No real change today regarding weather. From brief dialogue with a trucker, who informed me that he couldn't get past a local main road known as Ross River Road due to rain. Last week a similar incident occured on a load destined for Mackay, or at least, it was mentioned. Obviously, this problem is ill out of hand worldwide. This isn't looking good.
Most trucks have the sign shown in these images, however given the change in weather circumstances they probably really should be modified to reflect the current driving situation.

I have been giving this a lot of thought. Personally, I think the gas vehicles should be phased out, or sales banned in favour of the EV given the current situation, which should basically just be the law. IE no selling new gas ones. Also the company vehicles should only be EV which would be legally enforcable also. Until something like this takes place, it's pretty pointless investing in houses or stupid crap like this, because the carbon offset is literally going to wash it all away.

Basically, somehow I managed to go for a very short walk, maybe perhaps a few meters at the weekend and saw a nice duck. I'm guessing it was damn bored with all the false promises of redevelopments around this town, it looked like it had itchy feet.

The other night, I was thinking back to the early days, when we threw our TV away and stopped buying the newspapers around year 2000. In fact, we threw several TV's away and gained minor enjoyment from burning our own rubbish material when I noticed this cunning looking moth on the wall, which I decided to snap. The last actual physical newspaper I can recall purchasing was an edition of the Press & Journal, many many moons ago.

Like everywhere else nowadays, the rain never stops. Most of the time I am feeling like a land, based skipper aka landskipper.
It isn't funny now.

After seeing the amazing possibilities of the panoramic photographs I decided to try taking a landscape image. The scene here is basically a digital painting, much as I'd rather draw things oldschool style, usually I am not having the time or drive to do this. This scene was taken with 6 shots or 8, I can't remember, then ran through some basic software filters and slotted into the panoramic viewer. It is not a true 360 spherical image, but cyclindrical, so there. The reason for this, is that I do not have the equipment to hand that makes taking spherical images easy. It can be done, however, you need something silly like 60 images. All the best locations have been done anyways, but I have some good ideas for this type of photographic twistedness.

Speyside Cooperage, Craigellachie, Banffshire, Scotland in Scotland

After spending many nights avoiding the weather here, of course, basically holed up in the cube surfing the internet, I found a great website for photographs like nothing I've seen before. These images twist all over the shop. I've never seen any normal digital photo do this before. The website is 360 Cities, but there are others. Above is a distillery, close to where I was brought up.

My concern of the environment which is not being taken seriously had me thinking of some basic solutions which are clearly not being implemented in the majority of areas.

Obviously, the intense flooding which is happening needs to be curbed via basic means of engineering which the romans worked out centuries ago using common known structures like viaducts, waterwheels and also the archimedes screw (for moving the water uphill.) These basic structures would easily prevent the majority of urbanised areas from being literally washed away. Sometimes the stupidity of people amazes me.

Add also to the fact that the oil drilling technology appears to be advancing, with regards to the fact that using drillpipe probably won't even be needed, because lasers can drill the hole now (but information on companies specialising in this will be limited for now.)

Anyhow back to the basic problem, while the majority of sensible motorists are probably looking to get the electric car or bike at some point, while the silly ones still like the scenery ruining petrol ones. The urban engineering as in civil needs to be looked at again, otherwise we probably are not going to have homes to go to sooner rather than later.

The attached images are the basics I believe that need implemented on a grand scale in or near populised areas around the world.

These simple provisions would enable a lesser extent of preventable damadge in civilised areas.



This snap is of a laser drilled hole, but not of rock. The idea is there though and there is probably a likelyhood that possibly laser drilled oil is likely. It would seem that the advancement in lasers has made this feasible.