Irreal

"While those turned away are generally sent home on the next flight, “there are occasional..."

Thu, 15 May 2008 03:43:06 -0400

“While those turned away are generally sent home on the next flight, “there are occasional circumstances which require further detention to review their cases,” De Cima said. And because such “arriving aliens” are not considered to be in the United States at all, even if they are in custody, they have none of the legal rights that even illegal immigrants can claim.”

- Into a U.S. netherworld for travellers - International Herald Tribune

Darth Vader Feels Blue

Wed, 14 May 2008 23:29:01 -0400

Darth Vader Feels Blue

MUTO

Wed, 14 May 2008 03:18:55 -0400

MUTO: An ambiguous animation painted on public walls (in Buenos Aires). Check this out, it’s fantastic.

Okay, just wrapping up my time here in Canberra. I’m back in Sydney tommorrow.

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:41:02 -0400

Okay, just wrapping up my time here in Canberra. I’m back in Sydney tommorrow.

Wow the digitization was quicker than I anticipated. It means the end is near, and I can come out of...

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:38:51 -0400

Wow the digitization was quicker than I anticipated. It means the end is near, and I can come out of exile and head back to Sydney soon.

I suspect that the iminent onset of winter is messing with my bees. I’ve spent the last two...

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:23:20 -0400

I suspect that the iminent onset of winter is messing with my bees. I’ve spent the last two days trying to get atleast 1 bee to the test feeder with no success. I feel like a new cafe owner offereing free coffee to customers hoping that they’d come back, and not one of the little twerps does so.

Spent the day reimporting all the videos, clipping them down to manageable length. Amazingly dull...

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 03:56:06 -0400

Spent the day reimporting all the videos, clipping them down to manageable length. Amazingly dull stuff. I can’t wait to start digitizing, and I’m sure that will be equally entertaining.

I have been down with flu etc for the last few days so things have come to a standstill. Getting...

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:00:04 -0400

I have been down with flu etc for the last few days so things have come to a standstill. Getting better now :)

So the afternoon session was very weird. I’d trained a couple of bees to the feeder, while I...

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:29:26 -0400

So the afternoon session was very weird. I’d trained a couple of bees to the feeder, while I was out having lunch. I came back, and there were a gazillion bees at the test feeder. So I had to hide the test feeder. The bees were quite stubborn though, and they kept coming back to the test setup and searching for the non existent feeder. Still we managed to get some awesome recordings of bees bouncing off webs. I had to time the switch very carefully though, since there were so many bees hovering about. OK that’s it for today, I’m drained.

The whole of this morning was devoted to filming the bees with high speed cameras. Trained two bees,...

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:14:59 -0400

The whole of this morning was devoted to filming the bees with high speed cameras. Trained two bees, managed to film 1 interception. It’s amazing watching the bees hit the web at ‘slow motion’. We’re going to try another one this afternoon, but for now, I’m starving.

"A big rig loaded with 440 colonies – hives to the layman – populated by 8 million bees flipped over..."

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:11:52 -0400

“A big rig loaded with 440 colonies – hives to the layman – populated by 8 million bees flipped over onto its side on the onramp to northbound 99, scattering countless numbers of the valuable insects.”

- News - Truckload of bees topples, closes Hwy. 99 ramp at Florin Road - sacbee.com

Afternoon session sucked. Bees were singularly unco-operative. Ah well.

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:57:29 -0400

Afternoon session sucked. Bees were singularly unco-operative. Ah well.

Two runs today, one bee avoided the hoop entirely. I was suspicious of it from the start..it looked...

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:29:01 -0400

Two runs today, one bee avoided the hoop entirely. I was suspicious of it from the start..it looked like a no good bee. Meanwhile, the audio issue while importing has disappeared when importing into J’s computer. A complete mystery. Tried installing the program again in this one, but all efforts were in vain. Looks like I’ll have to live with no audio.

I imported today’s video session into the computer, and when I looked at the fottage, there...

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:40:12 -0400

I imported today’s video session into the computer, and when I looked at the fottage, there are times when the bee vanshes from one spot and reappears on the other side of the frame. Tempting though it is to think that the bee is actually teleporting instead of flying, I believe that the actual reason is a bit more mundane. Return of the software glitch.

The afternoon sesson was terrible. Many failed attempts at training later, it took a bee over an...

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:37:09 -0400

The afternoon sesson was terrible. Many failed attempts at training later, it took a bee over an hour to make an appearance at the feeder.

So I had two more runs today. And each bee behaved in completely different ways before hitting the...

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:44:38 -0400

So I had two more runs today. And each bee behaved in completely different ways before hitting the web. One made a gazillion approach flights, and the other just crashed into the web on the first approach. Very odd.

Software glitch day. Thats about it.

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:03:04 -0400

Software glitch day. Thats about it.

OK I just had a talk with J and he’s suggested that I record the track of bees through the...

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:22:11 -0400

OK I just had a talk with J and he’s suggested that I record the track of bees through the empty hoops as well. So while I’m not quite back at square one, it feels awfully like I am. The problem is that there is so much individual variation in bee flight, that it makes comparisons difficult. YEEAARGH redux.

The afternoon session was weird. I’d left the test setup feederless in the hope that the...

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:58:43 -0400

The afternoon session was weird. I’d left the test setup feederless in the hope that the multitude of unwanted bees would take a hint and disappear. So when I went back to try a couple more runs, they had indeed disappeared from the test setup. But as soon as I replaced the feeder, the bees started coming back. i was able to get a few recordings before there were too many bees. I’ve removed the test feeder now and let’s see how it goes tomorrow.

A bee at the main feeder.

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:07:44 -0400

A bee at the main feeder.