Green ice?
Apparently the correct term for ice which looks like glass, is “green ice”.
Whilst skating over some incredibly smooth “green ice”, Dave Young decided to poke a hole in it to see how good the visibility was. It then dawned on me that he could attach my ATC2k camera to the end of the pole and record upwards through the ice, so I pulled it out, handed it over, and the video below was the result!
Dave Young poking a hole through the ice with his pole
Alan Knowles standing on perfect 'green ice'
Dave Young standing on some super clear 'green ice'
Rocks as seen through the ice
Posted on 2010-10-01 by
Louis Pasteur: The Space of Life
A photo of mine from the Heidelburg Castle has been used in the documentary “Louis Pasteur: The Space of life“. The image used is from the chemistry laboratory at the castle and was used as the background for the laboratory of Jean Baptiste Biot, the man who discovered the chiral nature of tartaric acid.
As you can see below, they’ve zoomed in, then shrunk it, flipped it horizontally and used it as a background for scenes showing Louis Pasteur and Jean Baptiste Biot. It seems ironic to me that they used a mirror image for the background of a documentary about chirality :p
Louis Pasteur and Jean Baptiste Biot
Jean Baptiste Biot
Jean Baptiste Biot
My original photo from Heidelburg Castle
The documentary can be viewed on the LaRouche website:
My photo can be seen in the background between 6:20 – 7:46 and 19:58 and 22:02.
Posted on 2010-06-14 by
NMR Quench
Our 500 MHz NMR machine quenched itself today 
Here is an awful quality photo I took of the aftermath.
To make things worse, our other machine (300 MHz one) has been out of action since late last year, so we now have no NMR access whatsoever … for any non-chemists out there, this is bad, VERY bad!
MRI Quenching
I did some YouTubing and found this video of an MRI machine quenching itself (MRI and NMR are very similar instruments).
Liquid Helium
The NMR machine was full of liquid helium. The quenching involved the liquid helium evaporating very rapidly. Here’s a video about the properties of liquid helium and a video of a liquid helium fountain.
Posted on 2008-03-24 by
GimpCam and NetCam
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!
Posted on 2007-09-14 by
What Now!
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.
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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 2007-09-10 by
Aardwolfs video footage
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 2007-08-24 by
NZIHF Nationals videos
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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Meals on wheels?
This is blatant piracy. So if you are the copyright holder and don’t want me hosting this video then just wing me an email and I’ll remove it. But since this is my own personal site, I’m not trying to make any money out of it and the news item is about me; I figured it would be okay. And no, I’m NOT planning on becoming a meals on wheels delivery boy! I also wasn’t distraught, I hated that car anyway.
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There’s some gossip behind this video. If you want to know about it, just email me to hear all about it.
Posted on 2006-10-16 by
Jenns Video
Thanks to Jenn Yamagishi for making this video for me 
It’s of me and two of my inline hockey team mates Christian van Eaden and Steve Pelzer playing ice hockey at Arcadia Arena and in SE Calgary.
The week before, my team mate Janay Magowan and I caught the train down south and walked to the arena. Erm, it turned out to be somewhat further away than we thought 
So luckilly Steve offered me a lift the week after
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Posted on 2005-04-15 by
