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Revenge!

Revenge!

Friday, Aug 20, 2004

@ Adrian Tritschler

I nearly had my revenge against the stupid motorists this morning. Typical small courier van came flying past on my right, left indicator on and with the intention of turning left down the side street, he swung out to hook in, realised that he hadn’t made it past me and stopped. Stopped half in the next lane right in front of a semi-trailer, whose driver was not impressed! The truck air-horn was very loud, but worth it for the expression on the courier’s face as he braced himself and tried to shrink from view.
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Journal for [2004-03-02 Tue]

Journal for [2004-03-02 Tue]

Tuesday, Mar 2, 2004

@ Adrian Tritschler

Another day out riding, another stupid driver goes screaming around me and turns left, missing my elbow by fractions of an inch and screeching around the corner to get in ahead of the traffic coming off the lights on Waverley road. Guilty-looking woman in a 4WD, (Victorian registration, ######), I guess at least she looked back in the rear mirror to see if she’d killed anyone… Which reminds me that Mr Policeman didn’t ever call me back to follow up on the road-rage that I reported.
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Road rager part II

Road rager part II

Tuesday, Feb 24, 2004

@ Adrian Tritschler

Yesterday’s events must have shaken me a little more than I realised. Couldn’t get to sleep until well after 2 am, being chased by a nutter in a car kept replaying over and over in my head. But so far so good… One successful pass along Cole crescent this morning without running into yesterday’s road rager. I still can’t make up my mind whether to try and pursue it with the police.
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Road Rager

Road Rager

Monday, Feb 23, 2004

@ Adrian Tritschler

Today was going so well until I turned right from the bike path into Drummond street in Chadstone, a 50km/hr zone, and was riding towards my normal left-turn into Cole crescent. As I got to the corner, Mr agressive petrol-head in a white ford falcon station wagon (Victorian registration ###-###), came flying over the speed hump behind me, half overtook me then attempted to go screaming around the left turn into Cole crescent.
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Thanks for the abuse — mate

Thanks for the abuse — mate

Wednesday, Nov 26, 2003

@ Adrian Tritschler

To the driver and passenger of the electrician’s white van, Victorian registration QXC-557, just what is it that makes you want to yell abuse at cyclists as you pass on the road? Is it the feeling of power and invulnerability as you speed past, anonymous, except for the foot-high letters advertising your employer’s company? Is it the knowledge that you can outrun the abused/intimidated cyclist, or is it some mistaken belief that if I can’t retaliate at the time, that I won’t be able to record your details, your company name, your phone number, your registration number, and retaliate later…
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Phone$, phone$…

Phone$, phone$…

Friday, Nov 14, 2003

@ Adrian Tritschler

Someone has decided to start trying to log the mobile-phone users and send an email direct to the top — Andre — or Police Minister Andre Haermeyer, if you want to give him his official title. Andre has a mobile phone driver reporting page. You can find it at http://www.ratbagitinerant.com/cm/phones.html Reg says: Dob in a drongo driver! Just the one? As the sign says “Wipe off five". This evening’s mild entertainment came from:
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Stupid, stupid, stupid me

Stupid, stupid, stupid me

Monday, Nov 10, 2003

@ Adrian Tritschler

Stupid me, stupid, stupid me! There I was, riding home, happily minding my own business. I glanced at the courier van parked at the side of the road… Stupid me; I thought that for once someone had decided to stop to chat on their mobile phone. Stupid, stupid me. Panic stop as the idiot does a u-turn from a standing start, straight across three lanes of traffic and missing me by a foot — all the while still talking into his phone…
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Cycling fun'n'games

Cycling fun'n'games

Tuesday, Oct 14, 2003

@ Adrian Tritschler

More fun and games with Norky bike today. Off I went to deliver the spare wheel to the bike shop so that Jo’s dud wheel can be replaced with a spare — the infamous evil replacement wheel from hell (or Devizes in the UK). Casually mentioning that my gears aren’t quite working properly, investigation reveals that old bottom bracket and the new cranks don’t quite agree with each other, and a narrow bottom bracket is required… The shop is then turned upside down and many a box is emptied trying to find appropriate sized parts, and a quarter-hour quick visit turns into a leisurely hour and a half.
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Humevale hill

