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A female Rufous Hummingbird taking a rest.
Exif Info: 1/1250 sec, f/6.3, ISO 400, 400mm.
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Screengrab of the Ms. Dewey avatar for the Flash interface built to promote MS Live Search. Ms. Dewey makes all sorts of wisecracks for various search terms that you submit in the search form below her. There are quite a few jokes aimed at techies and video gamers, which is particularly apropos, since avatars like this were probably inspired to some degree by virtual reality games like Second Life.
For instance, do a search through her interface for "Halo 2".
Since the target audience is partly made up with technical workers/enthusiasts, it's perhaps slightly risky for them to insult that demographic as much as they do through Ms. Dewey. Probably, her charms outweigh any of the mild rudeness in some of her jokes.
I used this screengrab to illustrate a blog article I wrote about Ms. Dewey and using similar Avatars to enhance websites. Building avatars like this isn't all that hard, and I write about a service that makes it really easy.
Ms. Dewey is played by actress Janina Gavankar, who seems to be the the real winner in this, walking away with some really good personal promotion, and likely a fat check. She's very personable, and I bet we see her in some major movies after this stint. Anyone know who plays her occasional funnyman sidekick, "Ricardo"?
This photo is also Geotagged to MicroSoft Headquarters address in Redmond, Washington, so click on the (map) link under the Additional Information in the righthand column to see the MS campus on a map or satellite pic.
4/11/2007 UPDATE! Ms. Dewey just put in a LIVE appearance at the SES Conference in New York City this week! Check it out at:
Finally I can reveal what has kept me busy the last two years besides all the models I have shown. The MS Jutlandia.
Short history (wikipedia :) )
MS Jutlandia was contracted by and built for the East Asiatic Company (EAC) in 1934, as a combined passenger and cargo ship at EAC's NakskovShipyard, Denmark. Following an extended operational life in which she also served as a hospital ship and a royal yacht, she was finally decommissioned in 1965
Jutlandia was contracted by EAC in 1934, to replace older ships on the then regular service between Copenhagen and Bangkok. She operated on this route from November 1934, until January 1940, and again from 1954 to the end of 1964.
When North Korean communist forces attacked South Korea on 25 June 1950, Denmark agreed to provide assistance to the United Nations Command and to give humanitarian support to the allied forces in South Korea.
She has been to Pusan, South Korea three times and treated military personal as well ass civilians. Jutlandia received the Korean Presidential Unit Citation. Crew members and medical staff were officially decorated by Denmark with the Erindringsmedaljen for deltagelde i hospitalsskibet "Jutlandia"s ekspedition til Korea 1951-1953 (Commemorative Medal for Participation in the Hospitalship "Jutlandia"s Expedtion to Korea 1951-1953. (479 medals were awarded).
But why this ship. Well ,that's really simple. During LEGOworld 2013 the LEGO CEE team asked me to build a ship for them. They came up with the 130m long MS Jutlandia. It was build specifically for LEGOworld copenhagen 2015. What will be done with it afterwards is not yet decided.
I started searching for plans and found them in Danmark. The man who owned was so kind to send them to me so that I could start new Mlcad project. I started somewhere in april 2013 and finished the entire hull inside and outside, wheelhouse and part of the forcastle deck at the end of august 2013. The first shipment of bricks arrived in the beginning of november 2013. From that point on I have only been building with real bricks and did not continue with the Mlcad file. On and off building due to waitng for shipments of bricks I finished the entire ship in december 2014.
Designing in Mlcad took me about 5 months and the build itself took me 6 months, all evening hours. The ship is 3,25m long 43cm wide and about 1,5 m high. It consist out of 90,000- 100,000 bricks.
And last but not least, a big thanks to Ralph Savelsberg (Mad physicist) for building the studless :) helicopter. Thanks mate.