Robodino

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I am in two views about this. On the one hand, I'm happy because it's not meant to DO anything in particular apart from be a kind of pet - that was the one sticking point I had with the dear departed Aibo, I didn't WANT it to answer the telephone and write a weblog of daily news and play music and crap, I just wanted it to be a dog, just... a robot one.

On the other hand, I anticipate it being as annoying and please-let-me-drop-kick-it-across-the-room as a Furby. :P (Although so long as it doesn't speak furblish it'll be less bad).

More here (provided the link works. :P

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...I have this big urge to write something with the title "Cry Havoc" (as in, "and let slip the dogs of war" (or whatever it is)) - I think mostly because my "play all" gradually came round to some of the classical pieces I have on my PC, namely "Overture for Light Cavalry" (and it seems very fittingly Kiravai - military pomp and circumstance, with those big three tonne guns (or however heavy they are) and the teams of horses like they used to have on the Royal Military Tattoo, before the Governemt stopped doing it) AND "Mars, Bringer of War" which is just SO fitting for the militaristic avians. Let's face it, that'd be very Star Wars-ish in scope, the low, building music as a vast black sleek spaceship drift onto screen, and the crew of the smaller ship all go all hushed and just... watch. Oh, and of course, Strauss' "Thunder and Lightning Polka" makes an oddly fitting cavalry piece. :P

Anyway.
Work has been all BLUH again - I've been almost an hour late off work TWICE this week doing unpaid overtime, and it's DOING my NUT IN. I wouldn't mind if it wasn't because the wards sit on discharge prescriptions half the time and only think to send them down when OH HAY WE'RE CLOSED THEN. *grr* *sleeps*

Finally got my certificate course homework handed in so I can get back to business of webdesign and stuffs. Had a little think of some more species:
"Mophia" is now the name of the FAMILY, like as in rodent or ungulate, not just a single species any more. As I fiddled with the look of them I decided that some should be fliers and others just climbers/fishers. So the kingfisher one that lives by rivers and catches fish behaves a little more like an otter, and the forest-dwelling one (modelled more on a "paradise-kingfisher", as they're gorgeous little birds) is the flier.
Unseria is a sparsely populated world in the grip of an ice age; there's been a recent (well, half a million years ago or thereabouts) mass-extinction so life is only just recovering, but the world is covered in massive polar icecaps, glaciers, taiga and tundra, and frigid polar deserts. There's a narrow band of temperate woodland near the equator, where most life is found; the Unser themselves live in the ice-forests, bordering on the taiga itself.
I have most of the entire Ondra ecosystem down, too - crustacean fish (LACE CRAB, OH BOY), fish amphibians, mammal-birds and so on. :P Of course I need to DRAW most of it, but meh, I can do that when I've got the basics down.
The one that's causing me the most problems is the Xniki, as I've completely redesigned them; I was taking inspiration from early whales and bonnethead sharks, and nothing was really coalescing on paper how I saw it in my mind's eye, so meh, must work harder. (PS Xniki is pronounced to rhyme with "sneaky" - not because they are, just because it does. Like "zz-nick-key" but faster, "zniki")

Now all I need to do is rustle up some more readers, and all will be good. *le sigh* *collapses*

Edit: Speling gud iz gud karmer. But eye kan nod speel tonite. Sawrie.
Edit2: also looking for pictures of those dancers on "Maybe" by Emma B - for some reason it completely reminds me of Ivy. *headscratch* And I think she'd suit the quasi-robotic "op art mod gear" 1960s stylee kinda thing. Maybe I'll have a go at drawing something - although all I can find are silhouettes, and I've got THEM on the album cover. BAH.
Edit3: Found a "streaming" video, but I can't stream well as I'm on good old dialup. ARGH.
Edit4: ...It's on the single. Which I have. *facepalm* STUPID.