The
good news is that despite the stated and posted policy, once inside the
North American Handmade Bicycle Show, no one gave a hoot whether you
took photos or not. Serves me right for reading emails that late - no
reason to get all upset… I’ve set up a page with the photos I took, plus a short description of the show. A ton of others took great photos, which I’ve started to link to. JimG swooped through Flickr and found an easy way to view a ton of good shots.
It was, in a word, not to be missed (ok - four words).
More good news is that the cymbidiums continue to defy wildly
fluctuating temperatures and one of the rainier late winters which I
can recall. The tiger striped one which I split two years ago has
decided that it’s time once again to bloom, and the smallest of the
split plants graced me with this last week:
With these rains, I’m a bit worried that they may start rotting out too
quickly. But, the rains have been cold - pushing the
weather-wimps of California indoors or to their keyboards - so maybe
things will not be too impacted.
Managed to catch up from too much work and too little distraction over
the last weekend - got treated to a Russian Vocal Ensemble by the
in-laws, caught “The World’s Fastest Indian” courtesy of tickets my
wife got from work, and then we were treated to a very dynamic violin
soloist at the Symphony on Sunday, this time from the kindness of my
parents.
Film Mini-Review: Good.
Further Film Thoughts: With a little bit of poking around, you can come acrosss a bit more of the back story
- or “actual” story - of Burt Munro. It’s interesting to see what got
compressed, added or downright changed to create the Hollywood version.
That’s not a knock on the movie, merely an observation of how these
things go. I do get a chuckle when people get all impressed by
the phrase, “…based on a true story”. IMHO, the same can be
said for every story, so it rings as a hollow statement to me. Anyway.
The movie itself is truly an ode to an iBob, even if he was more Chuck
Yeager than you and me. But, when you are rebuilding engine cylinders
with discarded piping, and making your own cylinder heads… that gets
you everlasting membership as an honorary iBob. Hopefully, the DVD
version of WFI will contain the director’s (Roger Donaldson) original
documentary on Burt - “Offerings to the God of Speed”. I really
enjoyed the starting sequence as he awakens.
And while I’m thinking of engineering, go see this site. While at first it seems a take-off of “Origami Boulder“, it’s worth a few moments to marvel upon.