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The Greatest Name In The World

I just heard a song by a musician whose name turned out to be Maverick Sabre. And so naturally I was thinking “Oh MAN, he is LUCKY, he has THE COOLEST NAME!” except it turns out that he changed it from “Michael Stafford”. Can you DO that? Is that even

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Captains Log ... Heh, I said "Log" ... computer, erase that.

So, here’s a couple of conversations that happened while friends and I were messing around with Starship Artemis, a Star Trek style bridge crew simulator, where people each play the role of Helm, Engineering, Science, etc. “Red Alert! RED ALERT! Everything’s Gone Red!” “Oh shit, sorry, SORRY that

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Lies, Damned Lies, and Comparing NZ Broadband To Other Countries.

Disclaimer: I am a internet network engineer, by profession. I’ve worked for many ISPs over the years, but I’ve never worked for the big two (Telecom and TelstraClear) and I probably never will, due to horrible things I’ve said in public forums about them. I’d go

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Sky TV

We had Sky TV installed recently, as they were offering free installation plus 12 months half-price on the basic package. They have some music video channels, and the Living Channel (which is, like, real estate and renovations and restorations and stuff. Basically, crack cocaine for any folks who own a

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Poor Hufflepuff. You suck.

A transcript of a recent conversation: John S Russell: Lance, Lord Laserfalcon of Gryffindor! Megan Whelan:  I don’t think I’m a Gryffindor, am I? John S Russell: Hufflepuff? Ravenclaw? You’re hardly Slytherin. Megan Whelan: No, I was thinking more one for humble, bumbing, but loyal, losers. John

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A Dick Koan

A student entered the hall of dickishness at the top of the penis-shaped tower of cockitude, and asked the Dick Master who he was watching in the All-Seeing Orb of Testiculi. “I am watching” said the Dick Master, “this man in New Zealand, in his anger and his rage. I

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Odd numbered pumps only. On mondays. Unless it's winter.

Upon driving home, this fair afternoon, I found myself in the position of requiring petrol for my automobile. As is my wont, I pulled into the BP that’s the first station between work and my place, drove to an open pump, stuck the nozzle in the car, pushed “Fill”

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Left wing, Right wing, Northrend.

I wanted to take the time to write a blog entry which fully and cogently dealt with my feelings about both sides of the political spectrum in this country, and the associated rather martinet-like figures that arise to tread the political stage and stridently declaim thereon. But this gnome warlock

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Bike Repair Log: Gear Change

Repaired: Gearchange mechanism and interconnect to transmission. Gearchange mounting bracket. Left footpeg now present. Outcome: No longer stuck in third gear unless you manually move the selector on the transmission with vice grips. Can now actually change gear normally, and also have a place to rest your left foot while

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Taxonomic Nomenclature

Cat #1 Actual name: Pippin Nicknames: Pip. Pipper. Pipkin. Pip-pip. Senor Pip. The Pipmeister. Pippolous Pippleby. Hateful Face. Cat #2 Actual name: Merry (Alias: Monty) Nicknames: Merman. Merp. Monkey. Mon. Monarch of the Glen. Mermonman. Montague. Monster. Worried Face.

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Stay a while ... and listen.

Oh, hello. I didn’t see you there. [I’m leaving this as it was, though I have now imported this stuff from tumblr to wordpress, in order to try it out. ] This is my new tumblr blog. I’m reliably informed that tumblr is what livejournal should have been,

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Impromptu AND delicious

A recipie, from the files of JSR: Ingredients: – 1 x Some CHICKEN – 1 x A packet of CHICKEN SOUP – 1 x Some OTHER SHIT Instructions: Get HUNGRY. Wonder what to EAT. Decide to have a BATH instead of dinner. Get out of the bath after playing some PLANTS vs ZOMBIES.

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There, and black and blue. Or, the road goes ever on and on, until it fucking stops.

Man, I am having a great time riding down to Masterton today. Taking it easy, stopping lots to make fun of things, the bike is running perfectly, this is great! Oh, more road works? I’ll slow down. There’s been SO MUCH road works around today, seriously – is there

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..and back again.

Pippin, the missing cat, has returned! She was gone for over two days, and returned filthy, covered in biddy-bids, upset and weak (she couldn’t jump up on the bed) and with some blood on her face. My current theory is that she was up a too-tall tree that was

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Cats, Kids and Collars.

Annette burst into tears today over the still-missing cat. And so I was staunch and comforting and patted her on the back and said, “I know, I know” and I was all noble and looked into the middle distance, as one does. She’s just gone out to post her

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EXPERIMENT: Honey Soy Chicken Chips

HYPOTHESIS: That Honey Soy Chicken Chips will taste AWESOME and be SWEET like the PAIN of my ENEMIES. EXPERIMENTAL METHOD: I will EAT the fuck out of these CHIPS like WOAH. SCALE: A scale will be used where if you ATE an ASS and then POOPED it out of ANOTHER

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I am SHOCKED, SHOCKED I say, that this has happened.

An open message to everyone who switched from Vodafone to Telecom XT for their mobile, and is now bitching that the XT network is shit, drops calls, data throughput is slow, there’s a massive nationwide outage today, etc: You went FROM anyone other than Telecom, and you then went

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IRC CONSIDERED HARMFUL

IRC is an enabler of bad ideas: @jsr looks at the primary and secondary switches he has to configure and name. [@jsr] Do you think anyone would mind if I called them “West Philidelphia” and “Bel Air” ? [@Malach] Only if West Philly is the primary. [@Malach] Where things are born

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Wedding Playlist

A couple of people asked me about this, and I did mean to post it, but I was distracted by honeymoons and whatnot. This is the playlist of songs that were played at our wedding, either as background music or during the ceremony: – “Katamari on the Rock (Main Theme)” by

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Greetings, programs!

Basic physics … a beam of energy can always be diverted. Are we there yet, Mommy? The deployed sail design of this yacht makes me happy. Watch out for Grid Bugs!

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Route the plasma conduits through the phase inducers and blah blah blah.

An interesting post from author Charles Stross, all of whose books I own. It’s on the topic of why he hates Star Trek. http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/10/why_i_hate_star_trek.html Now, I don’t hate Trek at all, but the things I

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The Laziest Man on Mars

I need some feedback. When I get petrol for my bike, I often go pay for it in the service station while still wearing my helmet. The helmet is a pain to take off, because you need to be careful not to dislodge the in-ear headset connected to the iphone

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An Inspiring Message of Hope

Saw this on the truck in front of me as I went out to get some lunch today. Truly, important words that we should really all strive to live by.

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Did I just go "Fwoosh"?

There’s no possible way that this could end badly for anyone involved.

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Would that it were, would that it were ...

[jsr] That’s actually concept art from the new Tron movie. [Schmoo] mmm new tron movie looks cool [Schmoo] though I dissaprove of the bikes being able to do curves [jsr] Schmoo: The old bikes also turned in curves, when off the game grid. [jsr] /dork [@Schmoo] oooh jsr, if