Humevale hill

Sunday, Jul 27, 2003

@ Adrian Tritschler

P-plates, Commodores, baseball-caps. What is it about the combination of the three that leads to such predictably abusive behaviour on the roads? We’d decided to go for a bike ride from Bundoora to Kinglake West, a few warm-up kilometres along the flat, then the seven kilometre climb up through the forest along the Humevale road. A strong northerly wind made the Bundoora to Whittlesea leg more onerous than necessary, A brief pause at the petrol station before Whittlesea to refuel on jelly-babies, then four kilometres of the thoroughly unpleasant leg of the Plenty road before reaching the Humevale turnoff.
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Journal for [2003-06-27 Fri]

Journal for [2003-06-27 Fri]

Friday, Jun 27, 2003

@ Adrian Tritschler

You have to watch out for those idiots in tin boxes, a girl tried to run me over last night… backwards. She couldn’t fit in a parking space and reversed out, then stopped. I was stopped a metre behind her, lights on, bright yellow jacket on, trackstanding and trying to work out whether to go around her on the left, the right, or just wait for her to drive off. Surprise!
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Door, Door...

Door, Door...

Monday, Jun 23, 2003

@ Adrian Tritschler

From The Age: Man jailed for car-door attack on cyclists A car passenger who attacked a group of cyclists for fun was yesterday sentenced to 15 months’ jail. The Tasmanian Supreme Court was told Stephen Leonard Campbell, 43, was travelling in a car driven by his learner-driver son when they approached five professional cyclists on Hobart’s East Derwent Highway in March last year. “As the car overtook the cyclists, the passenger opened his door, deliberately striking the third cyclist with it, Justice Alan Blow said.
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Bicycle Path Antics

Bicycle Path Antics

Wednesday, Jun 11, 2003

@ Adrian Tritschler

The perfect end to the day… There I was, minding my own business, riding home along the bike track under the Citylink tollway when all of a sudden a girl heading the other way yells out “Slow Down!” I rounded the curve to find a Volkswagen Golf stuck at the bottom of the track, nose up to the bollards that are designed to prevent motorists from driving in to the bike track.
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Another day, another motorist on the phone

Another day, another motorist on the phone

Wednesday, May 7, 2003

@ Adrian Tritschler

Moron of the moment: Cycling up Ferntree Gully road around 09:40, here it comes from the side road, white Falcon panel-van, blue sign-writing, window down, driver’s elbow out, phone in hand, brain in neutral, yacking away, half-way out through the Give-Way sign. “PUT THE PHONE DOWN!” I yell as I swerve around the bonnet. A blast on the horn and a scream of abuse, I continue up the hill. A squeal of tyres and he tears up behind me, swerves into the next side street, stops and keeps swearing.
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Open letter to idiot

Open letter to idiot

Monday, Nov 25, 2002

@ Adrian Tritschler

Another day, another homicidal maniac… Dear Sir, Just in case you’re reading this, the reason that the cyclist smacked your car with an open hand — making that remarkably loud sound — was that as you drove through the give-way sign and straight into his path, he had just had to perform an emergency stop to avoid riding into your drivers door at 40km/hr. Oh well, he certainly jumped. Now if only he learns from the experience…
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Mindless parking

Mindless parking

Friday, Nov 8, 2002

@ Adrian Tritschler

Flat battery? Need a mate to start your car? Where do you think you should park. No worries — park right across the middle of the bike path, she’ll be right! Just another of the myriad uses that bicycle paths seem to have in the public mind… In case its not quite obvious what the content of the photo is, I was sitting at my least favorite set of lights waiting to cross Malvern road to continue up the bike track.
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Motorists... again

Motorists... again

Friday, Nov 1, 2002

@ Adrian Tritschler

Are there prizes for bizarre motorist behavior? Is the warmer weather affecting their minds? Just how many people believe that only other drivers need to obey law regarding mobile phones and driving? Sadly, I don’t think I’ll ever know the answers to these questions, but after managing to make it to work on the roads with them this week, I’m getting more amazed by the day. … there must be some way that I can hook up the USB webcam to the laptop and get some “commute-cam” footage….
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Journal for [2002-08-19 Mon]

Journal for [2002-08-19 Mon]

Monday, Aug 19, 2002

@ Adrian Tritschler

Monday morning; traffic banked up along the freeway all the way back to Warrigal Road. Nudging the motorbike along behind the lady in the Honda Accord — she weaves from side to side, mostly staying within her lane, the phone’s in her left hand, or sometimes resting on the passenger seat, she’s busy chatting. Flashing the high beam does nothing, she glances up and continues babbling. To top it all off, the left rear tyre of her car is so flat she’s just about driving on the rim.
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Journal for [2002-06-20 Thu]

