Tuesday, June 28, 2005
Computers have soft heads
The good news is the machine survived, the bad news is, it's not a lap-top anymore. Why is it every expensive thing I brake is some non-standard piece of equipment that needs non-standard parts. I can't believe I'm using a ten-year old monitor and keboard to access the innards of what was a rad lapt-top. I guess I could stick a handle on top of this monitor and call it portable.
Bicycles are time machines, this picture of Danoz actually captures the gravity vortex he generates to be simultaneously everywhere in the city at the same time.
Bicycles are time machines, this picture of Danoz actually captures the gravity vortex he generates to be simultaneously everywhere in the city at the same time.
Saturday, June 25, 2005
Which idiot invented exams?
One down, two to go.
Chem wasn't that bad, answered almost everything, feeling pretty good.
Now geology and biology. Biology I'm feeling good about. I've got notes for almost everything, did amaziungly well on my essay. Geology, not so good. For starters I'm barely passing, for seconders, somehow they managed to actually teach us stuff. Not that IU haven't learnt anything in Biol or Chem, but, we covered about 4 times the actual content in Geol as we did in the other subjects. On one hand I'm glad, my HECS dollars aren't going to waste, on the other, I'm panicking, how can I lern so much stuff, especially when I've got such important stuff to do like blah, blah, blah on this blog....
Chem wasn't that bad, answered almost everything, feeling pretty good.
Now geology and biology. Biology I'm feeling good about. I've got notes for almost everything, did amaziungly well on my essay. Geology, not so good. For starters I'm barely passing, for seconders, somehow they managed to actually teach us stuff. Not that IU haven't learnt anything in Biol or Chem, but, we covered about 4 times the actual content in Geol as we did in the other subjects. On one hand I'm glad, my HECS dollars aren't going to waste, on the other, I'm panicking, how can I lern so much stuff, especially when I've got such important stuff to do like blah, blah, blah on this blog....
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
School Sux
School doesn't raelly suck, however, EXAMS BLOW!
I'm over it and they haven't even started. Looking at just passing Chemistry unless I learn a whole lot of stuff in the next 24hrs. Then the real fun starts with Geology and Biology. I wish I had another week for Geology, feel so out of my depth and I need to pull off sopmething amazing. Chem's not looking that bad really, and going into the Biol exam with 95% for my essay already under my belt.
My wrist hurts and I don't know why. I'm hungry. I need coffee. I want chocolate.
AAAAAAAAAAARRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
I'm over it and they haven't even started. Looking at just passing Chemistry unless I learn a whole lot of stuff in the next 24hrs. Then the real fun starts with Geology and Biology. I wish I had another week for Geology, feel so out of my depth and I need to pull off sopmething amazing. Chem's not looking that bad really, and going into the Biol exam with 95% for my essay already under my belt.
My wrist hurts and I don't know why. I'm hungry. I need coffee. I want chocolate.
AAAAAAAAAAARRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
Friday, June 17, 2005
It's the end of the world as we know it...
It's not really the end of the world, just thought it'd be a catchy way to start the page. I've had connectivity problems so slight delay between posts. Exams start next week. At least that means holidayts start in three weeks.
Off to Cromer this weekend for BikeSA. Hopefully I might get some photos of people actually riding. Lots of fun, logs, mud, logs, and more mud.
My b****y shock pump has self destructed, my back light abandoned ship and I still need a new helmet and saddle. Hey, at least my egg-beaters finally came back from Dirt-Works.
Started using my Shimano shoes I won last year, M221's. Very nice.
It's sunny outside and I'm outta here.
Off to Cromer this weekend for BikeSA. Hopefully I might get some photos of people actually riding. Lots of fun, logs, mud, logs, and more mud.
My b****y shock pump has self destructed, my back light abandoned ship and I still need a new helmet and saddle. Hey, at least my egg-beaters finally came back from Dirt-Works.
