This is going to be pretty cool!
Saturday, 29 March 2014
Friday, 28 March 2014
Is there a sausage sizzle near you on election day?
Is there a sausage sizzle near you on election day? Is your school running one? Register at http://democracysausage.org/
http://democracysausage.org
http://democracysausage.org
Wednesday, 26 March 2014
If you like Hellboy.
If you like Hellboy.
Originally shared by Ben Gerber
Enjoy Hellboy? This bundle gets you every single Hellboy comic released digitally for $50. But it ends tonight.
https://digital.darkhorse.com/profile/4560/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=paid&utm_campaign=hellboy
Originally shared by Ben Gerber
Enjoy Hellboy? This bundle gets you every single Hellboy comic released digitally for $50. But it ends tonight.
https://digital.darkhorse.com/profile/4560/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=paid&utm_campaign=hellboy
http://www.perthdiscgolf.com/joomla/images/tournaments/2014lordofthediscpostersized.jpg
http://www.perthdiscgolf.com/joomla/images/tournaments/2014lordofthediscpostersized.jpg
Its nearly here! Lord Of The Disc 2014 is nearly upon us, will be a fantastic tournament with some new experiences being a single disc tournament and also a day/night format. Divisions this year as follows:
Mens Beginners
Mens Rec
Mens Advanced
Mens Open
Ladies Beginners
Ladies Open
Please go to http://www.perthdiscgolf.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_ckforms&view=ckforms&id=16&Itemid=90 for pre-registration, rego includes dinner (please specify any dietary requirements on the pre-registration form or email kris@perthdiscgolf.com), soft drinks and an LED light for the night round. Hope you can come along and become one of the Lords and Ladies of the disc!
PS Special Beginners divisions offered so please talk to your friends and family and bring them along to try our sport on what should be a great evening.
http://www.perthdiscgolf.com/joomla/images/tournaments/2014lordofthediscpostersized.jpg
Its nearly here! Lord Of The Disc 2014 is nearly upon us, will be a fantastic tournament with some new experiences being a single disc tournament and also a day/night format. Divisions this year as follows:
Mens Beginners
Mens Rec
Mens Advanced
Mens Open
Ladies Beginners
Ladies Open
Please go to http://www.perthdiscgolf.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_ckforms&view=ckforms&id=16&Itemid=90 for pre-registration, rego includes dinner (please specify any dietary requirements on the pre-registration form or email kris@perthdiscgolf.com), soft drinks and an LED light for the night round. Hope you can come along and become one of the Lords and Ladies of the disc!
PS Special Beginners divisions offered so please talk to your friends and family and bring them along to try our sport on what should be a great evening.
http://www.perthdiscgolf.com/joomla/images/tournaments/2014lordofthediscpostersized.jpg
Saturday, 22 March 2014
Before or during next session in Marseilles you may spend 3 of your precious, hard earned points in whatever you...
Before or during next session in Marseilles you may spend 3 of your precious, hard earned points in whatever you want.
Friday, 21 March 2014
So we figure we might get pizza delivered.
So we figure we might get pizza delivered. Orders by 6:00, please if you're interested. Rob's so enthusiastic he's put his order in already.
https://www.crust.com.au/pizzas#!
https://www.crust.com.au/pizzas
https://www.crust.com.au/pizzas#!
https://www.crust.com.au/pizzas
Wednesday, 19 March 2014
Western Australians, make your vote really count.
Western Australians, make your vote really count. http://www.belowtheline.org.au/state/wa.html makes it easy, even to the point where you can print out a copy or put it on your device and take it with you so that copying it to your actual form will be dead easy.
Start thinking and vote below the line.
Also, for those who are still uncertain as to how it all works and why it matters - learn with Ken the voting dingo at http://www.chickennation.com/tag/voting/
http://www.belowtheline.org.au/state/wa.html
Start thinking and vote below the line.
Also, for those who are still uncertain as to how it all works and why it matters - learn with Ken the voting dingo at http://www.chickennation.com/tag/voting/
http://www.belowtheline.org.au/state/wa.html
Tuesday, 18 March 2014
Interesting theory.
Interesting theory.
