In the meantime, as published yonks ago by others (1, 2 (scroll down)), I present a short selection from my own Text Message Theatre:
- Southampton girl ... good kisser!
- Darling, that man wouldn't know the meaning of the word organisation. Useless.
- Mike has yellow hair. Cming as Eminem. Tehehe. Talk 2 U 2moro.
- Nothing more than a pash and grab.
- Thanks 4 the message. Big H wants to know how the luv handles R? Bye.
- Starring Kevin Bacon, 1999 horror movie - 3 words? Any ideas?
And finally, SNOW! Pity I slept most of the day and missed all the fun.
‹ 29.12.00
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Merry Christmas to you all and all the best for a fantastic festive season with friends and loved ones! Updates will be intermittent for the next week or so as relaxing and unwinding starts to take priority for yours truly. Still, you can always mail me or check out the archives to the left ... have fun over the break and you'll hear from me soon.
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Put your knowledge of on-screen nudity to the test with Mr. Showbiz's T&A Q&A.
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Ho ho ho.
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A year in the life of an Otago student.
‹ 23.12.00
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From around the world comes the Top 10 Big Nights Out:
"What can you say about a place where the women bite off the tops of beer bottles and the fattest of them pin you against the back wall grinding their generous pelvis's into yours and slurring "I don't want to fuck ya, I just want to welcome ya to Kenya"? Well, if you're my friend Sean, not much at all. He wandered into the Night & Day Bar one fateful New Year's Eve four years ago and he's never quite recovered."I can understand why.
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The Swire cabal have kept their jobs: I'm guessing they'll think twice before bringing up that subject in polite conversation again.
‹ 22.12.00
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Terrible news: I'd heard about this story a few days earlier but have only just found out that he was an acquaintance of my sister's. Condolences to the MacFayden family ... he was a good kid.
‹ 21.12.00
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A regular Christmas in the Pannett household:
- Wake up early, check sister's stocking, see if she got better looking wrapped pressies than me, quietly replace items in stocking.
- Attempt to fall back to sleep.
- Fail.
- Get up, open pre-sussed stocking.
- Wake parents up noisily.
- Create environmental wrapping paper disaster.
- Eat huge big fuck-off Christmas lunch.
- Down Christmas cheer.
- Pass out.
- Wake up sometime later.
- Sit in sun.
- Fill burgeoning stomach with barbeque food.
- Squeeze more alcohol in.
- Watch Queen (monarch, not group).
- Pass out again.
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Feed redesigns. It's about time really: the old site was far too claustrophobic and bandwidth intensive, but it has transformed it into somewhat of a Salon-esque clone. Still, it's all about content and Feed, as always, is top notch.
‹ 21.12.00
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Apparently, the odds on Her Majesty's resignation in the year 2001 are 28 to 1. Does that strike anyone else as being fairly low?
‹ 21.12.00
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Went to see "Meet the Parents" with Byron and Andrew last night, which was a reasonably entertaining, screwball romp. The best part came near the end ... that airline hostess had to be on crack, there's no two ways about it.
‹ 21.12.00
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As predicted yesterday, the disturbing search requests are rolling in: my inaugural post to the eponymous weblog was for "sixfoot kiwi girl" ... a relatively mild entry but I'm sure things will degrade suitably from here!
‹ 20.12.00
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Yeah, I know, posts are conspicuously absent today (at least I hope their absence is conspicuous!) ... the day has involved a lot of 'school work' punctuated by some interesting AIM conversations with Meg (The Flumps, celebrity readers, meteoritefuckers), Iain (eyewear, Clapham, javascript includes) and Mike (Christmas food, fucked-up Mini purchasers, DJ programs). I promise to be a good blogger soon.
‹ 20.12.00
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Beat the computer fun at Twenty Questions.
‹ 19.12.00
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Vurreeed ebuoot thet treep tu Svedee und need tu leern zee leengu fest? Try zee Svedeesh Cheff Trunsletur. Bork Bork Bork!
‹ 19.12.00
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Brainsluice has now been picked up by Google. Disturbing search requests, here I come!
‹ 19.12.00
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The weekend in hypertext #7: turned this up loud in the mornings, confirmed New Years plans with them to here, welcomed her and her boyfriend into the ex-pat fold, went shopping here and for dinner here. A quiet one, but much needed.
‹ 19.12.00
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The Weakest Link ... techno-stylee. Vastly superior to Bob the Builder (interpret that as you will).
[via popbitch]
‹ 16.12.00
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Apologies for the lack of postal action - I managed to wrangle my way out of the dreaded meeting (alluded to Tuesday) but was kept more than busy yesterday afternoon. Today was filled up by a group strategy meeting which segued nicely into a four hour lunch at the Blues Bar and Bistro in Soho. The cycle of the never-ending Christmas function continues ...
