My brother Stuart gave me this link to a picture of a Magic: The Gathering card that has a picture of a character with an uncanny similarity to me. Eerie…
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Movie, Movie, Revolution
Thursday: Went and saw Kombi Nation with Tuatha – good New Zealand flick – 7.5/10.
Friday: Watched Bend it like Beckham on divx – was pretty cool, with hot indian chicks playing soccer. 8/10.
Saturday: Went to “Wanna Play Spacies?” at Valve bar, here in Wellington. Was hoping for some video game remixes but got some pretty awesome rock music from Lollipop Circus and Po-Ha. One Thumb Up. The K1500 Project played too, but I left before they came on. I was walking home through Manners Mall, had some spare Timezone tokens in my wallet so I went and played Dance Dance Revolution for the first time in my life – no-one was around to watch me at 12:30 in the morning so I gave it a shot. I tell you, don’t knock it until you’ve tried it — it’s tons of fun. I currently suck at it, but it’s fun — I’ll definitely play it again 🙂
New Computer
Kodiak was selling his Athlon XP2000+ with 512mb RAM and GeForce4 Ti4200 64mb RAM, so I bought it off him for my AMD 900MHz with 256mb RAM and onboard video and NZ$800. No HDDs involved in the deal, but he threw in Unreal Tournament 2003 and Serious Sam 2. Nice deal huh? It’s my first real decent vidcard. Pity I don’t have any hard drive space to install UT2k3… I’m gonna need about 3GBs… time for a new drive methinks 🙂
Sad joke
Monkeyjay made this one up:
Q) What do hobbits use to manipulate images?
A) Frodoshop.
Yes, extremely lame joke. Smileychris will be proud 🙂
Cycle City
I think Christchurch have got it right. They have an awesome recycling system. The Holmes family had to take some stuff to the recycle centre, and I got to see first hand how it’s helping the community. If you have anything that you want to throw out, like beds, bikes, wasing machines, tvs, kitchenware, and so-on, you take it to the recycle centre and they then look at it, fix it if necessary, and sell it for cheap at the SuperShed, a giant second-hand store. Now if you think about this, this is really neat, because less fortunate people can go and buy this perfectly good furniture and equipment. It’s all run by a trust, and it’s working!
Also, I went to (probabaly) largest $2 store in New Zealand. Store doesn’t describe it well enough – more like warehouse – literally! This place has so much crazy crap for sale it’s insane! Sorry Chris, no plastic bullet guns – I looked and looked 🙁
Also, Christchurch has cycle lanes. Basically at major intersections there is a brown lane which takes cyclists up to the front of the traffic, and then spreads out into a box where the cyclists can set up in front of traffic waiting behind them at their line, so when the traffic lights go, the traffic has to wait till the cyclists are out sf the way before going!
Another thing is the awesome bus interchange airport. They have a arrival board saying how many minutes away the next 6 buses are, and when they arrive, which gate you should go to to get into it, along with an announcer (who must be human, cos he mumbles his announcements – get an automated one chch!). The waiting lounge is comfortable, and extremly user friendly. Not to mention Chch’s circular bus is FREE!
If you’re in Christchurch, you must stop by the arts centre. They have this awesome fudge cottage which sells fudge and all-sorts of yummy sugar-based products. Mmm… 🙂 Also, tons of stalls with arts and crafts, and there was even someone there with a refridgerated window in the back of his truck selling CHEESE! MMMMM!
Well, Christchurch is a pretty awesome place. Probably my 2nd most favorite place in New Zealand. Wellington being first 🙂
