauty home for me yesterday :-)

2013-05-18 16:58:08 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 14 +1s)

It's been a while since I uploaded a Caturday pic, so to remedy that, here is our oldest cat Neelix, trying to hide in the jungle that is our lawn.

2013-05-18 08:38:07 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 16 +1s)

Things are actually pretty good :-)

2013-05-17 09:04:47 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 13 +1s)

2013-05-17 06:01:46 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

The illustration I did for the front page of my exam project.

SketchUp and Photoshop.

2013-05-17 05:57:57 (17 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Just to give my two cents.

I generally like the new look of G+, but three columns is a bit much, so I have turned it back to one (I think I would prefer two).

I hope that at some point, we get the option to chose number of columns we want to see, as well as their width (I know there are workarounds, but I don't care enough to mess with it).

In any case there doesn't seem to be much reason to get all worked up because of it. Who knows how it looks in six months.

2013-05-15 14:58:23 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)

Finally I'm done with my exam project and it is ready to turn in tomorrow. Now I can look forward to fourteen days of prep for the examination :-/

2013-05-13 17:03:07 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 19 +1s)

My parents in 1953

I've gotten my hands on some of my parents old photo albums, so I can scan them. This is one of the first ones I've run through the scanner, my parents in their heyday, when it wasn't politically incorrect to smoke cigars.

In '53 my dad was 26 and my mom was 20 years old (and I was still 19 years in the future).

2013-05-10 17:43:32 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Getting into map-making (and RPG) again

It has been a long time since I played any RPG and even longer since I messed around with world building and map making, but recently I got the urge to get into it again.

I am working on a duchy (one of a loose affiliation of six) and this is the WIP map for it (all made in Photoshop). I am pretty happy with it so far, but I am about to make some forest and can't really decide on what look I want and how to make them. I have taken a look around Cartographer's Guild, but most of the tutorials I can find seems to be for GIMP or doesn't give the result I want.

2013-04-25 14:34:29 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

I'm about to start playing some RPG again, after a decade's absence from the hobby. My intention is to run a game using Pathfinder, but I can decide on a campaign setting. Several official ones appeal to me for various reasons, but all of them have parts I really don't like.

- Forgotten Realms is classic and I know it quite well, but I think I want to try something different.
- Eberron has some really cool parts, like the recent war and lots of magic wonders, but I would have to get rid of all the psionics (never liked the idea of psionics for anything but mind flayers).
- Birthright is a favorite of mine, but it would take a lot of work getting it to work with Pathfinder.
- The Pathfinder campaign is okay, but it seems a bit boring.

I could make my own setting (I have done so before), but it is a lot of work. I have thought of incorporating the stuff I like,... more »

2013-04-25 07:23:13 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Sensational SF Circle

Rejuvenation of the Sci-Fi circle sharing

Sci-FI Community link here : http://bit.ly/14PmI2V

Cleaned up the circles and only included people actually interested or posting about SF. Have removed a number of profiles and pages with a leaner, more focused laser-like pinpointing on Science Fiction.

Why should you add them? They are awesome - they support the SF initiative and are genuinely interested in Science Fiction.

Reshare and Add for spreading the love
... more »

2013-04-21 16:59:24 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

If you were new on G+

no, I wouldn't tell you who to circle, not unless I know you very very well. I'd say: feel free to check out the profiles of people I have in my circles and see if you're interested in following them. and when you see someone commenting on a post and you like what they say, check them out too. or when you see a reshare of someone's post and you think that person is talking great sense, or you like their style, or whatever.

and the most important piece of advice I'd give you is: don't be scared to add people. strangers are only those people you haven't got to know yet. and adding people costs you nothing. it doesn't commit you to a lifelong relationship - you can always uncircle someone if you find that they didn't live up to your expectations. think of it not in terms of facebook friends - think of it as a free... more »

2013-04-21 15:44:28 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 32 +1s)

More Flowery Spring Goodness

I am really happy with how this one turned out, even if it was just pure luck that the bee happened to be flying towards the flower I was shooting, just at the right moment.

2013-04-21 06:31:53 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 27 +1s)

More signs of Spring

2013-04-20 08:59:00 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 17 +1s)

In less than two months I will finish my education to become a "teknisk designer" (more or less equivalent of draughtsman or architectural drafter, I believe). In two days I start my final project, which I have three weeks to finish, followed by two weeks for visualization and exam prep, which ends with my final exam.

2013-04-13 09:00:30 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 28 +1s)

2013-04-08 13:48:13 (5 comments, 2 reshares, 8 +1s)

Lately I've been contemplating getting into roleplaying again.

www.cad-comic.com/cad/

2013-04-07 19:28:08 (6 comments, 26 reshares, 57 +1s)

2013-04-07 18:27:24 (13 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Interessant nok giver det ikke altid 100 AP at hacke en fjendtlig portal.

Nu har jeg haft lejlighed til, at holde lidt øje med det og det viser sig, at selv om COMM godt nok siger man har fået 100 AP for sit hack, øges ens samlede AP ikke altid.

Det lader til, at det er nogle bestemte portaler der har et problem. I hvert fald gav dem samme portal ikke AP på to hacks i træk. Jeg vil tro at på 100 hacks fik jeg omkring 9000 AP, hvilket vil sige at op mod hver tiende portal snyder. Det er selvfølgelig ikke meget, men når man satser på, at nå L2 på 100 hacks, er det træls at skulle bruge 120 :-)

2013-04-07 12:35:01 (22 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Så blev min konto nulstillet og jeg er L1 igen. Dvs. det skete fredag aften, så jeg er lige blevet L3.

