Ian's
House of Thud
Some decade I'll find a more meaningful way to organize my page.
Until then, just follow the links presented here. Many of them are
only available in the "News and updates"
section below.
The doors before you are as follows.
The
Original homepage This is were it all started many years ago
(Links
to other sites in here too).
My '97 Montana Motorcycle
trip. (story and photos )
My motorcycle plus some
motorcycle technical articles
My Car Page (all about my
VW R32 and old GTI-VR6 and more) plus the Car
Multimedia Page
Flight II Oddities Flight
simulator stuff from one of the first super high res terrain
flight simulators (dated, but
no place to put stuff like this).
'98 Travelogue and
Newsletter. (Story and 35 cool photos)
Original pencil
artwork
My
Nikon Coolpix 990 Photo Galleries on Fototime (Updated
11/11/04)
Complete
Index of all my Photographic Galleries (Updated
05/25/06)
My
Videos of lots of strange stuff (Updated 10/23/03)
My Video channel on YouTube with a mix of FPV, driving and
other videos.
My Video channel on Vimeo with lots of FPV related
videos (updated regularly)
My
Radio Controlled Soaring Page and Real
Time Wind
and Weather Page (Updated 11/10)
9/11 Archive Raw and Uncut - A
collection of archived videos and images from the days following
9/11.
About my images and
animations (Basically,
ask before using, and do not hotlink my images, unless you want me
to redirect you to
something nasty)
I can be reached at frechett@houseofthud.com
News and web page updates
- Dec 9, 2012 - Updated links and thumbnails on the Weather Page to fix some broken ones
and add a couple.
- Aug 22, 2010 - 9/11 Archive Raw and Uncut
- For the 10 year anniversary, I present a collection of videos
and photos I archived in the days immediately following 9/11
- Nov 7, 2010 - Updated Weather
page with new thumbnails
-
January 1 2008 - Updated Differentials
Page (This is the most searched for page on my site)
- Dec 2007 - Updated my Real Time
Wind and Weather page
- Summer and Fall 2007 - Lots and lots of new stuff added over
on the Media Server, particularly in the Car and RC Video pages
- June 2007 - Big server move
- January 2007 - Updated Car-A/V
page with bunch of new snow R32 videos. Drifting at
night, and day, with and without music.. etc.
- April 2006- Added videos from the recent Western Colorado
Slope Soaring Challenge combat event in the rc sections of media
server
- March 3/06 - Added 2006 SoCal R32 GTG
Gallery and several in-car track videos
from Streets of Willow Raceway
- Nov 10/05 - Added new track and soaring videos to media server
in car and rc sections
- Sept 15/05 - Colorado/Arizona/Utah road trip
photos
- Sept 15/05 - Lots and lots of new rc and car related videos
over on the media server
- Nov 11/04 - Updated Car A/V page with
R32 related videos, and some updates on the Car
page
- Nov 11/04 - Update Fototime link, because my fototime album
expired.. oops.
- Oct 04 - Put up a new media server
with all of my automotive and R/C videos
- Feb 3/04 - Update Photo Index Page
- Feb 3/04 - Updated Car page with new
R32 information and created an
old car page
for my GTI-VR6
- Feb 2/04 - Added new R32
Gallery with glamor shots of my new car
- Oct 23/03 - Added a bunch of newish R/C videos to my Videos page.
- Sept 9/03 - Some updates to the Slope sites
review page
- Sept 8/03 - Added a page with some
photos and videos flying a site I call Highway 93 West
(just south of Boulder)
- August 30/03 - Added some new gliders to the R/C
Soaring page including NCFM M60 and Polecat Aero XP3
links.
- May/03 - Added some photos and videos of the Ed Berg Spinner EPP DLG glider
- March/03 - Couple new videos on the video
page
- March/03 - Added Gavin Dennis's page on how to replace the
ABS module to the car page
- Janurary 29/03 - Added some new R/C
related videos featuring onboard views from my Miraj F3F
- January 5/03 - Added a couple new videos to the RC section of
my Video page including the Dogan
flying at the powerlines.
