Author Archives: Richard
Down go the Athlone Towers…
Just a quick post to show you all the best video and the best pic so far of The Athlone Cooling Towers imploding… The video: And the picture: Congrats to @brauteseth for taking such a great photo! Sadly I wasn’t able to get anything, because as I was focusing my camera, they suddenly went down! [...]
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SRC Elections 2010!
Guys! It’s SRC election time! Have you noticed?! Get excited! *vomits with excitement* Or, if you’re a normal person, who has things to do and more important things to worry about (like studying an actual degree), you may not have noticed the DA DASO people sitting around looking bored on plaza, you may not have noticed [...]
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Generic Greeting
So you’re back at Varsity and you are seeing friends that you haven’t spoken to in ages, its great! You’re floating on a high, strutting across Plaza like it nobodies business(it probably isn’t… Also, stop strutting, it looks weird) when suddenly you get blindsided by and “acquaintance”! Oh no! What will you talk about? Panic! [...]
Night Shoot
Since I bought my shinny new Camera about a month ago, I have been absolutely itching to find myself a tripod and do some night shots. Then a good friend of mine, Chris Thomas took this amazing photo of Soccer City the night before the game: I just know I had to get out at night [...]
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My week in Kruger
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so without further a du I give you my longest post ever! All 8000 or so words of it! So trip to Kruger = Great Drinking before 8 in the morning = Awesome Driving down no entry roads and getting lost (refer to last point) = Superb Having [...]
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Holiday
Hey Guys, there won’t be any post for a couple of days, in at the beach bitches! (sorry that was rude) and then after that I’m off to Kruger for about a week, so let’s say I’ll be back around the 17th? Awesome! It’s a date then, what? You like sushi! Even better! See you [...]
Comments
“Ah! Comments, Richard must be planning on blogging his witty view on some popular piece of news” Fraid not folks! That would involve both though, a knowledge of any news that is not World Cup related and me actually being witty. Instead I will be writing about comments, they things that go on the end [...]
The Mystery of the “Missing Tickets”
I’m sure most of you have noticed that there are empty seats at most of The World Cup games, the number of open seats can range from just a few (last night a Soccer City for the Brazil v Côte d’Ivoire game) to a whole lot of open seats (think and game at PE). The [...]
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