tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41362322024-02-07T19:41:39.804+11:00Humble OpinionsHume Winzar's experiment in letting friends and relatives know how I'm going in my travels, without having to go to the trouble of actually communicating directly with any of them.Hume Winzarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01434584561164689753noreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136232.post-60349337566311819082015-10-03T19:08:00.001+10:002015-10-03T19:08:57.274+10:00
Edible fungi...Hume Winzarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01434584561164689753noreply@blogger.com0Thredbo NSW 2625, Australia-36.5065863 148.30555559999993-36.5576433 148.22487459999994 -36.4555293 148.38623659999993tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136232.post-30203544050056200782015-03-31T20:55:00.001+11:002015-03-31T20:55:07.807+11:00The ecological fallacy: How to spot one and tips on how to use one to your advantageThe ecological fallacy: How to spot one and tips on how to use one to your advantageHume Winzarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01434584561164689753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136232.post-80690300423773333372012-01-19T18:40:00.000+11:002012-01-19T18:41:59.101+11:00Tow Endorsement: 15 Jan. 2012Weekend of 14-15 January, I took a Tow Endorsement course in preparation for the SIV course later in the month.
This is the final flight.
Thanks for Roger Stanford (Winch-operator & organiser), and Chris Rogers (Instructor)
Getting ready
Lift the wing
Take up Slack
Go! Go! Go!
One step and ... airborne
A little left break to control yaw
Past Hume Winzarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01434584561164689753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136232.post-7894659570392625092011-11-10T16:21:00.000+11:002015-10-03T19:18:36.939+10:00You've got to love Student TrackingExtracted from an email exchange with a student today: Hello X,I was wondering why it has taken you until Week#13 to notice that there wasn't a grade recorded for you for an assignment submitted in Week#4, but your records have answered it for me. There isn't a grade for the assignment because you didn't do the assignment.BlackBoard records show that you accessed the site only once in the first Hume Winzarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01434584561164689753noreply@blogger.com0Macquarie University, Sydney NSW 2109, Australia-33.773823700000008 151.11264979999999-90 -14.121725200000014 37.8426413 -43.652975200000014tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136232.post-67065793406352938672009-10-11T12:29:00.002+11:002009-10-11T12:32:15.205+11:00Paragliding Bright, Northern VictoriaNorthern Beaches goes to Bright from Hume Winzar on Vimeo.Kirstin organised a group to travel to the legendary Mystic Hill, Bright in Northern Victoria over the Labour Day Weekend, October 2009. Nine enthusiastic novices, with experience ranging from 60+ hours to about 10 minutes, took part.
Rain and fickle wind ruined much of the five days, but we had a great time, expanded our skills and Hume Winzarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01434584561164689753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136232.post-9007988925177559162009-03-15T18:48:00.005+11:002009-03-15T19:03:42.752+11:00Weekend in Adelaide
Sometimes the deities smile and the reasons we become academics converge and we have a great time as both scholars and lovers of life. This last weekend has been pretty good. I presented a research paper on Friday, curtesy of the Business School at University of Adelaide. The topic was my ongoing study on application of Complexity Theory to undrestanding consumer/market behaviour. There wereHume Winzarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01434584561164689753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136232.post-48219192435390319682009-02-15T19:52:00.007+11:002009-03-02T13:36:50.974+11:00Scuba diving South West Rocks
These images posted, with permission, from the Gallery at fishrock.com.au
A belated post summarising a part of my journey to Sydney from Brisbane.
My first plan was to make a circuitous route from Brisbane along the coast and then inland to the town of Manilla over perhaps two weeks. But that really was going to be more driving than it was worth.
First stop was South West Rocks, about an hour Hume Winzarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01434584561164689753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136232.post-33084654502076820622008-12-27T23:11:00.011+11:002008-12-28T22:48:33.423+11:00Paragliding Rainbow Beach Acknowledgment: Picture by Stefan Brandlehner on Flickr i.e. those are Stefan's feet, not mine. But they could have been.I've been wanting to fly Rainbow for a while now. In fact I and two of my flying buddies, Tashi and Reid, had arranged to go there several weeks ago, but the weather forecast was not encouraging. Now that I'm heading off to live in Sydney the project had taken on some Hume Winzarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01434584561164689753noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136232.post-38134344187973142622008-10-19T23:36:00.006+11:002008-10-19T23:51:55.469+11:00Paragliding Beechmont
I'm progressively getting better at paragliding. I'm still pumped after an excellent flight this afternoon at Beechmont, inland from the Gold Coast. Ridge-soaring and some thermals that kept me up for more than 40 minutes!
