Every Friday night in Paris throughout the year starting at 22h30 there is the famous randonnée, in which thousands of rollerbladers hit the streets for a three hour circuit of 30 kilometres, with police escort and first-aiders on hand. Exhilerating. Last time I participated, one of my wheels fell off and I narrowly avoided a major pile up.

There is a similar event on Sunday afternoons, but it’s a bit too tame for my liking. People take their prams and poodles.

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Jamie built us a new p rail.

Richie gives a high 5

Flipmooooooooo

Lately we’ve been trying to hit up the city a bit to get clips handled. Yesterday wasn’t too productive, but it was still nice to hang out in the sun and bomb some hills.

This is what everyone thinks of Hype Park flat rail.

Seb is from Adelaide.

Richie is from Canada.

Flipmo handling business.

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That time i’ve tried to film rollerblading with the 5D.
The conversion from 30p to 25p gave the whole thing a nice decent slowmo feeling and
the blue-ish grading made it calm. Sadly the contrast was too high and the on-camera screen
makes the picture look better than they appear on my screen.
But i’m sure that can be solved with some work in the image-processing setup in the cam.

Shot in Winterthur,
feat: Cosimo Tassone, Claudio Bohli, Lukas Artho, Roger sutter, Jan Nachbur.

1080p for download: Vimeo Link

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Egor & Nari park session in da Ylianovsk skatepark 29/11/09 from Egor Efimov on Vimeo.

John Bolino Vibalux Intro from Adam Johnson on Vimeo.

HELLO TODAY I ROLLERBLADED TILL MY LEGS FELT LIKE TREE TRUNKS. so heavy and hard to lift up.

i have aching thighs now cant wait for it to be goneee but it was SO FUN i like!! haha and im so happy we got to exercise yayyy feels good man.

but bernice is like the number 1 complainer and im always amused at how prom is so impt to her. i keep forgetting prom is this fri and im not very excited abt it leh. maybe i will tmr when i go SHOPPING hohoho

so happy im meeting helu spencer bernice and ming again tmr haha LIFE ROCKS MAN srsly it really does so funnn

MY RETARDED FRIENDS HAHA

the whiner and the wonderful instructor

$4 xiao long bao from crystal jade which wins dingtaifung hands down!

seriously i dont understand whats the big deal abt ding tai feng its like so super ex and its not even very nice. the crystal jade one is far nicer and much cheaper too! i love (:

so anwsss today was so FUN YAY!

i just tried uploading the pictures to facebook but it failed TWICE so annoying. will try again tmr.

tmr will have new SHOPPING PICS hooray! and great i still havent tried on my outfit for prom i MUST try soon i still dont know what to do for my hair great.

EXCITED FOR TMR YAY

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A few days ago, our technical writing team went on a chocolate outing. This is not a rare occurrence. This time I have some pictures and a few musings about the confluence of teams and chocolate.

Concept:

Reference:

Task:

We decided that was one user guide we could all follow without difficulty!

chocolate.inspire(team)

For me, one of the most important aspects of my job is the team I work with. After all, I spend most of my waking life with them. It’s good to build up some common interests, other than the work itself, so that you have something to talk about, something to bind you together, even something to complain about.

I think fun is very important. But “fun” is a fuzzy concept. People have different ideas of what constitutes fun and technical writing teams typically consist of very disparate individuals. So how on earth do you find something that everyone will consider fun, interesting and invigorating?

Funnily enough (heh), we’ve found that it just happens. We have a great bunch of people in our team. Every one of us wants everyone else to feel good in the team. So when a possible “common interest” arises, everyone buys into it.

skate.go()

Earlier I wrote that it’s even good to have something to complain about together. Don’t we all love to exclaim in anguished tones, and isn’t it a good thing if the object of such gleeful anguish is not our job! I have a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon above my desk at work, showing Calvin’s father with a mangled bicycle, obviously the result of a bad stack. The caption reads something like:

“The secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby that is even worse.”

