Posted on Sep 30th 2007 by Ryan.
The Beasts (my ice hockey team) headed to Stewarts Gully Mini Golf. The facility is owned by Clive Murphie, a top bloke who is also heavily involved with the Aardwolfs Ice Hockey Club who we played against in Christchurch. As it says on the label, this is “Mini Golf”, so basically big golf shrunk to a small size, no castles, water features or other fandangled things to navigate, just good old putting greens.
Clive Murphie, the owner of the course
Estelle Baker expertly sinking the ball in the hole after some advice from Jane Soper (on right). Conveniently I clicked the shutter just as the ball was falling into the hole.
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Posted on Sep 14th 2007 by Ryan.
I’ve gotten a lot of questions about GimpCam and NetCam recently. To save me feeling like a broken record, here’s a selection of pre-prepared answers …
- Yes I did look like a gimp while wearing it
- No I’m not going to lend it to you to wear to school
- No it doesn’t have X-ray vision
- No I don’t use it to spy on girls in the changing room
- No I’m not going to lend it to you for that purpose!
- No I’m not going to buy a pinhole camera instead (too expensive)
- Yes GimpCam and NetCam have the same internals
- It cost $80 from a dodgy computer store in SE Calgary
- Yes NetCam is housed inside a tupperware container and no I’m not going to integrate it inside the goal post instead
- Yes GimpCam looks stupid and no it can’t fit inside the lip at the top of my helmet
- Yes I am considering allowing goalies to wear GimpCam but I need to find an appropriate way to protect it as its unlikely to survive a puck impact in it’s current form
- No I’m not planning to stream it direct to a projector screen in the warm room
- Last of all, NO! You are not allowed to fire slapshots at my head while I’m wearing GimpCam!
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Posted on Sep 10th 2007 by Ryan.
I’m now famous! My rather crappy videos have made their way onto the What Now TV show. I received an email from them the other day asking if they could screen some of my videos of the recent New Zealand Ice Hockey National Championships on their show. Pity I didn’t know before hand as I’d have prepared some far better quality footage for them.
What Now: If you are reading this and don’t want it posted here, then email me via the form on my contact page and I’ll remove it ASAP.
Posted on Aug 31st 2007 by Ryan.
I’ve been trying to avoid over-running the site with hockey videos from the Nationals, but this one definitely deserves it’s own post 
I’ve also posted a higher resolution version here.
Posted on Aug 29th 2007 by Ryan.
Wordpress and Facebook are da bomb! I’ve now setup a feed from my website direct to my Facebook profile. Fingers crossed it works. If it does, then you should be able to see this on Facebook right now.
Thanks to Rob at tsaiberspace.net for developing the Wordpress plugin which made this possible 
Posted on Aug 27th 2007 by Ryan.
Daria and I need a new flatmate! Here’s some pics of the place. If you know someone suitable then lemme know
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Posted on Aug 24th 2007 by Ryan.
Thanks to Abby for the excellent video work. I’m number 98 with the black helmet and white gloves.
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Posted on Aug 24th 2007 by Ryan.
The New Zealand National Ice Hockey Championships are on in Dunedin at the moment. I’ll be videoing a few of the games to post on here. I’m not bothering to play as I object to the ~$200/game fee!
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Posted on Aug 20th 2007 by Ryan.
During the Christchurch Aardwolfs Southern Migration we stopped off at the Manorburn dam to see what the ice was like. We expected to see nothing but water, but a slither of ice on the bottom basin was enough to give our resident
ice expert Clive the hope to have a crack at skating on the top basin. So we trudged up the valley and had a gander at the ice up there. Apparently there was enough ice in the middle to skate on, but getting their proved a tad treacherous!
Ted had a decent crack at standing on the ice but kept dipping his foot into the water. He even clambered over a branch like a monkey to reach the ice further toward the center which looked skateable, but couldn’t quite make it far enough from the shore.
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Posted on Aug 19th 2007 by Ryan.
Here’s a panoramic photo I took of the Remarkables from the Queenstown ice rink.
And here’s a photo I took of Ted skimming a stone across Lake Wakatipu.
