Author Archives: adam

t-minus 4 days…

Its not quite as intense as the leadup to the latest and greatest earth observation satellite launch.. I mean, we don’t have engineers over checking out our packing boxes for structural integrity – but woah – I always forget how much work packing up a life, well, three lives now, is.
We’re leaving Tasmania on Friday, [...]

Movin’ and shakin’

Well, its just about two weeks till we up and shift back north across the moat – Bass Strait. It all seems a little nuts, given that we still don’t officially have a place to move to. Yet. However, Plan A is still on track, and Plans B through Z are pretty well formed.
In other [...]

wide angle

An imagery update – I’ve been getting around to producing some of my own panoramas, as a change from making image mosaics for work…
This one is from Gardner Island, just off Davis Station, Antarctica:

Enjoy…

Blognastics, or the joy of hyperlinks!

Since facebook seems to have taken over my online social life, it seems increasingly difficult for people to venture off to… well, this blog – or the gallery that sits at the same site.
That’s cool – facebook is a kind of ‘one stop shop’, so why would you go anywhere else? Luckily the developers [...]

The enduring peace of a mountain bike trail

I’m feeling like typing, obviously!
I rode a trail I have neglected for a long time the other day. In fact, I’ve ventured down it twice in the last week and a half. It has drawn me in, with a subtle mixture of technical intricacy and moments of unity with the trail, the bike, the [...]

The wisdom of raw humans.

Joe is growing into his new space so amazingly – every day is something a little different. Sure, he does baby things. But the little things that come up every new day! He’ll sit and stare at the world from the safety of my lap – or Bel’s, just absorbing everything. He’ll wake up and [...]

Pulling back the frontiers of science part 1: Fixed width data files

To do science these days you need to be able to deal with very long lists of numbers. Luckily, computers are very good at doing that for us – most of the time.
However, being human we like to screw things up for reasons like ‘it looks nicer’. Which brings me to the topic of this [...]

on freehubs, the universe and everything

I’ve become a bike part cynic. Its sad really, the magical wizardry of shiny new things only makes me suspicious now. I arrived here via a set of fandangle Mavic wheels, that promised, well, to be wheels – but they looked great, rolled really well and I foolishly thought they would last forever.
Ooops.
Now, 18 months [...]

four weeks…

Today, as well as having his photos put on the internet, Joe is four weeks old! I think thats quite the achievement – he’s handling the transition to breathing air and living in a seemingly-endless space quite well.
Bel and I are just amazed constantly by the little fella. Yes, he keeps us up at night, [...]

Photos of the new little man!

I’ve finally got some pictures of Joe together and loaded them to the interweb. I figure the little man deserved at least a few weeks before world-wide exposure and fame. Head to the gallery and see the beautiful man in all his constantly-changing glory..