Simon Perry: Schemes, dreams & trivia

If you watch skateboard videos, it all looks like you could just get up and do it with a little practice (at your braver times … and from the safety of your chair).
Watching this video will give you quite a different view.

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Have you ever realised that 33+45 = 78?
How strange.
Is this a co-incidence or is there some sort of historical reasoning behind this?

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The sites been offline since the start of December. I just been too busy to get it working again. Found a little time yesterday, so here we are. If I find time over xmas, I’m going to transfer to a different server, so there may be a slight interruption in service again. I’m sure readers […]

Fugro Explorer Front View

Originally uploaded by Nev-Star ^_^.

A visually interesting 4-week journey onboard a state-of-the-art drilling vessel up on Flickr. Best viewed from the whole set.

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Often you find people with names that are linked to their work, for example I had an woodwork teacher - who was a most fantastic bloke - called Mr Wood (Steven Sacks and I used to call him Mr enbonce - wood-en bonce, geddit?!?!).
It appears that this phenomenon isn’t limited to peoples names. Today […]

Lawfare is a new one to me - not being involved with International Politics and all.
It’s the process of attacking a county without firing a bullet, with its thinking originated in China.

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The Queen has to eat all sorts of foods as she travels around the world (we’re told).
One particular events caught my attention. She was supposedly attending an elaborate banquet in China. It consisted of 23 courses and was highly ornate including being decorated with fish swimming in a bowls in the middle of the […]

A couple of years ago I saw an Enzo Ferrari parked in Finchley, no not the bloke, the car that they only made 400 of.
I stumbled across the posting again recently and re-searching on Google. I came across this page of smashed Ferraris. Ignoring the ones where it looks like the drivers got pretty smashed […]

Attracted by the name, how could this now be My New Fave Rave after reading this?
Why make new music when everyday the industry discharges a discontinuous flow of spoiled idols and reanimated heroes? Re-using fragments from this huge musical garbage dump, it is possible to create new meanings and suddenly catch a glimpse of our […]

Just back from Berlin. One difference I noticed, Germans (and possibly other nations) do not walk on escalators.
In the UK the norm is if you want to stand still, you stand on the right hand side. If you’re walking, up or down, you do it on the left.
Most trade fairs are a pretty big rush, […]