Jasper's adventures on- and offline
The incredible blues artist Seasick Steve has recently released a ne album entitled “I Started Out With Nothin’ and I Still Got Most of It Left“.
This album is fantastic, just as great as his debut. This one however has a few more slow and romantic songs on it.
My absolute favourite is Walkin’ Man.
Today I received my very own Masterpiece Megatron.
As proud owner of this exclusive toy marvel I’d like to share some pictures with you:
Here is the Masterpiece Megatron in all his robot glory
And here he is as the iconic Walther p38.
With this latest addition to my Transformers collection I now own the following:
I had great fun transforming Megatron: it was probably one of the hardest in my collection.
The legs fold back 3 times, the arms need to be snapped really tightly to fit properly and getting the stock snapped onto the barrel can be real tricky.
Nonetheless, I had great fun with this figure and it really deserves its place in my display cabinet.
Props to Takara for an excellent piece of technology!
I just wanted to share the current status of my Transformers collection.
As many of my friends and some colleagues know, I’ve recently started collecting new Transformers action figures ever since my interest in Transformers was re-awakened by the upcoming Transformers: The Movie directed by Michael Bay.
As of today, I currently own:
These toys for big boys are from from the simple toys of yesteryearbut rather highly detailed, ingeniously constructed pieces ofindustrial art.
I can’t get enough of these and watch this space as I expand my collection!
Recently (just before Christmas) I went to visit the glorious city of Rome, Italy.
I made a lot of snaps. The sights were just amazing, the ancient Roman architecture the gorgeous Baroque churches. I really was blown away!
To share the 318 (!) photo’s I opened up a Flickr account (http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaspio/).
I had never used this site before and I was very pleasantly surprised. It really does work well with AJAX and Web 2.0 tech.
My favourite app was the mapper: allowing you to place your photos on a map. Check it out: I’ve mapped every single photo in my album!
Have fun and enjoy my holiday pictures!
Yay!
Yesterday, i received my geek box from BigBadToyStore.com.
I ordered a a Transformers Binaltech "Grimlock" and a new Gundam model.
The Transformer was especially exciting as this was my first Japanese Binaltech. These are higher quality versions of the American Alternators series. There is a lot less cheap plastic and a lot more diecast metal to play with. It all makes for a much more sturdy and robust action figure.
Although I’m not really a fan of American cars (they’re too boxy, brash and "messy" for my liking), this car isn’t bad; its nice and shiiinyyy 😉
Another thing i really liked about this figure is that the head is very much like the original G1 Grimlock head. Ah the memories…
As for the Gundam, I ordered the high quality "Master Grade" version of the famed F91. It is a luxury version of the existing model, 1/100 scale, completely buildable without exoskeleton. It has at least ten sheets of parts, so its going to be a long build. Can’t wait!
It’s been a hectic few days for me: I was just about to leave my currentemployer for a major ICT service contractor (already having signed my newcontract) when I was offered the position I’ve wanted ever since I graduated.
As of January, I’ll no longer be the stressed out and overworked servicetechnician but the stressed and worked out web developer! Yeah.
Seriously, I’ll no longer be fixing broken websites, taking customers inquiries about what they did wrong in their CMS etc. What a relief!
From January onwards, I’ll be joining the Marketing-Communications team at Tam Tam. There I’ll be working on new and enterprising website projects. Building websites with Microsoft Office SharePoint Services 2007, ASP.NET 2.0 and the like. I can’t wait.
And as I grow from code hacker to code builder to who-knows-what, I intend to blog more often and more in depth as I get to grips with this new technology and programming in general.
Watch this space!
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Welcome to the very first post of my blog.
I am a junior developer at Tam Tam, a Dutch internet development company. Starting in November of 2004, I’ve been learning about .NET and other Microsoft technologies on the job.
This blog is my way of sharing the knowledge I continue to gather as I get more involved in the world of the Microsoft .NET platform.
This is my first posting!
I hope t make this Blog usefull in the near future.
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