This is the way to wash the clothes now. The machines here are not that great, you don't really need 'em. A $5 hand rake seems to work pretty good. I was looking for the proper hand-washing machine thing, but the chances of finding it here in redneck country are slim to nil. Oh well.

Met some Aboriginal people the other day, which I found pretty chilled out in general. I haven't seen many Aboriginals in Aus because the place is predominantly dominated with Kiwi's, Yanks, etc. It is pretty frustrating for the Aboriginals. Once where probably lied sacred ground is now built up with Mcdonalds or Kmart... Overall, they are ok with me. I think if you was a city slicker it may become a different story pretty quickly. I just keep myself to myself. Incidentally the guy I met was Rugby league player which would make sense, sport is big here.

The image above is from b-j history.com I'm not sure if it's copyright.
Also, something worthy of note is that in all the Google translations, you won't find Aboriginal listed as a recognised language...

Worked on this one over 2 days using software. Took a lot of thought this one.

Right, back on the subject of rain. Tonight I decided to follow the river along to the main dam. As per normal, the rain was on and heavy. From reading the information on the goverment website here, it seems the dam was pretty recently installed, in around 2009. I'm piecing together various bits of info and judging from what I can see, it would seem realistic given the weather situation here to expect some pretty bad flooding in this town at some point. The last bad ones were in 1998 when some houses got washed away. From looking at the maps, this place has one really bad achillies heel and that is of the main river. In the instance of fierce weather, this dam simply won't be able to cope. The only slight possibility of easing the water situation would be to widen the main river in order to let the water flow through a wider channel, thus making the town less prone to a catastrophic flood situation. However, this being capitolist place, basically most of the land has been built on, so it would be hard to do this. Also, the petrol consumption here is heavy, so the rain gets harder all the time. The info i read was that 200 - 700mm of rainfall in 24 hours is enough to be of concern, but I would reckon, this amount is easily being hit or exceeded within half that timeframe just now. I don't care anymore, I know from experience by the time you get the plan to the people that can do anything about it, it's often too late. So, personal prediction, this town would have maybe 2 years before being destroyed with water at current rates of rainfall/fuel consumption. Really, now would be about the time, to start carving out an ark...

Last night, I was just sitting in my cube waiting for my bed to arrive which will be a few weeks, grr, while the rain started up again.

I had been reading some interesting stories on Anti-Matter and Teleportation. The thing that is puzzling me is that in 2006 apparently a patent was granted (I can not verify if it is genuine at this stage) for a device or arrangment known as "Human Teleportation System." Now, it is my understanding, if a patent is granted, usually some kind of inspection is done or performed as per the originality and genuine practical workings of the subeject before it is granted. If so, basically, that means we are now able to teleport, or somebody somewhere probably is just now.

As for the Anti-Matter that is a complete other story which I am only beginning to understand the uses of such material. I have seen drawings of the containment device, which is very simple. The basic risk would only be a problem if electricity is cut to the container, in such instance, the magnetic properties fail and everything gets wasted basically.

It is very interesting, I think the idea is to make anti-matter just now, and then try and figure out uses for it later.

OK so, you got to see the rain down here. OMG hard, hard rainstorms. At the end of play today all I could see was thick black clouds/lightning as if someone had burst oil barrels in the sky. When it comes in, you got to move fast because the roads do flood quite often. One day I had to ram the scooter through a pretty deep 1/2 foot deep trench to get home. I though it would probably gash the bike, but at that point in time I truly wasn't caring anymore. You can't get moved down here for 4x4's etc, if the roads flood, it just makes things even more miserable than they probably should be. The cops and ambulance service are probably kept busy enough with these type of things during rain season. All I can say, is that tommorow I will be in the forklift if the weather is going to be like this all day again. It is possible this entire area could just flood given what i've seen is possible with Aus weather. Victoria gets the h2o treatment quite often and the last time I checked it had been buttered over badly about 2 or 3 times this year alone, I mean B U T T E R E D :(
There is all sort of intersting stories to tell you but tonight I am too tired to even do my weights and it looks like tommorow will be very busy again. Containers are flying around all over the place just now, with never-ending lorries. Of course I have a lot on my own mind apart from just business, but in the immediate, basically just staying alive and trying to outsmart the weather without becoming gored on the way to work.

Something that sprung to mind last night which I decided to copyright (C) as my own idea was that of the flying hovercraft (not to be confused with a very poor rendition made by a Kiwi recently.) Nah, a proper one. Check the hazy image for a slim idea of how it works...


The general idea is from the Parajet Skycar, but after seeing the worldwide flood damadge it crossed my mind that perhaps the original concept could be modified in order to facilitate these impassible areas, giving the user even more freedom. In short, if you was honestly flying around in a flying car and found that by bad fortune the landing spot of road was flooded, you'd quickly be in a world of hurt. Cue the flying hovercraft.


The model below is a combination of publicly available models on google sketchup, one of a parajet, and the other, of a concept 8 man hovercraft. Basically I just slapped them together, you know, keep it simple is something I always liked. Credits to them whoever they are for the models.

We was talking today about films. Somwhere it transpired that these guys watch films on what is known as "Blu Ray" discs. The only discs I bought in days past was DVD discs. I think these "Blu Ray" discs has been around over 5 years and I can honestly say I have never seen one title on this format. Every time I was told, the picture is sharper, better etc. Frankly I'm fed up with it all. All the best films, I've seen, and most of the best/creative people are probably dead now... Anyways, there's something to be said for not following the trend all the time. The last I heard, they was making a computer game costing $200 that basically involves trying to kill Fidel Castro, all in super sharp high defining graphics. Things has moved on a long way from the Amiga.