Journal for [2002-06-20 Thu]

Thursday, Jun 20, 2002

@ Adrian Tritschler

The free washing machine has just changed to a sixty-six dollar washing machine, however it does now have a pump that works. It amazes me at the stuff that people throw out at these rubbish collections! It was frightening out on the road riding home this evening. I was starting to suspect that everyone had picked up their pay and spent it on stupid-pills. First one was some idiot overtaking along Gardiner road and heading straight at me, apparently the new 50km/hr speed limits are not to his satisfaction.
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SMIDSY

SMIDSY

Friday, May 3, 2002

@ Adrian Tritschler

Sorry Mate I Didn’t See You — it ought to be grounds for instant revocation of a motorists license. Yep, I was knocked off the bike this morning. I stupidly thought that the driver of the stationary vehicle waiting to enter Glenferrie Road — the one who turned his head and looked towards me — had actually seen me. From a standing start he drove about 50cm and got me side on; his first words on leaping out of the car and coming to see me lying on the ground, yep, you guessed, “Sorry Mate, I Just Didn’t See You.
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Journal for [2002-03-19 Tue]

Journal for [2002-03-19 Tue]

Tuesday, Mar 19, 2002

@ Adrian Tritschler

Motorists Two maniacs/motorists that just have to be mentioned: Victorian registration ###-###, a blue/green Toyota Seca. Why was he weaving around at 85km/hr in the right-hand lane of the freeway where the speed limit is 100km/hr? He had a bowl of cereal in his lap and was eating it with a spoon! Scary thing is that he might be the one I saw a few weeks ago eating cereal in his car.
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Bogans in cars

Bogans in cars

Sunday, Mar 17, 2002

@ Adrian Tritschler

I just had to laugh. Cycling up Beach Road on a Sunday afternoon, literally hundreds of cyclists about, traffic is at a crawl due to the enormous number of events that are on. A red Ford Falcon (rego. ###-###) drives past in the right hand lane and the passenger sticks her head out the window, screaming her lungs out “Get off the F@#$ing road, get on the F@#$ing footpath!” If she yells that much at each cyclist between Mordialloc and St Kilda, she’ll be hoarse for a week!
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Motorised morons

Motorised morons

Friday, Jan 25, 2002

@ Adrian Tritschler

It’s getting a bit tiresome, but I think this motorist takes the cake. Or this week’s cake anyway. So congratulations to the driver of the red Mitsubishi Mirage, registration ###-###, you have qualified for the idiot of the day. There he was, driving along the Monash freeway in the right hand land, ten km/hr slower than everyone else. Yes, he was on the phone. He did have a hands-free kit installed, however, he was holding the phone in his right hand, credit card in his left, and had his head tilted right back so he could read the number off the card through the lower half of his bi-focal glasses while he typed them in.
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A near dooring

A near dooring

Saturday, Dec 8, 2001

@ Adrian Tritschler

So many car doors, so few motorists with brains. There we were, riding up Swan street on the way home. Suddenly Jo yells out “lookout,” I scream out “Door!” Yep, both passengers in the taxi (Victorian registration M-####) had decided that sitting in the lane of stationary traffic was enough, so without indicating, pulling over to the side of the road, or obeying any other form of road laws, they’d just thrown open both left-hand doors and got out.
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A world first

A world first

Friday, Dec 7, 2001

@ Adrian Tritschler

A first apparently, a motorist in Chicago who deliberately ran down and killed a cyclist has been charged with murder. It’ll set a precedent, and in one way I’m pleased with the verdict, but it sure is disturbing reading about the case … especially knowing the number of times I’ve exchanged words with motorists after they either try to “scare me” by going a little close, or just don’t look and don’t care.
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Motorist du jour

Motorist du jour

Monday, Dec 3, 2001

@ Adrian Tritschler

… and today’s motorist of the moment award goes to the driver of the metallic green hatchback in Richmond. Why? I hear you ask. Well, I couldn’t work out why he was having so much trouble making it around a right hand corner from a standing start, then as I went past on the motorbike I realised that he had a bowl of cereal in his lap, spoon in his right hand, and was driving with his left.
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Idiots in metal boxes

Idiots in metal boxes

Wednesday, Nov 28, 2001

@ Adrian Tritschler

sigh discovered today that a person I know has just spent the last six weeks in hospital after being driven into by a drunk driver while out cycling. Apparently the driver simply fell asleep and ran into them. This didn’t put me in the best of moods for a quick jaunt in from Clayton to East Melbourne to attend a product demonstration. Then along the way I met: A motorist travelling slowly who started to veer into my lane as I passed; surprise, surprise, he had the Melways street directory open across the steering wheel and was reading it.
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The motorists are revolting….

