Member pics

[Alelou]

It's a pain, really. You have to first upload them to a site like photobucket that gives you an img code to use here. Or, you put them up on some other web site that you can link to from here or make public from here.

Most of use Photobucket. It's not hard; it's just a fairly tedious process.

[justTripn]

My collection of ships (just like Jean Luc Picard!):



My best ship :





Everyday I take it out of its hiding place and set it on my desk and it makes me happy.

My newest aquisition:

The Sojourner Mars rover:



Here it is roving over a stack of Post-it Notes:



And yes, that is Carl Sagan Memorial Station to the left (not to scale). You can see that it has a tiny Sojourner Rover on one of it's Solar Panels. (That's how Sojourer was packaged to get to Mars).

[Reanok]

Justripn thhese ship models are really nest. i really like the NXO1 model and theMars Pathfinder model.

[Aquarius]

Very cool!!

[Distracted]

So, I finally got my act together. Jet lag is the pits.

New Zealand was incredible. Here's a taste of what we saw and did:

http://s126.photobucket.com/albums/p85/distracted_photos/New%20Zealand/

Just click on "slide show".

[Asso]

These pics are wonderful, Dis.

[justTripn]

OMG, that's amazing. Please tell me you didn't do any bungee jumping yourself. What were those little cute houses with the paintings on the windows? And I'm going to need to know the reason for the medieval garb on top of the mountain (if I'm not being too nosy). Also, in the pic where you son is flying, he looks like John Creighton of Farscape.

[Distracted]

I thought he looked more like a Cardassian, myself. And what's even more disturbing is that both my husband and my son understood the reference without explanation when I remarked on it. We're all a bunch of nerds.

The little house my daughter is standing in front of is one of the old hobbit houses from Lord of the Rings with all of the plaster stones and stuff removed. The other one is just the bathroom at the cafe on the farm where they do the tours of the film site. I got more photos but I can't release any photos online of the new construction until after "The Hobbit" comes out, if it ever does. I signed a non-disclosure agreement, which was cool in and of itself. I'd never been asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement before.

We did the medieval garb photo as a joke for our SCA friends. "Here's Lord Wulfram and Lady Christine as we claim the Land at the End of the World for the Kingdom of Gleann Abhann". That sort of thing. It was my husband's idea. The kids wanted nothing to do with it.

And no, I didn't bungee. I've never had any desire to jump off a perfectly sound cliff with a rubber band tied to my ankles. My husband and my youngest also passed on it, but my son and older daughter went together. This was a minor miracle, as the two of them haven't done anything together voluntarily for years. My son whooped the whole way down and says he wants to do it again. My daughter put up a brave front until she got up there and then had to be talked into it. She gave one little squeak on the way down and hid her face in her brother's shoulder. I'm not sure whether that makes her chicken or just smarter than he is. I'm inclined to believe it's the latter.

[justTripn]

We did the medieval garb photo as a joke for our SCA friends. "Here's Lord Wulfram and Lady Christine as we claim the Land at the End of the World for the Kingdom of Gleann Abhann". That sort of thing.

Ha! Ha!

And yeah, film sets are FUN. In Hawaii, we saw where they filmed Lost and Jurassic Park and just about any other movie that takes place in a tropical jungle. We recognize that same mountain range in the background of lots of shows.

Looks like an awesome vacation.

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

Nice pics! I understand that there's a lot of Lord of the Rings tourism going on in New Zealand.

[Distracted]

Yep. And we made a considerable financial contribution to it.

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

I got more photos but I can't release any photos online of the new construction until after "The Hobbit" comes out, if it ever does. I signed a non-disclosure agreement, which was cool in and of itself. I'd never been asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement before.

Well, someone else apparently didn't care about that, because SciFi Wire posted some photos of it.

[Distracted]

Yep. Looks like it. Some people's signed promises aren't worth the paper they're scribbled on. Kind of a shame, really. It would be nice to be able to trust people to keep their word.

[Aikiweezie]

Thank you for sharing your pictures, Dis. It looks like you have an amazing trip to an amazing place.

[Asso]

It's a long time that I don't show you some images from my country. What do you think if I share with you the pics of an recent and short trip that my personal T'Pol and I have done?

So, from her...



...and from me...



Mantua, and Garda Lake (with a little of Rigoletto and of a firemen museum. Interesting, I think)

http://s221.photobucket.com/albums/dd217/Asso_02/Mantua%20and%20Garda%20Lake/