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My mum picks flowers from the garden and randomly puts them in...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:04:58 +1300

My mum picks flowers from the garden and randomly puts them in drinking vessels all around the place sometimes

I found this one sitting on the table outside

Double standards, politics, and drug treatment research

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:15:19 +1300

Double standards, politics, and drug treatment research

fenceside Taken with an original SX-70 Alpha with SX-70 film

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:32:51 +1300

fenceside

Taken with an original SX-70 Alpha with SX-70 film

intimationsofimmortality: Questionable at best plotlines? Dodgy...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:02:00 +1300

intimationsofimmortality:

Questionable at best plotlines? Dodgy dialogue? Yes.

So adorable that none of this matters? Yes.

Go see this movie. It is great. I enjoyed watching it a lot, though that enjoyment was not all attributable to the movie.

Plus it features the voices of Liam Neeson, Cate Blanchett, Tina Fey, Matt Damon, BETTY WHITE, and Noah Cyrus and Frankie Jonas.

Please, please see this with the original Japanese voicing if you can. In fact, that goes for all the Miyazaki movies. There’s just something about the rhythm of the language. I grew up watching them (with Chinese subtitles), and recently got hold of copies of them dubbed in English, and it’s just not the same.

FRACTAL Hey super math-y types: this person needs your help Via...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:37:00 +1300

FRACTAL

Hey super math-y types: this person needs your help

Via Kottke and sevensixfive

From early January, at Cathedral Cove in the Coromandel. You...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:25:00 +1300

From early January, at Cathedral Cove in the Coromandel.

You should visit.

My 'ROID week submissions

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:40:00 +1300

My 'ROID week submissions

Karaka Bay, Auckland One of the locations where the Treaty was...

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:34:00 +1300

Karaka Bay, Auckland

One of the locations where the Treaty was signed.

You can only get there by walkway and boat. There are cool little arty hermitages along the beachfront, and one modern eco-friendly one with grass on the roof.

Holga with Polaroid back, expired type 89 film.

So many things to love about this Luxirare post. Black Truffles...

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:30:00 +1300

So many things to love about this Luxirare post.

Black Truffles All Day | Luxirare

heuteund: honeypower: (via graysea) Weugh! Yeah, that. I...

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:57:00 +1300

heuteund:

honeypower:

(via graysea)

Weugh!

Yeah, that. I mean, who in the family is blonde? Abe?

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS I’M SCARED HOLD ME.

Dumbest reason ever to want to do a marathon*

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:55:00 +1300

So that next year I have a legitimate excuse to not do the marshalling and suffer the inevitable verbal abuse from drivers, irate at having to wait for throngs of people to run past (and some attempting to run people down).

The upside is that you get to watch people run past in costume - this year there was Minnie Mouse, Darth Vader and Storm Troopers, fairies, guy in hawaiian gear, and two dudes dressed in yellow sack-like hoodie things which I think were meant to represent bananas?

*Let’s face it, it’ll more likely be the half-marathon. I did the 8.4 km Round The Bays on next to no training, so 21 kms should be a piece of cake right?

Right?

Vader conducts Icelandic orchestra HÃ¡skÃ³labÃÃ³ (via mobiustdh...

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:37:36 +1300

Vader conducts Icelandic orchestra HÃ¡skÃ³labÃÃ³ (via mobiustdh and neatorama)

Reviews of New Food

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:59:20 +1300

Reviews of New Food:

I can’t stop reading these.

Where do ghosts come from?

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:55:00 +1300

Where do ghosts come from?:

After investigating many different areas, the team found the most complex fields coming from the Tapestry Room. They homed in on an iron mesh supporting the mattress, which strongly distorts local background magnetic fields. Crucially, if someone lies in the bed and turns from side to side, they jostle the mesh, causing the field near the pillows to fluctuate wildly, in a way that is similar in magnitude and complexity to the fields in Persinger’s experiments. “It’s highly complex, varying considerably across space and time,” says Braithwaite, who described the results last month at a conference held at Muncaster Castle by UK-Skeptics.

anyone doing NaNoWriMo?

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:43:04 +1300

littleorphanammo:

I’m gonna try for the first time this year…if you are I need some writing buddies! Hit me up here. I’m very new at all this and have no idea how anything works, so if I’m all clutztastic bear with meh.

YAY!

I’m going to do my own version of NaNoWriMo, where I replace “novel” with “thesis”, and it won’t be so much finishing it off as just actually getting into a good writing habit. I’m two-and-a-half years in and really should be writing things down. It’s been terrible so far.

Mystery lump on beach mistaken for alien

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:37:53 +1300

Mystery lump on beach mistaken for alien:

Cautiously, and ready to run should the thing suddenly leap into life, Miss Fraser lobbed a rock at it, then prodded it with a stick. Whatever it was, it sat there, not moving. All it did was emit a slight odour. After Miss Fraser rang The Timaru Herald, a photo of the woolly, stringy object was sent to the Department of Conservation in Wellington, who sent it to Niwa and Te Papa. It was also sent to Otago University’s whale experts. After a flurry of emails a consensus was reached. It was the top – essentially the stuffing – of a sperm whale’s head.

This time next year I want to be in New York. No idea how or why. Just, you know, putting it out...

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:23:43 +1300

This time next year I want to be in New York.

No idea how or why. Just, you know, putting it out there.

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3D (via tdarnell) How have I not...

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:32:52 +1300

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3D (via tdarnell)

How have I not seen this before.

Spongebong Hemppants. I had no idea.

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:48:26 +1300

Spongebong Hemppants.

I had no idea.

We drove past a warehouse advertising “USA brands - food and clothing” yesterday, and...

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:11:00 +1300

We drove past a warehouse advertising “USA brands - food and clothing” yesterday, and went in to have a look. I walked out with Snapple and Pop Tarts, and had to restrain myself from the Smuckers Peanut Butter and Jelly (in the same freakin’ jar!), novelty red frat party drinking cups, and Tootsie Rolls (wtf are those things anyway).

What the hell do y’all do with clam juice?

taf

My mum picks flowers from the garden and randomly puts them in...

Double standards, politics, and drug treatment research

fenceside Taken with an original SX-70 Alpha with SX-70 film

intimationsofimmortality: Questionable at best plotlines? Dodgy...

FRACTAL Hey super math-y types: this person needs your help Via...

From early January, at Cathedral Cove in the Coromandel. You...

My 'ROID week submissions

Karaka Bay, Auckland One of the locations where the Treaty was...

So many things to love about this Luxirare post. Black Truffles...

heuteund: honeypower: (via graysea) Weugh! Yeah, that. I...

Dumbest reason ever to want to do a marathon*

Vader conducts Icelandic orchestra HÃ¡skÃ³labÃ­Ã³ (via mobiustdh...

Reviews of New Food

Where do ghosts come from?

anyone doing NaNoWriMo?

Mystery lump on beach mistaken for alien

This time next year I want to be in New York. No idea how or why. Just, you know, putting it out...

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3D (via tdarnell) How have I not...

Spongebong Hemppants. I had no idea.

We drove past a warehouse advertising “USA brands - food and clothing” yesterday, and...

Vader conducts Icelandic orchestra HÃ¡skÃ³labÃÃ³ (via mobiustdh...