Originally shared by null
MH370 A different point of view. Pulau Langkawi 13,000 runway.
A lot of speculation about MH370. Terrorism, hijack, meteors. I cannot believe the analysis on CNN - almost disturbing. I tend to look for a more simple explanation of this event.
Loaded 777 departs midnight from Kuala to Beijing. Hot night. Heavy aircraft. About an hour out across the gulf towards Vietnam the plane goes dark meaning the transponder goes off and secondary radar tracking goes off.
Two days later we hear of reports that Malaysian military radar (which is a primary radar meaning the plane is being tracked by reflection rather than by transponder interrogation response) has tracked the plane on a southwesterly course back across the Malay Peninsula into the straits of Malacca.
When I heard this I immediately brought up Google Earth and I searched for airports in proximity to the track towards southwest.
The left turn is the key here. This was a very experienced senior Captain with 18,000 hours. Maybe some of the younger pilots interviewed on CNN didn't pick up on this left turn. We old pilots were always drilled to always know the closest airport of safe harbor while in cruise. Airports behind us, airports abeam us and airports ahead of us. Always in our head. Always. Because if something happens you don't want to be thinking what are you going to do - you already know what you are going to do. Instinctively when I saw that left turn with a direct heading I knew he was heading for an airport. Actually he was taking a direct route to Palau Langkawi a 13,000 foot strip with an approach over water at night with no obstacles. He did not turn back to Kuala Lampur because he knew he had 8,000 foot ridges to cross. He knew the terrain was friendlier towards Langkawi and also a shorter distance.
Take a look on Google Earth at this airport. This pilot did all the right things. He was confronted by some major event onboard that made him make that immediate turn back to the closest safe airport.
For me the loss of transponders and communications makes perfect sense if a fire. There was most likely a fire or electrical fire. In the case of fire the first response if to pull all the main busses and restore circuits one by one until you have isolated the bad one.
If they pulled the busses the plane indeed would go silent. It was probably a serious event and they simply were occupied with controlling the plane and trying to fight the fire. Aviate, Navigate and lastly communicate. There are two types of fires. Electrical might not be as fast and furious and there might or might not be incapacitating smoke. However there is the possibility given the timeline that perhaps there was an overheat on one of the front landing gear tires and it blew on takeoff and started slowly burning. Yes this happens with underinflated tires. Remember heavy plane, hot night, sea level, long run takeoff. There was a well known accident in Nigeria of a DC8 that had a landing gear fire on takeoff. A tire fire once going would produce horrific incapacitating smoke. Yes, pilots have access to oxygen masks but this is a no no with fire. Most have access to a smoke hood with a filter but this will only last for a few minutes depending on the smoke level. (I used to carry one of my own in a flight bag and I still carry one in my briefcase today when I fly).
What I think happened is that they were overcome by smoke and the plane just continued on the heading probably on George (autopilot) until either fuel exhaustion or fire destroyed the control surfaces and it crashed. I said four days ago you will find it along that route - looking elsewhere was pointless.
This pilot, as I say, was a hero struggling with an impossible situation trying to get that plane to Langkawi. No doubt in my mind. That's the reason for the turn and direct route. A hijack would not have made that deliberate left turn with a direct heading for Langkawi. It would probably have weaved around a bit until the hijackers decided on where they were taking it.
Surprisingly none of the reporters , officials, other pilots interviewed have looked at this from the pilot's viewpoint. If something went wrong where would he go? Thanks to Google earth I spotted Langkawi in about 30 seconds, zoomed in and saw how long the runway was and I just instinctively knew this pilot knew this airport. He had probably flown there many times. I guess we will eventually find out when you help me spread this theory on the net and some reporters finally take a look on Google earth and put 2 and 2 together. Also a look at the age and number of cycles on those nose tires might give us a good clue too.
Fire in an aircraft demands one thing - you get the machine on the ground as soon as possible. There are two well remembered experiences in my memory. The AirCanada DC9 which landed I believe in Columbus Ohio in the eighties. That pilot delayed descent and bypassed several airports. He didn't instinctively know the closest airports. He got it on the ground eventually but lost 30 odd souls. In the 1998 crash of Swissair DC-10 off Nova Scotia was another example of heroic pilots. They were 15 minutes out of Halifax but the fire simply overcame them and they had to ditch in the ocean. Just ran out of time. That fire incidentally started when the aircraft was about an hour out of Kennedy. Guess what the transponders and communications were shut off as they pulled the busses.
