My life is going downhill fast: September 2011

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Whistler Downhill*

There is a race at a wellknown ski hill in Canada, Whistler. This unbelievable 1.6 km road features a 1000ft vertical foot drop as riders grip and drift through eight 180 degree hairpins.
This is a raw run with James Kelly and Louis Pilloni....wow.

http://vimeo.com/26496588

Saturday, September 24, 2011

RAD DAD - not quite...

The Sydney Morning Herald wanted to do a piece on old school skaters and I got the call. Robbo dobbed me in for an excercise designed to give the sport some good publicity. I suspect that that was achieved. I am not a rad dad, I just like skateboarding with my daughters. I don't act my age but certainly don't act theirs - that would be creepy. We skate together but I am dad, not their mate. CalStreets picked this up as well.

http://etni.es/3o0

About the Number '42'

42 is:

The number achieved by multiplying the Devil's number (6) and God's number (7).

The angle in degrees for which a rainbow appears;

42 is the product of the first three terms of Sylvester's sequence; like the first five such numbers it is also a primary pseudoperfect number.;

In 1966, mathematician Paul Cooper theorized that the fastest, most efficient way to travel across continents would be to bore a straight hollow tube directly through the Earth, connecting a set of antipodes, evacuate it (remove the air), and then just fall through. The first half of the journey consists of free-fall acceleration, while the second half consists of an exactly equal deceleration. The time for such a journey works out to be 42 minutes. Remarkably, even if the tube does not pass through the exact center of the Earth, the time for a journey powered entirely by gravity always works out to be 42 minutes, as long as the tube remains friction-free, as while gravity's force would be lessened, so would the distance traveled at an equal rate;

42 is the number with which God creates the Universe in Kabalistic tradition;

From the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is calculated by an enormous supercomputer over a period of 7.5 million years to be 42. Unfortunately no one remembers what the question is.