Thanks to Brianna for waiting around whilst I launched myself off the Kawarau bridge late last year 🙂 I was totally relaxed, even when standing on the edge. But that feeling of freefall puts me into severe panic. I think I need to do this a few hundred more times to get used to the […]
Better late than never. This was from last year 🙂 Download video
Don’t go outside they say. Get exercise to ward off the virus they say. Those two don’t go well together, so I’m using BoxVR on the Oculus Quest to achieve both 🙂 I bought it a week or so ago, and it’s turning out to be an epically useful little tool for getting exercise in […]
My dear friend Brianna and I had a blast and a half in Iceland! Original file
A video clip from a visit with Llynn to Sanssouci, a palace/park complex in Potsdam.
I headed back to Oslo for the WordCamp Oslo conference, but also to visit some of my favourite humans. Download video file Thanks to Leah for providing the skiing clip of me. I have enough trouble staying upright on those darned skis let alone doing selfie videos 😉
I headed back to Schlachtensee for some skating again, this time with more than just me on the ice 🙂 Download video
I went ice skating in Berlin today 🙂 Beautiful super thick super hard ice. I had the whole lake to myself except when a dad asked me if it was safe for his daughter to hop on for a photo opportunity. To my Berlin friends: Don’t try this unless you know what you are doing. […]
I thought I’d gained weight, but I tried out my Cub Scout uniform from 30 years ago, and it still fits!!!
We went on an awesome bike adventure in the Czech republic and Austria. Big thanks to Robo, Jiri and the others who made the event possible.
Anna and I went site seeing around Berlin. Too much stuff to see, not enough time! We went to Alexanderplatz, did the normal Brandenburger Tor touristy stuff, then headed to the DDR museum. Download video file
Last night I caused Rubens Barrichello, the most experienced Formula 1 driver of all time to crash into me with his racing car.
We cycled from Strausberg to Schwedt in Germany, stopping off at a small border town in Poland along the way. A good time had by all 🙂
I went on an exciting coworking adventure to Timisoara in Romania. I recorded the adventure on my trusty GoPro strapped to a dildo.
I am now famous in the area of “plane landing in dodgy places photography”. The following snapshots are from a DVD called “Bush Flying Basics”.
I can still feel the sensation of my shoulder popping out every time I watch this. It makes me feel queasy! Quite cool to have caught it on camera though 🙂 Thanks to Dave for recording and uploading it 🙂 The video was recorded at Poolburn reservoir in New Zealand. The ice was about 15 […]
Apparently the correct term for ice which looks like glass, is “green ice”. Whilst skating over some incredibly smooth “green ice”, Dave Young decided to poke a hole in it to see how good the visibility was. It then dawned on me that he could attach my ATC2k camera to the end of the pole […]
A photo of mine from the Heidelberg Castle has been used in the documentary “Louis Pasteur: The Space of life“. The image used is from the chemistry laboratory at the castle and was used as the background for the laboratory of Jean Baptiste Biot, the man who discovered the chiral nature of tartaric acid. As […]
Videos from an awesome trip to the Manorburn dam.
Our 500 MHz NMR machine quenched itself today 🙁 Here is an awful quality photo I took of the aftermath. To make things worse, our other machine (300 MHz one) has been out of action since late last year, so we now have no NMR access whatsoever … for any non-chemists out there, this is […]
I’ve gotten a lot of questions about GimpCam and NetCam recently. To save me feeling like a broken record, here’s a selection of pre-prepared answers … Yes I did look like a gimp while wearing it No I’m not going to lend it to you to wear to school No it doesn’t have X-ray vision […]
I’m now famous! My rather crappy videos have made their way onto the What Now TV show. I received an email from them the other day asking if they could screen some of my videos of the recent New Zealand Ice Hockey National Championships on their show. Pity I didn’t know before hand as I’d […]
I’ve been trying to avoid over-running the site with hockey videos from the Nationals, but this one definitely deserves it’s own post 😛 [MEDIA=39] I’ve also posted a higher resolution version here.
Thanks to Abby for the excellent video work. I’m number 98 with the black helmet and white gloves. Download Aardwolfs vs Jurassics video | Download Aardwolfs vs Albury video
The New Zealand National Ice Hockey Championships are on in Dunedin at the moment. I’ll be videoing a few of the games to post on here. I’m not bothering to play as I object to the ~$200/game fee!
During the Christchurch Aardwolfs Southern Migration we stopped off at the Manorburn dam to see what the ice was like. We expected to see nothing but water, but a slither of ice on the bottom basin was enough to give our resident ice expert Clive the hope to have a crack at skating on the […]
I did a bunch of videos of our trip to the Manorburn dam recently. They aren’t very long and I don’t have any of myself unfortunately 🙁
This is blatant piracy. So if you are the copyright holder and don’t want me hosting this video then just wing me an email and I’ll remove it. But since this is my own personal site, I’m not trying to make any money out of it and the news item is about me; I figured […]
The A-grade University of Calgary Intramural hockey finals of 2005. My friend Janay was competing.
Here’s some videos from the finals of the University of Calgary Intramural B-grade and A-grade non-contact hockey leagues. First up are the Stubble Jumpers (the winners). I often played at lunch time with a bunch of these guys and they were pretty pumped to win the B-grade. [MEDIA=27] The next video is of the A-grade. […]
Somehow I managed to end up on the University of Calgary physics hockey team! They were short on players so I signed up and dragged along Janay with me. We had the stunningly geeky name of “Team Group Velocity”. The team was a hotch potch of various levels. We competed in the University of Calgary […]
For Christmas, my friend Mike Boyle took me ice skating in the Rocky Mountains 🙂 The weather was great, well as great as minus 20 degrees can be, and there was HEAPS of ice. Unfortunately there was a tad too much snow to make skating viable. [MEDIA=23]
Well what do you do when you’re stuck in a strange foreign land on Christmas day? You have a Christmas orphans dinner that’s what! Gregor and I bought a turkey, got a bunch of other foreigners (Gregor’s from Oz) and then we deep fried the little bugger – the turkey, not the foreigners! The locals […]
My roommate (flatmate in Kiwi speak) and I went tobogganing. Of course those crazy Canadian kids decided it would be a good idea to build a nice ramp exactly where the natural flow of the hill goes so you end up going backwards at full speed over a ridiculously steep jump! We had a scary […]
30 degrees celcius, blazing sun and a ridiculously cold winter approaching … so what better reason than to have a pool party 🙂 We found a scungy inflatable pool in our shed, got someone to bring along a slip n slide and setup a web cam in our window to catch all the action. Unfortunately […]
The Dunedin Vixens (aka Dunedin Aces women) in action in Nelson, New Zealand. [MEDIA=16] [MEDIA=17] [MEDIA=18] And the result … um, yeah, they got caned. Seems to be a recurring theme for the Dunedin Aces 😛
Here’s some videos of the Dunedin Aces senior team playing in Nelson (South Island of New Zealand) in 2003. We got totally thrashed, but it was a good trip. I’m number 27 in white with black pants with bright blue stripes. And last of all … here’s a video interview with the team by Daniel […]
Check out the video footage from the mighty home of both the Dunedin Aces and Otago University Falcons inline hockey teams. Note the high quality gravel smooth flesh tearing surface 😛 [MEDIA=6] An interview with John Thomsen who is world famous (within Dunedin Aces members) for scoring us a goal against the mighty Nelson Whalers. […]