Get on Google Earth and type in Pulau Langkawi and then look at it in relation to the radar track heading. 2+2=4 That for me is the simple explanation why it turned and headed in that direction.
Smart pilot. Just didn't have the time.
Originally shared by null
MH370 A different point of view. Pulau Langkawi 13,000 runway.
A lot of speculation about MH370. Terrorism, hijack, meteors. I cannot believe the analysis on CNN - almost disturbing. I tend to look for a more simple explanation of this event.
Loaded 777 departs midnight from Kuala to Beijing. Hot night. Heavy aircraft. About an hour out across the gulf towards Vietnam the plane goes dark meaning the transponder goes off and secondary radar tracking goes off.
Two days later we hear of reports that Malaysian military radar (which is a primary radar meaning the plane is being tracked by reflection rather than by transponder interrogation response) has tracked the plane on a southwesterly course back across the Malay Peninsula into the straits of Malacca.
When I heard this I immediately brought up Google Earth and I searched for airports in proximity to the track towards southwest.
The left turn is the key here. This was a very experienced senior Captain with 18,000 hours. Maybe some of the younger pilots interviewed on CNN didn't pick up on this left turn. We old pilots were always drilled to always know the closest airport of safe harbor while in cruise. Airports behind us, airports abeam us and airports ahead of us. Always in our head. Always. Because if something happens you don't want to be thinking what are you going to do - you already know what you are going to do. Instinctively when I saw that left turn with a direct heading I knew he was heading for an airport. Actually he was taking a direct route to Palau Langkawi a 13,000 foot strip with an approach over water at night with no obstacles. He did not turn back to Kuala Lampur because he knew he had 8,000 foot ridges to cross. He knew the terrain was friendlier towards Langkawi and also a shorter distance.
Take a look on Google Earth at this airport. This pilot did all the right things. He was confronted by some major event onboard that made him make that immediate turn back to the closest safe airport.
For me the loss of transponders and communications makes perfect sense if a fire. There was most likely a fire or electrical fire. In the case of fire the first response if to pull all the main busses and restore circuits one by one until you have isolated the bad one.
If they pulled the busses the plane indeed would go silent. It was probably a serious event and they simply were occupied with controlling the plane and trying to fight the fire. Aviate, Navigate and lastly communicate. There are two types of fires. Electrical might not be as fast and furious and there might or might not be incapacitating smoke. However there is the possibility given the timeline that perhaps there was an overheat on one of the front landing gear tires and it blew on takeoff and started slowly burning. Yes this happens with underinflated tires. Remember heavy plane, hot night, sea level, long run takeoff. There was a well known accident in Nigeria of a DC8 that had a landing gear fire on takeoff. A tire fire once going would produce horrific incapacitating smoke. Yes, pilots have access to oxygen masks but this is a no no with fire. Most have access to a smoke hood with a filter but this will only last for a few minutes depending on the smoke level. (I used to carry one of my own in a flight bag and I still carry one in my briefcase today when I fly).
What I think happened is that they were overcome by smoke and the plane just continued on the heading probably on George (autopilot) until either fuel exhaustion or fire destroyed the control surfaces and it crashed. I said four days ago you will find it along that route - looking elsewhere was pointless.
This pilot, as I say, was a hero struggling with an impossible situation trying to get that plane to Langkawi. No doubt in my mind. That's the reason for the turn and direct route. A hijack would not have made that deliberate left turn with a direct heading for Langkawi. It would probably have weaved around a bit until the hijackers decided on where they were taking it.
Surprisingly none of the reporters , officials, other pilots interviewed have looked at this from the pilot's viewpoint. If something went wrong where would he go? Thanks to Google earth I spotted Langkawi in about 30 seconds, zoomed in and saw how long the runway was and I just instinctively knew this pilot knew this airport. He had probably flown there many times. I guess we will eventually find out when you help me spread this theory on the net and some reporters finally take a look on Google earth and put 2 and 2 together. Also a look at the age and number of cycles on those nose tires might give us a good clue too.
