“The UX of LEGO Interface Panels”
Absolutely gorgeous analysis. https://www.designedbycave.co.uk/2020/LEGO-Interface-UX/ Piloting an ocean exploration ship or Martian research shuttle is serious business. Let’s hope the control…
Roundaboat – Noosa Marina
Noosa’s latest eco-friendly water activity! Just as it says, it’s a round boat that seats up to 10 people, a…
How to Build a Successful Career in Information Security | Daniel Miessler
How to build an information security career from start to finish. From building your lab, education, certs, networking, and building…
Elon Musk: The Recode interview – Recode
Musk talks about his “excruciating” 2018, fighting with journalists on Twitter, why Tesla won’t build an electric scooter and much…
Supporting the narrative – “Why I stopped using multiple monitors”
LOL I don’t write much these days heh. Anyway. https://hackernoon.com/why-i-stopped-using-multiple-monitors-bfd87efa2e5b Many developers believe multiple monitors improve productivity. Studies have proven…
I wrote this up because… reasons.
Saturday night, I’m in Brisbane City, for a Buck’s night. A combined Buck and Hen’s night; the “Bucking Hens night”,…
The standard by which all others shall be judged
The Manhattan; in Manhattan. Arrive early at the One World observatory; top of the new World Trade Center. Set up…
Hong Kong on 70mb per day
I recently travelled to Hong Kong for ten days. This has traditionally meant a reliance on hotel WiFi for communications;…
Aussie National Record 2012
It’s like awakening from a dream… So many friends. So much beer. And before that, such an obscene quality of…
Difficulty of various games for computers
Thank you, XKCD 🙂 I refer you back to “The King of Computers”
Luke Oliver: Speed Event; World Cup of Canopy Piloting, Klatovy, Czech Republic.
Photo by Lisa Perdichizzi
The Continuous Client
I have a dream. Not really a dream, I see it happening. When I walk into a room, the lights…
Something really cool happened
I’m off to represent my country in Canopy Piloting. Pic by Rosemary Smith
Vale Lucas Oliver
Brazenly taken from the Brisbane Times News page. Base jumper dies in leap from tower January 31, 2011 – 3:29PM…
Breakfast at Perris
A lift capacity of 120 woke us up. Unedited video. Can’t wait for the main event to start.
HP 41c on iPhone
I still have an operable HP41cv. Now I have the i41CXp as well. It’s in the iTunes store. Love ’em…
The Inaugural Tim Bates Award (2008)
In the presence of the rest of Tim’s family, Anne Bates and Rebecca Infanti took the stage to discuss this…
Lamborghini
Low mileage Diablo I think. Not one, but two half-naked schoolgirls in the co-pilot seat. Sucks to be him, I…
Who’s Ya Daddy
Our finest moment. Other than that gold medal. It’s the Australian National Championships in four-way skydiving – and “Who’s Ya…
Flash!
’tis better to have loved and lost…
Once Again, Machine Beats Human Champion at Chess
Today’s outcome may end the interest in future chess matches between human champions and computers, according to Monty Newborn, a…
World Record Day
Note: If you haven’t read “Taken out” yet, you should; this tale relies upon it. Alarm-Shower-CNN-Breakfast-Bus. By now, it’s a…
Taken Out
One load on the sked today – 0640 pickup for a 0900 wheels up. The planes remain the property of…
Tim Bates
Two mates through parallel circumstance, we measured our life by the minute; from four kilometers over the earth, smoothly sliding…
The one point RW camp
First published in ASM, 4 May 2005 The plan was simple – a one point skydive. To set a world…
Skydiving and Digital Photography
Many folks have been keeping their eyes on digital photography with a view to skydiving for some time. Historically, Digital…
Who wants to be a millionaire?
I do. I’ve always believed that freefallers and canopy pilots should be afforded the same treatment as rock stars and…
Pauline Richards
Impacted in competition. Terrible day. But a very spirited wake, and much respect shown by those present at Corowa.
An apocryphal tale regarding Sony’s PC1 camera
This may well be an apocryphal tale; the book where I originally read it is out of my collection, and…
You wanna put a camera where?
First publication “Australian Skydiver Magazine”, 2003 You don’t have to go back to far in this sport to the point…
Lee Loncasty & Rob Hollis
Opening collision at Nagambie. Watching two friends die was awful. The amazing, the incredible, the phenomenal Lee. The perfumed starcrest…
Peter Gagliardi
At Nagambie DZ this morning, Pete “Gags” Gagliardi impacted the ground in a turn, and did not survive the impact.…
POPS Record 32 Way
POPS are the “Parachutists Over Phorty Society”, which tends to be well represented at dropzones and boogies wherever they go.…
Subaru Impreza WRX
’tis better to have loved and lost… (Statute of limitations has well expired on this one. Photography performed in controlled…
How to do a nude skydive
This is a “how” discussion, rather than a “why” discussion – I’ll assume you already have a good reason (or…
Porsche 928
The Landshark. V8 rear wheel drive. Still lustful after all these years.
Another brush with fate
In which I discover a susceptibility to bee stings and get a chance to manage it. It’s Friday, June 1,…
Ford F250
Retired NSW ambulance. 5.7l V8, I swear when you tromped the accelerator you could see the fuel gauge move. Rear…
The King of Computers
There’s been a frenzy of discussion following the defeat of World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov by a machine, namely a…
Cold? Wet? Blown out?
Posted to rec.skydiving, 11 Feb 97 Well, all I’m getting from most of you in my mailbox – given the…
“Good Afternoon Gentlemen”
“I am a HAL 9000 Computer. I became operational at the HAL plant in Urbana, Illinois, on the 12th of…
Night Jumps (indulgent)
I jump at a Dropzone about a three quarter hour drive from Adelaide in Strathalbyn, South Australia. It’s a farming…
Suddenly: a hundred freefalls
I’d first heard about naked skydives when I was going through AFF. I spoke to my instructor, and asked when…
Assertive Spotting for “C” License
I jump at a Dropzone about a three quarter hour drive from Adelaide in Strathalbyn, South Australia. It’s a farming…
Escort Panel Van
About 1750cc worth of naturally aspirated excitement. During ownership, I replaced every single part of the drive train – including…
EK Holden
Image courtesy PearlCraft You never forget your first. Or its stupid, permanently-dripping-expensive-fluids automatic transmission.