Comments on: My kingdom for an internet connection… http://jules.com.au/blog/my-kingdom-for-an-internet-connection/ Everyone else has a blog... Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:03:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Purple Jules http://jules.com.au/blog/my-kingdom-for-an-internet-connection/comment-page-1/#comment-42 Purple Jules Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:29:33 +0000 http://doit.jules.com.au/blog/?p=58#comment-42 Hey don't fret about some 'bad' - it is what makes the good 'good' no? I'm pretty sure these things are relative and there is no real absolute 'good' in a vacuum. Unless the axis of evil is like the 0 Kelvin Bad definition or something. I don't know about that. Have to ask Chris. I'm slightly less like 'plan to' about the Lagwagon next year now, and more 'half there already' since I PASSED ALL MY SUBJECTS Bwaaahahahahaha. 44 down, 2 to go. Can't believe it man. You and Jess can fly over for a week and chill out on the Jarrah decking I put up on the roof. My boss better not hang any on me this weekend or he is going to get a dose of reality now that I'm not staying there past November. I'm still not finished with the Switzerland thing. Maybe Olly can tell me - are Swiss Rolls (Jam Sponge things you eat) related to Switzerland at all or have I been sorrily misled all along? I ate a whole one before and the beer I just drank in the shower almost made me sick. We layed out all the schematics on the floor today and divided them into 2 A4 sized PCBs. Sometime next week we will be up to etching the boards and soldering the 550 components (laboriously specified and listed in a bill of materials this week) on. We are going to make a white ply box (white box, y'know?) to strap it to the front nacelle pod of the car, and act convincing when we ask for Dyn time with the Honda Motor. THAT will be a sleepless week. You can come down at night and help us make it play Happy Birthday. Or maybe Waltzing Matilda. Or maybe fhqwghads would be cool. I'm sure we'll have time to put together a whole album. Get that SM-78 off Adrian and we'll let my MP3 player encode it for us. Dude how come you are having so much fun in servos? I just cracked it at some pom (no offence Simon) lady who VERY nearly rammed up the ass of the RGV as we both pulled into a BP. She admitted that it was the first time she had driven in this country and I was really nice to her (original description of events altered slightly for public consumption). Moto race should be cool. I'm going to need you to do something high profile and obviously noticeable so we can see you. Short of interrupting the race by streaking. I'm thinking white paint... maybe a loud horn (I'm sure there won't be any other ones there)... don't throw anything on the track or anything... HOW ABOUT commadeering (comandeering? comodeering?) one of the TV camera towers for some specially produced Jules footage mid race. Let me know anyway, so I can make sure we are paying attention. PS can't text because of broken 2 button. Turns out the letters abc are frequent to the degree that omission leads to incomprehensibility (and I'm only a small step from there with a full Aussie qwerty at my disposal anyway eh) soooooo... REMEMBER to float off some beer labels for a reference if you find anything remarkable. Or just pocket the finger nailed off shreds caused by your doubtless sexually frustrated (honourable) state. We can piece them together later on to save me drinking anything sub standard. Put up some photos of you and Olly and Helen. Or some other people. Hey don’t fret about some ‘bad’ – it is what makes the good ‘good’ no?
I’m pretty sure these things are relative and there is no real absolute ‘good’ in a vacuum. Unless the axis of evil is like the 0 Kelvin Bad definition or something. I don’t know about that. Have to ask Chris.
I’m slightly less like ‘plan to’ about the Lagwagon next year now, and more ‘half there already’ since I PASSED ALL MY SUBJECTS Bwaaahahahahaha. 44 down, 2 to go. Can’t believe it man. You and Jess can fly over for a week and chill out on the Jarrah decking I put up on the roof. My boss better not hang any on me this weekend or he is going to get a dose of reality now that I’m not staying there past November.

I’m still not finished with the Switzerland thing. Maybe Olly can tell me – are Swiss Rolls (Jam Sponge things you eat) related to Switzerland at all or have I been sorrily misled all along? I ate a whole one before and the beer I just drank in the shower almost made me sick.

