Is 'video evening + junk food for all those benighted heathens who didn't manage to make it to kiwiburn'-day. It is intended to watch good-bad science fiction (I'm a gonna try and locate a decent copy of Split Second myself : ), maybe some TV series, and generally blob out and disengage brain ( Read more... )

Now, normally I'm a big fan of the whole 'buy PC components, slap them together' school of PC shopping. It tends to be the cheapest, it's not overly difficult, and because I can service the systems myself the warranty issues aren't.

But... Cthulhu on a Stick, HP have put together a gaming rig.

And it's full of stars.I may have just found the ( Read more... )

Just work from the Weirdest Dream evah: very very lucid, and although I can look back on it now and poke holes in the logic, while actually in the dream I was rationalising everything that happened.
( My brain meats are coming back from the medication )

Just a reminder - Book Swap at 2/229 The Terrace, Wellington, on Sunday January 13th starting around 1 PM. Feel free to spread the word : )

I have come up with a new 'Saying wot to live life by'. It's short, succint, and I think holds true against the most rigorous analysis.

'If your cat has a more active social life than you do - you may have a problem'

Looks like we have enough interest, so I'm announcing the event itself - Book Swap at 2/229 The Terrace, Wellington, on Sunday January 13th starting at, oh, 1 PM. Weather allowing we'll have iced margaritas on the deck while we introduce each other to old friends of ours, and give them good homes. Come along for the books, the company, or for the ( Read more... )

My book shelves are groaning under their own weight, and I have pulp genre fiction that I'll never ever read again. Given that I find it incredibly difficult to sell or throw away old books, no matter what the condition or complete crapitude of, I'd like to propose we hold a book swap hosted by the lovely and charming Jodi, and myself. There may ( Read more... )

I have a modded Xbox that I use as a media PC - it's running Linux, and it does the job exceptionally well. There's all kinds of networking options, and it's very tweakable - although, it has to be said, a little difficult to initially set up ( Read more... )

I swear, I only went out into town today to grab some donuts. Somehow I came back with an XBox 360, and Mass Effect ( Read more... )

Ganked from takhisis - this is technically safe for work, but requires sound and people MIGHT get the wrong idea if you're in a workspace with a low humor quotient.

I just about killed myself laughing though. It's an old Sesame Street sketch 'reworked' slightly, and that's all the warning you're getting.

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Enjoy!