Next weekend we'll be up again. These pics taken by my daughter, Grace.
That's me with the orange wing with "silver" trim. Tashi Sherpa has the custom purple wing.Hume Winzarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01434584561164689753noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136232.post-47560066625232510812008-07-14T11:09:00.005+10:002009-02-15T23:46:58.541+11:00Charles has arrived
My grandson, Charles Francis Fleming, was born last week.
Mother, Lauren, is tired & sore but very happy.
Charles is healthy.
Father, Mitchell, is beside himself.
And I am officially old.
[Wt: 8 lb (3.6Kg) All fingers and toes. Feeding well.]Hume Winzarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01434584561164689753noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136232.post-60260254431101969832007-12-10T16:19:00.001+11:002009-02-15T23:49:04.745+11:00Queenstown December 8-11I came to Adventure and Party City with the intention of taking another bungy jump off a high bridge, but that hasn't happened yet. Two days were spent with colleagues from Griffith Uni taking a brief holiday after the conference - main activities: drinking, eating, drinking, bonding, slandering previous heads-of-department, current deans, pro-vice-chancellors and associated sociopaths, and Hume Winzarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01434584561164689753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136232.post-82634746614782757882007-12-10T16:06:00.001+11:002009-02-15T23:50:27.763+11:00Oin a theeratishun now!
The ANZMAC conference in Dunedin, New Zealand, was a lot better than expected. I arrived a couple of days earlier to attend the Doctoral Colloquium with one of my PhD students, Jannie Adamsen. Jannie found it all really helpful to meet with other Doctoral candidates, potential examiners and professors who may be able to offer advise. It was fun for me too. Good to see how other candidates Hume Winzarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01434584561164689753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136232.post-87255883083279998872007-06-30T04:39:00.001+10:002009-02-15T23:53:29.474+11:00First two days in Sri LankaSri Lanka is a wonderful country! I'm here for only a week and my dear friend Amal KarunaRatna, with whom I started my PhD program with about 20 years ago, is my host.
It's also a poor country. Crippled by a constant war between the Singhalese Sri Lankans and the Tamil Tigers in the North for the country, plus inept and corrupt government and inefficient bureaucracy, the country has only Hume Winzarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01434584561164689753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136232.post-13552724770185064142007-06-28T06:22:00.002+10:002009-02-15T23:59:23.652+11:00GallipoliI took a couple of days off to see Gallipoli, the site of the WWI fiasco that killed thousands of Australians and New Zealanders (and French and Canadians, and Britons) in a useless attempt to capture some territory held by Turkish forces so as to control the Bospherus Strait, linking he Mediterranean to the Black Sea.
Many more Turks also were killed, so it's of great importance to them as well.Hume Winzarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01434584561164689753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136232.post-29103771167455069622007-06-28T05:40:00.001+10:002009-03-02T13:38:16.196+11:00Conference in Braga, PortugalFrom Braga, Portugal
I probably didn't give Braga, Portugal, a fair chance. After all, the VirtualTtourist website lists the 800-year-old city as one of the beautiful cities in the world. It also says that in a very religiously conservative country the people of Braga are the most conservative, verging on fanatical. It certainly showed up in the city's total lack of any nightlife - I went Hume Winzarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01434584561164689753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136232.post-90356856888204009632007-06-13T04:10:00.001+10:002009-03-02T13:42:19.845+11:00Madrid & Barcelona
Madrid and Barcelona were way too rushed. I spent too much time messing about making arrangements for trains and flights to and from places and too little time just enjoying the places themselves. Anyway, I did get to see some of the wonderful architecture of Gaudi in Barcelona: Park Guell, Casa Batllo, and the cathedral, La Sagrada Familia - still under construction.
I got lost in Madrid Hume Winzarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01434584561164689753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136232.post-70937406894976693912007-06-07T20:53:00.001+10:002009-03-02T13:46:37.876+11:00HabdallahFrom Last days in ...I succeeded in my first solo crossing of a Cairo street today, and I rode four times in a Cairo taxi in the last two days. So, having faced death, it's time to move on to another challenge. Off to Madrid where the Basque separatists have just announced that their "permanent ceasefire" has expired and they're all set to restart their campaigns.
