In Whanganui, people leave offerings at the foot of the Barney Rubble icon.
In Whanganui, people leave offerings at the foot of the Barney Rubble icon.
Not required this year, but I’m happy I have this annual reminder.
Strawberry picking! On the first day of summer.
I’d like an anthology sci-fi series like Black Mirror, but one that doesn’t give me nightmares or make me anxious when I press play.
🎵 Five little monkeys jumping on the bed
One fell off and bumped his head
Mum called the doctor and the doctor said
“Hang up immediately and call an ambulance and get him to ER, he could have a severe and potentially fatal brain injury!”🎵
NZ retailers missed a trick. If they are insisting on pushing black friday on us, even though we have no historical link to it, they should at least have called it Rāmere Mangu.
If you’re going to have hold music play, don’t interrupt every 20 seconds saying “we’re sorry you’re still waiting”. I’m happy to listen to uniterupted smooth jazz for 20 minutes if that’s what it takes.
Things I won’t say on my deathbed:
They’re advertising for Apple Store employees in Wellington. Which is good news. There’s no Apple Stores in New Zealand.
I’ve never seen The Lion King.
Oh man. I may have to reconsider my Cartoon Sunday strategy. I’ve already got over a year-worth of episodes to watch.
It was supposed to be a horrible day today. Not so much.
Some light lunchtime reading. (Photo: an image of the front cover of The Story of Cricket - A Ladybird Easy-Reading Book)
They say the iPhone 5 is a great size, but the 4/4s is just fantastically small by modern standards.
Duolingo decided to destroy my 152 day streak, despite me using it every day 🤦🏻♂️
Top device tip: limit screen time until 9am. You get an uninterrupted morning to prepare for the day. It’s lovely.
Earth is in a Death Spiral. We are in serious, serious trouble. Only drastic action will work and no one has the political will to actually do it. 🔥 🌏 🔥
I think we need another round of Kiwis and Aussies putting their hands up here on MB! 🇳🇿 🇦🇺
Adding mastodon.social to the block list in micro.blog is a good first step, but I still see one-sided conversations with the horrifically inelegant @ user @ domain .tld. Urgh.
I joined Mastodon, then a couple of weeks later left because it was as bad a seething shithole of hate as Twitter, just with people who hated different things and dogpiled different people. Disappointed I have to see it in micro.blog now.
Two years ago, the Kaikōura earthquake woke us up. By the the strongest and scariest earthquake I’ve been in. I saw earthquake lightning flashes! Glad it didn’t cause any great loss of life and that it was low tide (there was a tsunami whch brought the sea to high-tide levels)
A quintessential Kiwi scene. Summer is so close!
I know you New Zealand supermarkets like to think you’re environmental heroes by phasing out single use plastic bags at the checkout, but what about the 99% of the shit you sell that’s still wrapped in plastic? That’s where the bigger problem is.
Final Space on Netflix is SO good!
Netflix spends billions on a lot of really good TV content. Now if they could spend a hundred thousand on me, it’d free up a couple of years’ worth of time in order for me to watch it all.