Richard Irvine
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As children we all loved Garfield, only to grow up and realise his “cynical” take on the world appeals mainly to people who live alone with only a freezer full of ice cream for company. So, you’ll love Garfield minus Garfield. Do you think this would work with Wal and The Dog? Portishead are back,…
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Cross post – Open your own 80s video shop
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The original is on the Aucklandista site Remember video shops? Rewinding, fixing the tracking, due back by 12? As a lad, I’d spend hours in the corner video shop trawling the likes of Joysticks and Brewsters’s Millions to find the perfect tape for that weekend’s slumber party (it was a more innocent time back then,…
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Link: The Onion writers
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If you find The Onion as screen-splatteringly funny as I do, you’ll want to check out this podcast of how they do it. Turns out they write about 600 headlines a week, then battle in the writers’ room for which ones go in. There’s a whole lot of of intellectualising goes on, and while part…
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New Toy
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My place of work has been so goodly kind to shout me a shiny new Okta Touch. First thoughts: It’s sexy. Real sexy. Sexy as really cold beer on a hot day. This is my first real PDA, and all my ‘I just want a PHONE, man’ thoughts melted effortlessly away in no time. It’s…
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From Merlin Mann’s 5ives: 1. gently enquires as to where you like to put the turkey baster 2. repeatedly offers to demonstrate “how Blighty squeezes the lemonade” 3. stands in your front yard, pants-less and swinging a garden hose in lazy figure-eights 4. makes rapid “milking a cow” gesture while screaming something incoherent about Robert…
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You can read the original over on the Aucklandista For Aucklanders, traffic is big, right up there with property prices and ‘How’s my hair?’. THAT big. So when I moved to the Shore (love makes you do crazy things, team), getting to work weighed heavily on my mind. I mean, Shore traffic is crap, right?…
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Lookalike – is it just me?
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Has anyone else drawn comparison between alleged murderer / vigilante Bruce Emery and the Michael Douglas character from Falling Down? In other, related questions – am I a terrible person?
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Narrowneck beach, anniversary weekend
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Link: You suck at Photoshop
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A nerd’s life comes apart in front of your eyes, while explaining best clone stamp practice. I love that he’s turned a boring old Photoshop tutorial into a mini tragedy. Genius. Episode one / Episode two / Episode three
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Facebook infestation hits New Zealand beaches
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Facebook has taken over from Sharks as the slow news summer shock horror story. The Sunday Star Times reprinted curmudgeonly Tom Hodkinson’s rant from the Guardian, changing its’ title from ‘With friends like these…’ to the much more measured “Why Facebook is EVIL!”. Reading the SST front page story I learned Sophie Elliot’s boomer era…