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Ramblings from a Blue Dot
Monday, November 16, 2009
The Stethoscope
Enjoy! thanks to Donna... by the way KatieB is celebrating her birthday today, wishing her all the best and many more! I think the quote I found is apt, through the Reformation that he started many souls have come to shout Hallelujah! "My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary." Martin Luther (1483 - 1546)
Carbon dioxide helps feed the starving.
posted by RobC @ 9:31 AM |
Thursday, November 05, 2009
Prototyping a screen deflector for the KLR - Part 1
After seeing what was on the market and what I had in the junkbox I decided to Pooratech an extended screen for my KLR, and this was the result so far. Call it some backyard R&D if you will. Post needs some editing and body but this was to get the pictures up in a link for the other Wild Dogs that may be interested.. Shaping and cutting the perspex to resemble something decent. Side View of the perspex showing the curves... Figureing out... Pre fitting then on to the mounting with aluminum brackets... Mounted for test ride Not bad at all! Quite chuffed at the results so far... After all the effort I am quite happy with the result, it does need some more refining though. I think it needs to be higher up and have more support from the rear, that will be in the next update. Material used so far has been; 1 sheet of perspex (must measure it still) Strip of 12mm Aluminum Angle cut as needed. Strip of 25mm flat aluminum cut as needed 8 x 10mm 3mm SS button Allen head screws 6 x 20mm 3mm SS pan head screws (could not get SS Button heads that size) 6 x 3mm heat sink washers 14 x 3mm Nylock Nuts Strips of neoprene rubber for scratch protection Strips of 6mm sealing rubber for cushion between support and screen.
Carbon dioxide helps feed the starving.
posted by RobC @ 2:09 PM |
Monday, November 02, 2009
Ugg the caveman speaks
I often wondered why Cavemen and other Neolithic tribes painted on cave walls and rock faces maybe now I have one reason. They were men and us men are useless at talking... but very good at using our hands so we tend to let our hands do the talking but this seldom has the required result when it comes to communicating with the fairer sex. Our paintings and handiwork is not understood by our soulmates, they would much rather have us say in words what we do not say but say in handiwork or other artifacts we bring back to the cave. Men also do not need to say a lot when together with other men... It probably harks back to the days of hunting Mammoth... one had to be pretty quite around those critters or they would stampede and squash any hunters! Hand signals and bird calls probably conveyed what was needed to execute the task at hand. We men have not mastered the use of language at all, there have been exceptions however, politicians and writers spring to mind. Neither do we feel the need to express our feelings either, lest we give the quarry an inkling of our intent. I really need to work on this language thing before I leave the cave again to go grab that woman by the hair. "The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said." Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
Harley Davison has canned Buell and will be selling MV Agusta as well. I personally think this is a serious error but who am I to question Corporate America? They obviously know what they are doing? Just like GM sold the Hummer to China? I think it was the Japanese that once said "Stop selling your companies if you do not want us to own them". So much expertise is lost when this happens as well and the roll on effect for the staff involved is colossal. I am sure that if they really wanted to the company could have saved the bike brand as well as the brains involved but it may well be that they had too many eggs in the basket and that the other two were impacting on Harley sales. I mean, who wants a Harley when for the same price you can get a Buel that handles like a racing machine? Hopefully the Buell ideals and ideas will find a new home somewhere, I always liked the bikes they produced, albeit not in my budget range... "Only a Biker understands the feeling a dog has poking it's head out of a car window"
I know I have been rather quite of late but after reading this I just had to vent on my blog... I mean, what were they thinking? This man has done NOTHING yet! I was hoping Morgan Tvangarai would win... Now let me go and get a stiff drink!
Carbon dioxide helps feed the starving.
posted by RobC @ 1:13 PM |
Monday, August 17, 2009
Maximum Exodus
Sometimes music can really stir one's soul, especially if the performer is putting his heart and soul into the piece... watch and feel the goosebumps. There is quite a few of Maxim Mrvica'sperformances on YouTube, try and watch them all, you will be enthralled.
Of course the music brings back childhood memory's of drive in movies with my parents and brothers, where I remember hearing this music of Ernest Gold for the first time in the movie Exodus. Andy Williams wrote moving lyrics as well... Exodus: This land is mine God gave this land to me This brave and ancient land to me And when the morning sun Reveals her hills and plains Then I see a land Where children can run free
So take my hand And walk this land with me A nd walk this lovely land with me *Tho'I am just a man When you are by my side With the help of God I know I can be strong
(Repeat *)
To make this land our home If I must fight, I'll fight To make this land our own Until I die, this land is mine
I remember that the movie made quite an impression on me and has probably influenced my feelings for the land of Israel. As a Christian I am even more convinced of the need for us to pray for the Holy Land God gave to the Jewish people. "The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." Exodus, 3. 15
Carbon dioxide helps feed the starving.
posted by RobC @ 8:42 PM |
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Forget Swine Flu...
Wait till you get the YoYo Flu, it makes you feel ok twice a day and rotten at least three times untill you reach the end of your tether and head off to bed... They say it takes two weeks or a fortnight to clear up... I am halfway there! "After you've been in a place for a while, everything starts to look... I won't say better, there's no need to go to extremes...but your everyday life does start to become...familiar." David Assael, Northern Exposure, Russian Flu, 1990
Carbon dioxide helps feed the starving.
posted by RobC @ 8:46 PM |
Monday, May 18, 2009
Stop...
means STOP! Even a kid knows that... Or so I thought, this past Saturday I was gobsmacked when virtually the whole Quad class ignored this most basic of signs and proceeded to blast over the crossing at top speed. Of course the subsequent list of exclusions from the day's results was not taken well by many. Unfortunately I am not letting safety take a second place to popularity or convenience, neither did some of the race jury members, MSA now has to decide... and I will comment further when that happens. in the meantime... please Stop!
"With a stop light, green means 'go' and yellow means 'slow down'. With a banana, however, it is quite the opposite. Yellow means 'go', green means 'whoa, slow down', and red means 'where the heck did you get that banana?'" Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
"One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop." G. Weilacher
Carbon dioxide helps feed the starving.
posted by RobC @ 10:01 PM |
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Calling all South Africans @ 21:00 Today
Calling all South Africans (and people who care) to pray at this CRITICAL time, for GOD to give our country the right goverment this coming Wednesday when we go to vote...
2 Chronicles 7 v 14 d If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and I will heal their land.
Proverbs 29 v 2 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
In the light of the coming elections Wednesday, please, pray for our Country at seven PM today, leave the news or whatever is on MNET and go on your knees with your family for a while...
'Heavenly Father, thank you that we can take comfort in the fact that you are in control of every situation. We pray for a godly, honest leader for our country, South Africa. God YOU make the impossible, possible. We pray for a leader who will bring peace and reconciliation to our land.
We pray for a free and fair election tomorrow.
We pray that YOUR people in South Africa will keep their eyes on YOU and that you will bless them. We pray this in the precious name of JESUS.
Carbon dioxide helps feed the starving.
posted by RobC @ 12:25 PM |
Musings about life on this blue dot we call home.
Mostly from a puzzled males perspective as he enjoys the ride of his life through space and time in the company of friends and with music in his ears.
Aided by technology and an inherent love of all things mechanical. From astronomy to muzic and eclectic thoughts in between...
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