Archive for March, 2010

March 22nd, 2010

LibrePlanet

What a weekend! Surprisingly, much of the extra food we brought home were gone by this morning!

We had a great time hanging out with our old and new friends who came to LibrePlanet this weekend.

The Inkscape session talked about some neat tricks. Unfortunately, whenever I try to use the text box, the application crashes, so I couldn’t follow the whole thing but I made this:

I was also inspired by the animation people to use Blender and to give it another try at Cinelerra but things I can’t simply apt-get always seem intimidating. It’s been a few years since I made any videos, so I would like to get back to video-making, this time using free software.

Another new thing I learn about was French Fries sandwich, a “British delicacy” as described by Deb. It was pretty good when I loaded it with lots of condiments. After all, I grew up eating croquette sandwich, yakisoba sandwich, and takoyaki sandwich, so carb on carb is not a scary concept for me — though I would love it if we could have fresh vegetables and fruits for snacks and juice/water instead of soda at the next conference…

Anyhow, this sure was a great kickoff to the spring series of the acetarium events!

March 16th, 2010

new betta

I got a new fish. He is a white and blue half moon better. Adelaida says that he’s like porcelain.

I haven’t decided on his name. So far, the candidates suggested by others are Leila Betta and The Great Betta. The latter is inspired by the punjabi wrestler, The Great Gama.

Any other ideas?