A life just as ordinary

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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

October 18, 2011 · Leave a comment

That Sinking Feeling –

Why are 95% of blogs abandoned?

October 17, 2011 · Leave a comment

The Food Post

I like to cook. Not just the beans on toast or boiled egg cooking, that’s just feeding, but I sometimes have the urge to cook something unusual, or different. But … Continue reading

October 15, 2011 · Leave a comment

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

October 6, 2011 · Leave a comment

Living your life vicariously – the sporting edition

And this is where it gets interesting since I’d like her to play to prove a point and to have some fun, and she is saying no

October 3, 2011 · Leave a comment

RWC – how to watch a game

The English contingent had a couple of desultory goes at “Swing Low” but it was nothing compared to the old standard two syllable chant that New Zealanders are so go at, Scot-Land, Auck-Land, Alll-Black, Har-bour, Moo-Loo

October 2, 2011 · Leave a comment

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.

September 28, 2011 · Leave a comment

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?

September 26, 2011 · Leave a comment

Not a good day to be a minor league tall poppy. #1 in a series.

Today we bring you  Rabon Khan  and  Rachel Smalley (1) Raybon Khan. Who seems to set himself as Mr.People, some brainpower gifted individual who urbane toss-offs speak to and for … Continue reading

September 18, 2011 · Leave a comment

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.

September 17, 2011 · Leave a comment

I have a friend who’s very religious

A JW, who is convinced that he’s one of the 144,000 or whatever number it is. Don’t ask me how he can be, that door closed long ago. But you know … Continue reading

September 17, 2011 · 4 Comments

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.

September 16, 2011 · Leave a comment

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

September 16, 2011 · Leave a comment

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

September 15, 2011 · Leave a comment

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”.

September 12, 2011 · Leave a comment

Taking one for the team.

the New Zealand position seems to be the most English of all, arrogance in the face of facts that would indicate otherwise that the All Blacks are the best there is, the best there was and the best there ever will be,

September 11, 2011 · Leave a comment

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

September 8, 2011 · Leave a comment

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

September 6, 2011 · Leave a comment

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

August 31, 2011 · Leave a comment

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