Geoff Jones

Inveterate dabbler in business, travel, gadgets & life

Category: Personal

Leaping Lineouts..

Philip kindly invited Sally, Doug, Adrian and myself to the pre-match lunch at CRUFC. Todays match was towards the EDF National Trophy , Cambridge played Rotherham (Top of National League 1). A very exciting game with Cambridge only losing by one point 🙁

It was the first outing for my Olympus SP-560UZ with its new 2GB memory card. I ended up taking well over 60 pictures, most at its maximum X16 optical zoom – with no tripod. My match favourite was this throw in:-

Throw In

Number 15Although number 15 (Charlie Spon-Smith) didn’t seem to be striking a stereotypical rugby pose…

I uploaded all the pictures to my new favourite upload site, Picasa (well 1GB space for free!) although the cool flash player seems to have disappeared. So you will have to click on the CRUFC picture below to see all the match shots.

CRUFC

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A great day out the place was packed – over 200 for lunch yet again. So many thanks Philip!

Addendum: From Rotherhams site – I found 4 of their players it was their first outing, 5 of the  players had played in more than 12 of their 18 games this year, remainder had played in 4 to 7 games.

Epic paper plane flight

Awesome video of paper plane thrown from a 30 storey building. The plane flys for over 60 seconds with The Brooklyn Bridge as a back drop.

Link from http://overstated.net/2008/01/04/epic-paper-airplane-flight

Video at http://www.todaysbigthing.com/2008/01/01

Meaning of Geoff?

The meaning of my name Geoff according to Blogthings:-


What Geoff Means


You are deeply philosophical and thoughtful. You tend to analyze every aspect of your life.

You are intuitive, brilliant, and quite introverted. You value your time alone.

Often times, you are grumpy with other people. You don’t appreciate them trying to interfere in your affairs. You are friendly, charming, and warm. You get along with almost everyone.

You work hard not to rock the boat. Your easy going attitude brings people together.

At times, you can be a little flaky and irresponsible. But for the important things, you pull it together.

You are well rounded, with a complete perspective on life.

You are solid and dependable. You are loyal, and people can count on you.

At times, you can be a bit too serious. You tend to put too much pressure on yourself.

You are loving, compassionate, and ruled by your feelings.

You are able to be a foundation for other people… but you still know how to have fun.

Sometimes your emotions weigh you down, but you generally feel free from them.

What’s Your Name’s Hidden Meaning?

 It reads like a classic cold reading as I’m reading about in “The Full Facts of Cold Reading” by Ian Rowland

New Years day swim…

A Happy New Year to all my readers from the Cam…
Geoff
The Cam water temperature was 7 degrees celsius.

About 20 or 30 other brave folks did it too although there was apparently some competition from Jesus Green which specially opened today although at £10 entrance we preferred The Cam!