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Originally posted by Celeon999:
Those trees look beautiful Navelintel.

No wonder the japanese wrote so many poems about them.

The look of your cats is priceless

Vielen Dank meinen Freund!

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Originally posted by Celeon999:
Its obviously the official Albert Hofmann psychedelic rememberence Pasta. Yeah baby !

Rest in peace professor.

Celeon has his famous book here on his shelf.

*Millions of hippies aswell as the Doctor Timothy Leary institute for mind expansion join a minute of silence*

I cannot post it here as the picture is just too wide so i'll provide the link instead.

The discovery of LSD by Professor Albert Hofmann as comic

He died on 29.April 2008 at the age of 102.

His book "LSD My Problem Child" is a fascinating read.

Especially his views on LSD having the potential of healing autism and mental diseases aswell as activating sections of the human brain which are normally inactive.

The astounding results of experiments with spiders are also surprising and fascinating at the same time.

Mine for today



Mommy (Or is it daddy?) supplies her/his little baby birds with crunchy bugs and juicy worms.

Judging by the noise, there are about 6 hungry baby birds inside.




Celeon's best friend is also there, enjoys the warm weather and communicating with the birds on the nearby trees.

No bird family in that other house ....yet.




Even on the bunker balcony, Celeon is having his vigilant eyes everywhere...at all times




Suspicious movement on the trees ?





I still remember how one of the Silent_O's femme fatale agents tried to install that surveillance camera

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Realjambo:

Hey, Realjambo! Have you had any connection with East Africa? (your logon name suggests this). If so, I used to live in Kenya (and travelled to most parts that side of Africa) - many years ago.
tomory2007

Celeon I am not sure if you are aware of the Weaver bird.(Freddie will know it)

It is an african bird and the male will make intricate nests through the weaving of grass. Once he has made it the female will inspect it and if she does not like it he has to start all over again. It is not uncommon for the poor male to make 3 or 4 nests. The entrance to the nest is always made facing towards the ground to try and prevent snakes from entering.

Yeah i saw a documentary about them.

That poor male worked hard to build a nest and the female was shortly inspecting it......didnt liked it...and then cut the grass and made it fall down.


He looked like : And started building a new one right away.

Thats so mean.

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Originally posted by tomory2007:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Realjambo:

Hey, Realjambo! Have you had any connection with East Africa? (your logon name suggests this). If so, I used to live in Kenya (and travelled to most parts that side of Africa) - many years ago.
tomory2007

@ tomory2007 - I'm afraid not, although I understand it has some stunning scenery. The nearest I have been to there is Egypt - where my girlfriend at the time got kidnapped!

Celeon's direct talks with Vladimir Vladimirovich and Dmitry Anatolyevich were .... very constructive

Smile for the camera...

Beautiful colored

Long time, no see...





My latest map for Faces of War as usual. Inspired and based on that of Call of Duty: United Offensive.

Remember "Hidden and Dangerous" ?

Celeon bought a games mag today and the deluxe version of H&D was on its DVD.

That brings memories back

It was a great game back then. With a horrible steering.


"ACHTUNG ! ENGLÄNDER !!"

Ahhhh.....H&D series....they don't make games like that anymore!
A true masterpiece.

H&D.... And people think SH3 & 4 were buggy when they released!

Yes it had lots of clipping errors, crash bugs and a steering which made it horribly difficult to aim .

Yet it was tactically challenging and had nice graphics.


Remember the mission in which you had to steal this baby ?

Ive never managed to finish that one without cheating

Celeon I just finished watching a documentary about the me321 super-cargo glider. Its amazing how much a glider made with primarily reinforced ply-wood and steel tubeing could carry. Have you seen one?



that is some wingspan.

Just look what Howard Hughes achieved with the Sproose Goose. Its also just made of wood.


I've found some pictures of the Me321 in my giant bunker archives.


Glider version towed by a He-111 Zwilling (Twin)




Version with engines





But my personal favourites among wooden gliders are the designs which the Horten brothers proposed for the invasion of Britain.

They've tested small flying wings and had worked out blueprints for giant ones which could lift more cargo than any conventional glider design to airlift more equipment and soldiers to Britain than on the seaway.

After the invasion was indefinitely postponed, the Luftwaffe lost interest in their work and picked it up again much too late when they proposed jet powered flying wing bombers and fighters.











The Horten brothers


Reimar (left) and Walter (right)

In anticipation of the Berlin air show, Celeon bought himself a 4 GB SDHC card for his Canon Powershot A630.

Good for 1550 photos at the highest resolution or 34 minutes of video.

Just 7€

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Originally posted by Celeon999:
In anticipation of the Berlin air show

Celeon, just wanted you to know, we're all counting on you.

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Good for 1550 photos at the highest resolution

... That's the future of this thread assured then

It's quite remarkable at how much the price of digital camera memory has come down. My first digital camera had a I think a 64mb card in it and I thought that was HUGE!

Mine for today. Attended a childrens party this afternoon. The 'neighbours' at the bottom of the garden are a little too close to comfort - a German WW2 Minesweeper!



The fluttering flag looked better in real life sadly!