Adrian Tritschler's stuff
My website, an agglomerative mess, probably half-eaten by a grue
© 1984 - 2026 Adrian Tritschler
Adrian Tritschler's stuff
My website, an agglomerative mess, probably half-eaten by a grue
© 1984 - 2026 Adrian Tritschler
Rejected :-(
I guess we treat yesterday’s visit to the real estate agent and offer on a property as a learning experience. A quick call this morning, a higher offer has been made, thank you and good bye.
Honour an offer?
Masses of rampaging butterflies invade stomachs: news at 09:30… or that’s when I was meant to be meeting with a real-estate agent to put in an offer on a property. How do you play this house-buying game? How much do you offer? Is the asking price what they want, or is it an extra percentage based on them believing that you’ll believe that they inflate it and then you’ll offer them much lower knowing that they’ll ask for more knowing that you’ll offer an in-between amount letting them accept what they wanted in the first place?
Tour de France
The tour continues. In today’s paper there was a humorous human-interest story as the author hired a bike at l’Alpe to ride down to Borg d’Oisans and back up, to get some idea of what is was like, and to see how his time compared with Pantani’s 38 minutes. I don’t think he knew what he was getting himself into, his two and a quarter hours to climb the mountain certainly don’t sound earth shattering!
Impression of an Impressionist
Note to self: If you go to the National Gallery of Victoria on a cold, wet, windy Sunday afternoon when there’s a major international exhibition — The Impressionists — showing, expect to encounter large crowds!
Was it only half an hour that we had to spend in queueing for the tickets, zigzagging back and forth through the barriers to eventually get to the counter?
Twenty dollars entry fee; no video cameras or still cameras allowed — OK.
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a small number of servers
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a large number of customers
A lunch-time social event
There’s a movement afoot to build a better sense of community within the ITS division at work — all manner of wondrous social activities are planned…. Today was th first of these to be put into practice, the Friday social barbecue with a red clothing theme.
a small number of servers
Minor teething problem: too many customers, or was it too few providers? I don’t know, but its one of those elementary problems in queueing theory that nobody seems to be ever able to get right!
Locks — the conclusion
The locksmith cometh, the lock is fixed. Now wasn’t that fun.
Locks — part two
Nearly ended up being unable to go to work today! My key has finally stopped working completely in the front door, so Jo pre-locked the door on her way to work and left it open an inch or so for me to shut on my way out…
Using all three hands to shuffle bicycles around in the front room, I’d managed to balance Norky bike against my foot, had shifted Jo’s bike out with my left hand, and was extracting my old road bike from the back to ride to work… the front wheel spun round, the bike tipped over, the tyre hit the door and it started to shut!
Locks — the denial of service
More fun and games with doors and locks. This morning I couldn’t lock the front door, the spare key I’ve been using just doesn’t seem to work properly. After a few minutes I gave up and retried my old key — the one that got damaged by the outside door a week ago — it got wedged inside the lock and snapped in half.
Ten minutes of fiddling about with a pair of wire cutters and I managed to grip the snapped-off bit and pull it out, another ten minutes and I managed to get the door to lock with the spare key.
Mmm... Spam
Ah, spam… if I can’t stop it at least I can derive some enjoyment from it:
My name is Mr.Mabo Lomas, a merchant in Dubai, in the U.A.E. I have been diagnosed with Esophageal cancer which was discovered very late, due to my laxity in carrying for my health. It has defiled all forms of medicine, and right now I have only about a few months to live, according to medical experts.
SBS & Le Tour
Oh good, it wasn’t just me… The chat forums hosted by SBS show that other viewers were thoroughly annoyed by the poor timing of ad-breaks over last night’s tour coverage, and the general lack of knowledge of the Australian studio commentators.
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Bream, fresh from the Erskine river, courtesy of John Myers
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Twisted tree trunks by the Erskine river
Lazy in Lorne
I was going to go for a ride today, honest, I really was… Instead I slept in late, had a lazy breakfast, then the only exercise I got was walking down the hill to the shops and watching other people race about in a surf life-saver competition.
Probably should have gone for a ride though, I’m sure it would have been less exercise than keeping a four year-old nephew entertained! Late in the afternoon it was either go out for another walk down to the river, or go crazy as he bounced off the walls — we chose the walk!
Tour de France, Live coverage...
With impeccable timing we arrived home in time to throw ourselves on the couch for the start of SBS’ live coverage of the eighth stage of the tour — except that the first half hour is excruciating studio commentary from the Sydney studios. I have nothing against Stephen Hodge, as one of five Australian cyclists to win a yellow-jersey he has my utmost respect — but I don’t think he’s one of the world’s great commentators, or even one of the world’s acceptable ones….
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Tourist bait! A koala in a tree next to the main road
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Tourist bait! A koala in a tree next to the main road in Lorne
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Jo enjoying a coffee
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Jack and a very large iced chocolate
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Jack and a very large iced chocolate
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Mussels on the rocks, Lorne groyne
My data or yours?
I tried yet again to update my current reading list at allconsuming.net only to find that yet again there’s no way that I can include a book that I own. I can only read a book if Amazon can list it, or something like that. Trying to find Tim Low’s “The New Nature” simply presents me with a list of books that include something similar in the title. I can hold it in my hand and read it, I can look it up at Amazon, but I can’t convince allconsuming that it exists!
User Friendly Technology
Two technically competent adults, one two week old VCR, one multi-language user-friendly manual. Three hours of wasted time, frazzled nerves, cursing, swearing, configuring and reconfiguring and we finally have the ability to record TV and play the recorded tapes. Somewhere along the way the first time we managed to convince the VCR to realign its heads so that nothing was playable!
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Ten staff, ten names. Eight right, two wrong. I get the jackpot, both first and lastname score spelling mistakes
Five nines quality control...
Small things can get under your skin — yesterday I realised that my new manager’s continual misspelling of my surname was annoying me out of all proportion to the degree of the “offence.” Shortly before lunchtime today two of my coworkers walked into the office laughing hysterically. The reason — the new sign that has appeared on our door, proudly proclaiming our new identity as Enterprise Workstation Services – or to give us our full name, the Enterprise Workstation Services group of the Infrastructure Services department in the Information Technology Services division.
It was a dark and stormy night...
Eight degrees, howling wind, icy cold rain pelting against the windows — what else is there to do but to walk half way across the suburb to see a movie! More than worth it though, we dodged the rain and then laughed ourselves silly seeing Shrek 2 up at the concrete monstrosity — Victoria Gardens. A big surprise was having one of my all time favourite songs featuring in a big action scene — the Buzzcocks’ Ever Fallen in Love.
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Deadly Treadly Tour t-shirt. Easter 1999
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Deadly Treadly Tour t-shirt. Easter 1998
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Deadly Treadly Tour t-shirt. Melbourne Cup Weekend 1997
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Deadly Treadly Tour t-shirt. Easter 1997
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Deadly Treadly Tour t-shirt. Melbourne Cup Weekend 1996
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Deadly Treadly Tour t-shirt. Easter 1996
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Deadly Treadly Tour t-shirt. Easter 1995
Deadly Treadly Wardrobe!
Trouty asked, so here they are! The Deadly Treadly T-shirts from 1995 to 1999 — or at least the ones that I bought, before I decided that there were too many t-shirts in my life. There’s also a whole bunch of old maps and brochures to be scanned, some much worse for wear after four or five days on the road and four or five years in the spare room. 1995 Easter…
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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