Tilt-Shift?

Found this thing. Shot in Boondall, a couple of weeks ago. Very cool.


Metal Heart from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

Show, how you doin?

I couldn't be bothered watching crap on tv tonight, so I sat and watched the skies.

Got the following photos. Skip through if you're bored with nature, and stuff.

Plenty of Frequency:


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Amazing Bureaucracy

As of 10 minutes ago, I am the MOST impressed as I ever have been with respect to any given bureaucracy. (MAN, how hard is it to sepll THAT word??)

I paid my vehicle registration for both car and bike last week. (Don't have them organised to be concurrent or purple, it just happens that way...) I paid them online.

I got ONE envelope today, containing BOTH rego slips, and nothing else!! No advertising, to superfluous letters saying i've changed CTP angencies (which I had, in both...) or anything. Unbelievable.

But very good. Everyone else, GET THE MESSAGE!!

Biggestest Loser (me, prolly...)

I admit it: We're hooked. Carmen says she likes to watch fat people exercise, but I have to admit in the anonymity of that thar intawebs that it's sucked me in with the emotion and personal triumph and the addressing of peoples underlying issues (well, if they're not lying under too much...) I like this show. If we're not home, we tape it. Like I said, addicted.

Anyhoo, two of the people on it (I'm not going to call them contestants) have discovered that they like each other. As soon as I saw that, I thought "Kimmy would say 'Ooh, the fatties have found love'." I had a little chuckle, at my imagination of her... Disclaimer: Kim did not say that. As far as I know.

And as for Sheridan, Cosi is spot on. She's a child. Michael will see that soon, and as quick as you can say "catered japanese food, personal chef", she will have her first ever broken heart.

Man, I'm cold. Didn't mean for that to sound mean, ... but ... no, Rob, dig up!!

bored yet?

So, have you stopped checking my blog? I haven't. Nah, 's true. I have an rss feed to my google.com/ig and every time I scroll down to see if there are any new posts here.

There aren't.

So, what have we done?

Activities have included such things as:

Spent the weekend with friends at Marcoola.

Helped Ben and Bonnie move. We moved into our new house. Housewarming party. Helped Steve and Schalk move. Helped John H move. Helped Matt and Liss move (well, took their mower and whipper-snipper over, anyway. Moved some stuff of Stu and Christy's to our place.

Going to NZ tomorrow for 5 days.

etc.

MyFace, BookSpace, et al

{Rant}
See Carmen's blog.

I can't be bothered, either creating ANOTHER account with ANOTHER website, to read their advertising, be bothered by an email telling me that someone sent me an email, and stuff. I figgure, if you want your photos to be publicly available, and want your mates who you don't catch up with regularly to know what's going on, Get a photo account with someone like flickr or photobucket, and maybe start a blog.

"Social networking", my donkey." They JUST WANT YOUR DETAILS TO SELL TO PEOPLE, people.

Or whatever.

{/Rant}

*sigh*

oooh, Flexxy

If I was to say "Flexcentric" to you, what would that mean? You'd probably say "He's making up words again."

And if I was to follow that up with "Patent, built under licence, not at liberty to disclose", you'd say "Ahh, very hush-hush. Say. No. More."

Well, I work here, and I work on these. Cool, hey. Indirectly actuated vibratory, 3-D modelled in AutoDesk Inventor. Good stuff.



So let's say I got an evaluation copy of Inventor, and installed it at home. What would I do? Would I do work at home? No, not really possible, since we use SAP, and I can't be bothered getting the necessary setup done. Would I ... Convert to 3D the model of the bike i drew in AutoCAD LT a couple of years ago? Yep, done that. So now what?



Now, is a new, better CV joint. The bane of all IFS 4wd'ers. I saw a snippet on the news the other day about a dude who has invented something that might be this, but i didn't catch the whole article. D'oh. Better get in quick then, hey?



My thoughts are ... Yeah, right. Give away my thoughts here. Tell you what: i'll sell them to you. Contact me via this blog....



Right.



Pajero IFS, with shock (blue), torsion Bar (black, near the bottom, coming in from left), steering arm (brownish, horizontal), new CV boots (the shiny black rubber things), Ventilated disc (ooh, shiny), and manual-locking hub.

K?

title case

I thought I'd better clear it up pretty quickly: the title of this blog is an homage to Luke's speech at my wedding, when he mentioned that Carmen and I were each the most correct choice for the other, referring to our (and my in particular) pedantic leanings...

So rather than thinking that I am all that, I am just admitting to my melancholic side. I'm not a ferpectionist, just someone who likes things done right. Or correctly...

First Post!!eleven!

The Pupose: to present an easy place for folks to see my life, I guess. I've held out for so long, because I've thought it's an exercise in public introspection and narcissism. But whatever. Bandwagen, (the german version...) here I come!

Of course, because I'm me, I'll be including an error in every post, and the first person who points it out will get ... the opportunity to correct me? Ahdunno, no prize necessary, i rekn.

Have fun.