‹ 16.12.00
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"To everything - gurn, gurn, gurn" as some old hippies almost once said ... maybe they had the ukbloggers in mind when they wrote those immortal words? Or maybe not. Anyway, assorted blogging types, faces old (Catherine, Jen, Katy, Luke, Matt, Meg, Tom) and new (Dan, Kylie, Mo) assembled at The Blue Posts in Northern Ho last night for alcohol-enhanced merriment. Pixellation can be fond
‹ 15.12.00
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Sometimes there is such a thing as a free lunch ... thanks smarterwork!
‹ 14.12.00
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Last night saw an excursion to Liecester Square with "the dogs" to see Pitch Black, and a thoroughly entertaining yarn it was too: think Lynch meets "Alien" meets Calvin Klein commercial meets "Predator" style POVs. On the downside, Vin Diesel looks sufficiently similar to my flatmate Jason so as to make his presence throughout the film mildly disconcerting.
‹ 14.12.00
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Viz Top Tips always crack me up ... I guess it's revenge for reading all those sanitised "Reader's Hints" style pages in the New Zealand Woman's Weekly and its ilk. Why they seemed to be the only reading material in grandmothers' houses is beyond me.
‹ 14.12.00
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Am I BUFFY or NOT?
Some people think my sister Michelle looks like Sarah Michelle Gellar ... do you?
‹ 13.12.00
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All Hands Day: GH&ES All Hands Day, Quarterly and Full Team Meeting
That doesn't sound good ...
Agenda: 09.00 - 09.30 : Coffee and Networking
Shoot me now.
‹ 13.12.00
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Find those online psychoquizzes leaving you unsatisfied and with no real insight? Try this simple test: load up your favourite search engine, click inside the search box and press the down arrow. Et voilà ... the Search Box Personality Test.
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Congratulations to Professor Alan MacDiarmid, the third New Zealander to win a Nobel Prize.
‹ 12.12.00
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Two overdue additions to the cohorts listings on the left: the most excellent grayblog and my 2p.
‹ 12.12.00
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The kids at Pumpkin Publog yarn about "fag tapping" (1, 2). The verdict there seems to be that it's a male only practice but I beg to differ. I've had plenty of women tap me in the same manner, most annoyingly at Sugar Reef (not a regular haunt, we had to blag our way in, etc). Anyhoo, Ms X decided that not only was she too poor to buy some for herself (despite being in a fairly swanky establishment), it was also a good idea to take two (a widespread practice I've noticed), offer a curt "thanks" then depart for more attractive prey. Not that that worried me in the slightest, but really, how rude!
‹ 12.12.00
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Make mine on the rocks: here's what Northern Europe would look like if the West Antarctic Ice Sheet melted. If that wasn't scary enough, have a look at what would happen post the East Antarctic Ice Sheet melting.
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Sometimes e-nough is e-nough.
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Pity the situations that force people to start their letters like this:
"It is with great joy that I resign my position effective immediately. I have accepted a new position which makes $10,000 more per year than YOU do, which brings great happiness to me, and confirms that the world is just."
More angsty resignations at kissmyfreckledassbye.com.
‹ 12.12.00
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The weekend in hypertext #6: Went to his and her Christmas party and had a great old time (as these attest), went to her birthday party and indulged in far too much of this, this and even worse, this, and played a fair amount of this (in full recovery mode of course).
‹ 12.12.00
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Trollied, muntered, klangered, steaming, lashed, wankered, gazumped, willied, bladdered, bazeracked, kettled, mashed, hammered, wombled, got messy, get dribbly, mullered, blatted ... ah, schowdents - they have a language all their own.
‹ 9.12.00
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Roll up, roll up for your random dumb law: I hear that in Lewes, Deleware, it is illegal to wear pants that are "form fitting" around the waist.
‹ 9.12.00
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"I think that the film 'Clueless' was very deep. I think it was deep in the way that it was very light. I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it's true lightness.''
I think I speak for everyone when I say ... WTF?. It's no wonder she won the ''Foot in Mouth'' Bafflement Award.
‹ 9.12.00
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German scholars discover that e-mail reveals the "language of love". More earth-shattering news as it comes to hand.
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Guerilla stickering as marketing ploy: with this week's printed TimeOut comes a sheet of stickers with wanky art-gallery descriptions for everyday objects (so called Artalizers™ from the folks at britart.com). My favourite?
Pint glass 1963
Couldn't have said it better myself.
