Year: 2014

September 5, 2014 / / Stuff

Some Friday comedy for you. http://youtu.be/dIl5p6gPWjg

September 1, 2014 / / Stuff

Wishing you all a very happy spring! I did the “traditional” swim for the first day of spring yesterday morning… Mondays being Mondays I figured best get it done yesterday 🙂 It was great, but bloody cold. I had to stop after every length and let me head thaw out… proper ice cream headache cold! Felt great once I’d done though. Roll on summertime.

August 29, 2014 / / Stuff

Via Muddy, thanks! Police work must have a modicum of entertainment as well as being dangerous. Recently in Victoria, a female police officer arrested Patrick LAWRENCE, a 22 year old male, who was caught fornicating with a pumpkin in the middle of the night. The next day, at the Horsham Court (Victoria, Australia), LAWRENCE was charged with lewd and lascivious behaviour, public indecency and public intoxication. LAWRENCE explained that as he was passing a pumpkin patch on his way home from a drinking session, he decided to stop. “You know…

August 28, 2014 / / Pictures

Some pics from yesterday. Big tide with some storm surge after a big storm trundled by over the past few days.

August 27, 2014 / / Stuff

European Space Agency, ESA – AndrĂ© took this video of Aurora Australis from the European Cupola module in the Space Station. The beautiful phenomenon is caused by bursts of particles from the Sun pouring down Earth’s magnetic field into the atmosphere.

August 1, 2014 / / Conservation

Read more about light pollution and how you can help:  darksky.org Dark Skies of Utah – a Timelapseworkshops.com Collaborative Film from Ron Risman on Vimeo. “Dark Skies of Utah” was captured by 11 photographers that attended one of two Timelapse Moab Workshops that took place last month in southeastern Utah. What is even more amazing is that most of these photographers had never shot or processed timelapse before this workshop, and many of these timelapses were actually captured after just 1 or 2 days of instruction. Two of the workshop…

August 1, 2014 / / Stuff
July 29, 2014 / / Pictures

This morning one of my dearest friends passed. His name was Bono, he was my friend, my companion and I will miss him. Where ever he went he brought his own joyous mixture of love and affection for all those around him. Touching lives where ever he went and bringing a smile to all those that met him. The world is a poorer place today. I’ll write more about this amazing animal again, but for now enjoy some pictures and wonderful memories with me. Click the images to enlarge. More…