Surfing around the web at work whilst waiting for a SAS program to run, I came across the Sydney Morning Herald doing a gallery of past apple computers and saw my old Apple IIc (pictured below, c/o SMH). I used this for about six or eight years, from primary school up until the start of year 9 in 1997 (I think) when we finally upgraded, but steered away from the apple’s to a Compaq Pentium 75MHz. But I did return, purchasing an iBook in the middle of 2004 (mainly to help finish my thesis - a lovely little baby 12″ screened one), and am currently looking at moving to either a powermac or imac - or wait till the new Intel chipped version of the powermac comes out.
Check out more of the old apple computers.
Yesterday I was lucky enough to take the day off to go to my graduation for my Masters program - MEngSc in Electrical Power. Was a great day to meet up with some friends of mine (mainly co-op scholars who had their study time increased by one year and took fourth and each summer off to work at one of the sponsor companies). Took my camera and had to leave it with dad to take some of the photos - he’s useless with a camera, but anyhow…
The Formal(ish) Shots
Su (who I work with @ EnergyAustralia) and Chris Conyers
Me + Mum + Dad (thanks to nadine’s dad andy for taking the photo)
nadine + bf andrew + mum + dad
Bonneville Dudgeon Eggleston + mum + dad - Bonne was a Co-op scholar in my undergrad degree, hails from Perth.
Jono Dore + mum - Jono too was a Co-op scholar in my undergrad degree, also a recently retired Australian representative gymnast (trampoline)
The Impromptu Shots
Been practising shooting from the hip a bit and got some shots.
flickr photos - tagged graduation 2006.
Most people know that I have a soft spot for a site called aquabumps. I rave about it quite often” (until people either visit the site or tell me to shut up). Eugene Tan, the man behind it, has been a source of inspiration to me for some time. His photography is absolutely stunning. To make things better, he’s just opened up a gallery space in Bondi (photos of the launch) and it looks absolutely awesome. I can’t wait to go down and check it out.
No this isn’t some crass attempt by someone at paying out mcdonald’s with their flickr account but the user name of one Brian of California in the states. With an impressive collection of recent shots, and an even larger back catalogue of over 20 years shooting his work is amongst the most impressive surf photography on the flickr site. He’s also been a regular on the favourites page a total of 49 times and counting.
 
 
Overall a great photographer and great guy who’s always willing to give some feedback (like here and here) so check him out @ flickr.
We had a little incident at work today. By little, the results were that the entire 24 storey building from around midday. It turns out that a water main on level four decided to break and water gushed everywhere. The floors below were quite quickly evacuated, due to the water running with gravity. Upper floors were allowed to stay, though the lifts were not working. I decided to go have lunch with friends from the 3rd floor. When I came out there were already a couple of fire trucks waiting outside, water pouring out of the elevators (evidently the shafts are the lowest points on each floor) and also out the building onto the footpath outside.
After lunch I tried to get back in, but we were completely shut out - a full evacuation had taken place. Unfortunately my laptop was still upstairs on level 9 so I had to kill time for about 2 more hours before we met up at Hyde Park to find out if/when we could get our stuff today. Turns out we could - but only 2 people per floor… With police escort (poor buggers had to do 8 trips up and down all the way to the 24th floor).
Although I had hoped not to have to go to work tomorrow, I’ll have to arrive between 8:30am and 9am to get in… Looks like it’ll be ‘fun’ nonetheless.