live from the field
In the field right now, catching fish and hanging out in the Wet Tropics. It’s raining, what a surprise.
Full Hinchinbrook and party reports to follow when I arrive back in Townsville for August - the International Month of Domination (IMD).
July 19th, 2005 at 7:25 pm
raining, i don’t believe you. that sounds like a sympathy vote to me. It was dry and sunny the whole time lach and I were there, don’t know what all the fuss is about
July 19th, 2005 at 7:45 pm
dry your eyes mate
July 20th, 2005 at 11:21 am
You’ll never make the RAD page worrying about such trivial things as rain, boy.
Slides to be picked up tonight - they are going to be the business. Oh, and I’ve got your Reef HQ card Tomo - I’ll post it with the pics.
I also stayed up last night watching Cadel Evans in Le Tour try to emulate our performance on Hinchinbrook - pure domination. One day he might be able to climb Bowen too.
July 20th, 2005 at 6:52 pm
i fail to see the domination in you, boys.
that was a super-lame performance from you both at the party! Lying down and napping it up under blankie-poos at 11pm. soft.
July 20th, 2005 at 6:52 pm
meanwhile, i sympathise with tom. it’s cold and rainy. simply not on for townsville.
July 21st, 2005 at 9:06 am
that is also not dominant Jodi. Lach and I are inclined to have moments of non domination especially folllowing periods of intense mach speed dominance. We are back in the zone now rest assured!!
July 21st, 2005 at 11:08 am
you’re right jodi, they were lame. rain is easing off now. in cairns with zoe and ves shopping etc… trying to get money sorted out for Alaska by remote control - having the usual beureacratic dramas given that I’ve got to deal with this sort of attitude:
Hi Tom
Like you say, its a little more complicated than that………….
For me to “just” transfer the funds to GU, I need an invoice to
substantiate why the transfer is being made. Fistly because CRC best
practice recommends it, secondly because our funding covenants with DEST
demand it, thirdly because our auditors will want to see it, fourthly
because JCU Finance Dept won’t process the transfer without it and finally
because the good old ATO insist we keep proper records to ensure we don’t
do them out of GST…
For me to debit the transfer to your student account requires your
supervisor’s authority and your sign off.
Incidentally I don’t see the connection between the cheaper rate and the
inability to produce an invoice for the service.
So you ‘just’ produce the invoice and I’ll ‘just’ transfer the funds
Cheers
David
July 21st, 2005 at 12:41 pm
… what a cock spank.
July 21st, 2005 at 12:46 pm
why don’t you “just” tell then to ‘go feck themselves’ and give you your frick’n money
July 21st, 2005 at 12:47 pm
Dear David,
If you don’t ‘just’ transfer the funds to my account, I’ll ‘just’ transfer your nose through the back of your head.
Regards,
Tomo.
I.M.D. Coordinator
July 21st, 2005 at 12:48 pm
… freakin’ mexicans.
July 21st, 2005 at 2:12 pm
hahahahhah
‘just’
July 21st, 2005 at 3:05 pm
“I.M.D. Coordinator”
ahhahah, love it.
July 21st, 2005 at 3:07 pm
But, this is to transfer funding out of my account. I thought this would be the easiest thing in the world.
The head-honcho is going to call him direct from Brisbane, she was shitty because this whole deal is a complete waste of everyone’s time - including hers.
July 21st, 2005 at 4:26 pm
this guy should “just” F*CK off. Can I call him also, I am furious - I have no time for cheeky arse wipes like that. He is defn a small man!
As you can tell I have had a frustrating day.
July 21st, 2005 at 4:49 pm
i think you should call him phil and keep a transcript of the conversation. do you think that he is a small sallow man with a savage comb over?
July 21st, 2005 at 4:50 pm
I think we should all call him and tell him to F*UCK off, we don’t have time to read all this shit about a di*khead like that.
;p
July 21st, 2005 at 7:02 pm
ahahah, I should ‘just’ email him the address for this page
or… I could arrange a conference-call-intervention.
Hi, David? We’re calling to discuss your clear level of subordination. It’s affecting us in a negative way and we think that it’s time you admit that you have a problem with dominators attempting to get on with the show.
July 21st, 2005 at 7:50 pm
tom, are you in fact still in the field?
if so, the repeated posting indicates to me that your field work is as I suspected- soft!!!!!!!
July 22nd, 2005 at 7:27 am
this is a rant from a very disappointed parent.
Here we have spent the past six months vicariously enthusiastic about the Hinchinbrook challenge and domination — and not a word.
Did you all have a dreadful time?
Did you all really NOT get to the summit of Mt Bowen and are now just too undominant to come clean with the audience?
Without any other evidence one can only assume that you spent the week lounging around at the resort, drinking beers and merely pretending to be dominant.
Has it come to this?
July 22nd, 2005 at 9:32 am
Now stop right there.
“Undominant”? “mearly pretending”? “not get to the summit”? Well I never.
I’m sorry we haven’t yet tortured you all with our incredible, illustrated stories of complete and utter domination of the walking on Hinchinbrook Island, the cooking of fresh-caught fish on the beach and, of course, the total ownership of the summit of Mt Bowen (as if there was ever any doubt).
I just picked up all of my slides yesterday and will email some scans to Tomo for inclusion in The Full Report which will no doubt be a marination of your visual senses in the beauty and grandure of the great Hinchinbrook Island.
July 22nd, 2005 at 10:34 am
I love a good “marination of your visual senses.” I look forward to the detailed report of domination!
By the way, in a more measured frame of mind than my previous comment, I realised that the fact that we even posted a comment on that jackass re the funding means we have given him too much of our time.
July 22nd, 2005 at 10:52 am
Good call Phil. I think that a guest report is in order from Hinchinbrook, or as those who dominated Nina Peak twice in an hour like to call it, “the little hill on the island”.. We were indeed dominant, despite what Jodi and assorted Mexicans might like to think, and managed to float across the tracks with 4kg of fortified wine (extra training weight), swim and pelvis thrust off every marginal jump rock we could find, hunter/gather a good bit of tucker and dominate Bowen, all in the space of 6 harsh winter days (sunny, 25-28 degrees C). Nice
July 22nd, 2005 at 12:47 pm
ok ok, if you pelvis thrusted off EVERY available jump rock, i declare bow to your dominance.
However, it was clearly a lapse of your dominance at Hinchinbrook at the even on sat night.
July 22nd, 2005 at 3:21 pm
it’s clear i was distracted while writing that post
i declare bow=i bow
even=event
July 22nd, 2005 at 8:54 pm
i concede to that point
July 24th, 2005 at 12:33 pm
yes, and some of the rock jumps were highly marginal - approaching the sketchy and ridiculous.
b.t.w they will be documented in full in the broadband section this coming week when I am finally reunitied with my laborously slow pc at uni (i think the time has come for Mr Norman to give me three years intrest free).