African Lion Reported Roaming In Eastern El Paso County
El Paso County deputies have received a report of an African lion on the loose in the eastern part of the county.
Sheriff’s Lt. Lari Sevene said the l first call came in of large cat chasing several dogs through a field off of Log Road. That call came in at 7:35 a.m. The resident told deputies the cat had a red mane and a big tail. He showed them a photo of the big cat.
Detailing of the “bridge” and on the main body…
Probably four or five hours works from what was shown the last time. The difference is subtle… detailing on the ring support arms. That’s it. As with physical modelling, computer modeling gives fast buildup from nothing to “hey, I know what that is,” but once details start getting added, the process grinds to an apparent halt. Oh, well… progress is progress.
A model I will be doing for Fantastic Plastic is the “space park” from BSG, in 1/9700 scale. The plan initially was to make this the old fashioned way. However, what I may end up doing is using this design as a first step into rapid prototyping. Instead of carving the thing out of polymerized poison and filling the air surrounding my head with abrasive and carcinogenic dust, I’m making a computer model of the thing, and will be sending the file to a number of rapid prototyping shops for quotes. Modelling the thing has so far gone pretty quickly… I made this since breakfast. But as with manual modelling, it’s the details that’ll drag the effort to a screeching halt. As well, it’s unknown as yet jsut how much the quote will be. Might wind up being prohibitively expensive. But if not… the BSG “Cylon Base Ship” and “Naboo Skiff” could possibly be the last small models that I make entirely by hand.
The maximum number of people that could be safetly stuffed into a Dyna Soar: six. Must be lonely for that feller in the back, though…
I just realized that it is 15 years and one month since “Jurassic Park” was released in theaters. I was in college at the time, with two years left to go on my aerospace engineering degree; when I’d first headed off to college, I’d had the insane notion that I was going to double major in Aero E and paleontology… I wanted to be the first guy to dig up a fossil on Mars. Calculus put an end to that plan; it was a kick in the nuts that added years to just getting the Aero E degree, and meant that I’d never even start on paleontology. But even so, when the movie came out I was nuts to go see it. To this day it remains one of my favorites; partially due to the subject matter, partially due to it being the first time that dinosaurs were shown that were not obvious cheap special effects; and partially due to the fact that I saw it with a very gorgeous young lady who I was extremely fond of.
Two sequels and fifteen years later, the movie and its special effects still more or less hold up and look good. It’s done better than me, that’s for damned sure.
This critter was flitting about my front yard today. None of my photos of it looking down came out… camera refused to focus on it, instead focussing on the weeds in the background. Feh.
Taken from what turned out to be a local Perspiration Point in the mountains overlooking Ogden. I was driving around at random near nightfall when I found this sport; I pulled over to await nightfall to take a stab at photographing the city in the dark. Several other cars also pulled over, each with a pair of teenagers, also to await nightfall for reasons of their own.
Work continues at a slow pace on the Cylon Base Ship model. Getting near done making the basic shapes, though… the long arm is done, the two smaller arms about halfway.
Digital camera attached to telescope. Even with the camera hooked up to a TV, I still for the life of me can’t get this thing to focus precisely. Grrrr.