We layed out all the schematics on the floor today and divided them into 2 A4 sized PCBs. Sometime next week we will be up to etching the boards and soldering the 550 components (laboriously specified and listed in a bill of materials this week) on. We are going to make a white ply box (white box, y’know?) to strap it to the front nacelle pod of the car, and act convincing when we ask for Dyn time with the Honda Motor. THAT will be a sleepless week. You can come down at night and help us make it play Happy Birthday. Or maybe Waltzing Matilda. Or maybe fhqwghads would be cool. I’m sure we’ll have time to put together a whole album. Get that SM-78 off Adrian and we’ll let my MP3 player encode it for us.

Dude how come you are having so much fun in servos? I just cracked it at some pom (no offence Simon) lady who VERY nearly rammed up the ass of the RGV as we both pulled into a BP. She admitted that it was the first time she had driven in this country and I was really nice to her (original description of events altered slightly for public consumption).

Moto race should be cool. I’m going to need you to do something high profile and obviously noticeable so we can see you. Short of interrupting the race by streaking. I’m thinking white paint… maybe a loud horn (I’m sure there won’t be any other ones there)… don’t throw anything on the track or anything… HOW ABOUT commadeering (comandeering? comodeering?) one of the TV camera towers for some specially produced Jules footage mid race. Let me know anyway, so I can make sure we are paying attention.

PS can’t text because of broken 2 button. Turns out the letters abc are frequent to the degree that omission leads to incomprehensibility (and I’m only a small step from there with a full Aussie qwerty at my disposal anyway eh) soooooo…

REMEMBER to float off some beer labels for a reference if you find anything remarkable. Or just pocket the finger nailed off shreds caused by your doubtless sexually frustrated (honourable) state. We can piece them together later on to save me drinking anything sub standard.

Put up some photos of you and Olly and Helen. Or some other people.

]]> By: Olly http://jules.com.au/blog/my-kingdom-for-an-internet-connection/comment-page-1/#comment-41 Olly Thu, 15 Jul 2004 03:43:06 +0000 http://doit.jules.com.au/blog/?p=58#comment-41 Don't worry mate - you get used to finding your way! As Simon said, don't miss Prague - beautiful city, cheap beer, good food! Not coming to the GP cos I'll be too buggered after this week of 12 hour days to do the 800 odd km's. Have fun though and make sure you take some piccies. Don’t worry mate – you get used to finding your way! As Simon said, don’t miss Prague – beautiful city, cheap beer, good food!

Not coming to the GP cos I’ll be too buggered after this week of 12 hour days to do the 800 odd km’s. Have fun though and make sure you take some piccies.

]]> By: Jess http://jules.com.au/blog/my-kingdom-for-an-internet-connection/comment-page-1/#comment-40 Jess Thu, 15 Jul 2004 03:18:31 +0000 http://doit.jules.com.au/blog/?p=58#comment-40 Yeah I really hope that you make it there too. If not, as a descendant of Prague I would love to take you there some time... (k) Yeah I really hope that you make it there too. If not, as a descendant of Prague I would love to take you there some time… (k)

]]> By: Simon http://jules.com.au/blog/my-kingdom-for-an-internet-connection/comment-page-1/#comment-39 Simon Thu, 15 Jul 2004 01:01:30 +0000 http://doit.jules.com.au/blog/?p=58#comment-39 Ah, you probably didn't calculate in the fact that schoolchildren Europe wide are on their summer holidays right now. Which means a lot of families heading to the coast (hence the traffic), and prices about triple what they would usually be. Soz - should have mentioned that before you left! Prague is awesome according to evryone I know who has been. You'dll be gutted if you miss it. And the beer is *really* cheap. Ah, you probably didn’t calculate in the fact that schoolchildren Europe wide are on their summer holidays right now. Which means a lot of families heading to the coast (hence the traffic), and prices about triple what they would usually be. Soz – should have mentioned that before you left!

Prague is awesome according to evryone I know who has been. You’dll be gutted if you miss it. And the beer is *really* cheap.

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