I'm in the cafeteria at Cairo Hume Winzarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01434584561164689753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136232.post-62960527918154301582007-06-03T22:38:00.000+10:002007-06-07T21:09:41.684+10:00Yet another change of plansFrom Diving in Dahab
I'm staying an extra day in Dahab. I ate with the professional dive instructors from my dive shop last night and I was invited to a party tonight: a local restaurant has just recruited a former student of Jamie Oliver and this is his opening show. Why not stay? I miss a day in Cairo, and almost certainly loose any opportunity to easily take a day-trip to Alexandria. An Hume Winzarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01434584561164689753noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136232.post-50530611244361870262007-06-01T04:19:00.001+10:002009-03-02T13:39:31.408+11:00Dahab on the Red Sea
I'd seen just about all of the amazing temples and monuments that I could handle for the moment so I made a spur of the moment decision to change my plans and take the plane from Luxor to Sharm El Sheikh on the night of the 29 May. My booking agent in Cairo and the people at the Luxor airport couldn't have been more helpful. They cancelled my train trip and hotel and bus for the next two days Hume Winzarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01434584561164689753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136232.post-88706318914163488522007-05-30T02:18:00.001+10:002009-03-02T13:40:13.078+11:00Aswan to Luxor via FallouccahRushed for the first part but wonderfully relaxing after. The 3:30am start to drive 300Km to Abu Simbel was a pain. Wonderful temple, incredible feat of engineering to move it up the hill away from the waters of the Aswan dam an' all, but was it worth the time and heat and fatigue? Not really. Still, I suppose I can now say that I've done it and seen it.
The two day ride down the Nile in a Hume Winzarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01434584561164689753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136232.post-53430410331779558802007-05-26T05:09:00.000+10:002007-05-26T05:17:49.425+10:00Aswan
Tired and dehydrated after a drive out to Aswan damn and to the Kiosk of Qirtassi which had to be moved 100 metres, piece by piece, to make way for the damn waters. Fabulous history surrounding the structure, which is in remarkable condition considering that this Roman-Egyption trading post (at least that not covered in sand for most of the last 2000 years) has been graffitied by all sorts of Hume Winzarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01434584561164689753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136232.post-38523215873322594572007-05-24T06:44:00.001+10:002009-03-02T13:43:02.909+11:00Day Two in Cairo: Saqarrah and Giza
Pretty tired so I'm making this a brief one. It's end of day two and I've had a fabulous day tripping around the Saqqarrah pyramid and the Pyramids of Giza.
They're old. Nearly 5000 years. And some of the paint is still on some of the relief paintings, and the hiroglyphs are amazing in their clarity and beauty. I'll tell more of the story accompanying the some of the pictures in my gallery (Hume Winzarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01434584561164689753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136232.post-87787331491784094802007-05-24T06:32:00.000+10:002007-05-24T06:43:43.115+10:00Day One in Cairo
It's been a fairly full last few days. Of course I shoulda' coulda' woulda' several things but I didn't. Fortunately I have some friends who are so generous and so gracious. Despite several checks with the post office I couldn't send my suitcase full of winter clothes back to Australia, but Kurt and Barbara are taking care of it for me. Dennis helped me to pack by sitting there Sunday Hume Winzarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01434584561164689753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136232.post-36711100728140886862007-05-24T03:40:00.001+10:002009-03-02T13:45:22.948+11:00Last full day in Canada: Golf @ Kananaskis
What great day of golfing! Dennis had booked a foursome at Kananaskis months in advance for Saturday. So the four was made up of Dennis, me, Kurt, and Patrick, the owner of the Ironwood Stage & Grill.
It was the first time I'd had a chance to talk properly with Pat, since he was always at work when I saw him but, like his friends, he's a smart and engaging guy but with a razor wit.
Hume Winzarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01434584561164689753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136232.post-16280964231094273362007-05-15T14:36:00.001+10:002009-03-02T13:43:55.908+11:00Mexican Piñata Party
I'll claim it a sort of farewell for me. Dennis and Robin hosted yet another fabulous party.
Only a week late for the Cinco de Mayo (5th of May) celebration, we made up a perfect mole negro, Robin prepared guacamole, bean salad, salsa and a superb turkey-taco green salad. There was way too much to drink.
One highlight was the piñata - well two piñata - Robin & Dennis had prepared one and Hume Winzarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01434584561164689753noreply@blogger.com0