Post 9/11 Blues

May
29
06

Watch this video - it’s hip.
Yes it’s perfectly acceptable for me to use the term hip. Yes, I know it’s 2006. Yes, “hip” is not “hip”. But let me tell you, as hip goes, hip is a pretty hip word. So there. And it works backwards too…. if you don’t like it… pih, what do [...]

South Of The Border, West Of The Sun

May
28
06

I finished reading South of the Border, West of the Sun this morning. What a fantastic book.
It was loaned to me with high expectations, as Rick touted it as an amazing book from one of his favourite authors. I had heard of Murakami’s Norwegian Wood before, but had not had opportunity to read anything by [...]

Bye Bye Blogger

May
27
06

In my ongoing quest to find additional reasons to sit at my computer, as well as my rather successful attempts at procrastinating what I REALLY should be doing on here - I’ve decided to switch how I publish my blog - and in the process do a complete redesign.
The redesign is actually a product of [...]

Chairman Mee-ow!

May
25
06

I guess a bunch of Chinese foreign students are upset over the parody their New Zealand uni newpaper did on Chairman Mao (cover left) and communist China.
As such, there’ve been numerous protests from the Chinese students exclaiming they’ve been insulted to their core by such blatant defialment of their once great leader. In near tears [...]

Shifting Commitments

May
23
06

It seems no matter how hard I try, I can’t stay on task with any one thing for long. It’s troubling, and completely the product of these wonderful things:

No Attention Span
Too many hobbies
Horrible procrastination

I’ll get deeply into something for a few days (or weeks) and then it shifts to a new interest. Photography/digital photo editing, [...]