Det er interessant, at skulle tænke over sin brug af bursters og ikke bare fyre dem af til højre og venstre. Jeg er tilbøjelig til, at sige at der er mere taktik og strategi i Ingress når man er low level.

2013-04-07 12:24:43 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

As mentioned earlier today, I met Jesper Binzer, the front man of the Danish band D-A-D (apparently this is the right way to write their name these days). As a public service to all you people who aren't Danish and have never heard of the band, here's one of their newer songs I Want What She's Got.

Note that they usually don't wear drag ;-)

2013-04-06 16:56:45 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Circle of amazing people that interact with others by sharing their work
 ~ their circles to that person
    ~ to help others connect with that person to bring a smile to their face  
(｡◕‿◕｡)

If your in this circle and would like to be added to other peoples circles within this circle leave a comment and tell them.

If you would like to be removed because your getting to many followers that's okay too, just let me know  (｡◕‿◕｡)

Please +Take2seconds to help me thank these amazing people
~ leave a comment
~ click the plus button
~ click the share button
~*** telling me if you know of another person that we should honor in our next circle  (｡◕‿◕｡)
   ~ leave a link to one of their posts that inspired you  (｡◕‿◕｡)

If you would like to be in the nextone

 ~ just share the circle
 ~ Leave a comm... more »

2013-04-06 11:11:46 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

Mødte Jesper Binzer i Metropol idag og fik signeret hans bog I Won't Cut My Hair. Havde nok ikke købt den, hvis ikke han tilfældigvis sad der, men jeg glæder mig nu alligevel til at læse den.

For the Danish impaired: Jesper Binzer is the front figure of the Danish rock band D.A.D (perhaps D:A:D this week, formerly known as Disneyland After Dark) and he was doing a signing of his biography in our local mall.

2013-04-04 12:03:39 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)

Welcome to the Psychiatric Hotline.

If you are obsessive-compulsive, please press 1 repeatedly.

If you are co-dependent, please ask someone to press 2.

If you have multiple personalities, please press 3, 4, 5, and 6.

If you are paranoid-delusional, we know who you are and what you want. Just stay on the line so we can trace the call.

If you are schizophrenic, listen carefully and a little voice will tell you which number to press.

If you are depressed, it doesn't matter which number you press. No one will answer.

If you are delusional and occasionally hallucinate, please be aware that the thing you are holding on the side of your head is alive and about to bite off your ear.

2013-04-03 15:43:57 (7 comments, 1 reshares, 11 +1s)

www.myextralife.com/comic/perfect-strangers/

2013-04-03 05:36:39 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

My general photography circle has been updated.  If you're a photographer of any type and would like to be in this circle, please leave a comment.  I will check your stream for original images (original meaning they are your images) and add you if appropriate.

#circleshare #photographers #photography

2013-04-02 12:12:04 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

...Lego said the demise of "Jabba's Palace" had nothing to do with the racism claims and meetings with Turks, and all to do with the natural lifecycle of the product.

"There have been no changes to the product 9516 or its lifecycle due to the dialogue with the Turkish community,"

2013-04-01 15:19:47 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)

Cake Leftovers Truffles

There were quite a lot of cutoff pieces left of the cake I posted the other day, as well as some buttercream so I decided to combine them, add a little cocoa and kahlua for taste, and make these truffles ("trøfler" in Danish).

2013-04-01 14:53:07 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 15 +1s)

It's nice to see some evidence of spring.

2013-04-01 13:07:01 (16 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Moderator søges

Hvis en af jer har lyst til, at blive moderator her i Ingress Danmark gruppen, må i gerne sige til. Jeg har et eksamensprojekt i horisonten og drosler lidt ned for Ingress i et stykke tid.

Jobbet er ufatteligt nemt og består hovedsageligt i, at godkende folk der gerne vil være medlem.

2013-04-01 08:50:32 (18 comments, 1 reshares, 19 +1s)

The worst thing about April 1st is, that everybody thinks they are a fucking comedian :-/

2013-03-30 17:25:06 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 17 +1s)

Christening Cake

Our newest creation for the daughter of a friend of mine. She is getting baptized tomorrow.

We are quite happy with the result :-)

All the decorations are made from homemade marshmallow fondant, except the butterflies which are made of gumpaste and the date which is made in decorating chocolate.

The cake is standard vanilla spongecake with layers of chocolate mousse and raspberry mousse.

2013-03-29 21:59:03 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 8 +1s)

Nice!

Han Couldn't Have Shot First With A LEGO Blaster
kotaku.com/han-couldnt-have-shot-first-with-a-lego-blaster-462041358

2013-03-29 21:26:35 (1 comments, 5 reshares, 20 +1s)

And we all know, that they would rather sleep in the box the table came in :-/

2013-03-29 11:50:08 (12 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Så skulle alle L6-L8 have fået en invite at dele ud af inde fra app'en.

Det har i hvert fald både fruen og jeg.

2013-03-28 10:34:22 (0 comments, 10 reshares, 41 +1s)

2013-03-28 10:25:20 (12 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Did the latest G+ update remove manners?

I'm not sure if it's my browser, my PC, the latest G+ update, or something else ... but there seems to be a decline in manners and etiquette.

Now, I know that some folk are new, and thus don't know better, but there are some folk that do know better.

If you Share, you reference the person you saw the post from (be it the originator or someone that shared it and you saw the share).

If you see a Post you want to reference, Share it, do Not make a clean post and make it look like you found it all by yourself.
Alternatively, have the decency to reference the original post by Linking and +Mentioning the poster.

G+ thrives on Shares and +Mentions.
It's one of the core features of the platform.
It's one of the ways to gain traction and interaction.

... more »

2013-03-27 19:31:37 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 19 +1s)