The pseudo-social life of RaNma

Défouloir au quotidien...

19 avril 2004

Akane-chan is on display


Akane has joined the diorama.


17 avril 2004

Garage kit


Easter holidays are done...and I almost haven't use my computer during this long week-end.
I'm in a "model-kit period": I added the last character on my Ranma 1/2 "beach garage kit diorama" (soon in the model gallery. Akane has joined R
anma-chan, Shampoo and Ukyou in the swimming suit contest...
Who said "Youhou! FAN SERVICE!!!"??? ;-p

16 avril 2004

And Now For Something Completeley Different...

...let's program in PYTHON! (or at least listen to them).

Quality tests have to be multi-platform, as regression tests for Actran already are here at FFT.
Not always easy to make the "context-switching of my brain" between ksh, perl, ruby, C++ and python codings while trying to run that f*** FlexLM daemon on Solaris9 and finish the architecture definition of t
he new Linux-based NAS cluster. Headache is near...He's a lumberjack...

-init: Buffer overflow through the ears has occured. Take a coffee damn geek.-

-Blogs of the day:
Miam Monster Miam himself
Les Carnets de Guybrush Threepwood

15 avril 2004

F-104J Starfighter news


"The widow maker" and its screaming and smoking J-79 engine...
After being displayed for seven years in my bedroom, my 1/32 "Eiko" needed a refresh & details upgrade.
I added more details in the cockpit and landing gear bays using epoxy scratch, plastic and coper wires, but I still have to re-do the painting on the upper side of the wings and enhance the weathering (vintag
e decals and yellowing white paint became awful).
Old pictures are still here, new ones will be posted soon in the same gallery.
I hope my venerable F-104J to be well displayed during the next expo in Huy of June 19 (details here and there).
Meanwhile, I saw a superb model of F-104 for FS2004 on captainsim website. Still costs USD 35 and only runs under proprietary operating system & MS Flight Simulat
or but...argh... can't resist anymore.