Nov
14
Greetings avid The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim players: This is not the game site you are looking for. Many of you seem to be ending up here looking for “dawnstar museum” but alas you will not find the location on this site. I can however point you in the right direction.
I don’t play the game (sorry of no interest to me) but this handy Elder Scrolls Wiki seems to have the answers you seek. Thanks for dropping by, feel free to browse around but I suspect you won’t find what you want here.
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Nov
08
Updated – Now identified!
Thanks to an amazingly fast turn around by the Queensland Museum the mystery creature has been identified as a fly belonging to the family Nemestrinidae and the genus Atriadops more commonly known as ‘Tangle-veined Flies’.
This particular fly is a female of the species so the scary looking protrusion is in fact a ovipositor used in egg laying (note that wasps stingers are also ovipositors although highly modified ones).
They are of no threat to humans but their larvae are parasitic on other insects such as grasshoppers and possibly katydids or cockroaches.
This information was provided by Dr Christine Lambkin the Biodiversity Curator of Entomology at the Queensland Museum.
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Living in Australia you get used to see all sorts of odd and interesting critters, many of which can possibly kill you (not entirely true but it is fun to keep tourists on their toes about it). Whilst walking around the Brisbane Botanical Gardens at Mt Coot-tha I found this impressive and just a little scary critter.
I’ve not seen anything quite like it before. It was quite large being roughly the size of my thumb in terms of length and width. I’m not entirely sure if the protrusion from the abdomen is actually a stinger but I wasn’t game enough to get close enough to find out.
The wings were moth like whilst the face resembles something from the fly family, overall it’s a very strange critter indeed. I’ve submitted it to the Queensland Museum‘s inquiry systems so hopefully they might be able to shed some light on it.
Meanwhile does anyone else have any idea what this strange critter could be? Another shot below shows the profile just before it took off.
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Oct
25
So here’s the thing. I love my Olympus E-30, it’s a damn fine camera and its served me very well. However things have cropped up that have stopped me buying new kit simply because it would seem Olympus has no interest in continuing to support the E (standard 4/3s) series.
So I think it’s time I bit the bullet and started seriously looking at jumping systems. This is somewhat sad and annoying since I have invested a reasonable amount of cash into Olympus gear but I have to face the realities that the 4/3s format seems to not have a future and throwing further money into that system might not be the wisest investment.
Basically I’m after a camera system that can provide:
What I’m looking for is advice on best methods to jump camera systems, arguments on why your preferred camera system might (or might not) suit me and most importantly what features you like about your preferred camera system.
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