NOTE: As I’m sure you are aware, I’m very fond of my own little feline friend and web-surfing companion, Seymour the Wonder Cat. I also am quite happy for people to include him in cards meant for our family because…
Xmas card for the eternally alone
Category: Random crap
Random thoughts and equally random web links. Unfortunately for you, I like to share.
Band icons
Can you work out the names of the bands from these icon? Click on the image to see the answers.
The cost of being healthy
Dear Healthy People, We see you out there, going to the gym, munching on tofu burgers and meditating your way through stress and worry. So stop it! Your healthy lifestyles that don’t feature junk food or cigarettes is causing you…
The latest retail breakthrough?
I know you can get nearly anything in vending machines these days: from Coke and chocolate bars to cigarettes and used undies (yes, I read about it online so it must be true).
But kids? A toddler somehow wandered into a toy machine at a Pennsylvania shopping mall and got stuck.
Firefighters were called to get her out of the machine. Guess that would be a better prize that one of those plastic chicken things.
Turn left at the next tank
I was a bit disappointed with the look of the satellite mapping system China has launched to rival Google Maps (see how I kept my nearly uncontrollable giggling and snorts of derision from taking over there). Google and China haven’t…
You are … here?
Ha, so maybe Google doesn’t know everything! This photo of the Google Map cars lined up as one of the drivers checks out the roadside map makes someone like me (who has no sense of direction) feel a whole lot…
Voices of the quake
Can you believe it has been three months since the devastating Canterbury quake? Even though we didn’t have any damage here in Southland, those of us who were awake certainly felt the earthquake at 4.35am on Saturday, September 4. I…
Wonder what alerted him to her being gone?
Beating around the bush?
The topic of Southland place-names came up at the office yesterday afternoon, in particular the Southland penchant for using the name “Bush” … as in Gummies Bush, Wreys Bush, Mabel Bush, Croydon Bush, Myross Bush and so on. We came…
They made something happen
Does anyone else see the humour in this? No, I’m not saying it’s funny that hubsta has gone under because it’s not. What is sort of funny, or perhaps ironic, is hubsta’s motto “we make it happen” given the demise…