Slices of Cam http://cam2000deluxe.posterous.com Most recent posts at Slices of Cam posterous.com Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:48:26 -0700 My Uncle Jock's reign as beard of the Rugby World Cup comes to an end http://cam2000deluxe.posterous.com/my-uncle-jocks-reign-as-beard-of-the-rugby-wo http://cam2000deluxe.posterous.com/my-uncle-jocks-reign-as-beard-of-the-rugby-wo A short but glorious reign it was too: here he is with the trophy:

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Carrying it to the presentation:

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Here he is presenting it to the new champ!

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The whole thing was on the big screen, and live on TV!

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The photographer did a better job than the cameraman though!

OK so this was all really the man of the match presentation to Canada's Adam Kleeburger thanks to Mastercard. If there was a beard of the tournament though, I'd be betting on Adam Kleeburger!

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Don't think they were supposed to do these at the same time, fortunately Fiji broke with protocol:

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Chris Guillebeau comes up with some reasons. I'd like to offer a twist on one of them: because, if you take the time to listen, you'll meet people who are fundamentally the same as you! Are we all different? Of course—but at our core, the differences are small compared to our common humanity.

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When you realise this you might start looking at the world in a subtly different way. Words like 'foreigner' and 'immigrant' might begin to mean something slightly different and national borders might appear a little more arbitrary, and somewhat less important than they used to. Or maybe they won't. Maybe you'll think I'm wrong – but at least you'll have been to some cool places trying to prove it...

 
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Approximately 20 feet from my old office....

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Includes any day in which you purchase more than 20 pounds of ice-cream :)

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Oh - and they have different shoes;)

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There is one sunspot in the entire house and here it is. In fact you could argue that Bugsy is now Dean of the comfy department.

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Finishing Erika's report.

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And it won't be the last time!

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The cold weather is good for something I guess;)

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Taken last night walking the dogs in the domain.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1610283/IMG_0280.JPG http://posterous.com/users/4aGn9YCe63zH Cameron McDonald Cameron Cameron McDonald Wed, 04 May 2011 19:18:03 -0700 The Auckland tornado track http://cam2000deluxe.posterous.com/the-auckland-tornado-track http://cam2000deluxe.posterous.com/the-auckland-tornado-track As far as I can tell there is no good map online of the tornado path that swept through the North Shore of Auckland yesterday. TVNZ's is pretty woeful - it has my brother and parents being right in the path! So I whipped this one up over lunch just now, it's based on a few videos, and news reports, emails from friends, and conversations at bootcamp this morning. If the police release the one they are reportedly doing by helicopter we'll see how close I got:

Here is my best guess path in google earth - you can see it passed just over 1/2 a mile to the east of me! I definitely should have looked out the window after I saw the tweets from Albany.

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If you want more info about why this happened there was a great article on the metservice blog:

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Oscar was enjoying the post-tornado fine weather at Monarch park this morning!

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That's right - the world's first petrified television set:

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