http://www.robyngallagher.com The coolness that is Robyn Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:25:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So, the jackpot for the Big Wednesday lottery is up to $35 million tonight. Whatever that means. I've never bought a Big Wednesday ticket, but (googlegooglegoogle) it costs $5 minimum, and one of the things you have to decide is a heads or tails option for a cyber coin toss. And then ... http://www.robyngallagher.com/2009/06/24/every-day-is-big-wednesday/ I have angst over mix-tapes but I blame Nick Hornby which means it's not a massive problem. See, Nick Hornby helped romanticise the mixtape in his novel "High Fidelity". Exhibit A, the closing words from the film adaptation of the book: The making of a great compilation tape, like breaking up, ... http://www.robyngallagher.com/2009/05/25/shuffle/ I had to go to Auckland for work, so I included an adjacent weekend in my plans to revisit old Aucklandtown. Saturday night I was going to go to bed but suddenly my roboawesome detectors sensed that out there Something Was Happening. Using the powers of Twitter, I realised that there was ... http://www.robyngallagher.com/2009/05/07/auckland-tonight/ People get to my website by googling questions they need answers for. As my blog currently can't provide these answers, I have taken the liberty of answering some of the more popular ones. What rhymes with Robyn? Dave Dobbyn. What to say as weeding MC? Something about a ho. What does Buffalo Stance mean? Let's start ... http://www.robyngallagher.com/2009/04/29/frequently-arksed-questions-2/ I went dancin' last night at the Atomic evening at the San Francisco Bath House. Atomic is centred around music from the 1980s, but certainly not what has come to be considered '80s Music. That is to say, it's not about those "retro" "classics" like "Come on Eileen" or "Venus" or ... http://www.robyngallagher.com/2009/04/26/we-dont-need-your-fascist-80s-retro-pop-thing/ I was thinking about Easter Sunday, and how most of the shops are shut and there's nothing much to do. And I wondered what I'd done on previous Easter Sundays. So invoking the Official Information Act, I pulled out my box of old diaries from under my bed and googled them ... http://www.robyngallagher.com/2009/04/13/every-day-is-like-easter-sunday/ Regular readers may remember my post about when, in 1995, I emailed TV2's late-night news programme Newsnight with a poem about Horseboy, the show's mascot hobby horse. Marcus Lush read it out on air, making it one of the first viewer emails to be shown on New Zealand television. Or ... http://www.robyngallagher.com/2009/04/11/horseboy-revisited/ 1984, the playing field of Matangi School, Waikato. My class was playing cricket for PE. (Ugh, I hate PE!) and I was doing that thing with throwing the ball. What's it called? Oh yeah, bowling. And I threw the ball at my classmate who was holding the bat and somehow ... http://www.robyngallagher.com/2009/04/05/the-cricket/ Last.fm is a cool web service that takes a feed from your music player (like iTunes) and figures out what you're listening to and makes lists and graphs and shares it with your friends. The only problem is, I listen to most music on my iPod, which isn't hooked up to ... http://www.robyngallagher.com/2009/02/28/lastfm-knows-all-my-secrets/ I showed up to Cuba Mall on Saturday. It was packed with people, but I found a small oasis of calm in the form of the Outdoor Knit area. It was manned by Knitsch and stiX who were hard at work knitting. Outdoor Knit is the local variant of that international ... http://www.robyngallagher.com/2009/02/23/the-needles-and-the-damage-undone/