"News"

News headline today from stuff.co.nz: “Fresh violence threatens Mideast peace moves” Well, fuck me. Surely this doesn’t even count as news any more, does it? “Rationality and sanity abounts throughout Mideast peace moves.”, THAT would be news. Guys, band together, buy a fucking huge chunk of (say)…

SHORT FILM

I’ve decided I’m going to make a short film. Things that are REQUIRED to be in this film include: – A group of people walking really slowly towards the camera while soaring power guitar chords play. – A training montage! – A musical number of some sort. Any other suggestions are…

In which a Ruckus is delivered

I meant to post this – it’s a piece of mail I got shortly after I removed public access to the media resources on jsr.com: –BEGIN Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 11:21:45 +1100 From: Masta Deathbringa To: jsr@jsr.com Subject: MEDIA FUCKER FUCK U FUCK FUCK…

An Open Letter To All Non-Atheists

I just watched a news item on BBC World about Muslims and Christians arguing over someone wanting to build a mosque near a church, somewhere in the middle east. There was much arguing over it, and some guy predicting that if they built it, then “blood would be spilt”. Apparently…

Change of Job

Woohoo! I’m changing jobs at Callplus! Out with the Operations Manager role, and in with … okay, it doesn’t have a name yet. In with the as-yet-not-yclept position which is sort of IP R&D, ISP and vISP and Wholesale bandwidth technical product manager sort of thing. I…

Monkey Mind Is Calmed By Routine

Soooo, I’m all moved. Furniture in new house is arranged just so, not that this will stop me rearranging it several times in coming months. UHF, VHF and Sky Digital feeds are active. My Ultra dishes (one for the skytower, one for PAS-2) will be in place this coming…

Journals

So, like, I have NO FUCKING IDEA what to put in my shiny new journal. (So shiny .. see it shine). Does anyone really care about what I’ve had for dinner today (pizza) or where I went to (Real Groovy, MAC makeup (with Annette, dammit) and SuJu for a smoothie)…