Last night after the Shadows pub quiz (my team didn't even place, but the informed consensus was that this was due to some sizable irregularities in the judges arithmetic) Ryan come over to watch some quality comedy (or 'quamedy'). We had a good time but drank what ended up being a reasonable quantity of brandy. Consequently, I felt more fragile ( Read more... )

I'm back for the second day in a row. Don't worry - i'll be brief. (Be fucked!) That was a little Deadwood joke, for those of you who aren't fans of the show. For those same readers, this is Seth Bullock, played by Timothy Olyphant:

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Not long ago I had cause to read back over my old updates. I strongly suggest you don't do so, because they are stupid, pretentious and irritating, and most of them make me look sound very foolish, which I don't like. Still, a lot of entries sparked fairly vivid memories of events which I had totally forgotten, which was a lot of fun. It has ( Read more... )

The Herald have done a story about the Captioning department's little run-in with the Oxford University Press. They say the ad was pulled a month early, but I understand it was actually only a week. They also suggest quite strongly that the OUP people overreacted, which I agree with (I would), although I can certainly see their point. For the ( Read more... )

It's been obvious for a while that the charmingly dilapidated pink building on Hobson Street, next to what used to be the Canvas Shop, was targeted for some serious development. All the businesses (including Satya) had relocated over the last few months. Then, about two weeks ago, the back wall was removed and all the interiors were basically ( Read more... )

The special votes won't be counted for nearly a fortnight, so we'll all be guessing till then. Today I saw Don Brash speculating that the Greens might end up below the 5% threshold. Looking at the numbers, though, that is practically impossible. Special votes, as everyone keeps saying, tend to favour the centre-left parties, and the Greens in ( Read more... )

I know a lot of clever people know this already, but if you need any car repairs you should go to Sam at Top Q Motors in Newton. I dropped my car off this morning to have three parts replaced (two vital and one semi-important-ish) to make my poor old car WOF-able, and I picked it up again about half an hour ago. Now, I'm not happy about being $536 ( Read more... )

Wow, that weekend was long. Yesterday I got up good and early to go to the dawn service with Heloise and Jeremy. We followed that up with a good long look around the museum. We considered sticking around to see the more elaborate parade and hear a selection of military bugle tunes, but that was vetoed in favour of breakfast at Revel, where I drank ( Read more... )

Apparently, if your neighbour does (presumably) all sorts of insidious and illegal things, the Armed Offenders Squad show up at your house with lots and lots of guns. Who says you have to go to America to get menaced by a SWAT team?

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