Ok, I couldn´t resist and had to made a video of it:

 

Darth Vader Farts!

Its been a long time since an animated gif has been posted here. Too bad that Jahled is gone.

 

I love that one!

 

http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x13/architeuthis_2007/MrBean1-1.gif

Mr. Bean! Sweeeeeet

Beautiful isn't it!

 

http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/7701/65qm4.gif

Heh. Im really surprised its almost December and we havent gotten an accumulation of snow yet here in upstate NY. Its very, very odd.

Oddly enough, we actually had some cold in Florida for the fall. I say 'oddly enough' because it usually doesn't start getting cold down here until... like, February. At the earliest. Seriously- Chritmas and New Years are shorts-and-T-shirts holidays.

http://www.jambo.info/images/tvkitty.gif

Aww! How cute.

Aww! How cute.

 

Thats not cute...thats just plain freaky.

Zoot-crazed again, Rob?

That thing has no spine!

... much less a soul.

http://kinod.net/jesse/images/vader/DSC_0631.gif

 

And another one of the stormy+lotus

Nice, Krytos.

 

Not an animated gif, but I wish it were. http://comics.com/cow&boy/?DateAfter=2009-01-14&DateBefore=2009-01-21&Order=d.DateStrip+DESC&PerPage=1&x=22&y=14&Search=

LoL, Kryt! Nice finds!

 

But somehow I argue now if not Jahled came back and took over your account.

Jahled will be back. I know it! He always comes back.

Jaheld is lurking on MSN messenger sometimes. Otherwise, I think he is still active on the site called B3ta. I didn't see him for ages on SWR

I hope he pops by sometime.

Yeah, I miss J too. I loved his destruction of animals.

 

I also wonder where JH ran off to...

I hope he pops by sometime.

 

Hello matey!

 

Sorry I haven't been around of late, real life rather gobbled me up in 2008, work wise. Good to see so many of the old faces of more or less grown up with online are still about. I can't promise this is my grand return, because i'll wake up tomorrow and nothing will have changed in so far as how I juggle time.

 

As you may have realized work got suddenly very busy. I basically got put in charge of an image data base at the Zoological Society of London and tasked to build it from scratch, in part from working at a paparazzi company called Bigpictures some of you may remember I worked for briefly, where I used some software called Fotostation which you basically use to attach meta data to images, making them easy to find. (Bigpictures literally had millions of images). Cool thought I, then the immensity of the task set in; there were at least 500,000 .jpg's alone on the servers when I started in 2007, not to mention 30,000 b\w historical pictures, and at least eight filing cabinets of slides. Due to this wonderful digital age, the photos being added to the servers on a weekly basis is huge; not just from London Zoo and Whipsnade safari park, but our scientists uploading stuff from their conservation projects around the world. It's also utterly fascinating if you appreciate animals and wildlife, and hence highly addictive hunting for newly uploaded stuff on the servers, especially when you have been given privileged access everywhere. If things couldn't get worse to my excuses not being here, I inherited a minor fortune; not enough to fly us all off to a mid pacific tropical island for a swrebellion member meet , but more than enough to not worry about the house anymore, or my pension to be honest given i've been able to invest a six figure sum in the stock markets via a highly respected firm of investors, and go shopping on my passion for photography; I worked out I spent almost £10,000 on gear in 2008, here's why:

 

http://s4.b3ta.com/host/creative/9805/1233589195/MeandRoxy.jpg

 

A few moments later I took this:

http://s2.b3ta.com/host/creative/9805/1235507919/rockhoppers.jpg

which got in the The Times Quite a buzz..

 

I also have access inside the various animal enclosures, which is a photographers dream; and you'll have to bear with me as i've forgotten how to thumbnail using this site's coding; though they aren't that large:

http://s1.b3ta.com/host/creative/9805/1235254138/Rickythelemur.jpg

A Lemur called Ricky

 

http://www2.b3ta.com/host/creative/9805/1229465389/IMG1797.jpg

A big fluffy overgrown kitten who likes to snarl lots

 

http://www2.b3ta.com/host/creative/9805/1231006977/IMG1622.jpg

A model with a snow leopard cub at the Cat Survival Trust in Hertfordshire

 

http://www2.b3ta.com/host/creative/9805/1231095094/IMG1050.jpg

Me, taken by the model; hence out of focus

 

http://s1.b3ta.com/host/creative/9805/1235173056/AdrianCrackers.jpg

and a wildlife film maker I was asked to photograph in our giraffe house

 

So you can see the distractions!

 

Anyway, I hope you guys are all ok, my first internet community this, so I don't think i'll ever be gone to be honest; just my job preventing more interaction, not that that's something I resent as you may have gathered from the above. I'm still on the same email if you want to drop me a line, and will try and pass by tomorrow, assuming nothing dramatic happens; which generally does at a zoo unfortunately!

 

May the Force be with you, always

I had to change those to links... for all of us that don't have high screen resolutions

Sorry that isn't a simple thumbnail feature

 

Looks like very cool work though

Nice to hear from you again, J. Im glad to see that RL is pretty rocking for you right now. Sounds very interesting.

Sounds very interesting. Those are excellent photos, and I have a feeling you've an even stronger career to look forward to in the photography business. It's great to see that the real world is treating you well, and I must say- as a penguin enthusiast, I'm quite jealous of your access to those awesome little Emperor Penguins.

It's great to see that the real world is treating you well, and I must say- as a penguin enthusiast, I'm quite jealous of your access to those awesome little Emperor Penguins.

 

Some penguin enthusiast you are. Those are rockhopper penguins!!!

Nice to hear positive news from you J. I may come to London this summer. If i do i will be sure to pop by and say hello.

Nice to hear positive news from you J. I may come to London this summer. If i do i will be sure to pop by and say hello.

 

That would be cool, given it's Darwin's big moment, I would be happy to show you the first addition of the book; it goes at auction for hundreds of thousands of pounds. A freebie in the zoo goes without saying