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Peter Ashby

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:54:54 +1300

you have to develop a sort of zen acceptance of failure to keep at this game.

Sounds like my PhD, after spending the first year using a technique that wasn't working to look for something that wasn't there I moved on to something that took 8ish months to make work,…

Sofie Bribiesca

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:35:14 +1300

cocktails in definitely outatheway places...

And outonalimb cheezus! all safe, mmmmm :) (as an aside)

Islander

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:32:51 +1300

I have a hoard of rockets – the wee ones, skyrockets, upward meteors...for power, baboomba (as my late uncle Bill called it) I go for
cocktails in definitely outatheway places...

James Green

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:28:46 +1300

All this talk of rockets reminds of Sam Mahon's attempt to send a golfball into orbit that played God Defend New Zealand. It must be an old TV program, as there is little trace of it on teh interweb :(

Paul Campbell

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:26:36 +1300

Since this is the PA Friday and this is relevant to the previous post I offer this

Danielle

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:30:40 +1300

Speaking of big rockets – they're about to run one into the moon.

And lo, everything ever predicted in the brilliant late-90s low-budget HBO sketch comedy series Mr Show shall come to pass:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csj7vMKy4EI

(Watch out for Sarah Silverman three minutes in.)

Sacha

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:16:51 +1300

Nice Douglas Adams reference in that twitterstream.

“That's it! Ground! Ha! I wonder if it'll be friends with me?”

tim kong

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:56:20 +1300

Speaking of big rockets – they're about to run one into the moon.

And they're streaming it live.

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

Computer screens filled with text. Check!
Mandatory US flag attached to wall for no apparent reason. Check!

And the LCROSS unit is even on twitter.

http://twitter.com/LCROSS_NASA

Where am I now? Travelin'…

Evan Yates

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:36:09 +1300

I love rockets.
I go to the National High-Power Launch days to watch the big boys fly their missiles. I witnessed a rocket called "Sugar Rush" fly on a shot of homemade fuel mainly composed of (funnily enough) sugar. It blew over the steel girder launch tower as it headed…

Sofie Bribiesca

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:10:07 +1300

Spooky, it's like she heard man, and I was only tapping on the keyboard :)

Sofie Bribiesca

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:06:12 +1300

Be a devil..

But have you met the sister?

Sacha

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:02:12 +1300

Be a devil..

Sofie Bribiesca

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:59:09 +1300

This is why I miss PAS Auckland time. So much of this requires watching, out loud, but at 7 in the morning over here I have to wait. I mean, Stuey (my hero) and Rocket man...taps fingers... .... ..... .... Do I wake others? .... .....

Sam F

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:28:45 +1300

As I said above rockets go wrong easily, and usually spectacularly in front of your friends leaving you looking sheepish and feeling foolish while everyone else is whooping it up .... a lot of people get discouraged and don't come back – you have to develop a sort of zen…

Paul Williams

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:39:50 +1300

The 1978 Shatner 'Rocket Man' is possibly the peak of western civilisation.

If not the peak of PAS cultural pastiche? Shatner's such a douche but this works.

Paul Campbell

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:18:27 +1300

Sometimes a rocket is just a rocket?

Play with these long enough and you've heard all the Freud jokes – sometimes a rocket is just a rocket – some people do it for the challenge of building something cool, others just like the big noise.

As I said above rockets…

3410

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:14:27 +1300

Speaking of awesome/terrible spoken word performances...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xNBsueJ4wY

Ross Mason

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:10:02 +1300

Little Boys.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg8q8WTkDY8

Don't ya love the time travel~~~~~~~~!!!!

Rich Lock

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:05:58 +1300

now you see I walk through a hardware store and see things shaped like that and start to dream

Heh. Lucky all those crazy Freudian theories about sexual desire as the primary motivational energy of human life have been discredited, eh?

Otherwise we could have a lot of fun with…

Sam F

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:03:07 +1300

But y'all really must read Leo's awesome review of Dead Space: Extraction on the Wii. The boy can write.

Certainly I couldn't help but admire this:

Dead Space Extraction takes place in the media hub that is the Dead Space franchise. The series is a cake made of win and…

Sacha

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:52:02 +1300

That's a mighty big toy.

Paul Campbell

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:49:45 +1300

now you see I walk through a hardware store and see things shaped like that and start to dream .... that link above is what happens when someone comes across concrete pipe formers in a mitre-10 equivalent

Sacha

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:46:13 +1300

I have a pen that looks exactly like that rocket above

And some leftover V2 components prop up the building overlooking Aotea Square.

Hadyn Green

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:44:34 +1300

Followed closely by the Nimoy "Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" (no time to go hunting for it on YouTube – one of you lovely people will doubtless have it bookmarked...)

No...shut up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC73PHdQX04

Robyn Gallagher

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:26:11 +1300

The 1978 Shatner 'Rocket Man' is possibly the peak of western civilisation.

It is a masterclass in the arts of actorising and singerisation.

Josh Addison

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:23:21 +1300

The 1978 Shatner 'Rocket Man' is possibly the peak of western civilisation.

Followed closely by the Nimoy "Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" (no time to go hunting for it on YouTube – one of you lovely people will doubtless have it bookmarked...)

Geoff Lealand

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:22:44 +1300

I have a pen that looks exactly like that rocket above.

Russell Brown

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:20:40 +1300

Thanks for stepping into the breach, David. I stayed up late and played with the cool kids after the music awards last night, so I'm giving myself a day off from everything.

But y'all really must read Leo's awesome review of Dead Space: Extraction on the Wii. The boy can…

Tony Parker

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:20:09 +1300

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYYezjkoVtw

Lyndon Hood

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:15:43 +1300

Since nobody else has said it yet...

"a 100 per cent certifiable fucking genius"

Bit of a rocket scientist, is he?

Danielle

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:55:04 +1300

1. The 1978 Shatner 'Rocket Man' is possibly the peak of western civilisation. When I first saw it I thought I was going to levitate with joy.

2. If working in a library was anything like 'Elektrobank' sounds I would be stoked. Also, I own possibly the most incongruous piece…

3410

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:47:00 +1300

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXuSWUXDnuo&feature=related

Sacha

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:41:45 +1300

Sofia Coppola styles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVrA2mtrHUM

Just thinking

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:35:37 +1300

One minute in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lul-Y8vSr0I&feature=related

Danielle

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:33:56 +1300

Libraries, boring ?

Ah, but I don't work in a library any more! (At least for the moment. Until I get pulled back in like Al Pacino in Godfather III, and my soul dies horribly, Sofia Coppola styles.)

Sacha

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:30:30 +1300

Libraries, boring ?

Paul Campbell

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:29:54 +1300

Paul Campbell

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:29:54 +1300

here's the link I always give people who wonder 'how big' – my biggest project has only been about 4m long (one has to give serious consideration to such important design issues such as "how to get it in the car")

Danielle

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:25:06 +1300

I've flown big rockets for fun for over 20 years

I can safely say that this is a sentence I never expected to read on PAS.

Also, it is at moments like these that I become overwhelmed by how profoundly boring I am. :)

Paul Campbell

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:18:18 +1300

I've flown big rockets for fun for over 20 years – mostly out in the Black Rock desert in Nevada back when I used to live in the US (it's harder here to find places to fly that are both fire-safe and easily recoverable).

We were always limited by the…

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Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:18:18 +1300

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