Douglas E. Berry

Skeet shooting has been replaced

DAMN that looks fun!

Courtesy of fearsclave, the terror of all Canadian fish and game.

Amazing artist creates sculptures that fit inside the eye of a needle.

Some of his work requires that he wait for the pause between heart beats. As a former sniper, I can grok how that works. Really, really amzing detail, and it's scary to realize that this guy would consider painting a 25mm figure a big project.

I think you'll like this image from this week's Photoshop Phriday..

Refreshing and Mysterious

I just won my second Atheist Quote of the Month contest on alt.atheism!

20) In response to:
> What happens to a society when its children are taught they evolved
> from the slime of some prebiotic soup through random chemical reactions
> in a chaotic, completely unsupervised universe that emerged from a
> chance explosion?

We go to the Moon, create a global information network, eliminate polio
and smallpox, and see freedom spread around the globe.

By: Douglas Berry
Nominated: raven1
Seconded: Harry F. Leopold

I will now do my victory dance.

Way back in High School, my friends and I dreamed of starting a band and becoming huge rock stars. We had everything.. a name, our first album cover, everything but talent.

The band was to be called Not Food. This came from the various influences in the group.. we were everything but food. The first album was going to be Table for Six. The cover was going to be the five male members of the group in white tie standing behind a banquet table loaded with food. In the middle of this, lying on a serving platter, would be the sole female member holding an apple.

The back cover would be the apple with several bites taken out.

Well, we can't go back and do it over, but now I can at least see what the tape would have looked like...



And here's a ticket for our show next week.. good seats too!

Since Kiri isn't here to explain Geek Wizardry to me.

Hate those cloying motivation posters found in offices? Make your own!

Here a re few I made today. I'm starting with Traveller-related stuff because this comes off a post in the Traveller Mailing List. That, and one that I would actually love to have on my wall.

( artwork, ho! )

I mentioned in my previous post that I had a brief flirtation with the bass guitar. John Entwistle is the reason why. When I first saw The Who in 1982, it wasn't Townshend leaping around or Daltrey spinning his microphone that caught my eye.. no, it was the tall guy off to one side. Not moving much, not being theatrical in the least; just slapping four strings and making the most amazing noise that shook you down to your DNA.

To this day my favorite Who songs are his. 905, My Wife, Success Story... all great tunes that feature thundering bass lines. But his best work with The Who has to be the semi-autobiographical The Quiet One

( lyrics spam! )

Want to see what I mean? Here's John and the boys blowing up an audience with The Quiet One.

OK, I'm pretty much opposed to the whole San Jose Grand Prix. It's a money sink, disrupts our entire downtown, and at a time when we are begging people to conserve fuel, we invite gas-guzzling cars that lack even basic emissions controls to rip up our streets.

But this is cool. A video tour of the race course made with a professional driver at 120mph.

Somebody at NASA has remembered that space flight is cool, and even cooler when we see it up close. Discovery had a camera mounted on the right SRB for this launch. The resulting 12 minute video follows the entire "career" of the SRB from launch, to separation, to splashdown. Amazing.

One suggestion for the NASA boys.. next time include a microphone.

http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/sts-121_front/index.html