Monday, March 28, 2011
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Friday, March 25, 2011
screw this.....i need coffee!
then drive to Tauranga....
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Adam liberty vintage cycle - Adam Cramer- CAFE RACER BUILDER PHILADELPH...
Bloody Awesome! :)
Makes me want to walk out of the office, walk straight into my dad's shed and start rebuilding the XS850 and 3TA.......
His website is http://www.site.libertyvintage.com/
Note to self: No matter what, own a garage within 3 years. My tools/bikes are my family, the deserve their own room. Just as much as my future son.
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Saturday, March 19, 2011
Atlast Shrugged part 1......IN MOVIE FORM
This has to be one of my all time favorite books. EVERY HARD WORKER SHOULD READ IT.
Before all of you ask me, "Who is John Galt?" - he is the creator of the engine.
Engine of what you ask? Now that would be telling.......
http://www.atlasshruggedpart1.com
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Engine of what you ask? Now that would be telling.......
http://www.atlasshruggedpart1.com
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Japan footage
No doubt many of you have been hanging on news from Japan.
Well those of you whom have been checking my blog would have noticed the sidebar here>>>>>
being updated every time you refresh with new news from Japan.
The most popular contributor for many has been Reuters. Which has ran and live open stream for anyone to comment. This has allowed for scientists to put their own 2 cents in, and is completely unbiased.
However for those of us who don't have time for reading there are the following streams:
BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698
Al Jazeera
http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/
and of course the one closest to the ground with the most current information
NHK
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/
New Zealand coverage is getting better.........but its still crap. We seem more preoccupied with a pompous prince in our country than quite possibly the worst disaster of our generation.
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Well those of you whom have been checking my blog would have noticed the sidebar here>>>>>
being updated every time you refresh with new news from Japan.
The most popular contributor for many has been Reuters. Which has ran and live open stream for anyone to comment. This has allowed for scientists to put their own 2 cents in, and is completely unbiased.
However for those of us who don't have time for reading there are the following streams:
BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698
Al Jazeera
http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/
and of course the one closest to the ground with the most current information
NHK
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/
New Zealand coverage is getting better.........but its still crap. We seem more preoccupied with a pompous prince in our country than quite possibly the worst disaster of our generation.
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Friday, March 18, 2011
The war on Chernobyl Documentary
Everyone should watch this. I can help but feel for the people in Japan right now. While this is worse that what they have right now, imagine what will be happening to those whom live within 100km of their failed reactor.
It is worth noting that Japan has 4 failed reactors, and Chernobyl only had one......
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It is worth noting that Japan has 4 failed reactors, and Chernobyl only had one......
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Thursday, March 17, 2011
Mega Ultra Awesome Combos
For those of you whom loved this era of button mashing fun......here is some real life awesomeness......
Ultra Combos 2 brought to you by Prank Videos
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Ultra Combos 2 brought to you by Prank Videos
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011
A matter of Perspective.
Japanese House...........Middle of Ocean
Something is wrong with this picture
Navy spotted it.....a long way from 'home'
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Something is wrong with this picture
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Saturday, March 12, 2011
Best way to get updates from Japan
http://blogs.aljazeera.net/live/asia/live-blog-japan-earthquake
Screw NZ TV updates.....bloody joke here
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Screw NZ TV updates.....bloody joke here
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Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Some old notes I had from 2008.......oddly put into a folder named only "book"
Written 2008….notes for book??? Or more random ramblings…..
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Well its 0700, i have been up since 0530, while this in turn is not shocking (lord knows i have done worse to my body in the past). I figure it is time i taught myself how to be a better person.
So welcome to the Journey.
I'm sorry if the terms i use in this book feel very "Engineer-like", but that is what i am. I walked away with my Bachelors and enough hands on skills to take on the world. How little did i know that I would become my own worst enemy in terms of my own future progress? That brings me to my first topic :
Resistance:
Contrary to most beliefs resistance is not the ability to stop things.
It is actually the ability to slow things.
So how does this translate to your life? We'll to put it nicely Human
resistance is the ability (whether you want it or not) to slow things as
they pass through you.
Human resistance however due to materials that make us up, changes. So while
one day you may be massively affected by something that is presented to you,
you may become hardened to these items in future. It is all relative to your
perspective at the time. This change in resistance can make grown men cry and
sweet women cruel.
A visual example of living resistance is that of a river bed. A river bed is
forever changing. Some days its collects more resistance in the forms of silt,
tree branches, river rocks changing position, even kids slowing up the river
flow for fun. But likewise every year, in the wet seasons a massive flood
washes down the river and often removes all excess resistance from the bed.
As humans we are not so lucky, we can quite often collect resistance and
store it for many years. And just like a river collecting excess resistance,
we eventually end up with a dam - blocking all flows through us.
This brings me to the next topic, directly related to resistance : conductivity.
Conductivity is the science of breaking resistance, allowing things to flow through or past you. The best saying I have ever heard on manipulating conductivity was by the hong kong great, bruce lee. Bruce states `you must become fluid like water...if water goes into a glass water becomes the glass.`
This means that you need to be able to change when situations change. You need to be dynanic AND flexible. You need to be water. You need to conduct in your chosen environment.
The downside of conductivity is the fact that people can also become weak. With a lack o their own resisatance. To looks back a bruces thoery. What good is a cup of water chucked in the ocean.
So now its sounding complicated
The reality in life is a lot of things sound difficult but in reality they are simpler then you have percieved them. Very few things in history are achievable by savants alone.
Tiger woods is not the greatest golfer there will always be.
It has been a while since I have updated here but here is the basic rundown. I left hvpower for no reason but leaving NZ for a job I Aussie. The money was not better. But I was getting to safe...... But opening a can of worms is an understatement to how tough it’s been. But I know what I know. And most of the time lessons are learnt the hard way.
