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Random crap
Random thoughts and equally random web links. Unfortunately for you, I like to share.
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 to live longer, thereby costing us taxpayers more money. Yes, that’s right: a report from
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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
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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 been the best of friends since last year’s hack attack that originated from China. Google
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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 better about myself.
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 have to say, it was one hell of a way to start my birthday! At
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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 to the conclusion that Southland is bush-obsessed. Of course, this caused some joking, especially when
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