Fire in an aircraft demands one thing - you get the machine on the ground as soon as possible. There are two well remembered experiences in my memory. The AirCanada DC9 which landed I believe in Columbus Ohio in the eighties. That pilot delayed descent and bypassed several airports. He didn't instinctively know the closest airports. He got it on the ground eventually but lost 30 odd souls. In the 1998 crash of Swissair DC-10 off Nova Scotia was another example of heroic pilots. They were 15 minutes out of Halifax but the fire simply overcame them and they had to ditch in the ocean. Just ran out of time. That fire incidentally started when the aircraft was about an hour out of Kennedy. Guess what the transponders and communications were shut off as they pulled the busses.
Get on Google Earth and type in Pulau Langkawi and then look at it in relation to the radar track heading. 2+2=4 That for me is the simple explanation why it turned and headed in that direction.
Smart pilot. Just didn't have the time.
Friday, 14 March 2014
It's on tonight, and we feel like Peko Peko if anyone wants to join us.
It's on tonight, and we feel like Peko Peko if anyone wants to join us.
http://www.pekopeko.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/peko-peko-Complete-Menu-PREVIEW.pdf
http://www.pekopeko.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/peko-peko-Complete-Menu-PREVIEW.pdf
Sunday, 9 March 2014
Friday, 7 March 2014
Tonight we shall be getting our food from Peko Peko...
Tonight we shall be getting our food from Peko Peko http://www.pekopeko.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/peko-peko-Complete-Menu-PREVIEW.pdf so let us know by 18:00 if you'd like something from there. Rpging is on. Will we find the missing Sven or will a new boyfriend have to be obtained?
http://www.pekopeko.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/peko-peko-Complete-Menu-PREVIEW.pdf
http://www.pekopeko.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/peko-peko-Complete-Menu-PREVIEW.pdf
John Robertson should host the Hugo Awards. I'm convinced and I'm a Margaret Hughe's Memorial Award receiver.
John Robertson should host the Hugo Awards. I'm convinced and I'm a Margaret Hughe's Memorial Award receiver.
Originally shared by Sandra Chung
Brilliant!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj6zuJ0t2vw
Originally shared by Sandra Chung
Brilliant!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj6zuJ0t2vw
Wednesday, 5 March 2014
Senator Ludlam has some things to say.
Senator Ludlam has some things to say.
Originally shared by Jeffrey Watkins (The Next Doctor)
Boo-yah.... Ouch!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtqrfiEV8Gs&feature=share
Originally shared by Jeffrey Watkins (The Next Doctor)
Boo-yah.... Ouch!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtqrfiEV8Gs&feature=share
When I was about 14 I went into hospital for some fairly serious surgery.
When I was about 14 I went into hospital for some fairly serious surgery. My sister bought me Winter's Tale to read, which I read in hospital while on drugs that had me flying just as high as Athansor and Peter Lake but nowhere near as prettily. Last week we came into a couple of movie tickets to the movie. Not having read it for thirty odd years I was surprised at how much the film resonated with the fragments I remembered from the book. A charming film - it would be a very nice trifecta with The Princess Bride and Stardust. I am rereading the book - it's an extraordinary read and hasn't dated. I'm not at all disappointed by the film but no one else seems to be seeing it, which is sad.
Monday, 3 March 2014
A natty red sailed Mirror dinghy with an aqua hull.
Originally shared by Alicia Smith
A natty red sailed Mirror dinghy with an aqua hull.
My toes somewhere on the River Murray.
Originally shared by Alicia Smith
My toes somewhere on the River Murray.
Rob Masters in his natural environment.
Originally shared by Alicia Smith
Rob Masters in his natural environment.
A natty red sailed Mirror dinghy with an aqua hull.
Originally shared by Alicia Smith
A natty red sailed Mirror dinghy with an aqua hull.
A natty red sailed Mirror dinghy with an aqua hull.
A natty red sailed Mirror dinghy with an aqua hull.
Sunday, 2 March 2014
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