Katz FB is the logo of the mighty Katz FB, the pub quiz team I’ve played for in the last couple of years. Katz FB came about on the first night I played – I’d had a couple of pints already, and thought “we need a logo” – and lo – Katz FB was born.…

One of the upsides of Mount Maunganui’s transformation from bach-y getway into a kind of little Auckland complete with property price obsession is that there’s now a fine array of eateries – a far cry from what used to be there. Anyway, just quickly, if you havn’t been to Astrolabe lately, a restaurant / bar…

I’m not really sure what Chartered Trips is going to be yet – at the moment it’s just a place where I can write some stuff, show some photos, and keep the ol’ brain active. Right now, I’m trying to keep up a post every week day – we’ll see how long that lasts. I…

triathalon 070106 001 Originally uploaded by richirvine73. I’m almost never up early. So when I did, I got it on film.

So it tipped down last night in Auckland. Nothing unusual there, but for cycle commuters, it’s game on, in the shit hour. When it’s sunny, and the pavement is dry, biking home is great fun. You’ve got the sun on your back, and you’re ripping in and out of the traffic like no-ones’ business, youc…

My highlights from the Oscars before I got tired and went to bed. – John Stewart is a really funny guy, even though some of the early political jokes didn’t go down too well with tinsel town’s finest. Still his Bjork and Scientology jokes made me laugh a lot.– Ben Stiller killed in the green…

I liked this on <a href=”http://www.gapingvoid.com/“>thegapingvoid, one of the blogs I read. Replace ‘New York’ with ‘Auckland’ and you’re instantly around a BBQ with men in Hallenstiens shirts on talking house prices, bubbles, patio paving, and which Bunnings Warehouse is the best. link

An ongoing series in which the blogger shares his budget orientated music and / or movie purchases, revealing both something of his refined taste and unwillingness to shell out any decent cash for it. What Steven Spielberg’s JawsEh? It’s Jaws, man, the one you think of when you’re swimming and you step on something funny,…

quiz 014 Originally uploaded by richirvine73.

I attended the Auckland City Bike to Work breakfast this morning – it was well organised, and I got a free yummy breakfast of Vogel’s Scroggin Muesli, which was totally excellent. It was very strange seeing all the cycle commuters there. It seems to me that it takes a certain (utterly mad) type of individual…