So with that said today’s term is... Serenity.
Contrary to what you are thinking. Serenity is not always a good think. For two reasons as there are two versions of serenity. The achievable and the unachievable. Achievable serenity is the kind where you have to do nothing and it appears. When I was young and stupid - I could achieve this on daily basis. At the time I was growing. Trading and taking drugs. I was troubled by my home life at te time and while I needed to be calm a collected around my peers a family. I was losing it inside. Drugs gave me the calm serenity I needed. But took away more than I could imagine. They took away my drive to achieve greater tasks. To pass my comfort zone. I was not going backwards by any means. But I would never go forward either. I had reached achievable serenity. The good balanced the bad and all was right with the world.
Unachievable serenity is the kind where you get o satisfaction at all. A lot of people will tell you that you can achieve anything at all. I'm going to tell you that if you try you may lose it all.
When I was a child I hated heights. This was fear nothing more or less. But a fear that told me that I could achieve nothing to do with heights. But if I ignored that fear. Attempted Everest and died who would have said "maybe that was a bad idea because he was scared".
But alas I digress. My key points here are you fears most of the times are the opposites of your ambitions. If a fear is found fundamental to you - it may be there for a reason. See if you can find an alternative rather than always conquer you fear. You may find that the alternative is your nice. Rather than bastardising your goals so that you achieve "a pass" in something you had no interest in, in the first place.
I bet the guy named Jesus made a really crap carpenter do his fear of being told what to do. Who knows - maybe he walked on water because he could not swim?
Either way if Jesus was to die a man in serenity. He was not going to do it via building a nice house.
www.farrst.blogspot.com
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Well its 0700, i have been up since 0530, while this in turn is not shocking (lord knows i have done worse to my body in the past). I figure it is time i taught myself how to be a better person.
So welcome to the Journey.
I'm sorry if the terms i use in this book feel very "Engineer-like", but that is what i am. I walked away with my Bachelors and enough hands on skills to take on the world. How little did i know that I would become my own worst enemy in terms of my own future progress? That brings me to my first topic :
Resistance:
Contrary to most beliefs resistance is not the ability to stop things.
It is actually the ability to slow things.
So how does this translate to your life? We'll to put it nicely Human
resistance is the ability (whether you want it or not) to slow things as
they pass through you.
Human resistance however due to materials that make us up, changes. So while
one day you may be massively affected by something that is presented to you,
you may become hardened to these items in future. It is all relative to your
perspective at the time. This change in resistance can make grown men cry and
sweet women cruel.
A visual example of living resistance is that of a river bed. A river bed is
forever changing. Some days its collects more resistance in the forms of silt,
tree branches, river rocks changing position, even kids slowing up the river
flow for fun. But likewise every year, in the wet seasons a massive flood
washes down the river and often removes all excess resistance from the bed.
As humans we are not so lucky, we can quite often collect resistance and
store it for many years. And just like a river collecting excess resistance,
we eventually end up with a dam - blocking all flows through us.
This brings me to the next topic, directly related to resistance : conductivity.
Conductivity is the science of breaking resistance, allowing things to flow through or past you. The best saying I have ever heard on manipulating conductivity was by the hong kong great, bruce lee. Bruce states `you must become fluid like water...if water goes into a glass water becomes the glass.`
This means that you need to be able to change when situations change. You need to be dynanic AND flexible. You need to be water. You need to conduct in your chosen environment.
The downside of conductivity is the fact that people can also become weak. With a lack o their own resisatance. To looks back a bruces thoery. What good is a cup of water chucked in the ocean.
So now its sounding complicated
The reality in life is a lot of things sound difficult but in reality they are simpler then you have percieved them. Very few things in history are achievable by savants alone.
Tiger woods is not the greatest golfer there will always be.
It has been a while since I have updated here but here is the basic rundown. I left hvpower for no reason but leaving NZ for a job I Aussie. The money was not better. But I was getting to safe...... But opening a can of worms is an understatement to how tough it’s been. But I know what I know. And most of the time lessons are learnt the hard way.
So with that said today’s term is... Serenity.
Contrary to what you are thinking. Serenity is not always a good think. For two reasons as there are two versions of serenity. The achievable and the unachievable. Achievable serenity is the kind where you have to do nothing and it appears. When I was young and stupid - I could achieve this on daily basis. At the time I was growing. Trading and taking drugs. I was troubled by my home life at te time and while I needed to be calm a collected around my peers a family. I was losing it inside. Drugs gave me the calm serenity I needed. But took away more than I could imagine. They took away my drive to achieve greater tasks. To pass my comfort zone. I was not going backwards by any means. But I would never go forward either. I had reached achievable serenity. The good balanced the bad and all was right with the world.
Unachievable serenity is the kind where you get o satisfaction at all. A lot of people will tell you that you can achieve anything at all. I'm going to tell you that if you try you may lose it all.
When I was a child I hated heights. This was fear nothing more or less. But a fear that told me that I could achieve nothing to do with heights. But if I ignored that fear. Attempted Everest and died who would have said "maybe that was a bad idea because he was scared".
But alas I digress. My key points here are you fears most of the times are the opposites of your ambitions. If a fear is found fundamental to you - it may be there for a reason. See if you can find an alternative rather than always conquer you fear. You may find that the alternative is your nice. Rather than bastardising your goals so that you achieve "a pass" in something you had no interest in, in the first place.
I bet the guy named Jesus made a really crap carpenter do his fear of being told what to do. Who knows - maybe he walked on water because he could not swim?
Either way if Jesus was to die a man in serenity. He was not going to do it via building a nice house.
www.farrst.blogspot.com
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