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Saturday, May 03, 2008

Uno

that's just not right... This is something else. A uni-motorbike.

The Kneeslider (great name for a bike-site) tells us more...

18-year-old Canadian, Ben J. Poss Gulak, has always done a lot of tinkering, model trains, rockets, that sort of thing, but the Uno, is something else entirely. The Uno, is a parallel wheel, electric motorcycle that operates like a Segway, lean forward to go forward, lean backwards to go in reverse. Ben unveiled his creation at the 2008 National Motorcycle Show in Toronto, where he was surrounded by the usual V-twin crowd, in fact his booth was right next to Russ Mitchell of Exile Cycles, but he managed to get a lot of attention, anyway.

Ben started his design with hand sketches and then moved to Google SketchUp. A Solidworks salesman tried to sell him a copy of the CAD software but Ben said it was more than he could afford. After he showed the salesman what he was doing, a copy of Solidworks showed up the next day. Cool.

The frame was adapted from a Yamaha R1, the body is custom built from foam which was eventually used for a fiberglass mold. He got some help with the gyro setup from robotics and gyro expert Trevor Blackwell in California. The Uno has 2 gyros, one for the forward and reverse movement, the other for turning. Once those were sorted out the Uno was in operation.

If this is the sort of thing Ben is building at 18, I can only imagine what we’ll see in the future. Very well done, Ben!

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Friday, April 25, 2008

Man Cold

I have one. Not pleasant.

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Thursday, April 24, 2008

It’s school holidays here at the moment and so our bible study group had a social night - extended seafood dinner. Various dishes; fish pie, mussels, squid etc were produced and a good time had by all.

One of the best things about this sort of evening is that you get to know each other a little better. Perhaps the best discovery was that Will can do this…

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Monday, April 21, 2008

cute

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Friday, April 18, 2008

perhaps that’s where my moleskine comes from….

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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

New DVD

I just bought series 1 of Jeeves and Wooster on DVD.

oh joy.

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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

British cuisine at its finest

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Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Sartorial Eye for the Clerical Guy

I have long wrung my hands over the most difficult of topics: Clerical elegance
Now, finally, the long-suffering Jacqui needs no longer slowly shake their head in resignation for yesterday someone pointed me to the wonderful ”Beauty Tips for Ministers”, subtitled “Because you’re in the public eye, and God knows you need to look good.”

The wonderfully named “PeaceBang” leads all of us through every possible issue that may arise:

PeaceBang thinks of herself as the stage mother to the American clergy, and she wants ALL her babies to be stars!

This is the gospel of Beauty Tips For Ministers: if clergypeople believe that religious life is vital, relevant and beautiful, they should look the part. PeaceBang is fond of saying that if we do not project an image intentionally, we will project one unconconsciously. She believes that God has made a good gift in you, and you don’t bring an unwrapped gift to God’s party.

This blog is for the encouragement of self-care, the sharing of tips, and the celebration of shoes, lip gloss, fragranced shaving cream, and all of the other accoutrements of vanity which have hitherto been considered wholly unholy, and therefore generally discussed only in hushed whispers among the servants of the LORD.

In this space, we are free to remember that although we work from our hearts and our souls, we are also incarnate beings, and that our appearance does matter.

It is also written with the intention of bringing a little bit of joy and laughter into your life.

A kiss of peace to you, and thanks for being here.

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Tuesday, April 01, 2008

BBC announcer has fit of giggles live on air

great little story...

Radio 4 news hit by giggling fit
Hundreds of listeners have contacted BBC Radio 4 after newsreader Charlotte Green dissolved into giggles while reading a bulletin on Today.

She lost control after playing a clip of the oldest known recording of the human voice.

Presenter James Naughtie intervened as she struggled to tell listeners about the death of screenwriter Abby Mann.

“I’m afraid I just lost it, I was completely ambushed by the giggles,” said Green.

She admitted a similar giggling fit besieged her about 10 years ago, also on the Today programme.

“I did feel slightly embarrassed, knowing I have this reputation that I am prone to getting the giggles,” she said.

“People have been very sweet and everyone has been coming up to me said how much it has cheered up their Friday morning.”

Today’s editor, Ceri Thomas, said most listeners who contacted the show had commented on “how much they had enjoyed the moment”.

He added: “When Charlotte loses it, she really loses it.”

Green’s hysterical outburst started after a studio member remarked that the 1860 recording of a woman singing the French song Clair de Lune sounded like a “bee buzzing in a bottle”.

Later on in the programme Green’s fit of the giggles was repeated as presenter Ed Stourton remarked they had been besieged with calls begging them to play it again.

“Apparently the BBC press office is in meltdown with calls about it,” he said.

“We hope that the family of Abby Mann will understand that it obviously wasn’t intended as any slight towards him.”

And, of course, here’s a recording of the incident. It’s brilliant:

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think about it…

excellent bit of work by spacecoyote

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