The motorists are revolting….

Tuesday, Nov 20, 2001

@ Adrian Tritschler

The motorists … the motorists…. This morning there was the lady who unsuccessfully tried to peel and eat a banana with one hand while trying to drive her Mercedes with the other. If she’d only looked before swerving into my lane I wouldn’t have had to blast on the horn. Now she’s probably going to tell everyone about the mean biker who appeared from nowhere, and how dangerous motorbikes are.
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More of the same

More of the same

Monday, Oct 8, 2001

@ Adrian Tritschler

More on Melbourne’s drivers… Or should that be “Moron; Melbourne’s Drivers.” There just seems to be something about the mentality of smokers that can’t conceive of the idea that dumping a lit cigarette out the window of a moving car is firstly littering, and secondly, bloody dangerous to the motorcyclist behind who cops a face-full of it. Congratulations to the lady driving RAV4 Vic. rego ###-###, you get the idiot of the day award.
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Another motorist, another red-light runner

Another motorist, another red-light runner

Thursday, Sep 27, 2001

@ Adrian Tritschler

Cycled to work and guess what, another driver tried to flatten me where the cycle path crosses Malvern road. I’m getting sick of this sequence. Stop, wait, light goes orange, wait, light goes red, wait, cycle path light goes green, start to ride across intersection, stop and scream abuse as maroon Commodore, Vic. ###-### drives straight through the red without slowing down.
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Bah, idiots in tin boxes

Bah, idiots in tin boxes

Sunday, Sep 23, 2001

@ Adrian Tritschler

Today we have another shining example of Melbourne’s finest drivers. Silver Holden Commodore, (Vic. ###-###), at first I wondered what he was doing, attempting to drag me off from the lights on Dandenong road. Then I realised as he swerved in at me: the left-turn only lane didn’t apply to him, he could have just slowed and gone in behind me, but it was more important for him to ram the motorbike out of the way so he could go straight ahead and on down Dandenong road at 110km/hr in the 80km/hr zone.
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Motorist du jour

Motorist du jour

Sunday, Nov 5, 2000

@ Adrian Tritschler

I’ve no idea what the motorist did, but months later I found this note to myself in one of the notebooks that I carry while cycling. If I wrote it down at the time then they probably either tried to hit me or threw something at me or similar…. Gold Holden Kingswood `###-###` 21:12
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[1998-05-20 Wed] — Blind driver, two attempts

[1998-05-20 Wed] — Blind driver, two attempts

Wednesday, May 20, 1998

@ Adrian Tritschler

On my way home at 17:15 along Dandenong road, it had been drizzling and the road was wet and the streetlights were on. A white Magna (from memory, Victorian registration ###-###) drove up from Greta St, barely slowed, then turned sharply left into Dandenong road approximately 1m in front of me, I braked heavily and nearly slid into the rear of the car. The driver then slowed and as I drew alongside (yelling loudly), his left indicators came on and he turned left into the service lane!
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[1998-05-14 Thu] — Abused, then deliberately run into

[1998-05-14 Thu] — Abused, then deliberately run into

Thursday, May 14, 1998

@ Adrian Tritschler

I was riding home from work along Willesden road Oakleigh at 17:05, there were parked cars on the opposite side of the road and traffic from head on passing. The driver of a car behind me couldn’t pass and gave me a long blast on the horn which I ignored. The car, (white Holden Commodore sedan, black tinted rear window, Victorian registration ###-###), then pulled alongside with the occupants yelling abuse, then swerved in at me, clipping my front wheel with their rear bumper, then spun the wheels and drove off.
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Nearly “doored” by a Taxi driver

Nearly “doored” by a Taxi driver

Wednesday, Feb 11, 1998

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8:40 am riding along Atherton Rd through Oakleigh, I had just left the traffic lights at the shops and had a two-tonne van overtaking me. A taxi (Victorian registration; M-####) pulled head-on into a parallel parking space, leaving at least a foot of his car sticking out into the traffic, as I drew alongside to ovetake, the driver threw open the door and stepped out without looking. The van to my right had to swerve to avoid hitting the door, I had slid to a stop inches from the driver and yelled.
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Car fails to give way

