Sat 2nd: Jimble City

 

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The moon @ 6.14 …

 

Walking on the moon

 

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Rosie the bitch: Electric Ladyland

 

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Point Cafe opens its roll-a-door (“You’ll get much more … “) at 6.15 a.m.

 

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All blacklight photos courtesy of Ali, Fifi and the nightwalking Lamplighter Crew.  Amazing pix – Many thanks indeed  🙂

 

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IT’S QUEENSCLIFF ALL THE WAY TODAY

If ever you get towed along for the ride to Curl Curl, here’s what happens on the last corner.  You round the bend – and voila – the beach is still a massive, wet kilometre away.  Best to avoid the Queenscliff Speed Club, I’d suggest.  (Roberto the Torpedo, Mad Kenny the chuckler, agile Aguis, Laughing Jackson, Scarface Sam, Fifi Flash, Mark the Gentle Giant, able Alex … )

 

Above photo taken from north Curly.

(That WWI obelisk turns 100 next year.  Commemorates soldiers whose camp was nearby …)

 

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For any who missed it – last Friday SMH photographer Nick Moir dropped in on us.  One pic in the paper, and three online.  Elizabeth storming the break with blog-cam here …

 

The story was along the lines of wintry weather.  Somehow, the Bolds temp-tester snuck into two SMH pix … seen here having a gay time with friends

 

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“It’s all about the temp” during autumn/winter transitioning.  A coupla toasty sheilas …

 

 

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Moonlit incantations afloat …

 

Wetsuit Chat

Phil bought this number a whopping 26 years ago!  Way back – and yet ahead of its time; in that it was bought totally ‘online’ (or mail order).  Phil sent off his dimensions, and it turned up in the post.  Both still going strong …

 

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The man on left has just swum perhaps the Bolds’ Shortest Swim Ever.  (One metre.)  The woman on right swims onto an elite list, having successfully completed the Bolds’ Longest Swim Ever.  (English Channel)

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SOLSTICE SERIES 2016

As with last year; there will be two more 6.20 a.m. birthday-suit swims in the Drinks Express Winter Challenge

Leg 2:    Sunday 23rd July

Leg 3:    Sunday 20th August

Due to persistent requests among the ranks, there will be a badge ready at end of the series.

 

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BACKLOG of BLOGS

• All global blogs are archived and can be searched.  (Lesbubbles is active in this area.)  Below are calculations on storage needed just to support this alone; our group’s Bolds Blog database history

 

 

 

 

WHERE IS IT ALL?

A quick google search reveals that most global blogs are stored in middle-eastern skyscrapers, built by rich Arab dynasties.  (With Peak Oil fast approaching, they are frantically working towards becoming digital superpowers.)  This is why so many skyscrapers are being erected in the deserts – to store very, very deep histories of blogs and other daily archived databases. (Coles prices etc).

WHY SO MANY SKYSCRAPERS?

Although extremely deep, a blog has no width – it is just an image on a screen.   One skyscraper can therefore store (vertically) umpteen millions of blogs.  Of course, even Blind Freddy knows it would be foolish to store everything in the one skyscraper.  This is why many are being erected – as a safety factor.  Also; each new one reaches higher than the last – because of the ever-compiling flow of data.

COMPETING INTERESTS BETWEEN OIL NATIONS

Different oil-producing countries are also competing against each other for the data-storage market, which has led to intense skyscraper construction ranging from the Middle East to South-East Asia.

UNFORESEEN PROBLEMS

Once a skyscraper has more than 720,000 blogs dangling from the roof, there is sometimes a problem with ‘ghosting’.  This is the accidental transfer of data due to rubbing.

And it only takes one hacker with a pair of scissors breaking in; and there can be major loss of data – sent tumbling down and intermixing on the ground floor.

CLOUD STORAGE
Such is the exponential surge in data history storage, the newer and ever-higher skyscraper-storage towers are sometimes referred to as being ‘cloud-based’ facilities.

SHOULD YOU USE CLOUD SKYSCRAPERS?

Look at what happened in New York City.  I’d keep your stuff in your phone, if I were you.

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Clair as jimblefish bait …

 

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The walk to Shelly: blocked perhaps for some months to come …

 

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The entire swim group is split asunder today, with multiple reports of jimble squadrons all over Cabbage Tree Bay.  First sightings come from the 6.10 Lamplighters.  Clair gets out at halfway.  (Fifi swims a Cabbage double though, ignoring multiple welts.)

 

Factions swim north; trios head east; individuals enter at halfway sans wetsuits.  But I learn a telling point from Mrs Pauline Management.  Goggled swimmers perhaps don’t see too many … BUT … if swimming with snorkel and (therefore) head steady and always underwater, the jimble city becomes all too visible.

 

The various groups (usually two or three) who reach Shelly are hugging the rocks back home …

 

Below: Shelly considering Shelly …

 

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HEROES FOR THE DAY

Ted (Netherlands) and Brian (RSA) duckdive some five metres, and manhandle a storm-ripped powerbox off the bottom.  Together they manage to swim it ashore at Fairy Bower.

 

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BREAKING NEWS

“You can sit at the bar”

B & B Fundraising Trivia Night
Venue: The Steyne Hotel
Date:    Tuesday week –  12th July – 6.30 pm

Although Trivia Night is booked out (Waiting list only), others are more than welcome to come along and mingle at bar/beer garden which adjoins room.  This is free of charge.  You can watch, heckle, and bid for items.  You MAY NOT enter the Trivia Comp.

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Pink’s the go

 

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As per yesterday’s swim tip; remember to keep practising the coin-clinch in order to tighten your kicking from the hips

 

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Ace and John

 

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Ted alerts the relevant authority about downed electricals in the Bay …

 

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Stats:

Temp: 17.5º

 

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