Adrian Tritschler's stuff
My website, an agglomerative mess, probably half-eaten by a grue
© 1984 - 2025 Adrian Tritschler
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Important goat-making equipment
Adrian Tritschler's stuff
My website, an agglomerative mess, probably half-eaten by a grue
© 1984 - 2025 Adrian Tritschler
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Goat brewery
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The Bridge hotel, now more wine-bar than pub
The goat is calling
http://www.goatbeer.com.au/
Bridge road ramblings
Several years ago Jo and I joked about needing to do a weekly audit of the shops — and especially the cafés and restaurants — along Bridge road in Richmond. You would think that you knew what was where, but a new place would appear and all of a sudden we found we couldn’t remember what was there previously. Now that we don’t live so close and only see a smaller set of the shops less frequently, it seems even more changeable.
Flavor vs Flavour; America vs the English-spelling world
Discovered an amazing thing this week from a software vendor who is currently changing all their documentation and website to the American spelling of English from the English that is used in England, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, etc, etc. Apparently their market research has shown them that if people from non-American English places see American spelling they just think “Oh, that’s American spelling.” The Americans, on the other hand, see non-American English spelling and simply think “That’s wrong, these guys can’t spell!
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"Idiot previous owner concreted the water meter into the driveway,
That hurt
Idiot previous owner concreted the water meter into the drivewayc; I had to un-concrete it for the water company One cold-chisel, one hammer, two hours, Johnny Cash Live at San Quentin in the background, and the strength of ten because my heart is pure … or something like that.
End result is two very sore hands; one aching from holding the hammer, the other aching from being hit by the hammer, not once, but several times, and a water meter free of its illegal concrete embrace.
Speed of a Bureaucracy…
Meter series; two, the water meter An odd letter appeared in the mail yesterday, two very brief paragraphs:
I refer to your recent enquiry to South East Water regarding your account for the above property.
My what? I’ve no idea what they’re on about, the other paragraph merely asks me to telephone between 1 pm and 5.30 pm Monday to Friday. Unless….
Of course, how stupid of me! My recent enquiry was the telephone call I made to South East Water in May, six months ago reporting that I thought the water meter was faulty!
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Mark Seymour in the Spiegeltent
The Spiegeltent spell
Mark Seymour in the Spiegeltent Third gig in less than a week; Mark Seymour tonight. Not sure what it is about the Spiegeltent as a venue but the artists always seem to be in a great mood and very light-hearted. Amazingly, there were no CDs for sale, an oversight that I’m sure had Mr Seymour kicking himself with the happy mood the punters were in as they left!
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Melbourne Cup Day
Melbourne Cup melancholia
Melbourne Cup Day A cold grey dismal day. A public holiday across Melbourne, most of the rest of Australia is either on leave or slacking off and not doing much either. Everyone is either at home or gone to the races to see the Melbourne Cup. Traffic this morning is non-existant, cold drizzle as I ride to work. Blah, grey day and a grey mood. Listening my way through old favourites and the last two day’s new purchases.
Mick Thomas @ the Spanish Club
Two CD launches in two nights, some kind of a record I guess…. Tonight Mick Thomas and the Sure Thing launch Paddock Buddy…. Its the first time I’ve been to the Spanish Club since it decided to become “a venue” and start booking bands, been meaning to get there for ages, but Fitzroy always seems so hard to get to.
A curious mix of a crowd, lots of old Weddoes fans with bald patches reliving their youth.
The reptiles and I
Sometimes amidst all the spam and trash something happens to remind you that this Internet-thing has its good points, that information sharing can work. Today was one of those days.
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Phil Moriarty and the Paris Brests in the Spiegeltent
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The Famous Spiegeltent
Bike riding around Lorne
Reminder to tourists on the Great Ocean Road An early rise — most unusual for me — and out and onto the bike for some much-needed hill climbing. Shivering in the cool air I was regretting leaving my warm jersey back at home, definitely not a morning for the short sleeves! An eye watering descent down Richardson boulevard to the main coast road, over the river and commence climbing up the Dean’s Marsh road.
Spiegeltentage
The Famous Spiegeltent It felt odd driving back from Lorne to Melbourne in daylight — normally we don’t leave until after dinner — today was not normal. An early evening CD launch for Phil Moriarty and the Paris Brests in the Spiegeltent. Phil, ex. of the Gadflys, has a voice and a style that I’ve loved for years, the new band played well. Mikelangelo of Mikelangelo and the Black Sea Gentlemen a guest appearance on guitar, clarinet and repartee.
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Reminder to tourists on the Great Ocean Road
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Kookaburras lining up for a free feed
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Kookaburras lining up for a free feed
Kookaburras
Lining up for a free feed on the balcony, out of the forest they came!
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The old “Scott's Old Autorubber” building about to be refurbished
Rain!
The old “Scot's Old Autorubber” building about to be refurbished Woken by strange sounds overhead — yes, it is rain. With so little rain in the last few months there’s no way I’m going to complain that I might get wet on the way to work! As it was, a half hour lull arrived at just the right time. Just over twenty millimetres of rain between about eight in the morning and six in the afternoon — that’s four times the rainfall we had for all of October!
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Black duck and ducklings
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Duckling alone
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Black duck and black ducklings
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Eucalypt blossoming in the sun
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Australian black duck ducklings
Break for lunch
Australian black duck ducklings Some days you just have to escape at lunchtime and get away. Normal lunch breaks are far too frequently spent at my desk, or not very far away. The better lunch breaks are spent sitting under a tree on the lawns, or walking around the grounds of Monash or the streets nearby. Today was one of the better ones — no wind, warm sun, get away from the screens and the hum and walk down to the pond under the trees at the north-east corner of campus.
Ubuntu Edgy Edge upgrade
Followed a suggestion in one of the messages I saw and ran the Ubuntu update-manager with the following:
gksu "update-manager -c"
Memories and coincidences
Last night as we drove home from the semi-ritual of “Thursday night dinner out somewhere in Richmond”, the Saints, an old favourite band, were playing on the radio. RRR’s “The Australian Mood” always seems to be music I like — two weeks ago it took me back to 1980-82 and my almost-underage ventures into the Civic hotel and bands like Tactics and others whose names I’ve forgotton. Enough rambling, the Saints’ Walk Away was playing, for once it wasn’t just the opening few bars being used as an introduction or station promo.
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The neighbour's big ugly box gets bigger
About
ajft looking stylish and black
…The Owner
There’s not much more I can add to who I am.
…The Site
Vanity site? Technology experiment? Learning tool? Blog? Journal? Diary? Photo album? I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you…
I experiment. I play. I write and I take pictures. Some of the site is organised around topics, other parts are organized by date, then there’s always the cross-references between them.
Its all been here a fairly long time. Like the papers on my desk, or the books on the bedside table, the pile just grew… and it all grew without much plan or structure. I try not to break URLs, so historical oddities abound.
Long ago it started as a learning experiment with a few static HTML pages, then I added a bit of server-side includes and some very ugly PHP. A hand-built journal/blog on top of that PHP, then a few experiments in moving to various static publishing systems. I’ve never wanted a database-based blogging engine, so over the years I’ve tried PHP, nanoblogger, emacs-muse, silkpage and docbook before settling on Emacs Org mode for writing and jekyll for publishing. But the itch remained… I never really liked jekyll and the ruby underneath always seemed so much black magic. So now the latest incarnation is Org mode and hugo.
…The ISP
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