That Picture

Hi one and all. It's nice to see the guestbook, and that PLURAL persons read our modest blog. (30 points for correct usage of "it's")

Josje was googling my name the other day, turns out this blog got a hit like 5th in the list. Top of the list was the Vic Uni Mechatronics website, where I have the most unfortunate picture of me. I didn't think I cared much about how I looked that day, but now I'm stuck with that image on the internet, not to mention the photo board in the Laby building at Uni.

So if any wonder what that picture is, it's a 3D rendering of my face! Kind of dumb really, you have a 3D image, but then all you can see on the blog now is a 2D image of the 3D image... Explaining why I have a 3D image of myself is a fairly long story, but that's ok, I'm all for long stories.

So you see, boys and girls, once upon a time there was a green meadow with bunnies and ducks and all sorts of feral creatures that Claire finds attractive. I stumbled across this meadow and found a camera, with great big lettering on the side: "Range Imaging Camera. Don't Panic". I immediately began to panic. Luckily, this camera was acting as a superb paperweight for none other than the user manual for said camera. Upon flipping through the pages, and skipping entirely over the End User License Agreement I chanced upon very helpful instructions for how to take a 3D image of one's face. So this I did. And what you see are the fruits of my labour.

Unfortunately for the green meadow, shortly after my departure, camera in hand, a man of slim build and long white beard poked into the ground with his cedar wood cane. Oil thus spat forth from the earth, and the man rejoiced at the idea of vast riches for his village. George Bush heard of this story and accused the man of hoarding weapons of mass destruction in his turban. The green meadow is now a bleak sandy desert.

I like to think that my own personal interaction with the meadow could not have in any way led to its demise, but I find it difficult to not feel partly responsible. (Bonus 50 points for correct usage of "its")