- December 02 - Added a page detailing how to replace the hand
brake/e-brake cables on a GTI-VR6.
- November 30/02 - Updated Video page
with new R/C and Car videos and Car Page
Links, and Car A/V page with new Car
video
- November 15/02 - Updated my Car Page
with current mods and other housekeeping
- November 14/02 - Adding a link here to some aerial photos I took on a flight
between LA and Denver plus a cool stereogram of Denver from the
air
- November 14/02 - Added Zagi Reincarnate, Bolo DLG, Coyote and
Moth information to the R/C page
- November 14/02 - Car and R/C Updates to the Various Posts page
- October 26/02 - Updates to the local realtime Weather page
- October 25/02 - Added a transcribed article comparing the
upcoming Golf R32 to the Mercedes C30 AMG
- October 13/02 - Added Barnum and
Bailey Circus album to albums
index page
- October 2002 - Added a page describing how to modify Hella Dual Round Projectors for an HID
conversion and final
results of new HIDS.
- July 27/02 - Added first Second Creek Raceway video to Car A/V page
- July 29/02 - Added a new Cloud pics
album to the albums index page
- June 26/02 - Updates to R/C soaring page,
R/C slope
reviews page and new realtime
weather/wind page
- June 23/02 - Updated R/C page with info
about the new Bluto 56" and a link
to my Miraj dynamic soaring (DS) videos.
- May 14/02 - Added photos of the 2002 1 Lap
of America event at PPIR to the photo
page
- Apr 13/02 - Brand new page showing my web forum and USENET history of
posts. Lots of
technical information about the car, and motorcycles, and
various hobbiest stuff. Updated related car/rc/motorcycle
pages.
- Apr 11/02 - Updated my car page with
new technical links
- Mar 28/02 - Updated Denver/Boulder
R/C soaring reviews page with photos and more reviews.
- Feb 27/02 - Added photos of all my models to the R/C Soaring Page.
- Feb 7/02 - Added a new R/C Soaring Page to
start organizing all the information about my gliders and
soaring photos.
- Feb 6/02 - Added a page with links to some Discus
Launch Glider videos and photos
- Feb 5/02 - Updated Video page and Car A/V page with new streamable
WMV versions of Mt. Evans videos.
- Feb 4/02 - Added Construction photos
of my new NCFM
Bluto R/C slope glider
- Dec 7/01 - Added videos of my new
Nemesis R/C slope racer flying for only the second time to
the videos page
- Dec 1/01 - Added some photos of R/C
soaring with a couple new gliders (Nemesis and a friend's
homebuilt).
- Nov 18/01 - Added photos of Leonid Meteor
Storm to Photo Index Page
- Nov 6/01 - Added photos of Aurora
Borealis from near Denver to Photo
Index Page
- Oct 24/01 - Added Review of various
Denver/Boulder RC Soaring sites
- Sept 24/01 - Added Roadtrip
Utah 2001 photos to photos page
- Aug 26/01 - Added a bunch of videos of my R/C JW glider doing
aerobatics to the video page
- Aug 20/01 - Added links to some good technical articles to motorcycle page.
- Aug 16/01 - Added Rob Baldwin's video of his GTI-VR6 at the Streets of
Willow to my Car A/V Page
- Aug 12/01 - Updated My Car Page and My Photo Index Page and Car Audio/Video/Photo Page
- Aug
02/01 - Added Statistics page for
houseofthud.com (updated every day)
- Aug 02/01. - Added multimedia page
with videos of Moby Concert, Driving Videos and R/C glider
videos
- Aug 02/01 - Moved www.houseofthud.com
to a new server.
- July 28/01 - Moby
Area: One Festival photos
- July 18/01 - Montana
Trip Summer 2001 photos (raccoon, fire photo, aerial
logging)
- May 5/01 - Volkswagens
on the Green 2001 photos added to the photo page
- April 12/01 - Updated car page with VR6 CableShift Linkage adjustment
instructions and
finally added a section listing all my
car's modifications.
