Archive for June, 2007
Friday, June 29th, 2007
The future is AWESOME
This blows my mind as much as it does yours, I’m sure. For ONCE a movie has launched in New Zealand before it has in the States. And as you patriotic flag-wavers hold your breaths for the 4th of July, New Zealand strode proudly into the future and launched TRANSFORMERS last night. My anticipation for [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Thoughts by urs
Thursday, June 28th, 2007
Perspective on distance
I know that I dwell a lot on traveling on this blog, but I can’t help it. We were talking it out and we figured that it’s our official hobby. That, and eating. Does that count as a hobby? Who cares. Anyway, this Air New Zealand microsite started floating around the office today. It’s a [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Traveling by urs
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
FEAR!!!!!!!
It must be summer in the States, because it’s time to be scared of sand! What a bullshit blatant fear-mongering load of crap. Pure garbage.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/06/20/sand.deaths.ap/index.html
Hmmm, let’s do some math:
389 million combined population of the US, UK, NZ and Australia
1.3 combined deaths per year from sand hole collapse
= 1 in 300,000,000 chance of you succumbing to [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Ha ha wha? by urs
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007
The Dolly Llama
Cards or Clarity? The decision turned out to be pretty easy in the end. It’s the frickin’ DALAI LAMA! Look, you don’t get a lot of chances to see people of such magnitude every day. Whereas these poker tournaments happen all the time. Not even close. And it (mostly) lived up to the billing. Ok, [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Auckland, Thoughts by urs
Friday, June 15th, 2007
Yin or Yang
There are times in one’s life when one must choose between the present and the future. An indulgence in the now, or an investment in the eternal. One such choice has arrived. Thanks to an ingenious strategy by our friend Mark, we entered a poker tournament in a SUPER-SHADY pup that happened to be loaded [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Auckland, Thoughts by urs
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
Smoky skies with a chance of monsoon
I’m off to India on Friday for two weeks for work and I’m just about to pack, but before I do so I decided to check the weather in the three cities I’ll be visiting (Mumbai, Delhi & Bangalore). Two city forecasts were what I expected – hot and humid with scattered thunderstorms (it is [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Traveling by Angela
Wednesday, June 6th, 2007
Christmas in July
We’re getting into winter down here. Though we’re not shoveling the walkway or scraping ice off the windshield, the weather can still dip pretty low. But weather is just weather. It’s the little things that start to mess with your mind. The leaves that can turn yellow have already turned and are falling to the [...]
