I dreamt a poem last night, in which foxes disproved god. The argument went like this: 1) God, being omnipotent, would not make a wager that would see him turned into a fox if he lost if he was going to lose; but 2) if you ask foxes if they're god, they remain suspiciously quiet, playing dumb or barking like mere animals, almost as if they're ( Read more... )

Getting back into biking after years of relying on public transport is quite liberating. This is probably why people like cars. I imagine it would be even better if we had a nice high density urban environment. It would be nice to think that the opportunity of the earthquake would lead to some nice new residential high rises in the city centre, but ( Read more... )

I'd had a rough time on the Harris case, but I knew things weren't going to get any smoother when she walked in. She had a pair of legs like a glass of ice cold lemonade after clearing brush, and she smelled of money, trouble, and expensive perfume, though not in that order. When I rose to take her coat, she looked up at me with the kind of ( Read more... )

I may have had too much too drink, about a bottle of red so far. That's half a bottle of Beaujolais, followed by half a bottle of passable merlot ( Read more... )

at the mall with the rest of the gold coast. I was going to buy new pants but i couldn't hack the menswear stores. the book shop wasn't as bad. I got a book on islamic design, all the geometrical tiling and so forth

Humbug

My lease is up in a week, and I've not found a place yet. I had a look at a place down in Logan yesterday. It's a long way away. About 20km from the city centre. I didn't think it was going to be too far, travel time wise, based on passing the train station in the past, but it turns out that the express from the Gold Coast covers that distance a ( Read more... )

I hope they don't make Roger Douglas minister of finance, he's a rabid monetarist. Bill English sounds like he may understand things like counter-cyclical policy, he's even probably a better Keynesisn than Michael Cullen. And on the subject of the right wing of the Labour party, I hope Phil Goff doesn't take the leadership.

Here's how babies with cochlear implants work: Mike and transmitter dangling down behind them, toddling around getting into trouble in complete silence; mike and transmitter attached, toddling around getting into trouble and emitting a constant stream of noise.

Wow, Christchurch is weird. You can drink water right out of the tap without gagging here. It's crazy