Started using my Shimano shoes I won last year, M221's. Very nice.
It's sunny outside and I'm outta here.
Thursday, June 09, 2005
Danoz Direct to NYC
Wishing good luck to Dan W (Danoz Diret) this week as he flies off to NYC to represent Adelaide at the Bicycle Mesenger World Cup race. The world won't know what hit them, although Macca's performances in New York alley-cat's might have them watching out for us South Aussies.
Times like these I wish I was still a courier. if I could get a decent timetable I could go to school first part of the week and flex on Fridays, but once again all my free time's at he start of the week. Not the best really, as who needs super fast package delivery on a Monday?
Hope Dan does do well, he's put in a fair bit of effort trying to keep spme sort of courier culture happening here in Adelaide.
On another note, Simon Doctor had his wheels nicked while his bike was parked on Grenfell Street a couple of weeks ago. If you see anyone trying to hock a Rhyno-lite/LX wheel set at your local pawn-brokers, kick 'em in the the nuts and smash them over the head with a D-lock for me (I can't do it myself as I abhore violence of any kind.)
Times like these I wish I was still a courier. if I could get a decent timetable I could go to school first part of the week and flex on Fridays, but once again all my free time's at he start of the week. Not the best really, as who needs super fast package delivery on a Monday?
Hope Dan does do well, he's put in a fair bit of effort trying to keep spme sort of courier culture happening here in Adelaide.
On another note, Simon Doctor had his wheels nicked while his bike was parked on Grenfell Street a couple of weeks ago. If you see anyone trying to hock a Rhyno-lite/LX wheel set at your local pawn-brokers, kick 'em in the the nuts and smash them over the head with a D-lock for me (I can't do it myself as I abhore violence of any kind.)
Tuesday, June 07, 2005
Mt Crawford Native Forest Reserve singles. Kind of cruisy tight singles with the odd log to hop. Rather nice bit of trail.
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Where's my USB cable?
Should be posting photos of the Mt Crawford single-track and of me looking really tired as the sun rises over Cromer, but I haven't been very together with my putting away of important things lately.
Spent the weekend out at Mt Pleasant, David Hughes and I took a Bike SA 4wd down so we could map out trails for the Track and Trail ride in a fortnight. It's really hard to ride along disused single trail in a pine forest while all the time looking over your shoulder for a piece of trail you just can't find. Doesn't help when they've held a 24hr motorbike race in the same piece of forest and the once flowing XC track now is a foot-deep rut running through the forest. What really pisses me off is that they used all of our track, except the rock gardens. Why can't they make their own track and therefore increase the amount of ridable trails in the area, instead of ruining ours again and again?
Anyways, Cromer is still great, just not as fantastic as Prospect Hill or Fox Creek. Mt Pleasant itself has some cool bits of disused fire trail and the north face peak is one big ass rock garden. Best thing is the small section of multi-use trail that cuts through the native forest between Mt Pleasant and Cromer. Very short section but the trail is just a series of markers and a bridge. Quite different for a fully legal trail. Also wicked is a small disused piece of trail to the west of Cromer Shed, moss and bracken covered doubles that flows nicely, added bonus it joins up the new Starkey Rd campground with Cromer.
Little Mt Crawford Native Forest Reserve has a 1.8km single track loop that's well worth spinning round in both directions. You can get to it following the Heysen Trail from the Forestry HQ.
All-in-all the area rocks, we pulled in a hundred k's of riding around. Everything form really gnarly single trails covered in pine-needles and tree trunks to picturesque fire tracks your granny could ride a rigid along. It's just a pity the central area has been gutted by logging operations and we could only put 40km into the Bike SA ride.
Not much else has gone on in my life, lots of two-to-three hour blasts in the Adelaide hills with Will. Major level procrastination about school work. Not even eating enough pasta. Need a new saddle, my tried and trusted WTB is looking very sad, and still need a new helmet, the one I've been given/lent doesn't fit well enough to stablely mount my light.
blah blah blah...
