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I made a short lecture on identifying objects in the night sky with the help of a desktop planetarium (sky simulation) program called Stellarium (Stellarium), focusing on the planet Venus after sunset. Towards the end, I also talk a bit about the Constellation Orion, Sirius and the Orion Nebula.

Video here:
YouTube - Using Stellarium to Identify Bright Objects in the Night Sky

-RODION

I've gone green-screen crazy!!!

Two chroma-keying experiments I made...

"Rodion Flies to Nowhere in a Mooney singing E-HEADS"
YouTube - Trip to Nowhere in a Mooney

"Dancing on the Beach with MYSELF (my Second Life avatar)"
YouTube - Chroma Key Testing



I am so loving Sony Vegas, nyahahahaha!

-RODION

Woke up at 9am.

Cleaned my room.

Went to the laundry.

Had brunch at Sinangag Station Juana Osmena.

Watched a funeral procession along Gorordo, while I sat down and waited for the grindsman (the guys you see along Gorordo, near the Sudlon area, guys that sit down in front of small motors that spin around and around and make these deafening screechy noises when they put metal against these grindstones) to finish cutting and grinding my replica ...

Was in Legazpi City for two days, delivered a presentation for an e-Commerce seminar held at a university there. The direct Cebu-Legazpi is only available on a particular weekday that was incompatible with the conference schedule, so the event organizers booked me on a Cebu-Mla-Legazpi route. I haven't flown in an airplane in a while so it was a treat for me.

Arrived Wednesday morning (around 8:00am) via a PAL A320 from Cebu...my flight to Legazpi wasn't until 10, so decided to snap ...

Packing and preparing for a two-day trip to Legazpi City. I hope the weather is good. I want to take photographs of Mayon

-RODION

I just realized that, in my nearly two-year stay in Cebu City, I've learned three striking new words that people here use on a regular basis, but words which I have never encountered before, yet I have really been having fun using these words in my own sentences. These words are:

1. Alimo-ot - I always thought the Visayan word for "hot" was "igang", so this was new to me--and it sounds like a fun word to say. Sometimes I find myself muttering the word over and ...

This universe never ceases to amaze me.

While inside Chowking's second floor (at JY Square), anxiously waiting for the skies to clear up over Western Cebu (because I was planning to take photos of the partial solar eclipse), a few points of realization came over me. First, it's so easy to keep track of (and plan for) celestial events, using say, a computer simulation, because the enormity of the celestial bodies involved allows them to just trudge merrily along their paths as dictated ...