Our technical writing team is keen on rollerblading. Actually, we’ve only done it once, but we plan to get out there again soon. And being keen doesn’t mean we do it well, just that we’re happy to give it a go. Or simply to watch our team mates fall off the blades! We made it into the Cherryleaf I’m a technical writer and I’m not boring annals.

But can you guess what the most popular common interest is? You got it: chocolate. And it’s not something we complain about!

chocolate.reward(jens)

We’ve taken to “rewarding” other people, those who are not fortunate enough to be technical writers, when they do something that improves the documentation. How do we reward them? With chocolate of course.

Our latest reward went to Jens, who is doing some awesome work on a “documentation” theme for Confluence wiki. (Yes, it’s true! I’ll let you know more about it when there’s a prototype ready for trial.)

We went to at Max Brenner in George Street, Sydney. Clockwise from the left, here are Rosie, Jens, Ed, Giles and Andrew (I was taking the photo):

Lucky Jens!

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Another thing we do to engender team spirit is to dress alike.

Heh, just kidding. But on this occasion, we all made sure that we wore our new Atlassian Dragon Quest T-shirts.

Warning! The shirts are very green. When we all appeared together, an involuntary gasp of horror escaped Penny, one of our QA engineers:

“My eyes, my eyes.”

So here we are, the Atlassian technical writers on a chocolate outing in our Dragon Quest T-shirts. Clockwise from the left — Ed, Giles, Andrew, Rosie and Sarah:

I count myself extremely lucky to be part of such a great team! Do you have any stories about what your team gets up to?

Watch Billy O’Neill USD Pro UFS Throne Skate Promo in HD from Create Originals on Vimeo.

We finally got Abby’s “documents” in the mail, and practiced her alias and alibi a few times.  After a few last minute stops in Seattle to drop off post cards and check out some thrift stores, we got over the Canadian border halfway legal with no problem what so ever.  We got in touch with Leon at Shop-Task and he was gracious enough to host us, but under one condition.  He was throwing a Halloween party so we couldn’t stay without  costumes.  Sounds like a fair deal to me.

Vancouver is a beautiful city, with lots of nice upgrades with the winter Olympics coming soon.  There are also over 40 skate parks in the city, and we made sure to take advantage of a handful of them.  Value Village helped us put together the finishing touches on the Halloween costumes, and we got ready for the party.    We were only in the city for about 48 hours, but it felt like a lot longer.

the view from Shop Task

beautiful city!

these guys do it right!!

keeping it simple… NO CRIME!!

this spot was apparently for the Vistor King

out skating before noon, Canadians are crazy!

Leon pointing out an old stunt he fakee rolled to backflip

testing some RB flatrockers in the bowl

as if 45+ skateparks weren’t enough, skateboarders built this too in their spare time

Leon got the glasses for his costume but could barely see out of them

love it

rejected costume #1

rejected costume #2

Ellie (or Ely?  or Elly?) with the cobweb decoration

spooking up the loft

party time!  costumes below

rooftop view with a fireworks show later in the night

somehow I got cut, and for some reason somebody decided I needed a butterfly stitch haha

caught in the web

we moved the party to something John and Yoko were more familiar with

the vision

me, john, and yoko

zoolander and lady gaga

care bears patrolling the street

peggy bundy brought a pistol too

the old “abby’s face in a bowl”

spent the hangover morning at the elbow room, one of those places where the staffs job is to make fun of you and be as obnoxious as possible.  always a good way to cheer up your day.

Watch Albert Hooi Sweden Weekend 2009 in HD from 013 VideoMagazine on Vimeo.

Nick Lomax Conference (Unseen Clips!) from Scott Hallows on Vimeo.

joe tallman-09 clips from joe tallman on Vimeo.

via psykoclothing blog

Alejandro Velez from psykoclothing on Vimeo.

Австралийцы крушат!

Mini Monster Comp from Dom West on Vimeo.

Vine St took the train out to Monster skatepark on Saturday for a small skate comp. CJ won, with Rian 2nd and Mass 3rd. Unfortunatley the alleged $750 prize for 1st place somehow dropped to only $250. Rumour has it Kurtis Moody took off with the rest of the money. Anyway, here’s a little edit we put together.