Eagle eye - Don't see this movie. It's awful, in a stereotyped 'computer goes bad and tries to kill everyone to fulfill its moral programming' kind of way. Starring yet another computer that uses enormous banks of lightbulbs to compute, and apparently has the ability to hack into anything that uses electricity, starting with electric toothbrushes ( Read more... )

Dr Girl has her work visa (well, she's been contacted by the embassy to say that the visa's been approved, and it'll be in the mail today ( Read more... )

Margins are terribly, terribly important. More so, it would seem, than the squiggles between them ( Read more... )

A conversation where one party thinks buddhism is under discussion, and the other party thinks it's BDSM gets surreal _fast_.

Vale Michael Crichton, October 23, 1942 - November 4, 2008.

• las vegas is a bit of a hole
• but the cirqe de soleil shows are pretty incredible (if you have the opportunity, see zumanity, even if doing so involves selling family members or less important organs)
• met miscellaneous proto-in-laws in Kansas city, which went well - I thought I sidestepped the political discussion pretty adroitly (sidenote: socialism ( Read more... )

It's the little things that get you...

• The lightswitches work the opposite way
• The toilets... Everyone knows the flushing thing, but I'd forgotten the fact that the bowl is a completely different shape
• The side of the road you drive on seems to effect everything; I've just about stopped going for the left escalator...
• The culture of service is vry ( Read more... )

Bluetooth + long hair worn down == appearence of being a crazy person

So, things are going sideways a little. When I booked in in Christchurch and was given my boarding passes for the chch > akl and akl > lax legs, I noticed that the listed boarding time for the akl > lax leg was 1930hrs, not 1830 as my itinerary had it. Fine, thought I, that's going to make the lax transfer exciting, but okay. Getting to Auckland to ( Read more... )

Off to the US to meet the in-laws-to-be.

Back in five weeks. Hold my calls...