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Woohoo, Lord of the Rings won four Oscars last night! I'll collate the results from the Oscar poll tonight (unless someone wants to do it for me before then :-)) and announce winners tomorrow. I didn't pay attention through the entire thing, but I did have favourite bits:

- Cirque du Soleil performance

- When Randy Newman finally won for Best Song (he's been nominated SIXTEEN TIMES before without winning)

- Every time Lord of the Rings won an award, of course :-) It won in four categories: makeup, score, cinematography, visual effects.

Here are the list of winners, for those of you who care. I want to update Waiting For Frodo, of course, but it'll have to wait until tonight or tomorrow. Need to get some work done first. :-)





Jeff helped Parki move his Defender machine into the One Trick Pony office yesterday morning. Jeff and Bryan are sharing the space with Ray, Scott and Tony. VERY cool office.

While we were picking up Parki and the machine, I checked out the a very cool (and one-of-a-kind) table that Parki designed himself out of snooker balls, snooker table felt, steel rods, plywood boards, refectory leaf table slides, sheet glass, and assorted fittings. For details and construction photos, see this page. He did most of the table construction himself.





Anyway, I pretended to be helpful while Jeff and Parki moved the Defender machine (which still works, by the way) but actually spending most of my time documenting the process. It looks pretty darned cool in the OTP office.

I've tried playing Defender at Parki's, but I play pretty much the same way I did when I played it years ago when it first came out. I suck at it bigtime. :-)





The three of us had brunch at Curiosity with Alison, Jeff and Kye. Kye slept through the entire thing. :-) Alison and Jeff gave me my birthday present, which consisted of lots of cool Japanese chocolate and candy (yum). I turn 40 this Friday!

Worked on the short story collab in the afternoon, then had dinner at my sister's place. Sara played some musical pieces that she had either composed from scratch or arranged (from pieces she had learned in her lessons) for certain scenes from the Lord of the Rings movie, on her own initiative. My favourite was her Balrog piece...very scary-sounding!

I was bursting with pride, of course. :-)

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Today's Blatherpics:

	A mask that Parki made years ago (that guy is way too talented for his own good). I had it hanging in the old Inkspot office. Now it hangs in the offices of One Trick Pony.
	Fridge magnets on One Trick Pony's fridge door.
	Parki's snooker table.
	Parki and Jeff relocates Parki's Defender machine from his house to the office of One Trick Pony.
	One Trick Pony office.