Spent the weekend out at Mt Pleasant, David Hughes and I took a Bike SA 4wd down so we could map out trails for the Track and Trail ride in a fortnight. It's really hard to ride along disused single trail in a pine forest while all the time looking over your shoulder for a piece of trail you just can't find. Doesn't help when they've held a 24hr motorbike race in the same piece of forest and the once flowing XC track now is a foot-deep rut running through the forest. What really pisses me off is that they used all of our track, except the rock gardens. Why can't they make their own track and therefore increase the amount of ridable trails in the area, instead of ruining ours again and again?
Anyways, Cromer is still great, just not as fantastic as Prospect Hill or Fox Creek. Mt Pleasant itself has some cool bits of disused fire trail and the north face peak is one big ass rock garden. Best thing is the small section of multi-use trail that cuts through the native forest between Mt Pleasant and Cromer. Very short section but the trail is just a series of markers and a bridge. Quite different for a fully legal trail. Also wicked is a small disused piece of trail to the west of Cromer Shed, moss and bracken covered doubles that flows nicely, added bonus it joins up the new Starkey Rd campground with Cromer.
Little Mt Crawford Native Forest Reserve has a 1.8km single track loop that's well worth spinning round in both directions. You can get to it following the Heysen Trail from the Forestry HQ.
All-in-all the area rocks, we pulled in a hundred k's of riding around. Everything form really gnarly single trails covered in pine-needles and tree trunks to picturesque fire tracks your granny could ride a rigid along. It's just a pity the central area has been gutted by logging operations and we could only put 40km into the Bike SA ride.
Not much else has gone on in my life, lots of two-to-three hour blasts in the Adelaide hills with Will. Major level procrastination about school work. Not even eating enough pasta. Need a new saddle, my tried and trusted WTB is looking very sad, and still need a new helmet, the one I've been given/lent doesn't fit well enough to stablely mount my light.
blah blah blah...
Wednesday, June 01, 2005
What, what, WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!
What am I doing? What was I thinking? What is this box that hums in front of me with it's glowing lights and funny buttons?
Wierd weekend, totally blew up during race on Sunday, took too long to ride out to Prospect Hill, now I remember why road bikes don't have 2.1" ultra knobbly tyres and four inches of travel front and back. Worst race I've finished really. 28min for my last lap, ten minutes slower than the leading elite riders. Compare that to my 21minute second lap and you can see the importance of eating and drinking enough before whilst racing. Cool to see that my first two laps weren't that shocking, I wasn't trying half as hard as I should and let other riders set my pace for me.
Good ride yesterday, last day of Autumn and climbed into the fog at Mt Lofty, only to descend into the afternoon sun.
Off to Cromer to scout out trails for Bike SA track and trail this weekend. Should be fun and different.
I've just registered for Mont24HR, now all need do is front up the cash and work out how I'm getting me and Ellie there.
And Tim's emailed to tell me to update this blog to say that he IS racing Pedal Prix in September.
Wierd weekend, totally blew up during race on Sunday, took too long to ride out to Prospect Hill, now I remember why road bikes don't have 2.1" ultra knobbly tyres and four inches of travel front and back. Worst race I've finished really. 28min for my last lap, ten minutes slower than the leading elite riders. Compare that to my 21minute second lap and you can see the importance of eating and drinking enough before whilst racing. Cool to see that my first two laps weren't that shocking, I wasn't trying half as hard as I should and let other riders set my pace for me.
Good ride yesterday, last day of Autumn and climbed into the fog at Mt Lofty, only to descend into the afternoon sun.
Off to Cromer to scout out trails for Bike SA track and trail this weekend. Should be fun and different.
I've just registered for Mont24HR, now all need do is front up the cash and work out how I'm getting me and Ellie there.
And Tim's emailed to tell me to update this blog to say that he IS racing Pedal Prix in September.
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