Facebook, which is awesome, has a function that lets you buy a “gift” for another user. Gifts are cute little icons and they cost one American dollar. I’ve been having fun spending my hard-earned money on them, and I’ve become quite familiar with the available gift icons. So I came up with a list of [...]
You know there’s that cliche about how you know you’re getting older when policemen start looking younger? Well, not so long ago I had an experience that was that cliche come to life in horrifying proportions. I was walking along Hobson Street, near the Auckland Central Police Station. Walking towards was a uniformed cop. I [...]
New Zealanders sad at their country’s team not winning the America’s Cup boat race (again) may be pleased at their fair country’s placing at the top of a different table. I just came across this recent article in The Economist looking at the price of cocaine around the world. Not surprisingly it’s cheapest in South [...]
There’s a post over at Boing Boing that’s turned into a bit of a roll call of clips on Sesame Street that scared today’s grown-ups back when they were little kids in the ’70s and ’80s. This reminded me of the Sesame Street clip that scared me: the Painting Man, aka the Mad Painter and [...]
It moistened a bunch of posters stuck to a fence, causing the posters to peel off. This revealed “FUCK” written on the fence in black paint – a reminder of a simpler time before the fence was a medium for poster ads. The stormy weather then finished things off by blowing the fence over. Man, [...]
Tuesday night pub quiz. Entertainment section. A clip of Young MC’s “Bust A Move” was played. The question was asked if it was released in 1989, 1991 or 1993. I was like “I know this! I had this tape! It was my favourite song!” and wrote down 1991. But it was 1989. And we had [...]
It was a Sunday afternoon and I had a caffeine withdrawal headache and I wasn’t in the mood for no nonsense. I just wanted to get some cash out from an ATM and go along to my favourite cafe and get a coffee. As I was nearing the door of ASB Bank’s ATM lobby, a [...]
A few months I was at an art exhibition opening in Raglan, and I was possibly the youngest person there. The crowd was mainly middle-aged folks, and the entertainment was provided by an elderly gentleman who told a joke that went a little somethin’ like this: A man found a bottle, rubbed it and a [...]
I recently did a bit of research at work to help figure out how to spell the New Zealand slang word chur (and, yeah, that’s the spelling we settled on). It’s a hard one to look into because it’s the sort of word that’s never used in any sort of formal writing. Online it’s most [...]
I had the day off today, so I decided to go to Sylvia Park because it is a mall and it is shiny and new. I considered taking the train – the new Sylvia Park station opens today – but it actually looks like going from Mt Eden station Sylvia Park could require three trains, [...]