Glass, fluid, spittle
Liquid essay on escapism. (1 of 6)
‹ 9.12.00
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"I'm always motivated by one of two things in an ad, fear and greed, and I'm not seeing enough of either here."
From "Best client quote yet" at dreamless.org.
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<wince> Ow! </wince>
‹ 8.12.00
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Rudeness can brighten your day:
"Johnathon, despite the fact that one of the other contestants can't even spell your name correctly, they have voted YOU the Weakest Link. Goodbye."
Yep, Anne Robinson's ascerbic tongue is still keeping me entertained at MediaGuardian's "The Weakest Link" quotes page.
‹ 8.12.00
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Any fool can see that a "Shoe Fitting X-Ray Device" is perfectly safe in your friendly neighbourhood department store - what it's doing in the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices is beyond me.
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Johnston Sans has truly stood the test of typographic time: it's been in use on the tube since 1916 (the book detailing the eponymous author's work for London Underground looks like an interesting case-study too).
‹ 8.12.00
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This has to be the most fucked up Christmas greeting I've ever seen.
‹ 8.12.00
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In psychology, we were taught the difference between "correlation" and "causation". Read this and see if you can work out the difference.
‹ 8.12.00
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Forget Amazon ... the discerning weblogger should be linking to a Tiffany & Co wish list instead. I think it's important to tell the world that you want a $4,300 pair of snowflake drop earrings, for pierced ears, in platinum, with two aquamarines (carat total weight 2.00) and ten round brilliant diamonds (carat total weight .30) with a color grade of G and a clarity grade of VS. Don't you?
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Issue 094 of k10k is entitled "Glad to Be There Here" and it's bloody brilliant.
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Impressive.
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Oww Mummy, it hurts! Office parties are the work of Satan. 'Nuff said.
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Owen redesigns HumanLint and the result is as excellent as it's first incarnation!
‹ 6.12.00
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Doppelgängers are fun. According to this site I'm an adult education tutor and historical geographer with a special interest in the Shropshire landscape, while over here you used to find out that I was a MIDI software designer and gumbo expert.
‹ 6.12.00
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I wonder if the author would consider it fitting that the first work of his I've read is purportedly his last? Anyway, Kurt Vonnegut's "Timequake" was a wonderful read (spotted in Meg's Amazon wish list and bought on a whim) ... Mr Vonnegut would make a fantastic weblogger. Highly recommended for some light-hearted reminiscing with a truly fascinating character.
‹ 6.12.00
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Okay, so I'm a Hollywood executive. And I think to myself one day, how can I make a cool sci-fi flic that all the kids will talk about. I know! I'll mash up bits of "2001: A Space Odyssey", "Lost in Space", "Enemy Mine", "Robocop", "Predator", "Alien", a half a dozen other s.f. movies and what will I get? Something good, surely. Nope. Rubbeeeesh-aahhh! Still, it did feature the Aibo-From-Hell™ and Rolf Harris-inspired wobble-board PDAs which were mildly entertaining.
‹ 6.12.00
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Unexpected hard drive find of the day: two of my favourite pieces of art ... a watercolour of my grandparents' farm ("Hillview") in North Otago, NZ, by local artist Burns Pollock, and a woodcut of my home-town of Invercargill by my uncle Alan (640x480, about 60K each).
‹ 5.12.00
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"For the secret headphone fetish in all of us" proclaims Headph0ne Phet1sh: your first stop for laydeez offering a new kind of "aural pleasure".
‹ 5.12.00
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Thundercats are go! (except when the voice guys are faffing their lines).
‹ 5.12.00
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With Christmas nearly upon us, bear in mind shittygift.com. Perfect for venting that inevitable gift-rage. (Speaking of which, one of my flatmates (male) gave another of my flatmates (female) a vibrator last year - the gift that keeps on giving? If you draw my name out of the hat this year Jason, don't even think about it)
[via Salon's The In Box]
‹ 5.12.00
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The weekend in hypertext #5: Played this and this until my eyes bled, went to imbibe and groove here (spending way too much time at that place), meandered around
here and had a few quiets here.
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The land of Tack has a new queen.
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Meg launches under.construction: "a collaborative weblog exploring and chronicling culture and community on the internet." Sign up, get involved, make your views known.
‹ 1.12.00
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Music ... made the people ... come together ...
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"When Bill Baker of Redding, Calif., questioned in 1995 whether a bottle of Heinz ketchup he bought was short of the listed weight, he set off a statewide investigation and consumer protection lawsuit lasting five years." And they would've gotten away with it too if it wasn't for that meddling kid!
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Referring from a past life? I'm showing up in Yahoo's site matches when the word "channelling" is searched for. Is that Shirley Maclaine I hear knocking?
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