Car fails to give way

Sunday, Feb 1, 1998

@ Adrian Tritschler

About 6 pm, riding down Waverley road in Mt Waverley at around 40kph a car approached the give-way sign on my right, the male driver looked at me, then I suddenly realised that the driver was not even slowing down. I braked hard and stopped as the brown Ford Laser (Victorian registration ###-###) drove straight through the intersection and passed approximately a foot in front of me. The car contained three or four people who appeared to be deep in conversation and completely ignoring the road and other traffic.
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[1998-01-28 Wed] — near head-on in a one-way street

[1998-01-28 Wed] — near head-on in a one-way street

Wednesday, Jan 28, 1998

@ Adrian Tritschler

On my way to work at around 8:40 am along the access road parallel to Dandenong road, this is a one-way street for most of its length. I looked up to see a west-bound car on Dandenong Road turning into the access road and accelerate towards me! I yelled at the motorist and swerved into the gutter, the driver of the white sedan (Victorian registration ###-???) laughed as he drove past.
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[1997-12-05 Fri] — hit by (another) left turning motorist

[1997-12-05 Fri] — hit by (another) left turning motorist

Friday, Dec 5, 1997

@ Adrian Tritschler

8:45 this morning I was riding at around 30-35kph along Willesden road, past my favourite Greek Orthodox school and church. As usual there was a lot of slow moving traffic (around 35-45kph), a group of three cars gradually overtook me, then the last one slowed and as I was alongside, turned into an empty angle-parking space, starting to indicate as he did. I was forced down into the parking space, bashed my knee into the passenger door and when I got to work discovered I have injured my left wrist.
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[1997-11-26 Wed] — Attacked by motorist

[1997-11-26 Wed] — Attacked by motorist

Wednesday, Nov 26, 1997

@ Adrian Tritschler

At 5.45 pm on my way home along (westbound) Dandenong road a newish white Ford Falcon station wagon (Victorian registration ###-###) drove past me in the left lane. As the car went past, the young male passenger in the front swung his fist out the window at me and screamed something unintelligible. I am used to cars going past with little clearance, but the yell and swung fist almost made me swerve into the kerb at the edge of the road.
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Driver fails to give way or stop

Driver fails to give way or stop

Tuesday, Nov 25, 1997

@ Adrian Tritschler

Riding to work past my favourite school — the Greek Orthodox school — along Willesden street Murrumbeena, an aqua-green Ford Festiva – Victorian registration ###-### – was waiting at the Give-Way sign on my left, the driver didn’t look and drove straight out infront of me. I was travelling at around 30kph and had to swerve out almost into oncoming traffic to avoid running into the side of the car. Yelled loudly at her and she just looked puzzled as to why a cyclist was overtaking her.
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[1997-10-23 Thu] — 4WD fails to give way

[1997-10-23 Thu] — 4WD fails to give way

Thursday, Oct 23, 1997

@ Adrian Tritschler

On my way to work travelling at around 35-40kph down Atherton St, Oakleigh, when a black four-wheel drive (Pajero I think), Victorian registration ###-### drove up to the stop sign ahead on my right, stopped, the driver looked at me, then drove across the road straight in front of me. I had to do an emergency stop to avoid running into the rear door of his car and as he went past the driver gave me a little wave that looked like he was thanking me for letting him through in front of him!
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[1997-10-15 Wed] — almost hit head-on

[1997-10-15 Wed] — almost hit head-on

Wednesday, Oct 15, 1997

@ Adrian Tritschler

On my way home, around 5:30 pm, west down Atherton street to turn left into Station street, Oakleigh. Station street is a one way street, as I rounded the corner there was a fairly new white Magna driving quickly the wrong way up the street towards me. Luckily there was a vacant parking space on my side of the road and I swerved into this as he drove past. Refs: Originally in my bike incidents page.
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burnt by bimbo

burnt by bimbo

Monday, Oct 6, 1997

@ Adrian Tritschler

Riding home along Atherton street Oakleigh I was coming up to a red traffic light and riding between the two lanes of cars, since all four cars in the left lane were indicating to turn left. As I drew level with the first car (red Holden Gemini, Victorian registration ###-###) the young female driver flicked about 1cm of ash off her cigarette and it fell straight onto my leg. I nearly ran into the side of the car, then turned around and asked “Do you have an ashtray?
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…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.

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