last night, I got hit by a car while I was on my bike.

Luckily I came out of it almost fine, one sore hand, a bit of bruising on my other arm, and my lower leg.
My bike now has a very buckled front wheel, and a possibly bent axle.  I'm going to be taking it to a mechanic tomorrow and will find out how much damage was done.

A little known subplot in the whole drama last week over china hacking into Google email servers is that Chinese intel knew the master password for Gmail was "Chuck Norris"

Problem was, when the Chinese spies typed Chuck Norris into the human rights activists' email logins, the password itself would jump off the computer screen, hit the spy with ( Read more... )

I've met a couple of the people I'm living with, I like three of them, and the fourth one I met, almost instantly I thought he was a dick ( Read more... )

I just had a huge case of WTF. I've been trying to find a flat to move to, and my mum sends me a txt going "I'm considering buying a house down there, do you want to manage it?" WTF!?

My flatmates have moved out, with all their stuff. This means now I have a little bit of kitchen gear, 3(?) plates and far too many glasses for just me ( Read more... )

I found Frank the bot!

My life sucks ( Read more... )

The general rule is, you're 'allowed' to say things about majority-groups who are in power, that you can't say about others.

So, if you're adult, male, white, middle-class, christian, heterosexual, well-educated, you're fair game.

Whereas if you're a lesbian, jewish, old, female from Ghana, you can hardly be *described* without it being perceived as ( Read more... )

The problem with LJ: we all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other. So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away.

Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you.

I have an offer for anyone with a flatmate in Christchurch that they really want to get rid of.

I want to leave my flat, leaving a room open that needs to be filled.

Because of this I want to trade myself with your annoying flatmate, they go into my current room, and I take their room.