Intimations of Immortality

If you want some crazy ass dreams

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:50:55 +1300

I recommend reading about the Dyatlov Pass incident.

I did a few days ago, and the late afternoon nap I had today began with a ride in a fighter jet at breakneck speed to the scene and then being ejected to parachute down to the site.

Granted, I did wake up suddenly when alien yetis armed with nuclear powered weapons started chasing after me, but the beginning of the dream was simply spectacular.

"Mauritius: Named after Earth, Wind & Fire singer Maurice White, Mauritius is one big shrine to..."

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:06:05 +1300

“Mauritius: Named after Earth, Wind & Fire singer Maurice White, Mauritius is one big shrine to the great man. ‘Boogie Wonderland’ is the national anthem, and ‘baa dee yaa! dancing in September’ is compulsory.”

- Craig Robinson’s Atlas, Schmatlas (via gospelofmoll)

THESE ARE REAL? I MUST HAVE ONE

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:37:20 +1300

It is called a snuggie, but is really a blanket with arm holes in it.

I had seen one on the Big Bang Theory a while ago but I never knew they were real and available to me for a one off low payment.

It did however give me one more premise by which to live: ‘if a beautiful woman ever hands you a blanket with arm holes, you marry her there and then.’

This evening I went to an extended family celebration for an engagement - the first in my generation

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:50:00 +1300

And there wasn’t one argument. Nobody stormed out. No whispered arguments were taken outside. No glasses of wine were thrown in faces.

Instead, it was pleasant. The Sangria was drunk without incident. The champagne corks were fired out towards the lawn instead of into the faces of relatives.

Success.

Even though my cat just knocked over my Christmas tree, breaking a pile of ornaments in the process, Love Actually is on tv now

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:33:00 +1300

And this is a good thing.

“You really want to know, even if you may not be able to do anything to help? Well the truth is, actually, I’m in love…. and there’s nothing I can do about it.”

“I thought it was something worse.”

“Something worse than the total agony of being in love?”

Two youtube videos you must watch

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:55:07 +1300

1) The first ever slow motion HD footage of a surfer tackling a wave, taken from inside the wave and;

2) Homemade animation of a lego car race

The second is very cool, but the first is mind blowingly incredible.

As everyone who has been near a computer in the past year is aware,

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:39:00 +1300

there is something called Evony that wants you to play, possibly with its giant artificially rendered breasts.

This week, it has taken the extraordinary step of suing a UK blogger (bearing in mind that it itself is a US based corporation) in Australia.

The reasoning for this is somewhat two-fold. On one hand, the legal argument has to be that, following the Australian case of Gutnick, defamation can relate to online content, regardless of distribution in any tangible form, or even of possible readership in Australia, purely due to the worldwide availability of it on the internet. On the other, in purely practical terms, suing an individual in a foreign country is a good way to scare off any criticism. Most people would not have the resources to even travel abroad to defend a claim, let alone hire a legal team to go up against a large multinational corporation in such a place.

Luckily, the New South Wales Courts are unlikely to accept Evony’s arguments as to why the case should be heard in Australia, with neither party resident in the country and with the respondent having little means to be able to defend the case. While it is true that courts love extending their jurisdiction, in this case it seems highly improbable that they would do so. There is ample opportunity for recompense in the UK courts and, without making any judgment as to the merits of the case, this case seems to only be prima facie about picking a more favourable jurisdiction, with the more likely answer being simple scare tactics. Dealings with lawyers and the courts can be scary enough as it is, without the added fear of a court in a far away land pronouncing judgment on something you did half a world away.

songandstamp: The Tennors - Weather Report I’m all for...

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:20:25 +1300

songandstamp:

The Tennors - Weather Report

I’m all for good covers of songs, but renaming what clearly is Simon and Garfunkel’s ‘The Only Living Boy in New York’ is a bit of a stretch.

Christmas Shopping: Success

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:54:37 +1300

Parking the car at the top of Queen Street and having to walk back up the hill fully laden with gifts in the scorching heat: not so much.

Next time Ian, do it the other way round. Walk downhill when fully laden.

This is me right now.

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:36:42 +1300

This is me right now.

Signs I might be a bad teacher

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:25:00 +1300

Todays lesson for the teenagers I tutor includes such subjects as:

Beers of the world

Poetry to impress girls

Ways to insult people in English without them realising

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Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:45:17 +1300

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Hell is

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:21:46 +1300

when you really want an apple, but all you have is an onion.

Sorry about punching that dandylion

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:25:31 +1300

I’m pretty sure I have done something to offend nature and, as pay back, it has honed every nasal irritant in the world onto my nasal cavities. Every time I open a window, or step outdoors they attack.

I have sneezed at least 43,000 times today, my eyes are watering and two new oceans have been formed either side of my nose.

Hey, ladies…

My favourite light sculpture on Franklin Road this year. Mainly...

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:41:00 +1300

My favourite light sculpture on Franklin Road this year. Mainly because I am 4 on the inside, and upon seeing it went: “BOATS!”

Important days in my calendar

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:32:00 +1300

Today, after going for a walk down the one street in Auckland that puts Christmas lights up, I made the big step of putting Christmas cds in my car. Three of them in fact.

Good music taste. That’s what I have.

What's the time?

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:48:14 +1300

Nap time.

I love few things as much as a good nap. There is nothing like waking up after an hour or so and being completely disoriented, saying things like “what? who’s there? where am I? why is it light out?”

Ah, sweet lethargy. Sometimes you are a good friend to me.

(via weallbelong)

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:33:41 +1300

(via weallbelong)

McDonalds soft serve cones are now 60 cents?

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:35:58 +1300

livfm:

intimationsofimmortality:

When did this happen? Why did nobody tell me?

I feel like there should have been a referendum on an issue as important as this.

“Should McDonalds cones, as part of good parenting practices, cost 60 cents in New Zealand?”

Does that mean they cost more with a flake too?

These are important questions.

Aaaaah-choo

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:46:22 +1300