Feb 3/01 - Automotive
Differentials page updated with more information about
torsen diffs
- Jan 20/01 - Added Denver
Millennium Celebration Photos to Photo Index Page
- Dec 11/00 - Added Snowy
Nighttime Drive to Photo Index
Page
- Nov 28/00 - Added a bunch of new links to the old home page, like to the awesome How Stuff Works site.
- Oct 01/00 - Added GTI-VR6
Auto-X photos featuring myself and Seth Frader on 3 wheels
- Aug 20/00 - Added Second
Creek Raceway photo album
- Aug 18/00 - Added Josephine
photo album
- June 28th/00 - Added Photo Index of
all my Galleries on Photopoint
and Fototime
- June 24/00 - June 24 Auto-X
at Coors Field, and updates to Car A/V Page.
- June 6/00 - June 4 Auto-X at
Coors Field
- March 19/00 - March 19th Auto-X
Page again at Bandimere
- Feb 20/00 - New Feb 20 Auto-X
Page after today's event at Bandimere Speedway.
Also updated my Car Audio/Video/Auto-X Index
a little
- Jan 22/00 - New
Years 2000 Montana Road Trip Photos
- Jan 21/00 - Lunar
Eclipse Photos
- Nov 24/99 - In car video of a run up
a twisty road in the rocky mountains.
- Nov 12/99 - Sherefe'
photos
- Sept 27/99 - Photos for Trish's
Colorado GTI-VR6 Drive in the mountains.
- Aug 14/99 - Added link to Nikon
Coolpix 950 photo gallery to this page.
- Aug 05/99 - Montana 99 trip pictures
(24 pics) taken with new Nikon Coolpix 950
- Jul 23/99 - A few of the
first photos taken with Coolpix 950
- June 26/99 - Fast San
Francisco Road Trip in a GTI-VR6 (15 new pictures)
- June 14/99 - New GTI-VR6
Teves 20 EDL Disable switch modification page.
- June 10/99 - This and this fell on my car today. Ouch.
- May 30/99 - Thunderstorm timelapse
at night
- May 19/99 - The Colorado GTI-VR6 contingent get out to see the
One Lap of America GTI-VR6 race
team
- May 1/99 - My 4th Order Bandpass Subwoofer
Project
- Jan 22/99 - The ABS slide path
diagram
- Jan 15/99 - GTI-VR6
Fogs-only Stock Headlight Switch mod page added
- Jan 14/99 - Automotive
Differentials page added
- Dec 12/98 - A bunch of updates to this index page.
- Dec 12/98 - Some of my
original artwork. All pencil.
- Dec 8/98 - Finally, the '98 Road Trips Newsletter.
Lots of pictures.
- Nov 24/98 - Check out the new gallery of summer trip
pictures.
- Nov 2/98 - Spiffed up this index a bit with new buttons .
- Oct 25/98 - Added Projektzwo
headlight installation and painting
pics to car page.
- Sept 22/98 - Steamboat TDM
Pictures and some updates to the FU2 Oddities page.
- Sept 8/98 - Updated this index and added some stuff to the vr6 page
- May 10/98 - Finally some
pictures of my new cute little rocket and a short description
- May 2/98 - VW GTI VR6
sounds (my new car)
- April 9/98 - Added FlightII
Oddities
- March 26/98 - Updated old homepage,
including a bunch of new links.
- February 3/98 - FS98 Helicopter flying
tips
- October 97 - October Blizzard in
Denver
- September 7/97 - Created motorcycle
page
- September 3/97 - Created Montana
Motorcycle Trip pages
- August 97 - Vi Learn download
pages. Best UNIX vi tutorial in existence.
- April 96 - Lissajous animations lll2
and liss3.gif created on hp48
- December 96 - Original home page
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