A Kiwi, but not a flightless bird or brown fuzzy skin green centred fruit. Humanist, Skeptic, Cyclist, Car Enthusiast, Westie Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa New Zealand | he/him
Last meeting of the year is Tomorrow Night! November Meeting - Revit, BIM & Education - Revit User Group Auckland (Auckland) - Meetup Wednesday, November 16, 2011, 5:30 PM Jasmax, 2 Marston Street, Auckland (map) Please join us from 5.30pm: • 6:00pm : Welcome and Introduction • 6:05pm : Presentation:
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Comedy
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_yMRGF5DCI&w=420&h=315] Have seen Don perform a couple of times at Autodesk University, wouldn’t mind seeing again!
Science
@purplefae’s beautiful film tackles the anti-vac myths in a minute. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jsf9b8qa6I&w=560&h=315] More at www.purplefae.com
These eyes didn’t look quite so bright as they closed for the last time just 3 weeks before his 20th birthday. The end of a long & happy life.
Design and Art
Famous, perhaps infamous, for his work at BMW I first heard of Chris Bangle when the Fiat Coupe (right) appeared in the Nineties. In this video he talks about his career, design approach and process from his studio in Northern Italy. Chris Bangle on the future of cars and design
Wed 26 Oct 2011, @Productspec HQ, 14 Holland Street, 5.30 - 7.30pm Come along this Wednesday, have a drink, learn new tricks..! * Everything you wanted to know about Shared Parameters * Alex from RevitWorks will showcase shared parameters - this presentation is suitable for both beginners and gurus. * Precast
A text telling a user to try a generic “caduser” logon on a spare machine* is foiled by iOS Auto-correct. I suspect it will forever be the Cashew workstation from now on. * It was logon specific network problems preventing access to a shared folder so cashew worked fine.
SolidWorks
Traffic Light Thought posts started as a way to capture random, ok rubbish, thoughts which occur waiting for the red lights to change on my commute. They usually appear on the other blog but tonight’s one has a CAD flavour. The car in front had a personalised plate: SOLWRK
Want to build, or maintain, a 2010 Formula 1 Championship winning car? This Haynes Manual would be a good start. The last/only Haynes Manual I owned was for a 1973 Fiat 127. Although the technology in this one is rather different the format is familiar. There are lots of
Aardvark ask a question you probably don’t really want to think about, but should. After all, barring a dramatic medical breakthrough, it’s going to happen and somebody will have to deal with this. Before you die... - aardvark.co.nz If you get hit by a bus tomorrow,
I’ve used Yahoo! mail since 2007, simply because that’s when my ISP changed their mail hosting from MSN to Yahoo! I also have Gmail and Windows Live mail accounts but my primary account is Yahoo! hosted. Until recently their webmail UI was pretty awful but I only used
