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Cor. Uncle Nic.
(That's CDoctorow's version. I have also heard '... is an extra' and 'is window-dressing')
(That's CDoctorow's version. I have also heard '... is an extra' and 'is window-dressing')
(I recall posting about big kites before, but finding same would require delving through the bits of LJ that I made private because they were too tiresome. Thus I probably repeat myself with a periodicity of about five years. That's not too bad in human terms.)
I've had a 10-foot Flexfoil since, um, 1990. I used to fly the thing all the damn time. Not long after that, I bagged myself a Flexifoil Impulse delta (I don't think they make them any more) and flew that when I wasn't being dragged about by the big foil. Now that I come to enumerate my kites, I discover another delta that has 'LA Cut' and 'Far out' on its bag. It seems to be from HK and the manual's in German. I don't recall ever flying the poor beast, which is a terrible thing.
Anyway. For the first time in far too long,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jarkman and I went out for a bit of a drag on top of a hill...
( A lack of verticality )
... Which was jolly good fun and we should do it again. Assuming none of my kit's suffered UV-rot in the meantime.
I've had a 10-foot Flexfoil since, um, 1990. I used to fly the thing all the damn time. Not long after that, I bagged myself a Flexifoil Impulse delta (I don't think they make them any more) and flew that when I wasn't being dragged about by the big foil. Now that I come to enumerate my kites, I discover another delta that has 'LA Cut' and 'Far out' on its bag. It seems to be from HK and the manual's in German. I don't recall ever flying the poor beast, which is a terrible thing.
Anyway. For the first time in far too long,
jarkman and I went out for a bit of a drag on top of a hill...( A lack of verticality )
... Which was jolly good fun and we should do it again. Assuming none of my kit's suffered UV-rot in the meantime.
Grams: A Peel programme from 1981 (Sessions from Ski Patrol and A Flock of Haircuts) which is currently sounding very 2005 in a cheerily post-punk manner. if a little faster than nature intended I suspect.
You know, I'd forgotten that SLF had a reggae-and-saxophone direction that made them sound like SoD.
Also: Peel torrents. I imagine you buggers knew all along. It's a terrible choice - the 80s Festive Fifties or the 90s? Obviously the 80s for me. They may be dead, but they feature far more Three Johns.
Meanwhile, can I feel less horrible please? I've just laughed my socks off watching Hammond piloting an expensive carbon fibre Trek badly across London - up the inside of buses and the saddle height was wrong, yet I still feel rancid. A pox on this, er, pox.
You know, I'd forgotten that SLF had a reggae-and-saxophone direction that made them sound like SoD.
Also: Peel torrents. I imagine you buggers knew all along. It's a terrible choice - the 80s Festive Fifties or the 90s? Obviously the 80s for me. They may be dead, but they feature far more Three Johns.
Meanwhile, can I feel less horrible please? I've just laughed my socks off watching Hammond piloting an expensive carbon fibre Trek badly across London - up the inside of buses and the saddle height was wrong, yet I still feel rancid. A pox on this, er, pox.
Tricky chap, Johnny Object.
Sep. 19th, 2006 10:47 amWas pointed here by jarkman. Poked about a bit, finding it generally good, but started to wonder what that Wirth fellow was up to these days.
How was a chap expected to resist downloading an environment called 'Bluebottle'? If only to find out if there are applications called 'Eccles' and/or 'Seagoon'.
Bugger piracy, have started to talk like Uncle Jimmy. Dashed odd.
jarkman. Poked about a bit, finding it generally good, but started to wonder what that Wirth fellow was up to these days.How was a chap expected to resist downloading an environment called 'Bluebottle'? If only to find out if there are applications called 'Eccles' and/or 'Seagoon'.
Bugger piracy, have started to talk like Uncle Jimmy. Dashed odd.
