This car SO suits me, non ? (The above photo is me sitting in my dream car - a Renault Megane Coupé Cabriolet. Tammy was the one who took the photo. I've wanted this car for YEARS, since I was...favourite songs = WIN. I'm hoping the Motor Show comes back next year (there's a chance it might not, due to costs and all that jazz); I'd like to go again. And hopefully Dad can come this time, too.

Please note: This is not just for Seattle-ans. We're giving advance notice to convince long-distance friends to travel! (Jenn, you can start driving now ;) I wanted to put the "save the date" out right...to count ;) Breakfast and potentially the usual crazies heading off to go plunge like polar bears. More details forthcoming. Looking forward to seeing people again as we come out of our hibernation

This month's Cartography Annual release gives CC3 users a way to create visual representations of solar systems. This example was produced by John Morrison of Dungeon Crawlers for his GURPS 4 fantasy setting. Some Earth-like planets are included with the Annual, but John made the planet Trynë using Fractal Terrains Pro using the free FT Terraformer . The Asterord Belt was made with the Asteroids...

After whittling down from 429 entries, 12 finalist films will unspool this week in 115 different cities across four continents as part of the 11th Annual Manhattan Short Film Festival. New York even will happened on Sunday,  September 29, 2008  at 326 Spring Street  Films begin at 7 p.m. http://earinn.com/ http://www.msfilmfest.com/i_nyc.html  

A little teaser image for the October issue of the Cartographer's Annual 2008 .

You can download... ... the Campaign Cartographer/ Dungeon Designer file for the map. ... a one-piece A1 pdf print of the map. ... a multi-page A4 pdf print (9 pages) of the map. Enjoy!

After preparing September's Annual issue for release on Monday, it's been fun simply playing around with it. We'll see, if I manage to finish this one up nicely, I'll put it up for download.

Apparently a French minister of finance, Jean-Baptise Colbert, was born on this day, in 1619. The only thing that matters here is his last name, being Colbert, which means he must be related to the deity...323 entries now, and I DID actually post on February 29 , and it was when I actually got a part of my degree and nearly died in a moshpit. Oh, should have been rather memorable then. Wheee. I win.

Financial and Economic News and Comments US & Canada US existing home sales increased a more-than-expected 3.1% m/m in July to a 5 million annual rate, the highest since February, from 4.85 million in June, data from the National Association of Realtors showed. Existing home sales fell 13.2% y/y. Despite the monthly sales increase , home inventories expanded 3.9% m/m in July...

It seems like yesterday when I just reached the age of majority and I got hold of the sixth Harry Potter book. It was a mildly rainy day, like today. I knew who was going to die, but I know I shouldn't... film, it will have the big screen preview there. (= WHEEE. Ang galing ng pagka-edit ng trailer na ito. Hero Fiennes-Tiffin (Ralph Fiennes nephew) is friggin' brilliant. AHHHHHHH. Okay tama na. =