well , the Auslocks test run didn’t go quite according to “plan” on my birthday today …
After riding it for a few waves , then having the surf on that bank basically disappear , I switched to the ‘moonrocket’ , padddled down the beach and caught a few at a different bank .
Then , around 10am , just before Hicksy’s wife Jo arrived with the kids ,
wipeout ,
second flyer to the head ,
lots of blood , and …just as Jo and the kids arrive on the beach at Lancelin , greeted by the sight of bloody headed Ben , leaving to get stitched up .
3 stitches , and 40 minutes with a nice nurse who surfed , whose husband makes boards , and five injections to numb the area.
well , I got one longish lefthander and one half decent right , among others.
It’s a big board [8’11"] in small [knee to waist high] waves. I tried out the carbon fibre single fin I made , and I’m pleased to say it felt GREAT !!!
It’s a big board [8’11"] in small [knee to waist high] waves. I tried out the carbon fibre single fin I made , and I’m pleased to say it felt GREAT !!!
STOKED for you!! I can relate after yesterday’s surf on the fibreglass single fin.
Happy Birthday Ben. . . . nice stitches, and a happy ending! (no concussion ?) only 41 more stitches to go to catch up with Mr Bloke’s surfing head injury stitch count, 34 of which were received in spite of a helmet. Your 45th Chipfishly birthday according to my calculation, may your surfing activities prosper for another 45 years (and more)
PS I don’t see any grey hairs. . . what’s the secret ?
Howzit oneula, Is it a DVD you want to mail? You can buy a padded envelope at the post office and mark it with DVD inside and I think it will be OK. This is how I send DVD’s and they are OK when they get to their destination. Sent 12 to my Nephew and Family for Christmas.What is converton my Archos mean.Aloha,Kokua
I already sent Chippy a box of requested movies that he couldn’t play on his player/computer.
Some other people had the same problem and it has to do with compatibility with the format my burner puts out…
So I’m loading it all to a 20-30 gig hard drive in MPEG-4 (DIVX) format that Ben can just watch on his computer useing windows media player and a DIVX plugin like the one we needed to watch those videos of Hicksy LAYZ posted.
I’m trying to get around theis whole hardware compatibility issue
And in the end don’t want it all erased from the harddrive by some big postal xray machine.
My Archos is a 20 Gig portable video/media player or PVP I have that lets me take my movies and music on the road as I travel on business. It was the predecessor to the video ipod with a better screen and battery life…I’d rather watch a cool surf movie or the Stop Making Sense than some movie the airlines is showing… I even loaded some of my surf movies loaded onto my windows smartphone so I can amuse my self waiting inline for anything other than answering work emails from the big wigs… It does seems like we have to wait around in lines quite alot lately for just about everything nowadays…
The connected life can be a prison of sorts sometimes…
Howzit oneula, I have a DVD coping program called intervideo DVD copy that can record in the DivX format. I don't use it any more since I got a software program called DVDFab express that copies anything. Another solution is to change the format to the country you are sending to, but this has drawbacks since for some reason you can only change you format burning 5 times and then no more changes. Don't know why only 5 changes but that's how it works. So you are sending a hard drive to him, very interesting concept.Aloha,Kokua
"Hey guys, if You have problems with different video formats not working on Your players try downloading VLC
Plays most every format without extra codecs."
Sounds like it’s trying to be the Quicktime Video Player, which can handle all of those formats as well (except ogg, which is linux-only). Strictly OSX on the Mac, though.
