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Two video blogs I recently made.

Rodion Talks About Avatrian LLC and Second Life
A short talk on what I do for a living. I am the creative director and a content creator for Avatrian LLC, a full-service metaverse consultancy firm and content creation firm that creates content for virtual worlds, specifically, Linden Lab's Second Life.
YouTube - Rodion Talks About Avatrian LLC and Second Life

Rodion talks on Second Life vs MMORPGs
Rodion talks about ...

Got back January 5. Got to work right away on finishing a project my company was involved since May 2008--the RMB City Virtual City Project.

RMB City

More information about the city/project here:

RMB City - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A snapshot of the city when it was about 80% complete last September...


The grand opening was last Saturday, ...

I'm going on a week-long vacation around various places Mindanao, to area that has suffered bombings, mortar and artillery attacks, IED's (Improvised Explosive Devices) planted under bridges, and even an earthquake recently. Sure feels good to get back home again.

-RODION

2009 will be the International Year of Astronomy.



In 1608, Dutch spectacle makers Hans Lippershey, Zacharias Janssen, and Jacob Metius of Alkmaar crafted a device to enable "far seeing". A year later, in 1609, Galileo pointed it to the night sky, and telescope-based observation (and the word "telescope") was born.

Now, 400 years after Galileo first saw the wonders of ...

Due to my own stubbornness and lack of initiative, I failed to book a ticket to get back home to Mindanao for the holidays--the airlines and the shipping companies get booked up pretty fast in the last few days before the 24th--so now here I am, stuck in Cebu City, all by myself, on Christmas.

I'm planning just to stay in my little room and maybe just do a movie marathon, clean/repair my airsoft gear, and read books. It ain't that bad, my GF still calls me on the phone everyday so ...

I saw the remake of the 1951 classic sci-fi film "The Day the Earth Stood Still" last night.

As a fan of the original version, and as an amateur astronomer, this is what I can share to you iStoryans--if you're looking for an "interesting" sci-fi or action flick (i.e. the likes of Transformers or Iron Man), then DON'T watch this movie--it's not for you, and you will probably NOT enjoy it.

However, if you're a fan of classic sci-fi, and the original ...

Here's the December Sky Calendar, courtesy of the Astronomical League of the Philippines (ALP) website:

DECEMBER 2008

01 08:33 Venus 2.0 deg S of Jupiter

01 23:58 Jupiter 1.1 deg N of Moon

02 00:59 Venus 1.0 deg S of Moon

06 05:24 FIRST QUARTER

11 14:26 Moon 0.2 deg N of M45/Pleiades star cluster

13 00:36 FULL MOON

13 09:56 Geminids Meteor Shower Peak
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