Blood candy

As a thank you for attending the Blood Donor Award Ceremony for the Red Cross this morning, we were given giant lollypops the colour of blood. I got type O!

How does it taste? Sugar-flavoured! Well, raspberry-ish. Vampires must have quite the sweet tooth.

e monkey pour coffee on mah boots

So, uh, I got a lift on someone's motorcycle today, but the right passenger footrest popped away and I ended up resting my foot on the exhaust pipe without realising it. So my boot melted! (I thought I was just getting a foot cramp until I tried lifting my foot to find it stuck. Good thing I had really thick soles - it melted through about an inch and a half of plastic!

Here is the melted boot and my un-melted boot for comparison. I'm disappointed because I only got them in May this year for my trip to Sydney for the FullCodePress competition, and it's really hard to find well-fitting knee-high boots. On the other hand, I think it's hillarious. In the end, it's just a material possession :P

Hexabot at Scitech

It's my new best work friend!

I also put a video up of the little guy walking around here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNRNAXNCBIc

Levelling up in the kitchen

I was bemoaning the fact that it is impossible to level up properly in real life, and that gaining new Perks in Fallout 3 sounded much more worthwhile than doing my chores to Karl... so he made me an exp bar on the refrigerator :D Karl wins at cheering me up!

Awesome portrait

One of our designers at work (Miles Noel) painted a commissioned portrait of our department's Director, who has been working at Scitech since it opened 21 years ago. Really impressive stuff, such a warm image. I'd love to see a series of these decorating the office walls!

Scitech's 21st invitations

We've been invited to the official Scitech 21st birthday launch!