Last night I went to the Hysteria bar on K road to see the Masters of Metal. I hadn’t actually seen this band before, but reviews from my friends were positive, along the lines of: “OH EM GEE you haven’t seen MoM? [Throws up horns and assumes rock…
So, the iPhone. Until I realised that it didn’t have 3G capability (only GPRS/GSM) I actually had nothing less than a VISCERAL NEED for one of these devices after watching the keynote speech. The physical and logical UI looks _that_ slick. Oh Lord, does it look nice. However,…
I get up in the middle of the night, full of xmas cheer and xmas chocolate, only to find upon checking The Internets that the one and only James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, the Hardest Working man in Wossname and all that good stuff, has died, aged 73. The…
Man, what the hell am I doing sitting around by myself, watching Manowar music videos on Youtube? And then blogging about it? Also, seriously, Manowar? None more metal. None more gay. Perhaps New Zealand needs a Manowar tribute band. I can’t be in it, I’m way too fat.…
So it looks like various rights holders to The Hobbit would like for Peter Jackson to film it after all. That’s a shame. Because I was thinking, when it looked like he wasn’t going to be the guy for the job, that there’s an obvious replacement to…
I sent some money to Robert Anton Wilson a couple of days ago, and again this morning, because I was horrified to hear that he is pretty much destitute and was about to be kicked out of his apartment because he couldn’t pay the rent – all of this, of…
A quote from IRC, dated back in May. I hope I didn’t post this already, but it does need to be posted: [JSR] I got spam that said something like “Lesbian Slut Virgins Who Crave Cock!” and I was thinking that if they crave cock, they’re terrible at…
Just wrote a memo to management which included the following: “Note that a number of people said “Shiny toys” but that this is should effectively be considered semantically equivalent to “Cool toys” with a high confidence level for any given toy.” Sometimes I really love my job.…