I’d do most things #2
Tattoo’s. Who knew that they arouse such passion and intensity, and debate. I know of two women who have had “experiences” with tattoo removals. One has had laser treatment to … Continue reading →
Before the Big Bang
We can extrapolate backwards to a time that is expressed as 0.00000000000000000000000000000000001 (.34-zeros-one) seconds of the age of the universe. Then it gets difficult. We get to this point based … Continue reading →
Instant Recall
My wife has it. I think all wives, girlfriends and women in general have it. The ability to recal and reference an event, statement, phrase, action or scene from way … Continue reading →
Death becomes you
Incarceration of the adjudged guilty with the knowledge that they have any number of years waiting for sentence to be carried out seems a cruel and unusual punishment in and of itself. Leaving aside the fact that state sponsored execution is the sentence.
What Atheists Have to Believe.
After all “God did it” is not a reasonable excuse for anything that happens to you, anyone you know or any event in the world that you are too ignorant to think through an explain. Is it?
Checklist – or if it worked who would use it
This made me smile when I first saw it, and makes me smile when I see it again. via jenna b.
The daughter has an job in mind
It does seem that neither of them want to achieve mediocrity, and they do seem to get that a house, two cars, two kids and a cat isn’t exactly “living the dream” for the parents. I’m hoping to be a kept man in my dotage.
Build it and they will come.
Or Not. I’m talking about “Party Central” on the wharves in Auckland. A structure designed to hold 12,000 people with an invited audience of the whole city. And what happens when … Continue reading →
A commercial venture and the public purse
There are a couple of quotes that I’d like to call out in this “the theatre had “not met our audience targets in a very tough economic climate and within … Continue reading →
Bible-bangers aren’t the brightest, study shows
.. less intelligent people of all faiths tended to be more fundamental in their thinking, “whether they claim to be Christians or atheists or Muslims or whatever”.
RWC – Predictions
I love this bit! Ritchie McCaw to get a serious injury in the game against Tonga that puts him out of the rest of the pool games. Comes back in … Continue reading →
So I get this new laptop
A work upgrade. The other one I had decided that file corruption was the easiest and lest painful way of departing my desk with some dignity. I’d had it a … Continue reading →
Funding and Self-Sustaining organizations – the 2011 Edition
I’ve already written on this: https://pdubyah.wordpress.com/2009/09/21/funding-and-self-sustaining-organizations/ From the NZ Herald today : Fashion Week’s opening night was swimming along in champagne until managing director Pieter Stewart burst the bubble … Continue reading →
In an instant…
And we accept that without question that we’re giving up something for something. We just don’t seem to care about what it is we’re giving up, which in two words is privacy and ownership. Of our identity and our intellectual property
Forgive me for laughing but this isn’t a prediction.
To say that I’m skeptical of this is an understatement, there is no science involved in picking 50% off all possible days and associating it with naturally occurring and non-threatening events. If you believe that this is science then you should ask yourself why “that in the last 100 years of earthquakes in Christchurch how come that none of these scientifically dangerous coincidences have occurred?
Driving Entertainment
Sometimes my journey to work or home from work can take an hour or more. And filling that time can be a chore. It took me a while to cotton … Continue reading →
Murder Most Foul #2 in a series
Or at least we can hope. Having done time they’ve paid their price. It might not be closure to the parents and friends but it is what we call justice served.
Who knew!
that if you have #murder as a tag that somewhere someone has a bot set to check for that and the reader count goes a bit bonkers
A life just as ordinary 